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Mod of the Year 2019 - In Association with Corsair

The nominations are in, it's time to decide who deserves the crown for 2019!

January 24, 2020 | 12:00

Intel Core i9-10900X Review

Intel's latest 10-core has received a hefty price cut, but is it worth the cash?

January 23, 2020 | 14:00

Gigabyte TRX40 Aorus Master Review

We take a look at Gigabyte's sub-£500 TRX40 board to see if it can compete with the excellent ROG Strix TRX40-E Gaming.

January 17, 2020 | 12:00

Sapphire silently releases X1800GTO²

Details of Sapphire's upcoming Radeon X1800GTO² has appeared on the web. It's based on the now discontinued R520 graphics processing unit with a 512MB frame buffer.

June 27, 2006 | 15:19

Radeon X1800XT is now End Of Life

ATI has ended the life of the Radeon X1800XT after less than six months in the company's product stack. Bargains ahoy!

April 27, 2006 | 17:14

ATI's new R580 = Radeon X1900?

ATI's new flagship could now be called Radeon X1900 when released in late January. We talk specification, and NVIDIA's response, the G71.

December 13, 2005 | 12:55

ATI shipping super-duper X1800s

The X1800 XT OC is the latest weapon in the NVIDIA / ATI war of attrition. A little slower than the 7800 GTX 512MB, it is at least (at last?) available to buy.

December 12, 2005 | 07:14

ATI to introduce new GPUs early in '06

According to reports, there will be some new additions to ATI's product lineup in the first quarter of 2006. We have the details inside.

November 24, 2005 | 17:15

Sapphire Radeon X1800XL

On the 5th October, ATI announced its new Radeon X1000 series of video cards. Today, Tim Smalley has a look at Sapphire's X1800XL implementation and also chews on the technology behind R520. We compare the card with three different GeForce 7800 GT's in a variety of real-world gaming scenarios.

October 17, 2005 | 10:11

ATI's Radeon X800 series can do Transparency AA too

It seems that ATI's current generation hardware can do some form of transparency Anti-Aliasing too...

September 29, 2005 | 16:54

ATI CrossFire - Hands on

We've had a play with reference boards for ATI's CrossFire platform. We take a look at the technology, perform some initial performance evaluations, and give you our take on the technology as it stands both today, and over the next couple of weeks.

September 26, 2005 | 14:00

ATI's plans for new cards revealed

The roadmaps are uncovered, and ATI's R5xx plans sure as heck look interesting...

August 16, 2005 | 09:42

NVIDIA will continue to dominate the high-end

NVIDIA's GeForce 7800 GTX has been a success so far, while ATI have been in a spot of bother with several products in free fall. How long will it be before we see a competitor for NVIDIA's current flagship part?

August 2, 2005 | 14:30

A bluffer's guide to Shader Models

Stupified by shaders? Finding pixels perculiar and vertices vexing? Check out our guide to shaders, which will explain all the complex details in a nice and simple manner.

July 25, 2005 | 12:48

ATI shipping R520s and Xenos

Xbox 360 developers have Xenos chips in their kits, and R520 cores have finally started to yield properly. Crossfire is still MIA, however.

July 12, 2005 | 10:11

R520 now heading for September - report

ATI Taiwan says that R520 is on course to start shipping in September, and will be accompanied by R530 and RV515. Full analysis inside.

July 7, 2005 | 08:54

Valve not waiting for R520

Despite wide speculation, Valve have confirmed this morning that Half Life 2: Lost Coast has not been delayed to wait for ATI's R520 GPU, and are hoping to release it in July.

June 15, 2005 | 08:45

Microsoft: 'Shader Model 3.0a does not exist...'

Recent rumours suggested that Microsoft were about to release an updated version of Shader Model 3.0. Microsoft confirmed that they have no plans to update DirectX 9.0c with an extension for the rumoured Shader Model 3.0a.

June 10, 2005 | 00:38

Nvidia G70 in pictures

Anandtech snaps photos of the G70. Also, R520 will have 32 pipes - details inside.

June 2, 2005 | 11:54

HL2: Aftermath to ship in September

The expansion pack for Half-Life 2 will ship in September, and is due to land on retail shelves as well as Steam.

May 24, 2005 | 10:20

How the Xbox 360 affects PC gamers

In today's column, I examine how the technology behind the newly-announced Xbox 360 - the processor, graphics unit and system architecture - could have an impact on the PCs that we enthusiasts see on our desktops over the next couple of years.

May 13, 2005 | 16:03