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- Half-Life 2 Review
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- July High-end Gaming PC Buyer's Guide
- May Value Gaming PC Buyer's Guide
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HARDWARE

  • CPUs

    - AMD Phenom X4 9950 BE & 9350e Review

  • Motherboards

    - AMD 790GX Chipset Review
    - Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DS5 Motherboard Review
    - AMD 780G Chipset Review

  • Video Cards

    - PNY XLR8 GeForce 9800 GX2 1GB Review




  • We won't list the entire spec sheet here; instead we're going to give you a brief run-down of the features:

  • 32 MB 5ns SDR SDRAM
  • 256-bit internal data transfer bandwidth
  • 350MHz RAMDAC
  • AGP 4x/2x/1x with fast writes
  • S-Video TV-Out
  • Optional flat panel output
  • Peak fill rate of 480 million bilinear filtered, multi-textured pixels
  • Up to 15 million triangles per second at peak rates integrated transform, lighting, setup and rendering engines

    Video Acceleration

  • DVD and HDTV-ready motion compensation
  • DVD sub-picture alpha blending
  • 5-tap horizontal and 3-tap vertical video filtering

    As DVD becomes more commonplace on new systems, these video acceleration features become increasingly important, so it's important to understand them.

    The DVD motion compensation is a performance feature that allows a significant drop in system requirements (PII 266 without dropping any frames). The TNT2 didn't have this, making the GeForce better in terms of DVD.

    DVD sub-picture alpha blending is a quality feature supported by the TNT2 and the GeForce (as well as the Rage 128, S3's Savage series and the TNT). You know all of those menus you click on for navigation in a DVD? Without sub-picture blending these menus would be dithered, crosshatched and downright ugly.





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