[H]ardNews 8th Edition

Sapphire Radeon X850XT-PE AGP:

Lost Circuits has the AGP version of the Sapphire Radeon X850XT-PE on the grill for a round or two of benchmarks. The overall review is positive, though the review does make note of the noisy cooler and lackluster users manual. For more information you can see our ATi X850XT-PE AGP review here.

Too bad that corporate marketing initially overlooked that fact but to give credit where credit is due, high-end graphics cards with AGP interface to retrofit the existing systems are back with a vengeance. One example is Sapphire's RADEON X850XT.

ABIT Fatal1ty AN8:

Oc Tools has just reviewed the nForce4 Ultra powered ABIT Fatal1ty AN8 motherboard. You can see our review here for comparison purposes.

This board performed like magic in the 2 weeks that we tested it. Both at stock and overclocked settings, the Fatal1ty AN8 never showed any sign of weakness. Stability wise, this board has exceeded our expectations.

Computex Day #1:

While the today’s news is dominated by the announcement of ATi’s CrossFire, we can’t forget that there is a lot of Computex 2005 Day #1 coverage out there as well. We will add more coverage of the show from around the web as it comes in. Here are a few links to get you started:

T-Break

Hexus

Anandtech

Hardware Zone

On the motherboards side, ASUS was showing their new AN8 nF4-SLI board that is a fanless design using heatpipes and doesnt have any SLI switch onboard. ASUS also informed us that this board will overclock as well as DFI boards. They also showed their ATI chipset board featuring dual x16 slots for CrossFire.