up is the ATI R520 / X1800 Radeon Series. For the past while, it seems that ATI has been firmly wedged between a rock and a hard place, while nVidia has surpassed its chief competitor's graphics cards in many ways. However, the X1800 series of high-end graphics...

input and output system, if you can enjoy the 1080p eye-candy of HD video on your PC screen. ATI was first to stress the need of a graphics card to cope with HD video at last year's E3 tradeshow, when it demonstrated a pre-production Radeon X1800 card that...