"Evidence of chipset growth or workstation momentum may provide incremental catalyst to move the shares back to the upper end of its trading range," Yeung said.

ATI can not possibly do as badly as it has done even though Hector is the boss at AMD. Since NVDA has already taken about half the share that ATI had and much of the high end stuff -- there is diminishing ability to take more and the multiples already price in great growth. Also in time Intel is going to be going toe to toe with NVDA and whoever does that loses!

Vista's first service pack, to be released early next year, is intended to boost the operating system's performance. However, when Vista with the Service Pack 1 (SP1) beta was put through benchmark testing by researchers at Florida-based software development company Devil Mountain Software, the improvement was not overwhelming, leaving the latest Windows iteration outshined by its predecessor.

Unlike the 640MB of memory that is equipped with graphics cards using the current 90nm-based GeForce 8800 GTS, the graphics cards tested is outfitted with 512MB of graphics memory.

Early impressions are positive, although they were unable to adequately stress the graphics card by employing the use of antialiasing or testing at the uber-resolution of 2560x1600.

With all that said though, what are our thoughts on the 8800GTS 512MB? Well, quite frankly we love it. It’s a good step up from the 8800GT if you’re venturing into 1920 x 1200 territory, and the card also manages to do better with less noise and heat which is always great.

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Harsh words for Vista and DX10

DirectX 10 is the new kid on the block and apparently, this guy is not doing so well. Crysis was supposed to have been DirectX 10's flagship intro game, but there is a reason why the DirectX 10 implementation fails in my opinion.

If you have not seen it already around the Internet, users are allowed to make special configuration files to the DirectX 9 portion of the game to "unlock" DirectX 10 visual features without the heavy performance penality. This is simply done by adding a "game.cfg" to the main Crysis folder. So how do the visuals compare on Inno3D GeForce 8800 GT OC?

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October and November have certainly been memorable with the number of quality titles that were released for the PC. The GeForce 8800 GT debuted at the perfect time and hopefully supply will begin to increase as demand for graphics cards based on NVIDIA's newest mid-range GPU has been heavy.

This weekend was filled with non-stop gaming sessions as I had an opportunity to partake in Call of Duty 4, Crysis, Hellgate London, The Witcher, and Unreal Tournament 3. Unfortunately, I began with The Witcher, which has consumed most of my time and made quite an impression. Fellow gamers have also been impressed by The Witcher as it has received a number of votes in our Favorite Single Player Game of 2007 feedback thread.

NVIDIA's add-in partners are extremely excited about the GeForce 8800 GT as we are currently reviewing products from EVGA, Inno3D, and XFX. Each graphics card is being reviewed by a different reviewer and I am looking forward to their articles. Before sending along XFX's Alpha Dog Edition to Jonathan Martini, I paired it up with MSI's NX8800GT to form a mixed-vendor SLI configuration.

Although I only had enough time to test Crysis under Windows XP, I wanted to share the benchmark results. Note that anisotropic filtering (AF) was forced via the driver control panel and SS TAA indicates that supersampling transparceny antialiasing was enabled.

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PC-Doctor, Inc. sent us their Service Center 6 for review. A toolkit complete with the following items - PCI POST card, 128MB USB storage device, power supply tester, multipurpose USB device, test CD and DVD, audio loopback test device, parallel loopback test device, serial loopback test device, game port loopback test device, and a RJ45 Ethernet loopback test device. All packed in an attractive carry-all case complete with pockets for kit components and space for your tools.

AyeAye: I have a question for Roy, can we expect to see more performance gains in Crysis with releases of new drivers?

NVIDIA_Roy: Yes, we definitely can. Performance will improve, almost with every single driver drop and patch of the game. Literally every day and week we keep working on the drivers we can see improvements. There are many reasons for this, but it's important to remember that Crysis contains a million lines of code and 1GB of texture data and 85000 shaders. Even though it's a game it's a complex product and worthy of respect as a sophisticated software product.

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ForceWare 169.09 was released today on NVIDIA’s website.

This driver:

• Adds SLI support for Crysis
  
• Fixes a water reflection bug in Crysis
  
• Adds Control Panel anisotropic filtering support for Crysis

GeForce 8800 GT 512MB:
1600x1200 High Quality - Single GPU: 24.05   SLI: 34.76   Increase: 45%

GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB:
1920x1200 High Quality - Single GPU: 22.7   SLI:31.87   Increase: 40%

Discussions - Windows XP and Windows Vista.

Update: Just finished installing the retail version of Crysis. Here are some results from Windows XP.

