VisionTek ATI Radeon HD 2400 Pro 512MB isn't bad

I found this graphics card " ATI Radeon HD 2400 Pro 512MB ( AGP 8X )" on bestbuy site and noticed that  many of people have troubles with this card and give it a low ranking , but I decided to buy and test it. It's really a good card and it's too easy to install it and make it work. It gives a high performance and sharp images and can run nearly all games. You can download the driver for this card from the VisionTek web site and it will work easily. I know that it isn't the best graphics card but it will work well. Its core speed is 525Mhz and it has a 512MB DDR2 800Mhz memory and support DirectX 10 and it can be overclock but on your responsibility.It can work with two monitors and has a TV-out port and support ATI Avivo technology.  

The most poweful processor in the world now

No one can deny that Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition is the most powerful processor in the world now. It's the fastest processor on the planet as its core speed is 3.2 Ghz without overclocking and it has four cores and each one can  make two threads and that make the processor work like it has 8 cores. It's really wonderful , it has 8 Mb of Intel smart cache and 3 Channels of DDR3 1066 MHz memory the will make your PC launch as a rocket! It's mainly designed for ultimate gaming and graphics designing, so many of use really don't need to it as  it's very expensive, it will cost you about 1100$ for the processor only.Can you imagine how much  the complete pc will cost you?

AMD or Intel ?

In the field of producing processors, all the manufacturers are disappeared or will do soon ,but Intel and AMD are the only survivors. Most of computer users ask which is the best. No doubt that Intel is no.1 in producing the most powerful processors but AMD processors are also powerful. Inter processors introduce higher processing speed for games and multitasking applications but there are many disadvantages:
- It gives out great heat and that raise the temperature of the processor and decrease its life, and you may need to buy cooling systems which are expensive.
-Intel's processors are very expensive specially the new ones.
-Intel depends on the core speed only and doesn't provide special technologies ( Hyper threading is the only one)

AMD is doing well to introduce unique technologies to enhance performance and to build smart processors. It cares about the power efficiency and its processors are designed to reduce the power needed for operating. It was the first company to build a 64-bit processor and it was the first manufacturer of the multicore processors. Also the prices of the processors are reasonable. You can see this processor to know about AMD technologies. I personally prefer AMD.

Nu SuperMulti Drive , very beautiful external DVD drive but not the best

Some of us need to buy an external DVD drive, but they should search for a beautiful and speedy one. I found this DVD drive that looks like a thing from the space! It's Nu SuperMulti Drive ESW846B .It's really beautiful ,but unfortunately it can't introduce the best performance.It connect to your PC or laptop through a USB cable and use only 7% (maximum) form your processor performance. The only disadvantage of this drive is its reading and writing speed, as it's slower than many other DVD drives but for a standard user, it's a good choice. It also support the LightScribe technology and it doesn't take big roam on your desk as it's thin.
In tests, it took 14min and 20sec to wirte 4.38 GB on a standard DVD R at 8X, and it took 11min and 3.6sec to copy them from the DVD.

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 vs GeForce9600, which one will win!

Some of us have a trouble when buying a new graphics card from nvidia ,which one they should buy 8800GT , 8800GTS ,8800GTX or 9600GT!
In fact , GeForce 8800GTS (512MB only) is the most powerful graphics card in them. It has the fastest GPU and shader clock and it's really fast. It's slightly better than 8800GTX ,but not better than 8800 Ultra.The only difference between 8800GTS and the 8800GTX is that 8800GTX has a 384-Bit memory interface that makes the data transfer  faster but its GPU is slower.
I can arrange these cards from the strongest to the weakest:

1. GeForce 8800GTS (512MB only)
2. GeForce 8800GTX
3. GeForce 9600GT
4. GeForce 8800GT

Get the most powerful ATI GPU HD 4870 with MSI R4870X2

MSI R4870X2  is of the most powerful graphics cards in the world and it's the most powerful MSI graphics card. It contain the latest ATI HD 4870 GPU that can deliver unexpected performance with the most new games and you will see the real power of games. This card has the most new DDR5 ram with 2 GB. It works with RV770 GPU that can work under direct X 10.1 to intoduce unbeleivable graphics. This card consistes of two ATI Radeon HD 4870 GPUs to performe a very fast performance in Direct X 10.1 games and the two GPUs makes a total 1600 processing streams. It has all what you will need from a graphics card and it has a good cooling system but it isn't very good really and I think that MSI MUST work on this problem very quickly.But, the result of testing this card without changing any settings or overclocking it ,was fantastic. It score 13320 points in 3DMark06 and this result may increase if a powerful computer is used.Also, its price is good and cheaper than some weaker cards from NVIDIA .
Ranking: 4.5/5

