Consumer Electronics Show 2005: AT's Coverage
by Anand Lal Shimpi on January 10, 2005 3:49 AM EST- Posted in
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ATI and NVIDIA Availability
Despite what ATI promised, none of the Radeon X850 line are available, even as we start 2005. The Radeon X850 XT will be available at the end of January with the X850 XT PE available a week later in February.
There is no word on the Radeon X850 Pro, which confirms our suspicions that ATI hadn't thought their positioning through on that part before announcing it.
Even after the X850 line is officially launched, we are told that availability will be extremely limited.
The Radeon X800 will be available in the first week of February, with the X800 XL following a week or two later. These dates were all provided by ATI's partners and not ATI themselves, so hopefully the accuracy will be higher than what we were told by ATI.
As far as AGP versions of all of these cards go, it looks like it won't be until mid-March before we see AGP versions of ATI's latest GPUs. On the low end, ATI's answer to NVIDIA's Turbo Cache will be shipping in around 6 - 8 weeks.
NVIDIA's PCIe 6800 series will still be limited in availability for the foreseeable future, we were even told by one manufacturer that the availability problem wouldn't be resolved until the 2nd half of this year.
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thraxes - Monday, January 10, 2005 - link
bhtooefr - Monday, January 10, 2005 - link
Me like the Shuttle set-top...Now, can we just get more ordinary P-M boards?
Chuckles - Monday, January 10, 2005 - link
Was VIA demoing their processors and boards?miketheidiot - Monday, January 10, 2005 - link
efficeon looked good, to bad transmeta might be going belly up.linuxOwnzIfUrLeet - Monday, January 10, 2005 - link
"we had a 46" samsung and gave it right back, viewing from the side looks dark"Do you know anything about plasma vs DLP?
DLP's only life problem is you'll have to buy a new bulb.
plasma's problem is that it will continue to go darker and darker until the gas runs out of energy.
You don't like the dark of dlp you aint gonna like the dark of plasma.
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Plasma - can't change the gas- no refills - no recharging. Continue to get darker picture.
Dlp - change a bulb.
Plasma - spend lots of money know and throw away soon.
Today, I can get a 76" dlp for $1400 with <2cm display thickness.
Illissius - Monday, January 10, 2005 - link
"The Radeon X800 will be available in the first week of February"That's odd. What's this, then?
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?desc...
Ardan - Monday, January 10, 2005 - link
Thanks for that link :D. I thought those MGE cases looked great as well and made me interested in what they have been making lately.KristopherKubicki - Monday, January 10, 2005 - link
danidentity: http://www.xgbox.com/Kristopher
Houdani - Monday, January 10, 2005 - link
Was the second image on the very last page messed up for anyone else? I could only see the top 10% of the image and the rest was blacked out. The image is supposed to show the MGE cases. The text just above the image is..."MGE also demonstrated a more sleek lineup of cases, a welcome change from the overly busy gaming cases that we've seen far too much of lately:"
snorre - Monday, January 10, 2005 - link
"The entire Sound Storm division at NVIDIA has been shut down and thus NVIDIA's Intel solution will have HD Audio support, but we will not see the return of Dolby Digital Encoding support or NVIDIA's Sound Storm DSP."I don't believe this for a second. Can someone please confirm or deny this claim? Thanks!