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Powercolor debuts GDDR4 3870X2 boards

CeBIT 2008 Two new Theater cards as well
By Charlie Demerjian
Thursday, 6 March 2008, 13:08

POWERCOLOR HAS THE some of the most advanced GPUs at CeBIT, as well as the most advanced TV cards. If you like either the vanilla 3870X2 and the Theater 550, you will love these.

What you see here is a GDDR4 based 3870X2. It has Samsung GDDR4 running of 1126MHz and they bumped the clocks to 825MHz.

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Powercolor GDDR4 X2

The bridge chips is still PCIe1.0, but that will not hurt performance, all the ones out there now use it. Basically, this is going to be fast, very fast. Look for it in early April.

Next up, Powercolor is the first to bring you the new ATI Theater 600 and 650 chips. The 650 is the PCI version, has hardware MPEG2, analog, over-the-air DVB and FM. The 600 is a PCIe 1x version, but more has more or less the same features.

alt='powercolor_600_650' ATI Theater 600 and 650

Both are more of the same with bigger, better and faster. The only down side is that they are Windows XP or MeII only, meaning DRM and more DRM. If you must get a capture card, and can live with the DRM, these are not a bad choice. µ

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the theater 650/600 is oooooold

Come on Charlie, how about the announcement on 6/6/6 (maybe you were busy on that holiday;)&#xD;
http://ir.ati.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=105421&amp;p=irol-newsArticle&amp;ID=868983&amp;highlight=&#xD;
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and them being available on Aug 21, 2006&#xD;
http://ir.ati.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=105421&amp;p=irol-newsArticle&amp;ID=897326&amp;highlight=&#xD;
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and BTW the differences (650/600) are:&#xD;
FM Radio&#xD;
Hardware MPEG-2&#xD;
3D Comb Filter&#xD;
Noise Reduction&#xD;
Edge Enhancement&#xD;
http://ati.amd.com/products/tunermatrix.html&#xD;
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Power color must have been actually late, it's not even on ATI's Partners page yet:&#xD;
http://ati.amd.com/products/tunermatrix.html&#xD;
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you'll also find many reviews from almost everybody,But I guess since Fudu (here is a free ad for fudzilla.com which I read more than the Inq now) is gone his arcticles don't count http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2006/03/12/ati-theatre-650-tuner-chip-nearly-ready&#xD;
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Sorry for the harshness but if it was not you (one of the few good Inq writers left) I wouldn't bother.&#xD;
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Good luck, &#xD;
Saad http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2004/10/06/lcd-monitor-at-gitex-has-10ms-response-time

posted by : Saad, 07 March 2008 Complain about this comment
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