Extreme Graphics

Ati's X1950 Pro vs. Nvidia 7900GS

2006-11-19T04:22:00.000+02:00

It's quite often that we find ATI and Nvidia rebadging their products. As it happens many times, relaunching an existing graphics card with a new name, tweaked settings and a better price point can do wonders. While there are many examples of successfully rebadged products, there are also those that have gone wayward. Today we will be taking an in-depth look into two of those "new" products, as

The GeForce 8800 series

2006-11-17T10:34:00.002+02:00

Coke or Pepsi? Intel or AMD or in this case ATI or NVIDIA? It’s all about choices. Like always, the competition is fierce between the Santa Clara based NVIDIA and the red team from Ontario. This time it’s NVIDIA’s turn, they just released their GeForce 8800 series, signifying, you guessed it, another speed increase. Though, I’m left wondering what they are going to do after the 9xxx numbers are

AMD Stream board

2006-11-17T09:12:00.000+02:00

FIRESTREAM BOARDS ARE hitting the world of research and development, but they're not flying under the ATI banner. Named "AMD Stream Processor", these babies pack a peak power of 375 GFLOPS, easily slaying any single CPU in the world today. Or tomorrow, for that matter. As you can see in the picture above, the board is your typical ATI Radeon X1900 with the old and loud cooler, but now with AMD

The awards for role-playing games (RPG's)

2006-10-31T19:58:00.000+02:00

Oblivion has been named ultimate game of the year at the 2006 Golden Joystick Awards. The Bethesda Softworks title also picked up the game of the year prize for both the PC and Xbox.Oblivion fought off competition from the likes of Call of Duty 2, Resident Evil 4, Guitar Hero, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Pro Evolution Soccer 5 to scoop the ultimate game

ATI Radeon X1650 to the next level x1650 XT

2006-10-31T10:59:00.000+02:00

The latest entry in the budget video card space comes in the form of the ATI Radeon X1650 XT. Designed to supplant the Radeon X1600 XT in ATI's product lineup, the X1650 XT appears to be targeted at the popular NVIDIA GeForce 7600XT.ATI's newest card uses the RV560 GPU, which is almost identical to the RV570 powering the X1950 Pro, but has some of the RV570's functionality disabled. The X1650 XT

Adult Gaming - Driven By ThriXXX and Jenna Jameson

2006-10-25T11:54:00.000+03:00

It was bound to happen, but a number of our readers have recently sent in e-mails asking what graphics cards would be best for rendering graphics in adult video games. With the adult industry quickly growing its obvious why 3D sex technology is starting to take off. ThriXXX Technology is one of the leaders in realtime 3D rendering for adult ‘game’ titles and has produced a number of game titles

GeCube Ati Radeon X1650Pro Platinum - Graphics and Sound

2006-10-25T11:53:00.000+03:00

We’ve been very impressed with Ati’s high end cards over recent months but there’s been a gaping hole in its product line in the $250 mark for some time: Nvidia’s 7600-series cards have proven to be the best price-performance combination. Ati’s X1600 series just couldn’t compete.The X1650 Pro is another increment in what’s becoming an increasingly fragmented and confusing series. To make matters

GeCube Ati Radeon X1650Pro Platinum - Graphics and Sound

2006-10-25T11:49:00.000+03:00

ATI launches x1950Pro

2006-10-18T11:28:00.000+03:00

ATI Technologies has launched its mid-range Radeon X1950 Pro graphics card.The company says that the Radeon X1950 Pro is the first graphics card to make use of new native CrossFire technology, simplifying the multi-GPU experience by eliminating the need for a branded CrossFire Edition card. The Radeon X1950 Pro is also ATI's first 80nm graphics core, and features 36 pixel shaders, 8

Nvidia launches new mobile graphics performance champ

2006-10-17T08:00:00.000+03:00

Nvidia Corp., a leading supplier of graphics technologies, has announced a new graphics processing unit (GPU) for mobile computers. The new chip targets systems designed for gamers that are mostly desktop replacement type of laptops and are hardly tailored for use on the go. Nevertheless, the launch increases the gap between performance offered by ATI and Nvidia in the mobile graphics space. The

NVIDIA has unveiled their new GeForce Go 7950 GTX mobile graphics chip at this year's Digital Life Show.

2006-10-16T23:13:00.000+03:00

PCMagazine says the NVIDIA GeoForce Go 7950 GTZ is the world's fastest mobile graphics processing unit (GPU), supporting games and applications for DirectX 9.0, Shader Model 3.0, and high dymanic range (HDR) lighting. "2006 is a phenomenal year of growth and technology leadership for NVIDIA notebook GPUs. The efficient NVIDIA GeForce 7 series GPU architecture continues to deliver the ultimate

Advanced Micro Devices adoption of Graphics Card Producer ATI Technologies might leave a vacuum in the high-end GPU market for NVIDIA to fill

2006-10-16T11:19:00.000+03:00

This past week, 99.7 percent of ATI stockholders voted in favor of AMD’s acquisition of ATI. There was almost no question for these stockholders that aligning themselves with the fastest growing chip company and number two worldwide supplier of microprocessors would be beneficial for the GPU company. With the ability to pair ATI’s already advanced graphics processing units with AMD’s efficient,

