3/31/06
| Water-Cooling Roundup - 3/31/06 @ 9:30 am - By: MikeC - Source: Email |
Today XBitlabs posts a very extensive review of 16 Water-Cooled Systems.
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| Unleash the 7900GT - 3/30/06 @ 7:33 am - By: MUYA - Source: Browsing |
Unleash (at your own risk) the 7900 GT to new levels of overclocking and 3D Mark2k6 benchmarking. How so? Get rid of the stock reference HSF...up the voltage and slap in a copper HSF usually employed on CPUs with a 92mm fan and wallah! Can you say 800 MHz core and 2 GHz (DDR) memory on air cooling alone? No? Why...because your jaws have dropped to the floor? I cannot but be amazed how good for value these new GeForce 7900 GT appear to be. Oh you can game too..as Overclocking Workbench provide pre and post overclock figures with FEAR and Quake 4.
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| EVGA 7800 GS AGP - 3/29/06 @ 7:00 am - By: MUYA - Source: E-mail |
| MVK Tech have an eVGA 7800 GS CO AGP who MikeC reviewed a few weeks back to play around with. With this probably being NVIDIA's flagship for AGP platform how does this stack up till a PCI express upgrade can be afforded? Click on the headline to find out |
| G71 Reviews - 3/28/06 @ 6:55 am - By: MUYA - Source: Various |
| The recently launched G71 GPU has been the subject of much attention from websites and enthusiasts alike. A few cards from different AIB partners are reviewed by a variety of websites today. So if you are in the process of upgrading videocards or systems then the links below may help you in making an informed decision. First off, GamePC reviews an ASUS EN7900GTX and an XFX 7900 GT. They test single card and SLI setups of the cards in question on a resolution of 1600 by 1200 with 4X AA and 8X AF applied on a few heavily pixel shaded games. Seems the 7900GT variant gets the most admiration from GamePC and why not...priced as it is.
GDHardware takes Leadtek's GeForce 7900 GT video card for a spin in their labs next. The leadtek version does not depart from the reference HSF and is bundled with Serious Sam 2. After their round of benchmarking (non-SLI), it's the same as elsewhere,they cannot but carry on the popular theme of heaping praise for the 7900 GT.
Last but not least, 3D Avenue reviews an ASUS Geforce 7900GT video card all in one page. The Asus 7900 GT is compared to a Radeon x1800 XL on a few recently released games. This card does not depart from reference NVIDIA design, PCB or HSF but then again, there probably isn't a need as this variant of the G71, just seem to kick major botty but, don't take my word for it...read the quote below from the review.
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| 7900 GT! - 3/27/06 @ 10:23 am - By: MUYA - Source: E-mail |
| The newly introduced GeForce 7900 GT is reviewed by Legit Review today. Slated to be sold for around $300, the GPU is maunfactured on 90nm process and paired with memory at 1.3GHz, they certainly look a steal. With a pair of these cards in SLI, the performance hammered out is very competitive when compared to those with 512MB version of the 7800 GTX and crossfire setups from rivals ATi.
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| EVGA 7800 GS AGP - 3/27/06 @ 6:27 am - By: MUYA - Source: Email |
| PC Masters from Germany have put up a review of an eVGA 7800 GS Superclock AGP card which Mike reviewed a few weeks back. PC Masters review is in German, but if you click on the headline a google translated link is provided. The 7800 GS is the fastest card available powered by a NVIDIA GPU for AGP systems and so, you might want to consider this card if you do not intend a complete system overhaul to play them latest pixel shaded games. |
| SLI On The P4 - 3/23/06 @ 7:33 pm - By: MikeC - Source: N/A |
| Many of us bought into the Pentium 4 processor at one time. I have a 3.4GHz Prescott that gets used on a daily basis and recently upgraded the system by adding an nForce4 SLI motherboard.
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| Inno3D 7600 GS - 3/22/06 @ 5:25 pm - By: MikeC - Source: Email |
| Inno3D has announced a new graphics card based on the GeForce 7600 GS. The Inno3D GeForce 7600GS is capable of delivering up to 2X the performance over the previous generation in scenes rendered using high dynamic-range (HDR).
