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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EddNog - Sunday, June 6, 2004 - link
Okay, who FUBAR the photos?!?J/k ;-)
-Ed
Illissius - Sunday, June 6, 2004 - link
Damnit, I wanted to see MSI's 6800s :/.Oh well. Can you just say whether they had any nBox-esque coolers on them? Best coolers evar (possibly) excluding the Silencer and Zalman's stuff.
jiulemoigt - Sunday, June 6, 2004 - link
I had to laugh what happened to ATI's responce that shader 3.0 weren't useful and not going to be implmented? it just goes to show that it's more about PR that about what is useful, this is the second time in as many months ATI is having to pull the foot out of their mouth... when's nvidia going to get caught? or has it finnaly come down neither company should be throwing stone in the first place as they both live in glass houses... for the record I like nvidia's cards but hate both PR deptments!kristof007 - Sunday, June 6, 2004 - link
Wow I can only imagine what kind of overclocking will be avalible with coolers like PowerColors fan (at least I think it was PowerColor). This should be very exciting summer.orion23 - Saturday, June 5, 2004 - link
Hi, did anybody notice a picture of an ASUS ATI X800 PCI EXPRESS video card with support for Shaders 3.0?Also, how many different X800's are out there, 2 or 3?
X800 450MHZ
X800 XT 500MHZ
X800 XT PE 520MHZ
orion23 - Saturday, June 5, 2004 - link
NeedSpeed - Saturday, June 5, 2004 - link
Alienware has been shipping 6800 Ultra's from at least May 14th when I got mine. They announced the card a month earlier.Its not cheap, but it is very fast. The drivers are still not perfect.
DerekWilson - Saturday, June 5, 2004 - link
doh!!HIS is working on a dual DVI solution, but they aren't sure about the market yet. I essentially told them "if you build it they will come" ...
they did have a sample dual dvi board (I believe an x600 though I could very easily be mistaken), but the very important fact slipped my mind since I didn't have pics of it...
Sapphire also mentioned working on dual DVI solutions for the future (of course, they've told us this in the past as well).
I'll add an update to the article.
Lonyo - Saturday, June 5, 2004 - link
I take it you missed the captions on Asus' booth saying both the 5900 and X800XT are the fastest PCI-Express cards? ;)RyanVM - Saturday, June 5, 2004 - link
#5, my thoughts exactly. Not one single manufacturer felt the need to stray from the ATI reference design far enough to go dual DVI? Pathetic.