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| Diamond's Viper X1600 Diamond Multimedia announced it has begun shipping the Viper X1600, a state-of-the-art graphics card that offers sharp, vibrant images and the sophisticated ability to connect to a variety of gaming, PC and television platforms using the ATI Radeon X1600 PRO chipset. The X1600 card is the latest in a series of high-performance graphics cards featuring the powerful ATI Radeon chip. It brings an efficient memory controller, with a 500 MHz core speed. The quality of the X1600 lets gamers worry less about memory usage and effortlessly enjoy better gameplay. The X1600 is also equipped with ATI's Avivo video and display platform, which enables a High-Definition visual experience, and allows for universal connectivity to various digital devices, including home theater systems, LCD monitors, HDTVs, projectors and notebooks. Digital videos, gaming and photos are enhanced by sharpened images and smoother video playback. Avivo offers sharper display for video and photos compared with conventional cards, as well as 'universal display connectivity' - which eliminates the long-standing barrier of being able to display PC graphics on a variety of consumer electronics devices, including big-screen televisions. The X1600 also boasts CrossFire platform support, in which the gamer can combine multiple graphics cards on one motherboard to speed up gaming with 'supertiling', wherein the processing and graphics rendering becomes shared between the two graphics cards. The Viper X1600 also comes with extensive software, including the Catalyst Control Center, the award-winning feature-rich 3D software application. Catalyst automatically configures optimal settings for your system, and is packed with features that go far beyond traditional driver configuration software. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Game News :: home page |