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December 2003 Hardware News Overview

[ 12/19/03 | by Andy Yaschenko]

We decided to resume the good tradition of writing monthly industry news overview. As you may have noticed we’ve been doing that for the memory market on a regular basis lately. Today, please find the most detailed coverage of the industry innovations for the CPU, mainboard, storage, monitor, memory, graphics and notebook fields.

Where going, Intel?

[ 11/23/03 | by Victor Kartunov]

Today we decided to analyze the situation in the desktop processor market and to figure out what Intel should actually do in this case, especially taking into account the new 64bit AMD CPUs and the recently discovered problems with the upcoming Prescott.

A Next-Generation DirectX 9.0 Game Graphics Performance Preview

[ 10/10/03 | by Anton Shilov]

We managed to obtain a copy of a highly-anticipated DirectX 9.0 game utilizing modern technologies like Pixel Shaders and Vertex Shaders 2.0. Fortunately, the title allows benchmarking and we could not miss the opportunity to benchmark the RADEON and GeForce FX graphics cards under hardcore load. Here we go with our own X-bit labs’ graphics performance preview of a very highly-anticipated DirectX 9.0 game that is presumably coming out in foreseeable future.

ATI on Top at The Rock

[ 10/01/03 | by Anna Filatova]

Read about the unprecedented event on Alcatraz island in San Francisco, where ATI announced the new RADEON 9xxx XT product family based on R360 graphics chip. Enjoy the great show and stay tuned for our indepth coverage on the performance and features of the new ATI solution!