ATI Mobility Radeon X1450

This week review is about the graphic card for notebook or for the more understanding information, the basic users of notebook. This card is not good as latest graphic card but it is able to deliver the notebook user the fundamental of the graphic performance. This card can be assume as the prototype for the notebook graphic for ATI before they empowered their card to achieved the requirement for the latest game graphic performance

Meanwhile, all the features are basic compare to latest graphic card. This review showed at that previous years, this card is the most friendly users yet affordable. This card features also similar with latest graphic card such as ATI Power Management for intelligence power consumption and ATI Avivo Video and Display Architecture for delivering the graphic performance to the next level for the notebook users.

Because of this card, ATI managed to upgrade their graphic card to the highest peak of graphic performance that money can buy.

ATI RadeonTM HD 3800 for Mac and PC

The review for this week is focusing of Apple Mac Pro System in Graphic system. With this card, you will experience a great High Definition (HD) with graphic design based on your need. For this card requirement and specification for your Mac as below;

• Apple Mac Pro system Mac OS X® v10.5.2 (Leopard) or higher
• Support Window XP and above with direct X 9 and above.
  
• 256-bit GDDR3/GDDR4 memory interface
• 666 million transistors on 55nm fabrication process

• One PCI Express® X16 2.0 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
• Price: RM280-300
• Minimum Power Supply - 550w
  

This card also gives a maximum performance graphic application such as 3D animation, games and 3D modelling. Some features has be added to improve this card to deliver the users especially gamers. The features are Power Professional Application, Advance to the Next Generation of HD Gaming and Break through Efficiency. Despise that, this card also excellent for playing game since the card contain Xcrossfire GPU features which allow high graphic performance accelerator.

All this features give the users the maximum satisfaction in doing work or playing games and without a doubt, this card is suitable for Mac plus low power usage and have cool and quiet system for user wish to spend lot of time for the usage of graphic card.

Nvidia Geforce 8600 GTs

Stream Processors	32
Core Clock (MHz)	675
Shader Clock (MHz)	1450
Memory Clock (MHz)	1000
Memory Amount	256MB GDDR3
Memory Interface	128-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec)	32
Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec)	10.8

Minimum Power Supply: 350w
Price Range : RM 250-300
Slot : PCI - Express

Even though this model is sound like extended version of Nvidia 8600GT from the last post (just puting s only), this model is way more better and powerful than the 8600GT model and may surpass some model of 9 series.

Just imagine if the 8600GT can't support that games full performance, it can play to full performance. This model is suitable for user to play the current game at fullest performance and expect to able to use until end of this year.However, it is expected this model to support latest game and upcoming game at least at half of the performance.

Just like 8600GT, it can provide same features but only different the graphic performance. Hardly crash and give complication, capable to overclock and support any OS and HD video.

Hopefully from the usage of this graphic card model, it able to meet the user specification and standard for playing games and running application.

Nvidia Geforce 8600GT

Nvidia GeForce 8600GT specification:

Stream Processors		32
Core Clock (MHz)		540
Shader Clock (MHz)		1180
Memory Clock (MHz)		700
Memory Amount		256MB GDDR3
Memory Interface		128-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec)		22.4
Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec)		8.6

Minimum Power Supply: 250w
Price Range : RM 200-250
Slot : PCI - Express


I recommended this graphic card to anyone want to have low budget but able to fill minimum specification for 2009/2010 pc games. this grapic card able to support latest game such as Resident Evil 5 , Left For Dead 2, SAW, Price of Persia, Need for Speed SHIFT etc.

This card is one of most stable Nvidia products where the crash and complication are extremely rare. Beside that this graphic cards support any High Definition videos. Addition of that, this graphic card support window vista and Window 7 too. This Graphic cards can be over clock to push the performance over the limit but must put a user must beware of overheating.

This card cant play the latest game to the fullest but able to support at least half of the game full performance. So, enjoy the game with Nvidia Geforce 8600GT.And also, make sure the user update the graphic cards drivers!