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| BFG Does Physics - 3/22/06 @ 4:46 pm - By: MikeC - Source: Email |
| Hardware-assisted physics acceleration and its impact on gaming is getting underway. In one corner we have NVIDIA and Havok hooking up to demonstrate the world's first GPU-powered game physics solution at the 2006 Game Developer's Conference. This form of acceleration will be delivered by the GeForce 6 and GeForce 7 Series of GPUs. In the other corner are hardware-accelerated physics cards powered by the AGEIA PhysX processor. BFG announced that their physics card is powering next-generation gaming systems that are available today from Alienware and Falcon Northwest. In a related story, Dell announced today that it would buy Alienware. To wrap things up, three senior-level Samsung employees are on their away to jail for having participated in a price-fixing conspiracy in the computer memory market. Samsung had already agreed to pay the Department of Justice a $300 million fine in 2005 in connection with the investigation. |
| 84.25 Beta Drivers - 3/22/06 @ 11:32 am - By: MikeC - Source: Forums |
| NVIDIA has released 84.25 beta ForceWare drivers. Release Highlights:
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| GeForce 7600 GS - 3/22/06 @ 11:01 am - By: MikeC - Source: Email |
| Legit Reviews has a preview of NVIDIA's newly announced and passively-cooled GeForce 7600 GS GPU.
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| Tide Water Review - 3/22/06 @ 10:54 am - By: MikeC - Source: N/A |
| Clay has posted his review of The Tide Water All in one VGA Liquid Cooling Module. His first reaction to this was "neat, but probably too good to be true". Was his hunch correct? Find out here.
Discussion here. |
| 7600GS and 7300LE - 3/22/06 @ 8:21 am - By: MikeC - Source: Email |
GAME DEVELOPERS CONFERENCE 2006, SAN JOSE, MARCH 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies, today expanded the Company's GeForce 7 Series product line for the mainstream market segment with two aggressively-priced graphics processing units (GPUs). Available immediately from leading retail and e-tail outlets worldwide are:
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| Oblivion Discussion - 3/20/06 @ 6:49 pm - By: MikeC - Source: Clay |
| Clay was lucky enough to find an Electronics Boutique that would sell him a copy of Oblivion tonight. Check out his screenshots and video clips in the forum!
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| St. Patrick's Day - 3/17/06 @ 10:28 am - By: MikeC - Source: Forum |
| Happy St. Patrick's Day! Need some green? No problem. We'll hook you up.
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| Power Supplies - 3/16/06 @ 6:19 pm - By: MikeC - Source: Forums |
Got this link from Tikiman44, which leads to an article about the increasing demands that power supplies are being subjected. Written by ExtremeTech's Loyd Case, the article is a must read for those interested in moving to a high-end SLI setup.
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| MSI NX7300GX Review - 3/13/06 @ 8:13 pm - By: MikeC - Source: MSI |
| Having used a couple of GeForce 6800 GT graphics cards in SLI during the past few months, we brought Kyle Kerley back down to earth by asking him to take a look at MSI's budget-oriented NX7300GX graphics card for a spin.
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| 7900 Series & NVClock - 3/13/06 @ 8:03 am - By: MikeC - Source: Email |
Phoronix has posted an article on NVClock, which was developed by our Linux forum moderator Thunderbird.
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| NvNews Giveaway - 3/12/06 @ 7:28 pm - By: MikeC - Source: Forums |
| Be sure to enter our contest in the forums. It's 5 easy questions and you're entered. |
| UWXGA Gaming! - 3/11/06 @ 6:16 am - By: MUYA - Source: Browsing |
| For those who have the funds to splash on new GeForce 7900 GTX or Radeon X1900 XT surely need a monitor that can show off the true potential of these graphics cards. That's where Dell's 3007WFP 30 in. widescreen LCD with a native resolution of 2560 by 1600 and 11ms response times comes in. FiringSquad has a few numbers from games such as Quake 4, FEAR, Half-Life 2 and IL-2. At this resolution AA almost becomes a non-factor, but AF is turned on for some benches. The numbers they return are just so mouth watering. Click on the headline to read their preview as they promise more numbers soon.
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| 84.20 Beta Drivers - 3/09/06 @ 11:13 am - By: MikeC - Source: Forums |
| NVIDIA released beta ForceWare v84.20 drivers today. Release Highlights
Discussion here! |
| EVGA 7900 GT Review - 3/09/06 @ 8:08 am - By: MikeC - Source: EVGA |
| Steve Angelly has been testing EVGA's e-GeForce 7900 GT CO Superclocked graphics card during the past two days. You can check out his review here.
