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Articles: Editorial

X-bit Labs CeBIT Hannover 2004 Coverage: Part 2 (page 4)

Category: Editorial

by Anton Shilov

[ 03/22/2004 | 11:01 PM ]

EPoX also said that it did not ship Prescott-supporting mainboards based on VIA PT800 and PT880 chipsets, as it has found some problems with them. Currently EPoX is awaiting new revisions of PT800 and PT880 to start commercial supplies.

Graphics cards is a new business for EPoX; the company states that it currently builds its graphics products fully according to reference design provided by NVIDIA. There practically three things EPoX does with the reference: it employs its own coolers, adjusts memory timings and installs a bit different memory chips than supposed by NVIDIA. We probably should expect something interesting from EPoX in this direction, but it seems that it is too early to discuss it.

GeCube: ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON 9600XT, Dual-DVI Cards

GeCube was just another startup dealing with computer hardware only a year ago. Today this company is pretty well-known and respected among end-users and media. Moreover, the firm is not just copying graphics cards made by ATI, but tends to develop its own solutions.

For instance, already this spring the company will ship RV380-based graphics cards with TSOP memory chips in contrast to BGA chips recommended by ATI. Cards like these will be pretty affordable, but will not be intended for overclockers and enthusiasts. For these two kinds of end-users GeCube will have fully-featured RV380 solutions with copper heatsinks for increased overclockability.

Another impressive product GeCube has is a low-profile RADEON 9600 XT graphics card with two DVI ports connected via a special adapter. To make the only Powered by ATI consumer graphics card with dual-DVI GeCube had to install an additional TMDS transmitter from Silicon Image.

However, the most inspiring graphics card GeCube has in its booth is ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON 9600 XT with ATI’s new REMOTE WONDER II controller. GeCube will use a rather powerful cooler and will bundle Yager game on DVD with its AIW 9600 XT.

Final Words

This is not everything that happened during the 19^th of March, the second day of CeBIT 2004, check out our coming coverage as well as the final digest of the show later.