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Video game console sales usually fall sharply after the holidays. Yet, last month, Nintendo sold 360,000 Wiis, 39% more than in March, says market research firm NPD. Microsoft sold 174,000 Xbox 360s, a 13% drop, while Sony sold 82,000 PS3s, a 37% decline. April marked the fourth-consecutive month the Wii outsold the competition.

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“The Witcher” is a very modern adaptation of the classic RPG, where great effort is placed on an intricate, non-linear, and absorbing plot. Additional strong points of the game are its original, unusual, and adult fantasy world, which the player gets to explore through Geralt – the story’s main character, the legendary monster slayer, known also as the White Wolf.

Moreover, “The Witcher” offers electrifying, dynamic, and visually spectacular combat. Largely thanks to these characteristics, I strongly believe that the game will strike a positive chord with a wide section of gamers. After all, who of us has not fallen spell before to an intriguing plot, stimulating action, and charismatic heroes?

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Hi, regarding the many, many questions on our OpenGL support, I thought that this might be interesting. It’s an insight into the OpenGL-based Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and our support for id Software. I am indebted to Arnout van Meer and Mike Armstrong of id Software, and Jim Black from NVIDIA for putting this together for me to be able to share.

"So, you want a Direct X 10 compatible video card that won't break the bank? You don't necessarily need an upper-range card to push pixels in all their screaming goodness? How about a mid-ranged card at a mid-ranged price? There will come a time when DX9 is just not enough for the latest games. The MSI NX8600GTS will allow budget gamers to break into the DX10 gaming era."Check it out right here!

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The Inno3D Geforce 8600 GTS XStriker3 is clocked with a core frequency of 702MHz (stock 675MHz) and memory frequency of 2100MHz (stock 2000MHz). Be on the lookout for a review soon!

NVIDIA recommends that gamers use one of the following drivers from nvidia.com for Lost Planet:

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• Windows Vista 32-bit


• Windows Vista 64-bit

Performance is also up in F.E.A.R. as mentioned by forum member jAkUp:

WinXP - 158.22
Min: 76
Avg: 153
Max: 462

Vista - 158.24
Min: 57
Avg: 99
Max: 188

Vista - 158.42
Min: 78
Avg: 145
Max: 453

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Today, we've been quite fortunate to be able to spend time with the more affordable versions of the GeForce 8800 series - the GeForce 8800GTS 640 and 320 MB. The GeForce 8800GTS and the GeForce 8 series in general brought much to the table. On the top of the list are much higher quality, angle independent anisotropic filtering and an improved 4x MSAA - clearly two much needed improvements over the last generation of products from NVIDIA. Add to that support for DirectX 10, shader processing performance and much quicker time to market, its no wonder the GeForce 8800 series quickly became the high end graphics card of choice for demanding, image quality conscious gamers. Don't left out its jump in performance over current generation of cards.

EVGA solution wins in two nominations out of four. Great job, EVGA! But all in all, each of the six Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB based graphics cards we have discussed is a great purchase, especially if you do not care that much about rich accessories bundle. Anyway, the performance difference between these graphics cards is not high enough to affect the gaming process noticeably. If the onboard memory is not enough for some of the games, then it affects any of the GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB solutions tested today.

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• XFX 8800 GTS XXX 320MB Video Card Review at OCC
  
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With prices below $300, the power of the best NVIDIA has to offer is now available for everyone. With the only difference between the two GTS models being the amount of GDDR3 RAM (640MB vs. 320MB) the sub-$300 price is attractive and reasonable. MSI took the reference design and upped the ante by increasing the core and memory clock speeds in their NX8800GTS-T2D320E-HD OC offering. The increase in raw speed on the card served as a good reminder that the marketing hype of "more memory = faster" is definitely not always the case as was discovered when put the through the paces against its bigger, but slower, 640MB brother.

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News Facts:

• Today NVIDIA Corporation introduced the world's fastest graphics processing unit (GPU), the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra.
  
• The NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra performs an average of between 10 and 15% faster(i) than the GeForce 8800 GTX GPU, previously considered the fastest GPU on the planet,(ii) across a wide range of top games and applications.
  
• NVIDIA nForce(R) 680i SLI-based motherboards for Intel processors provide the fastest and most feature-rich platform for the GeForce 8800 Ultra. NVIDIA refers to these systems as the "definitive gaming platform."
  
• Consumers will be able to experience high-resolution, visually rich gaming and high-definition video playback with support for Blu-ray and HD DVD content.
  
• Definitive gaming platforms built with any nForce 600 Series motherboard are forward compatible with the new Intel processors with support for 1333FSB technology.

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