NVIDIA 280 GTX :powerful performance with some problems

Every one has heard about the power of the new nvidia graphics card - NVIDIA 280 GTX - which is the most expensive graphics card now. Yes, this is a very poweful card which contains 1.4 billion transistors and includes the nvidia PhysX and CUDA technologies, but it's really hard to use it. First, its price is very high and it gives out great heat and you shouldn't buy it if yiu haven't a very efficient cooling system and a big chassis for your computer and a water cooling system is recommended specially to overclock its speed and all that will cost too much in addition to its price. Also you need to use a very powerful processor with high speed and it's recommended to be 3.2Ghz for dual core processor and 3.0Ghz for a quad core one. This card delivers a very high performance but notice that it isn't the fastest one as NVIDIA 9800GTX is faster but 280GTX has more processing streams.But after all that I can say that the best things in this card is the nvidia PhysX and CUDA technologies,the overclocking ability and the high number of shader cores ,but there are big problems you must face if you buy this card.First its high price ,second the very high temperture ( can reach 80'C) ,third it doesn't support direct X 10.1 at all and it doesn't have a DDR5 ram. I see that ATI graphics cards can deliver high performance without these problems.  

NVIDIA 280 GTX specifications :

Processor Cores	240
Graphics Clock (MHz)	602 MHz
Processor Clock (MHz)	1296 MHz
Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec)	48.2
Memory Specs:
Memory Clock (MHz)	1107 MHz
Standard Memory Config	1GB GDDR3
Memory Interface Width	512-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec)	141.7
Feature Support:
NVIDIA SLI®-ready1	2-/3-way
NVIDIA PureVideo® Technology2	HD
NVIDIA PhysX™-ready3
NVIDIA CUDA™ Technology
NVIDIA HybridPower™ Technology4
GeForce Boost
Microsoft DirectX	10
OpenGL	2.1
Bus Support	PCI-E 2.0 x16
Certified for Windows Vista
Display Support:
Maximum Digital Resolution	2560 X 1600
Maximum VGA Resolution	2048 X 1536
Standard Display Connectors	2 dual-link DVI and 1 analog HDTV-out
Multi Monitor (# of displays)	2
HDCP5
HDMI6	Via Adapter
Audio Input for HDMI	SPDIF
Standard Graphics Card Dimensions:
Height	4.376 inches (111 mm)
Length	10.5 inches (267 mm)
Width	Dual-slot

If you are looking a big , beautiful and full HD monitor, Samsung 22'' is what you want

Samsung introduced a wonderful monitor called " Samsung 2232GW " which has all what you want in a monitor. It has a 22'' wide screen and the fastest response time " 2ms" and 3000:1 contrast ratio which deivers the most smooth images and it is a full HD with sharp images and the screen is covered with a special anti-brightness material that makes it easier to read texts. Surely, you will be fascinated by its beautiful design and the colors you see on the screen. It's really wonderful!

Seagate FreeAgent XTreme 1.5TB on the top of external hard disks

Seagate introduces the best external hard disk for 2008 and it's really amazing and you can called it "all in one". It has all what you need in an external hard disk ,the large capacity ,the smart appearance ,the flexibility that allows you to lay the HD on its side or stand it upright and the long warranty. You can also connect it to your computer by 3 ways ( USB 2.0 480MB/s ,Firewire 400 or eSATA 3GB/s) to maximize the speed of data transfer according to you computer. It has 32MB of cache to increase processing speed and its speed is 7200 rpm for best performance as the higher speeds always make the HD temperature high and this badly affect the lifetime of the device, so 7200rpm is the best speed now. I recommend this product to you , but note that ALL external hard drives may have problems with windows vista 64bit when connecting the device with eSATA and this hard may not work properly with eSATA on vista 64Bit and Western Digital hard drive also do so.
Ranking for this HD: 5/5

Corsair Dominator Twin3x2048 -1800C7DFIN just a normal DDR3 RAM

This is one of the first DDR3 RAMs found in markets and it is really good but won't meet your expectations if you think it will deliver incredible performance. It has the overclocking feature, but trust me, some of DDR2 RAMs can deliver a better performance. I know that its freq. is 1800Mhz but its real performance is normal and moreover its price is very high ( about 425$). It achieved 5430MB/s in memory bandwidth test in SiSoft Sandra and some DDR2 RAMs can achieve higher results. So I advice you not to buy this RAMs if you want a very powerful performance for games and other application.

6 powerful NVIDIA 9600 graphics cards (part 3)

MSI N9600GT T2D512

Manufacturing technology: 65 nm

Core speed:730 MHz

Memory capacity: 512 MB GDDR3
Memory frequency : 1825 MHz

Memory width band: 256 Bit

Ports: 2 DVI ,1S-Video, HDMI via DVI

Programs:CyberLink DVD Solution trial, PowerDVD 7 trial, MSI utilities.

