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  1. Re:Summary by Celandine · · Score: 1 · on Best Gaming Video Cards for the Money

    Sure, I bought one a couple of weeks ago. http://www.leadtek.com/3d_graphic/winfast_a7600_gt tdh_1.html

  2. Re:Graphics Silicon by itomato · · Score: 2, Informative · on Is the Game Finally up for SGI?

    Silicon Graphics 'graphics' engineers are now nVidia.

    Commodity PC hardware ain't gonna cut it.

    http://www.s3graphics.com/en/index.jsp
    http://www.matrox.com/
    http://www.tridentmicro.com/

    have died at the hands of
    http://www.leadtek.com/ (foxconn)
    http://www.nvidia.com/
    http://www.ati.com/

    SGI's fu is weak besides..

  3. Re:There is nothing new under the sun by Prophet+of+Nixon · · Score: 1 · on Sequel Fatigue Cause of Slow Sales?

    You shouldn't let your justified hatred of television programming stop you from ever using a TV, they can be good displays... I've got a 27" Samsung HD-ready that I got as a surplus/second online for $300, and it makes a nice display for my laptop and a nice console monitor. You could also just get a TV-in card; I used one until I was out of college and got the TV. I recommend Leadtek's card for tuner and picture quality, and it works with DScaler. And GameTunnel is awesome, they're a great indy review site.

  4. This looks great by fatwreckfan · · Score: 1 · on Latest SnapStream PVR App Reviewed

    I've wanted to get SnapStream's software for quite a while now, but unfortunately it seems that Leadtek the manufacturer of my tuner card (a Winfast 2000 XP) refuses to work with SnapStream to resolve compatability issues. The WinFast software is horribly buggy and generally poorly designed, so I'm frustrated, to say the least.

    Once I have the money I'm going to buy one of the SnapStream bundles and get rid of this card for good. My recommendation is don't buy Leadtek.

  5. Strangely enough... by ncc74656 · · Score: 1 · on Cross-Platform Video Capture Cards And TV Tuners?
    ...the Leadtek Winfast TV2000XP Deluxe seems to work better under Linux than it does under Windows. It's just another BT878-based capture card with TV/FM tuner and a remote control, but the WDM driver supplied by Leadtek sucks ass (try getting both audio and video working with it) and the capture/PVR software drops frames. This driver and this capture program work much better under Windows.

    Under Linux, you can use the kernel bttv driver, the current CVS of lirc, and MythTV to make a PVR that works better than the software bundled with the card. If all you want is simple TV playback, tvtime will do that. (tvtime's useful to keep around for TV-card debugging anyway, and it's more polished than xawtv.)

    (If you buy the NTSC version of this card and want to use it under Linux, you'll need to edit drivers/media/video/bttv-cards.c so that the tuner will be set up properly. Search for "Leadtek WinFast 2000/ WinFast 2000 XP", scroll down to the .tuner_type= line, and change it from 5 to TUNER_PHILIPS_NTSC. If you don't do this, the tuner and the remote control won't work properly.)

  6. For those interested in weird cooling solutions by ctr2sprt · · Score: 1 · on High End Silent Cooling For Graphics Cards
    You might also want to check out the Leadtek A300TD (pictures are unfortunately not working). It's a GF FX with a different cooling design. Basically they wrapped the entire video card in an aluminum box, then stuck two angled fans in the housing. I read all the FX reviews like everyone else and got nervous about the fan noise, but I can't hear this card at all over my power supply fan. (I was actually worried that the fans might not be working, but the card stays a relatively cool 62C. The cutoff is 140C.)

    Anyway, I have no idea why it works so well, but it definitely does. It's something to consider instead of passive cooling, and it's almost certainly more efficient too.

  7. Re:Tomorrow... by Qrlx · · Score: 2 · on Intel Releases "Fastest Chip Ever"

    It will .

  8. Re:lack of performance by jred · · Score: 3, Informative · on Tackling AGP 8X

    WinFast GeForce2 MX DH Pro

    I have this card, and it works rather well. I guess the Geforce2 is getting kind of dated, but it works well w/ my 1.2g Athlon. Couple this w/ a PCI card (dual-head or not) or two, and you should be able to have as many monitors as you want.

  9. Re:Who's left? by neafevoc · · Score: 2, Informative · on VisionTek Folds

    I gained interest in Leadtek when I read a review about the quality of the 2D filters they use on that Ti500 card. It rivals both ATI and even Matrox! (That's what really sparked my interest since I enjoyed the sharp 2D of my G400, but it just didn't cut it when it came to 3D games.)

    They also mentioned that every Nvidia-based card Leadtek releases will have the same high quality 2D filters on it. Since then, I ended up buying a Titanium 200 TDH from them and its 2D display is up to par with my G400.

    I'm happy :)

  10. Re:What exactly happened with SiS735? by gmanske · · Score: 1 · on Socket-A Chipset Roundup

    Major depends on your point of view, but Leadtek made a SiS735 board.

  11. Re:Dual head. by soulcuttr · · Score: 1 · on Panasonic Dual-LCD PC
    Here's a link to the manufacturer's site for the video card I was speaking of (should've thought to include this originally). In fact, while I'm here I guess I have a few Dual Head video card links to share, so pick and choose what you will.

  12. Video by ElecCham · · Score: 1 · on US Army Needs Linux Workstation Advice

    Might I suggest, for the video card, checking out LeadTek? They make some truly gawdawesome video cards that are specifically designed for applications performance (OpenGL, etc.) instead of gaming. I've been very happy with my L2300, under both Windows NT and Linux. At the time you couldn't do much better for the dollar!

  13. Re:nVidia's practices by R.+Anthony · · Score: 1 · on Ask John Carmack About Quake - or Anything Else
    I'm not sure I agree with you. The only information I've read regarding companies making any modifications are Leadtek and Elsa. Leadtek, in addition to adding a DVI connector to the card, is *supposedly* planning on installing a heat monitoring device, while Elsa was *supposedly* looking to make some small adjustments in order to fix the overheating problems. The Creative & Elsa cards have an ETA of 10/15, while Leadtek has advertised 10/22 and Guillemot's ETA is listed as "mid-October" which doesn't leave a whole lot of time to totally redesign the reference card.

    The card has 23 million transistors on a 0.22 micron "GPU" die running at 120 MHz. I'd read that nVidia was planning on putting an air funnel through the die to remove hot air out, but *supposedly* card manufacturers had vetoed this :)

    I'm somewhat skeptical about so much of the FPU intensive T&L work being shifted onto the GPU (graphical processing unit), essentially negating the usual FPS (frames per second) increase from having a faster CPU... So I plan on waiting to see what experiences the *beta* users have before diving in.