techPowerUp -- Powercolor's Radeon HD 2400 Pro uses AMD's new RV610 GPU with 256 MB of DDR2 memory. With its special video acceleration features and low-profile PCB design the card seems to be a good choice for small form factor media PC systems.

 

Madshrimps -- The Powercolor X1900 GT is a contender for best price/performance graphics card, the biggest competitor of the NVIDIA 7900 GT. How do they compare, how loud is the stock cooling on the X1900 GT and is there much headroom for overclocking? Find out in this review

techPowerUp -- AMD has moved the launch date of the HD 4850 forward, launching it today. The cards are positioned in the $200 range and offer several new features and performance improvements. According to our benchmark results AMD has found a winner with this card that offers excellent price/performance and energy efficiency.

Hexus -- Today, we're looking at a product what you might once have called 'high-end', but would probably now see as 'performance range'. We're talking hardware that isn't king of the hill, but is still quite up to the task of handling whichever game you might throw at it, with plenty of eye candy and with a more modest price tag. X850 Pro is the SKU we're taking a little look at today and PowerColor is the add-in-board partner.

techPowerUp -- PowerColor's new HD3850 Xtreme is full of customization compared to the reference design. Instead of two DVI ports it has one DVI and one HDMI port which supports HD video playback with HDCP and digital audio straight off the GPU. In addition to that a custom cooler by Zerotherm ensures that the card stays cool no matter what you throw at it. Another bonus is that the memory size has been doubled to 512 MB of 1.0 ns GDDR3 memory.

The Tech Zone -- Part of the irony of this, though, is because the PowerColor X1550 is an entry-level card, it very rarely actually makes full use of the 512MB of dedicated graphics memory: the rest of the card can't exactly keep up. If you're hoping to achieve the same kinds of results as cards that cost three or four times the asking price of the $99 X1550, you're going to be sorely disappointed. By contrast, if you're a light gamer or you're willing to run your first-person shooters and other graphic intense games at less than their maximum capable resolutions and frame rates, the PowerColor X1550 will certainly save you a few bucks while still being able to do an adequate, budget-minded job.

techPowerUp -- Powercolor's new HD 5750 PCS relies on a copper cooling solution by Zerotherm to keep the card cool. It does so without much fan noise and while being twice as energy efficient as the HD 4850 which is comparable in performance.

NeoSeeker -- Our Crossfire testing proves that two X1800 GTO's, even on an older dual 8x board will still provide good performance. Despite the gains that an X1800 Crossfire Master card setup present, that's hardly a viable solution and should not be considered in place of another X1800 GTO. Hopefully ATI can extend the cableless option across most of their range to make their dual-GPU solution truly competitive with SLI as far as usability goes. While bandwidth would likely be a limiter on higher end boards, any solution ATI can work out that doesn't require the cable will be a bonus to them and the user.