The e-GeForce 7900 GT is based on NVIDIA's new 90nm-fabricated GeForce 7900 Series Graphics Processing Units and is already available to purchase at online retailers. |
| NVIDIA Launches G71 - 3/09/06 @ 7:47 am - By: MUYA - Source: Various |
| Today sees the lifting of NDAs and hard launch of NVIDIA's new GPUs manufactured on the new 90nm process - the GeForce 7900 GTX and GeForce 7900 GT with 24 pixel processing pipelines and 8 vertex shading units. The GTX chip has a core clock of 650Hz and GDDR3 memory running at an effective data rate of 1.4GHz. The GT core runs at 450MHz and memory at 1.32GHz.
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| NVIDIA at CEBIT - 3/07/06 @ 10:20 am - By: MikeC - Source: Email |
| NVIDIA TO DEMONSTRATE NEXT-GENERATION NVIDIA® NFORCE® 500 FAMILY OF CORE-LOGIC SOLUTIONS AT CEBIT
The new NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI MCP for the enthusiast, dual GPU segment WHERE: The demonstrations will take place at this year’s Cebit tradeshow, being held in Hannover, Germany at the NVIDIA booth, located in Hall 23, B20 as well as at many of the Company’s partner booths located elsewhere on the show floor, including: Abit—Hall 22, Booth B13 WHEN: March 9 through March 15, 2006 during regular Cebit show hours. ABOUT NVIDIA NFORCE 500: For the NVIDIA nForce 500 family, NVIDIA has integrated support for some of the industry’s most viable technologies aimed at providing users with some of the most feature-rich platforms possible. Among the features NVIDIA has included into this next-generation product family are: Support for NVIDIA SLI technology—including Quad SLI—the industry’s most stable and game-compatible multi-GPU solution and the only one designed for the use of up to 4 GPUs simultaneously |
| 512MB 7800GT - 3/07/06 @ 6:27 am - By: MUYA - Source: E-mail |
Pure overclock has another gem from Gainward again. This time they test a Gainward 512MB BLISS 7800 GT. That's a 7800 GT with 512MB of onboard memory. It's core and memory are overclocked to 450 MHz and 1.3 GHz giving the X1800XT a good run for its money.
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| HDA X-Plosion 7.1 - 3/03/06 @ 11:37 am - By: MikeC - Source: N/A |
| Brian Cochran has reviewed the HDA X-Plosion 7.1 Sound Card. X-Plosion is the world's first audio card to include DTS connect and Dolby Digital Live.
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| EVGA 7800 GTX KO - 3/03/06 @ 5:19 am - By: MUYA - Source: Browsing |
Digit Life has reviewed an eVGA 7800 GTX KO with AC3 cooling system and found it to be quite desirable if you have the funds. Bear in mind NVIDIA will launch their 7900 GTX soon and this card will make way for "flagship" title. Still, a note that the 7800 GTX KO version is a 512MB card and eVGA with the help of their cooler have clocked this card at 490MHz core and 1.3GHz memory. The benchmarks can be viewed by clicking the headline.
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| 84.12 Beta Drivers - 3/02/06 @ 11:23 am - By: MikeC - Source: Forums |
| NVIDIA has posted 84.12 Beta Drivers on nZone today. Release Highlights:
Discussion here. |
| EVGA 7800 GS AGP - 3/02/06 @ 9:24 am - By: MUYA - Source: N/A |
| Two years ago, many of us were gaming with systems that were using a socket-754 Athlon 64 processor and nForce3 motherboard chipset. I stepped back in time and assembled such a system in order to review EVGA's e-GeForce 7800 GS CO Superclock AGP 8X.
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| NV Delivers H.264 - 3/02/06 @ 9:23 am - By: MUYA - Source: E-mail |
NVIDIA Introduces PureVideo with H.264 Hardware Acceleration Across Family of Desktop and Integrated GPUs for BluRay and HDDVD Video Content;
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| SLI Motherboard Deal - 3/02/06 @ 6:22 am - By: MikeC - Source: Email |
| NVIDIA is running a special promotion until March 8th. If you purchase an AMD Athlon FX-55 processor, you'll get your choice of a free nForce4 SLI motherboard. Click the headline for more information. |
