Wow, SLI on a motherboard with a non-NVIDIA chipset. Feels kinda' weird 
Single GPU ran great. Getting ready to test SLI.
12/31/08
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| Feels Kinda Weird - 12/29/08 @ 9:04 pm - By: MikeC - Source: N/A |
| As some of you may know, I am performing a system upgrade along with a migration from Windows XP to Windows Vista. Wow, SLI on a motherboard with a non-NVIDIA chipset. Feels kinda' weird Single GPU ran great. Getting ready to test SLI.
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| Fraps 2.9.7 Released - 12/27/08 @ 10:23 am - By: MikeC - Source: Email |
Version 2.9.7 of Fraps is now available. Here are a few words on the celebration of their fifth birthday recently:Changelog:
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| Monday Edition - 12/22/08 @ 8:06 am - By: SteveC - Source: |
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| Updgrade Time! - 12/21/08 @ 4:47 pm - By: MikeC - Source: N/A |
| Wahoo, we're taking the plunge and finally switching to Windows Vista exclusively. To celebrate the occasion, we also took the opportunity to perform a few hardware upgrades. In this upgrade we are moving our main test system from NVIDIA's nForce 680i to Intel's X58 chipset.
Note that the Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 has been "NVIDIA SLI-Ready certified" by NVIDIA.
So far the main components have been assembled and the system is setting in our testing rack. Now to add a power supply, CD, graphics card, and hard drive and we'll be ready to install the operating system. Went all out on a hard drive with a Western Digitial 300GB VelociRaptor. Christmas comes early around here! Further progress reports will be forthcoming.
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| Saturday's Roundup - 12/20/08 @ 9:27 am - By: SteveC - Source: Email |
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| Press Releases - 12/17/08 @ 8:13 am - By: SteveC - Source: Email |
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| XFX GeForce 260 - 12/08/08 @ 3:15 pm - By: MikeC - Source: XFX |
It was back in January when Jonathan Martini reviewed his XFX GeForce 8800 GT XXX 512MB Alpha Dog Edition. Eleven months later, he's returned to put the XFX GeForce 260 on the workbench and ready to share his experiences with the upgrade.
Check out the details here! |
| 2K/EA License PhysX - 12/08/08 @ 9:13 am - By: MikeC - Source: Email |
| Two prominent game developers, 2K Games and Electronic Arts, have signed on to license NVIDIA's PhysX Technology. 2K Games Licenses NVIDIA PhysX Technology for Its Studios Worldwide
EA Signed on to License NVIDIA PhysX Technology
Note: The following link features a 6MB video clip (wmv - 640x360), that shows a side-by-side comparison of gameplay without PhysX and gameplay with PhysX. |
| Cheap SLI Cooling - 12/07/08 @ 5:02 pm - By: MikeC - Source: N/A |
| I recently switched back to SLI and although I wasn't satistisfied with the high GPU temperatures, like some of you I keep the side of my case open since I swap out graphics cards frequently. With an SLI configuration using the GeForce GTX 280, I was able to knock of 13 °C (from 98 °C to 85 °C) in the Furmark benchmark at load using a quiet running 120mm fan! This was accomplished by affixing the 120mm fan to blow hot air away from the GPUs like so: At idle, the GPU temps are running at 50 °C / 49 °C with the default GPU fan speed of 40%. At 50% fan speed, temps drop to 48 °C / 47 °C and at 60%, temps were 45 °C / 43 °C. Room temperature during testing was 70 °F / 21.1 °C. Comments here. |
| Beta 180.84 Driver - 12/06/08 @ 7:05 am - By: MikeC - Source: Email |
NVIDIA has released beta graphics drivers for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP and Windows Vista. This driver has several application compatibility improvements including:
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| Weekly Roundup - 12/05/08 @ 5:29 am - By: DaveC - Source: |
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| Wednesday's News - 12/03/08 @ 7:21 am - By: DaveC - Source: |
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| Tuesday's News - 12/02/08 @ 7:53 am - By: DaveC - Source: |
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