Special: Provide HDCP.

Advantages: reasonable price with high performance graphics card.

Disadvantages: N/A

3D Mark06 test: 10532 points (at resolution 1280X1024) note:this result may differ according to the PC

Windows Vista points: 5.9 

Ranking: 4/5

Palit GeForce 9600GT Sonic

Manufacturing technology: 65 nm

Core speed:700 MHz

Memory capacity: 512 MB GDDR3
Memory frequency : 1750 MHz

Memory width band: 256 Bit

Ports: 2 DVI ,1S-Video, HDMI ,CRT

Programs: Tomb Raider Anniversary, VDO Tools.

Special: Provide HDMI port on its real panel.

Advantages: It has wonderful ability to overclock and increase its speed and performance .

Disadvantages: the performance isn't very high but it is really good.

3D Mark06 test: 10408 points (at resolution 1280X1024) note:this result may differ according to the PC

Windows Vista points: 5.9 

Ranking: 3.5/5

In the end, I can say that the best Geforce 9600GT graphics card is ASUS EN9600GT Top and the second is MSI N9600GT T2D512 (in part 3).

Go to part 1.
You may also want to see great ATI HD 3870 graphics cards. 

6 powerful NVIDIA 9600 graphics cards (part 2)

Gigabyte GeForce9600GT

Manufacturing technology: 65 nm

Core speed:650 MHz

Memory capacity: 512 MB GDDR3
Memory frequency : 1625 MHz

Memory width band: 256 Bit

Ports: 2 DVI ,1S-Video, HDMI via DVI

Programs: N/A.

Special: Provide HDCP.

Advantages: N/A.

Disadvantages: its high price and low performance..

3D Mark06 test: 9737 points (at resolution 1280X1024) note:this result may differ according to the PC

Windows Vista points: 5.9 

Ranking: 3/5

Leadtek Winfast PX9600GT Extreme

Manufacturing technology: 65 nm

Core speed:720 MHz

Memory capacity: 512 MB GDDR3
Memory frequency : 1750 MHz

Memory width band: 256 Bit

Ports: 2 DVI ,1S-Video, HDMI via DVI

Programs: the "Overload" game.

Special: high quality solid capacitors .

Advantages:Good graphics card with high performance.

Disadvantages: N/A.

3D Mark06 test: 10297 points (at resolution 1280X1024) note:this result may differ according to the PC

Windows Vista points: 5.9 

Ranking: 3.5/5

Go to part 1 or part 3.

6 powerful NVIDIA 9600GT graphics cards (Part 1)

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 Series is good GPUs but it is the second level. It is a good solution for user who don't want to pay so much to get an amazing graphics card and I'm sure they won't need it now.

ASUS EN9600GT Top

Manufacturing technology: 65 nm

Core speed:720 MHz

Memory capacity: 512 MB GDDR3
Memory frequency : 1800 MHz

Memory width band: 256 Bit

Ports: 2 DVI ,1S-Video, HDMI via DVI

Programs: Asus Gamer OSD, Asus SmartDoctor, ASUS Video Security online.

Special: Can make 10% overclocking ,having a Glaciator fan .

Advantages: Excellent graphics card with very high performance and comes with useful programs.

Disadvantages: its high price.

3D Mark06 test: 10540 points (at resolution 1280X1024) note:this result may differ according to the PC

Windows Vista points: 5.9 

Ranking: 4/5

Foxconn GeForce 9600GT

Manufacturing technology: 65 nm

Core speed:700 MHz

Memory capacity: 512 MB GDDR3
Memory frequency : 1750 MHz

Memory width band: 256 Bit

Ports: 2 DVI ,1S-Video, HDMI via DVI

Programs: DriveClone 3, VirtualDrive11.5.

Special:  good cooling system.

Advantages: Its low cost and reasonable performance.

Disadvantages: its high price.

3D Mark06 test: 10413 points (at resolution 1280X1024) note:this result may differ according to the PC

Windows Vista points: 5.9 

Ranking: 3.5/5

Go to part 2.

Enhance your pc performance with AMD Phenom 9850 QC

AMD was the first company to produce the multicore processors, so I think its processors is the best multicore processors. Here I introduce AMD Phenom 9850 Quad Core processor. It delivers very high performance with real quad core processes as AMD processors is the only processors that have 4 real cores unlike the Intel ones. It has advanced technologies that you will never find in other processors like "AMD Cool n Quiet" , AMD CoolCore that helps you to enhance your computer performance by turning on or off the processor cores according to the needs, "Dual Dynamic Power Management " ,"AMD Wideband Frequency Control" and more.
These unique technologies and the 64Bit performance take your PC to the next level of processing performance and it also is nearly equivalent to the Intel's ones.
Tests:
Using 3DMark06: 6713   (very good)
CPU Test: 3371  (very good)
Specification :
Core speed: 2.50 GHz
Operating modes: 32Bit &64Bit
L2 Cache: 4x512 KB
L3 Cache: 2 MB
CMOS: 65 nm SOI
Wattage: 125 Watt
Max temp.: 61'C

Advantages:
A real quad core processor.
Disadvantages:
Intel processors performance is still better. 

