Computex 2004: Graphics Cards Galore
by Derek Wilson on June 5, 2004 3:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Trade Shows
HIS and Sapphire
HIS came out with some very compelling ATI based products last year, and they don't want to disappoint this time around either. They will be bringing back the ICE-Q product with the ICE-Q II for the X800 line. As with the previous generation, this new product will be based on a modified version of the graphics cooling solution offered by Arctic Cooling.
Unfortunately, when we showed up with our camera, HIS had just moved most of their cards out of their suite for a PCI Express event. Not wanting to disappoint, we bring you the above box shots and a shot of the ICE-Q II placard.
In a very interesting turn of events, Sapphire (one of the largest ATI houses) is also adopting a solution developed by Arctic Cooling for their upcoming Toxic line of cards. The fan supposedly only produces 7 dB of noise.
The toxic line is to replace Sapphire's current Ultimate series of cards.
Of course, the Toxic line will be backed by standard reference cards for those who don't need the extra pizzazz.
UPDATE: Both HIS and Sapphire are reportedly working on dual DVI solutions. At this time, these are the only two vendors we know of who have plans to fill this niche with ATI GPUs. We did, in fact, see sample boards on previous visits to HIS and Sapphire without our camera. We appologize for not having included this in our initial report.
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ZobarStyl - Saturday, June 5, 2004 - link
I'm really looking forward to those LeadTek chips...I've had nothing but good things come out of my card from them. Also, they never use the NV stock cooling so the O/C's are much better as Derek mentioned. Hope the GT's hit soon...SUOrangeman - Saturday, June 5, 2004 - link
Not too many new dual-DVI offers. Sigh.Xentropy - Saturday, June 5, 2004 - link
"Why would they restrict pictures and descriptions from Comutex?"I think you misunderstood the comment. By "can't publish pictures and descriptions of all the countless booths and companies" he meant simply that there is a lack of time and server bandwidth to take, host, and caption thousands of pictures from hundreds of booths, not that they're not ALLOWED to take all the pictures they are able.
notoriousformula - Saturday, June 5, 2004 - link
"Why would they restrict pictures and descriptions from Comutex?"I think he ran outta SC..LOL
jrphoenix - Saturday, June 5, 2004 - link
"channel allocation of the 6800 Ultra parts was somewhere between 50 on the low end to 100 on the high end. Not that such small numbers really need perspective, but when we heard that allocation was low, we expected to hear that it was only a couple thousand."Wow... sounds like the 6800 is turning out to be a paper launch for the forseeable future. Diappointing... Maybe I can wait a bit longer to see the actual retail products with mature drivers going head to head (x800 & 6800)
KillaKilla - Saturday, June 5, 2004 - link
Why would they restrict pictures and descriptions from Comutex?