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Driver Heaven: Hi Roy - thanks for making the time to talk to us today, its fair to say it has been a great year for NVIDIA but i'm guessing you guys aren't resting on your laurels. What are the plans to keep the success story going in 2008?

Roy: Yes it’s been a great year for our "The Way Its Meant To Be Played" program. Most gamers have probably noticed that all of the top titles of 2007 are in the program, but you’re right we’re not standing still. In 2008 we will be making increased investments in our developer tools, especially with the SDK and for content creation.

As DX10 becomes the norm we want to arm developers with more feature examples so they can integrate better graphics into the gameplay more easily. At the same time we will be recruiting more staff to better support developers in emerging countries, because we see some real talent coming from China, Latin America and India, for example.

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We are very proud to have achieved our first billion dollar quarter. And, while it is a wonderful milestone to reach, we believe this is just the beginning," said Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO of NVIDIA. "Our core businesses are continuing to grow as the GPU becomes increasingly central to today's computing experience in both the consumer and professional market segments."

Mr. Huang added: "This is the era of visual computing and NVIDIA is at the forefront. People want a delightful, compelling experience when they interact with their computing devices, whether it's on a phone, notebook, game console, or workstation. NVIDIA is leading the way in making this experience more intuitive and rewarding through our relentless pace of innovation and focus on execution."

• As the first GPU company to reach the $1 billion quarter level, NVIDIA continues to be one of the fastest growing semiconductor technology companies in the world.
• The GeForce desktop and notebook GPU product lines each achieved record revenue. The desktop GPU product line grew 33 percent year-over-year and the notebook GPU product line grew 120 percent year-over-year.
• NVIDIA shipped its first-ever single-chip motherboard GPUs (mGPUs) for Intel-processor-based desktop PCs - the NVIDIA GeForce 7000 mGPU family. The GeForce 7000 mGPU family delivers the performance of an entry-level discrete GPU when compared against traditional integrated graphics solutions.
• NVIDIA launched the new GeForce 8800 GT GPU, which combines best-of-class gaming performance and HD playback at the $199 price point.
• The Quadro Professional Solutions Business achieved record revenue, growing 37 percent year-over-year. NVIDIA launched seven new Quadro solutions during the third quarter of fiscal 2008, most notably the Quadro FX 370 and 570, which deliver ISV-certified hardware at the sub-$200 price point.
• NVIDIA began shipments of the Tesla 870 GPU computing processor and D870 desk-side supercomputer products during the third quarter of fiscal 2008. The adoption of Tesla and the CUDA C-language programming environment and tool suite continues to accelerate.

Even at the resolution of 1920x1200, the MSI NX8800GT is such a strong competitor to the GeForce 8800 GTX, that the same AA settings that were reported at the resolution of 1680x1050 are also reported here. Once again, the NX8800GT is outperforming the GeForce 8800 GTX in Dark Messiah and in two of the three settings in Oblivion.

Celebrating the Most Exciting Time to be a PC Gamer!
If you're a gamer, there's no better time than now!

Mark your calendars, gear up your rigs, and hone your skills--it's time for GeForce® LAN 4!

WHERE: Area 51 Events Center, Alameda Air Base (Alameda, California)
WHEN: November 16-18 (Fri-Sun)
WHAT: LAN Party (BYOC, Club SLI VIP compound, Tournaments, Contests, Raffles, Music and more!)
FEE: $25 BYOC Seat FREE to General Attendees

GeForce LAN 4 will be an action-packed weekend event featuring a BYOC LAN party with tournaments, fun contests with awesome prizes, and of course, Crysis running on the ultimate, PC gaming platform from NVIDIA!

BYOC seating is limited to 450, so REGISTER quickly!

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SANTA CLARA, CA, November 5 /PRNewswire/ -- NVIDIA today announced details of a new open, and royalty-free standard for the real-time monitoring and control of PC power supplies, chassis, and water-cooling systems. The Enthusiast System Architecture (ESA) specifies an information protocol that system components can use to "communicate" with each other to adjust operating parameters, and relay important system information back to the user. By implementing ESA, PC manufacturers and do-it-yourself enthusiasts can now build finely-tuned and higher performance PCs than they could have with existing proprietary solutions.

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All in all, the MSI P6N Motherboard performs like a pro and earns the label of an enthusiast motherboard with features such as the 680i SLI chipset, SLI, Dual Core Cell capacitors and on-board X-Fi technology. NVIDIA's latest and greatest chipset proves itself for its stability and performance.

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