The monster called 8800 GTX from nVidia

2006-10-09T16:11:00.001+03:00

The 8800 GTX (in prototype above) and GTS are the first models to be pulled off the company’s G80 processing core and describing them as anything other than jaw dropping would pretty much be an understatement.Being 11 inches in length the GTX is a monster but it backs up this bulk with a 575MHz core, 768MB of 900MHz GDDR3 memory, a 384bit memory bus capable of a whopping 86GBps of memory

ATI & AMD next generation chipset

2006-10-09T15:59:00.000+03:00

The new Ati chipsets are aimed at supporting the upcoming 4x4 platforms (the next quad-core solutions from AMD the K8L).The budget range will see the arrival of the RD550, a chipset that has been derived from the existing RD580 chipset that powers the current 1900 XTX series. The RD580 itself will continue to evolve and will be able to support three GPUs and two CPUs by the first half of next

New photos from online-games

2006-10-04T23:12:00.000+03:00

Flash Slideshow

An introduction to Hellgate: London

2006-10-04T22:12:00.000+03:00

London, 2038. According to legend, when the ravens depart the Tower of London, it will crumble to rubble and disaster will befall England. As man became more dependent on science, believing only in what he could define or create, ancient knowledge and rituals were lost to the antiquity of time. Prophecies that had stood as warning for untold generations were seen as archaic folly or ignorant

The best gaming performace cards for the money

2006-10-04T11:22:00.000+03:00

Video card specifications and reviews that really get into the nitty-gritty are great - that is, if you have the time to digest everything. At the end of the day, all a gamer really needs to know is what is the best video card for the money.Best PCIe around 100$ Ati's Radeon X800 GTO 128MB GPU name: R420, 13 micron technology12 Pixel Shaders, 6 Vertex Shaders, 12 Texture Units, 12 Raster

Video card charts ( from riva tnt2 to 7900gtx )

2006-10-03T19:42:00.000+03:00

Ati's response to the 7950 the x1950xtx

2006-10-02T17:40:00.000+03:00

X1950XTX is based on a new GPU, R580+ , with state-of-the–art architecture which includes an ultra-threaded engine for outstanding shader performance and manufactured using an advanced 90 nanometer process technology high speed GDDR4 memory (2GHz), enabling it to crank up performance with an incredible increase in gaming and video image processing speed. X1950 XTX's new cooler deserves

The new 7950 from nvidia

2006-10-02T16:17:00.000+03:00

Crank up the power with NVIDIA® GeForce® 7950 graphics processing units (GPUs).GeForce 7950 GX2 Equipped with high-speed DDR3, users can fully exploit innovative graphics technologies such as NVIDIA® CineFX™ 4.0 engine, nView™, UltraShadow™ II technologies from NVIDIA™, it is also HDCP ready to support future HDCP protected audio/video contents, provide worry-free upgrade to the coming

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2006-09-24T02:13:00.000+03:00

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Match Color – Luminance – Photoshop CS

2006-09-15T18:47:00.000+03:00

Let us move ahead for the next option, Luminance. This will changethe brightness in the image. You need to move the slider to the leftor right according to your requirements. Moving the slider to theright make the image brighter and to the left make image darker.1. Open Photoshop CS.2. Open Island Girl.jpg from the samples folder of Photoshop CSdirectory.3. Go to Image > Adjustments > Match

Shadow/Highlight –

2006-09-08T02:09:00.000+03:00

We have been using Island Girl.jpg image for the last few lessons.You must have noticed that the face of girl is dark and invisible.We will try the new Shadow/Highlight command to make it visible.1. Open Photoshop CS.2. Open Island Girl.jpg from the samples folder of Photoshop CSdirectory.3. Go to Image > Adjustments > Shadow/Highlight4. Please make sure that the Preview option is checked.5. You

Match Color – Ignore Selection –

2006-09-08T02:08:00.000+03:00

If you select any part of an image using any selection tool, you canignore the selection if you want and apply the effect on the wholeimage. Applying effect only on the selection may create interestingeffect. We will try using selection in this lesson.1. Open Photoshop CS.2. Open Island Girl.jpg from the samples folder of Photoshop CSdirectory.3. Using Rectangular Marquee Tool, select the middle

Match Color – Fade –

2006-09-08T02:07:00.000+03:00

1. Open Photoshop CS.2. Open Island Girl.jpg and Ducky.tif from the samples folderof Photoshop CS directory.3. Island Girl.jpg should be selected. It means just click onIsland Gril.jpg. It will get selected.4. Go to Image > Adjustments > Match Color5. Please make sure that the Preview option is checked.6. Select Ducky.tif in the Source menu at the bottom.7. Observe the image (Island Gril.jpg)

Match Color – Color Intensity –

2006-09-08T02:04:00.000+03:00

Color intensity affects the color saturation of the target image.The default value is 100. If you move the slider to the left theimage is desaturated and it is grayscale at the extreme value of 1.If the slider is moved to the right the colors in the image aresaturated and they are intensified most to the extreme value of 200.1. Open Photoshop CS.2. Open Island Girl.jpg from the samples folder of

3D studio Max Tutorials for beginners

2006-09-02T17:54:00.000+03:00

Match Color – Neutralize – Photoshop CS

2006-09-01T18:33:00.000+03:00

We will start with Photoshop CS from this lesson. Photoshop CS2 iswell established in the market and we will keep our self just oneversion behind. So we are shifting to Photoshop CS.Match color is an image adjustment command used to adjustbrightness, color balance and color saturation.Let us remove color cast from the image. Color cast means the tintof the unwanted dominant color in the