Computex 2004 Early Bird Coverage: NV45 in the Flesh, New Chipsets, BTX Boards and more...
by Anand Lal Shimpi on May 31, 2004 12:31 PM EST- Posted in
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More PCI Express Graphics
The most exciting graphics card at Computex is NVIDIA's NV45, but there were also some other cards that drew our attention.
ATI had PCI Express boards spread out all over the show floor, with the PCI Express Radeon X600 XT showing up at Gigabyte's booth:
The X600 XT is basically a PCI Express version of the Radeon 9600XT with a higher memory clock (740MHz vs. 600MHz). We will have more details on the X600 in an upcoming article.
ASUS also had a X600 XT solution at their booth:
As well as a dual-DVI PCI Express X800 card:
Remember that the PCI Express X800 is based off of a slightly different chip than the AGP X800, known internally as the R423 (R420 is the AGP version).
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JGF - Monday, May 31, 2004 - link
Wheee! Love the early stuff but really the meat and potatoes of this computex, at least for me, is going to be the new amd processers and and amd info regarding PCI-E and AMD64 chipsets.Da3dalus - Monday, May 31, 2004 - link
That K8 Combo board is quite interesting. If you'd have a board like that with support for either Socket 939 or 754 CPU, along with support for both AGP 8X and PCI-Express, then that would be really cool for transitioning/upgrading...Not something I'd expect to see anytime soon, but it would be cool :)
mjz5 - Monday, May 31, 2004 - link
just stick with an A64 939 pin CPU, and you'll be happy. Intel == crap!