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Thursday, August 3, 2006
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The 7300GT is a value card, and as such shouldn't be compared to the high-end in terms of performance. Where the 7300GT shines is in its feature set, fully the equal in terms of Shader Model functionality as the bigger and more expensive cards. Performance is on the low end of the spectrum as to be expected from a card that costs $130 retail. The 7300GT 512MB from EVGA is a decent card. If you?re looking for a card that plays games, doesn't cost a whole lot, and has all the features the bigger brothers have, this is the one for you.
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Wednesday, July 12, 2006
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As Conroe prepares to hit the streets this next Friday NVIDIA has geared up their chipsets to support this new CPU breed. The new nForce 590/570 chipsets are NVIDIAs latest entry of support for the Intel line and offers some great new features as well. Take a sneak peek at what is coming right around the corner from the good folks over at NVIDIA.
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Sunday, May 7, 2006
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Even though the new NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT is a mid-range card designed to replace GeForce 6600 GT, its performance was far better than expected. It actually came close to the performance of the GeForce 7800 GT, a high-end card which costs twice as much. Just like its higher-end GeForce 7900 brothers, the GeForce 7600 GT was fabricated using the 90nm die process. The finer manufacturing process allows to run at a higher clock speed and yet use less power and emit less heat. Of course, NVIDIA distanced the GeForce 7600 GT from its expensive brothers by giving it only half as many pixel pipelines and half the memory bus width. But thanks to a higher core and memory bus speed, the GeForce 7600 GT performed well enough to be an enticing option for those on a more restrictive budget...
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Thursday, April 20, 2006
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The GeForce 7900 GT is really just an lower-clocked version of the GeForce 7900 GTX. The GPU itself doesn't lack any feature that its bigger brother has. All that differentiates it from its bigger brother are the lower core and memory clock speed, as well as the smaller framebuffer and cooler. Since the GeForce 7900 GT doesn't require as much power as the GeForce 7900 GTX, it's much easier to run two of these cards in SLI, if you wish to do so. Although the testbed was only running on a non-SLI certified 480W PSU, it had no problem handling both GeForce 7900 GT and GTX SLI configurations. Read on...
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Monday, March 27, 2006
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The GeForce 7900 GTX is really just an optimized version of the GeForce 7800 GTX. It's faster and yet cooler than the GeForce 7800 GTX. But other than that, it doesn't come with any feature that its predecessor didn't already have. Of course, thanks to its use of the 90nm process technology and the trimming of several million transistors, it's also smaller and cheaper to make. But because this is a premium product, we doubt you will actually see the savings! Even though it is cooler, the GeForce 7900 GTX still runs pretty hot under heavy load, but the fan's noise level is surprisingly quiet. It's actually as quiet as the fan used in the GeForce 7800 GTX and quieter than the fan used in the new GeForce 7900 GT!
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As an enthusiast and overclocker I have to say that if you were planning to upgrade or building a new system I highly recommend looking long and hard at the 7900 GT. If you were thinking of spending within $75 of its asking price I would still look at the performance of this card and beg, steal, or borrow enough to purchase one. The added value that the 100MHz + overclock gives can't be matched anywhere. A pair of these overclocked in SLI is an enthusiast's dream of bang for the buck...
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006
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The headline figure is that NVIDIA has finally followed ATI and moved to a 90 nanometre manufacturing process. This brings a whole string of benefits. Firstly, the actual physical size of the GPU is reduced. It's roughly half the physical size, so it costs less for NVIDIA to produce it and therefore it can make the card cheaper to produce than the viciously expensive 7800 GTX 512MB...
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Saturday, December 3, 2005
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As a lower-end version of the GeForce 7800 GTX, the NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT not only comes with a down-sized version of the 7800 GTX GPU and slower GDDR3 memory, it also has a simpler cooler and PCB design. But it is still a power guzzler with a massive thermal output, so the additional power connector is still required...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
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So, what is a GeForce 7800 GTX 512? I'll give you a clue, the 512 at the end isn't referring to the late incarnations of the Ferrari Testarossa - thank god! Don't even get me started on how the most globally recognised Ferrari is one of the worst - but I digress. Of course the 512 at the end of the model name refers to the amount of memory that the card has - basically twice the amount of the standard 7800 GTX...
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Monday, November 14, 2005
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Quite simply a performance monster, and one that'll take ATI a big effort to beat. The GeForce 7800 GTX 512 impresses hugely, from quiet and efficient cooler, to manageable increase in power draw over the original GTX, with monsterous performance and day-zero availability in-between...
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Thursday, November 10, 2005
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The GS does what it says on the tin, offering GT class performance but at reduced cost and with real overclocking potential. At around £165 on the street it's looking like nVidia might be able to claim back that middle-tier performance ground, especially with Shader Model 3 support helping it to outdo ATI on the feature count. With a retail GS board on its way, we'll soon revisit the retail GS against the competion, so be sure to check back in a few days for that...
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Wednesday, November 9, 2005
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The GeForce 6800 GS offers comparable performance to the GeForce 6800 GT for a lot less money, in the case of Leadtek's implementation. It also delivers performance comparable to (or better than) ATI's currently available competition in this price bracket. We just hope that availability of GeForce 6800 GS will be a little more widespread by this time tomorrow... ;-)
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Sunday, September 18, 2005
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Like the 7800GTX reference card, the 7800GT is a single slot solution however, the card is a bit smaller in size and runs cooler than the 7800GTX. The HSF unit is barely audible when the card is not pushing itself and would thus be a good option for a SFF PC especially since it draws lower power as well...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005
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The GeForce 7800 GTX reigns in performance, but what if you wanted a GeForce 7 graphics card but at a lower price point? Then NVIDIA's newly added GeForce 7800 GT might just be what the doctor ordered. A tad more 'affordable' than the GTX, we show you exactly how well it stacks up...
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Friday, August 12, 2005
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There's no doubt about it - the GeForce 7800 GT card delivers big time. It's not far off the performance of the GTX with a saving of at least £50 or more. It's obviously not a budget graphics card but if you're after some high end graphics power, then this has got to be the card, or cards, to buy...
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