6 powerful ATI Radeon HD 3870 graphics cards (part 3)

Sapphire Radeon HD 3870

Chipset: RV670

Manufacturing technology: 55 nm

Core speed:796 MHz

Memory capacity: 512 MB GDDR4

Memory width band: 256 Bit

Ports: 2 DVI ,1 S-Video 

Programs: 3DMark06, PowerDVD7, CyberLink DVD.

Special: Very thin card .

Advantages: Excellent graphics card with very high performance and comes with useful programs.

Disadvantages: Nothing deserves to be mention.

3D Mark06 test: 6702 points (at resolution 1280X1024)

Windows Vista points: 5.9 

Ranking: 4/5

PowerColor HD3870

Chipset: RV670

Manufacturing technology: 55 nm

Core speed:776 MHz

Memory capacity: 512 MB GDDR3

Memory width band: 256 Bit

Ports: 2 DVI ,1 S-Video 

Programs: N/A.

Special: Very thin card and efficient cooling system  .

Advantages: Excellent graphics card with very good design.

Disadvantages: comes with no programs.

3D Mark06 test: 6557 points (at resolution 1280X1024)

Windows Vista points: 5.9 

Ranking: 3.5/5

Go to Part 2.

6 powerful ATI Radeon HD 3870 graphics cards (part 2)

GeCube Radeon HD 3870
Chipset: RV670
Manufacturing technology: 55 nm
Core speed:810 MHz
Memory capacity: 512 MB DDR4
Memory width band: 256 Bit
Ports: 2 DVI ,1 S-Video 
Programs: No programs.
Special: unique cooling system covered with  a fan .

Advantages: Excellent graphics card with very high performance.

Disadvantages: Comes with no programs.

3D Mark06 test: 6702 points (at resolution 1280X1024)
Windows Vista points: 5.9

Ranking: 4/5

MSI RX3870 T2D512E (Overclocking Edition)
Chipset: RV670
Manufacturing technology: 55 nm
Core speed:796 MHz
Memory capacity: 512 MB DDR4
Memory width band: 256 Bit
Ports: 2 DVI ,1 S-Video 
Programs: Star OSD.
Special: N/A

Advantages:Reasonable price.

Disadvantages: Also it is the overclocking edition, it's like the standard ATI 3870 Series graphics cards.

3D Mark06 test: 6492 points (at resolution 1280X1024)
Windows Vista points: 5.9

Ranking: 3.5/5

You can take a look at part 1 here or continue to Part 3.





 

6 powerful ATI Radeon HD 3870 graphics cards

Here, I'll make a comparative between 6 graphics cards based on ATI 3870 GPUs so as to help you choose the most suitable one for you.
ASUS EAH3870 TOP
Chipset: RV670
Manufacturing technology: 55 nm
Core speed:850 MHz
Memory capacity: 512 MB DDR4
Memory width band: 256 Bit
Ports: 2 DVI ,1 S-Video 
Programs: ASUS Gamer OSD, Company of Heroes Opposing Fronts.
Special: Glaciator fan

Advantages: high performance and comes with a game
Disadvantages:high cost
3D Mark06 test: 6575 points (at resolution 1280X1024)
Windows Vista points: 5.9

Ranking: 3.5/5
Gigabyte Radeon HD 3870(GV-RX387512H)

Chipset: RV670
Manufacturing technology: 55 nm
Core speed:823 MHz
Memory capacity: 512 MB DDR4
Memory width band: 256 Bit
Ports: 2 DVI ,1 S-Video 
Programs: ASUS Gamer OSD, Company of Heroes Opposing Fronts.
Special: Zalman fan,solid capacitors
Advantages: good cooling system based on Zalman system
Disadvantages:Don't come with DVI to HDMI adapter

3D Mark06 test: 6517 points (at resolution 1280X1024)
Windows Vista points: 5.9
Ranking: 3.25/5

Go to part 2.

 



 

Vito W1 can feel you !

Vito W1 is a mouse from ASUS which can measure your  rate of heartbeats and let you know how your emotions affect your heart rate specially while chatting and playing games. It comes with a program that can displays the status of heart rate, if it is natural, it gives a smiling face and if it is unnatural, it displays a sad face. This is a wireless mouse  (2.4GHz RF transmission)
and it can work up to 30 feet away from your PC. For more information visit ASUS website.