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Pinnacle PCTV HD Card 800i Review PDF Print E-mail
Sunday, 27 January 2008

hdcardpic.jpgTV Tuners are an integral part of building a Home Theatre PC. To that end, today we take a look at Pinnacle's PCTV HD Card 800i . As an inexpensive PCI tuning option claiming support for NTSC, ATSC, QAM, and ClearQAM broadcasts, will it live up to the hype as well as Pinnacle's reputation? Read on to find out...
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Sapphire X1300XT - Crossfire On The Cheap PDF Print E-mail
Sunday, 16 September 2007

x1300xt016.jpgIt is time to look at an older piece of video hardware that has become very affordable. Today we are testing some value oriented ATI X1300XT video cards to see what a little Crossfire action will get you. Boards with dual PCI-E slots are commonplace these days, so why not? Let's see what we can do here!

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ECS N8800GTS-320MX – XP and Vista PDF Print E-mail
Saturday, 17 March 2007

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As an Nvidia channel partner, ECS has jumped on the G80 core bandwagon with gusto. Today we review the ECS N8800GTS-320MX, ECS's answer to the midrange GPU battleground. Featuring a minimalist bundle isn't so bad with it's estimated sub $300 minimalist price. We examine it's performance stock, over clocked, and under a true worst case scenario. XP SP2 x86 vs. Vista x64 Ultimate.

 

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Cable-less Crossfire - P965 and the X1600XT PDF Print E-mail
Sunday, 21 January 2007

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Today, we're taking a look at two things at the same time. Well, kind of. In the lab today are not one but two Crucial Radeon X1600 XT 256MB PCI Express graphics cards. We're going to examine the efficacy of Crossfire, as well as examine its implementation on Intel's P965 chipset. Does it live up to the hype? Guess that's what we're here for eh? Read on...

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