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    A Luchtime GFX roundup '600 series GFX cards. Firstly PowerColor's R9600Pro 128MB Bravo Edition VGA, as reviewed at OCNZ:

    "PowerColor R9600Pro Bravo Edition is one of the fastest R9600Pro graphic cards on the market. This is due to the higher working memory frequency, 70MHz higher than ATi's specification. The improvement is around 5% when AA and FA are enabled. However, it is not that strong in overclocking though, with a maximum working frequency of 480Core/714Memory."

    More on the PowerColor here Following hot on it's heels is NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra (Rev 2). Beyond3D are taking another look at the 5600 after nVidia withdrew the Rev 1 and tinkered with it to give us the Rev 2:

    "As stated earlier, the chip packing has moved from wire bonding to flip chip. So what's the big deal? Wire bonding is exactly as it sounds - the die connections to the board interconnections (pins or "balls") on the bottom of the packaging are tiny little wires. Although this process is generally cheaper than flip chip, there are issues with it. Firstly, if the chip is going to have many I/O signals, it is going to need a lot of interconnects. This means that the wires will have to be narrower in order to pack more in, reducing their strength and increasing their resistance."

    Full 5600 preview here
     
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