1.華碩這次出貨比別人早很多，是否意味著ATi特別照顧這個新的大客戶?
2.又有新聞顯示，ATi的9600XT晶片經過調校後將以不只500Mhz的頻率運作，而延遲出貨的板卡廠商，是否又因此原因，將有更高頻的9600XT產品，至少Sapphire/ATI 9600XT works at 525MHz 已經是事實了

Ignore all Radeon 9600XT reviews: a new baby is coming

New silicon shipped yesterday

By Fuad Abazovic in Wien: Oct. 2003, 12:03

WELL, all the reviews of the Radeon 9600XT that you saw starting yesterday could easily be false, since ATI did one more respin on its chip before sending it to manufacturers just yesterday.
The Radeon 9600XT is not that much faster than the old Radeon 9600 PRO and certainly not faster than Hexus' NV36 FX 5700, but we hear that ATI has plans to fix this.

It seems that they have silicon that can run faster than the one currently being reviewed all over the net.

Just to remind you, there were a lot of samples of the Radeon 9600 PRO around at Cebit time but they were redrawn simply because Nvidia had a faster offering at the time. ATi then miraculously found some headroom on the RV350 chip to make it run faster.

And expect history to repeat itself once again.

We also expect there should be some of the turbo-charged cards available for testing very soon. Watch this space…


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