Lifting the lid on the Radeon 9500 Pro

YESTERDAY WAS ATI's turn to tear up an NDA. As a result, reviews of its Radeon 9500 Pro graphics card tipped up on the web as the product headed storewards.

The 9500 PRO is a budget (cough!) sub-$200 version of the R300 chip our Fudo will have told you all about. It goes after Nvidia's GeForce4 Ti 4200 territory - cash cow land. Tech Report has a fiddle with one here.

While the guys at Hothardware did similarly, here.

Beyond3D has its own opinion over here.

Down under, TweakTown checks out Gigabyte's version, the Maya Radeon 9700 Pro. They also compare it to the 9000 series, over here.

In mobosvilles, 3Dvelocity have a fiddle with an entry-level KT400 Albatron KX400-8X over here.

Hexus.net has a review of ASUS' A7V8X KT400 motherboard over here.

myWORLD Hardware has been reviewing the latest motherboard by a company called ASRock, the G Pro! Ths board sports a SiS 650 chipset for Intel Pentium 4 platform and is given a bit of a going over, over here.

SubZeroTech has posted a review DFI's AD77 Inifnity KT400 motherboard here.

Meanwhile, Amdboard have been trawling about to collect all the details they can find on motherboards for Hammer chips. So far they've found 35 from 16 different manufacturers all using the same four chipsets. They're all here.

Increasing your memory bandwidth with faster, low latency RAM can lead to measurable performance increases, says the Neoseeker over here in a look at a slice of OCZ 512MB PC2700 DDR memory.

And, to round this one off, how about a gander at a power supply? nvmax.com has a fiddle with a 300 watt unit from the FSB-Group that cheerfully tramples over cheapo units, they say. The rest is here.

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