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Wednesday, April 2, 2008
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Our benchmark results show that the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT is fast. For certain, it is more than twice as fast as the GeForce 8600 GTS, a faster-clocked version of its predecessor, the GeForce 8600 GT. In fact, it is only slightly slower than the GeForce 8800 GT in many games and actually slightly faster than that excellent card in BioShock.
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Monday, March 31, 2008
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Well here I am again finding myself locked in the iBuyPower bunker with more graphics cards than I can poke a stick at. Alongside three 9800 GTX graphics cards we also have two 9800 GX2s all ready to go into the funky water cooled system that we've been provided with today. With Tri SLI drivers in hand, more benchmarks than we had last time and some Dominos Pizza and Dickens Energy Cider, we're ready to get stuck into the wonderful world of expensive VGA setups which is overkill for most of us, but still wanted oh so badly.
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Friday, March 28, 2008
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Today we are looking at a pair of NVIDIA's new 9800 GX2 graphics cards in quad SLI mode. Running together you have a pair of the fastest graphics cards around. In all whether or not quad SLI would benefit you depends on what you want to do. If Crysis is your game, then Quad SLI is just what you need to get playable frame rates at very high settings. However if benchmarks are what you want to run Quad SLI might not be for you.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
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Quad GPUs - its the stuff that a gamers dreams were made of a couple of years back. However, with the release of dual GPUs on a single graphics card, both AMD and nVidia have managed to make it happen. In fact, nVidia has had some previous experience with their 7950GX2 and today, they transfer that technology to the recently released game killer- the 9800 GX2.
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Initial pricing on the 9800 GTX looks promising; down under we should see it pop up for under $500 AUD which puts it into a bracket that doesn't really exist at the moment. For roughly 15% more (sometimes less) in the money department you can get yourself an HD 3870 X2 and this really is going to be the GTX's toughest competition. While the X2 may be a dual GPU card it doesn't carry the excessive price tag that we see on NVIDIA's dual GPU card, the GeForce 9800 GX2. We all know these dual cards don't always provide great performance in all games due to untweaked driver support, so our tests today should be rather interesting indeed.
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Last week, NVIDIA formally launched the dual-GPU powered GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics card and nForce 790i SLI Ultra chipset. We evaluated both products in our coverage of the launch, but had to leave out one important detail per NVIDIA's embargo agreement - that being Quad-SLI. The embargo has since lifted, however, and today we take a look at 2008's version of Quad-SLI technology with a pair of retail-ready graphics cards from ASUS, the EN9800GX2. Head on over to the site for the full scoop...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
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Nvidia is pushing hard on the platform front with its technology portfolio - ESA, EPP 2.0 and SLI are all core Nvidia products associated with the nForce 790i Ultra SLI motherboard and this launch. While some are open standards, so no royalties are claimed when using them, it doesn't mean all is well for the ultra-high-end user.
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I?ve never before found myself in the position where I've been this rushed off my feet to get an article online. This afternoon I was e-mailed the Quad SLI Vista Driver! - At the same time, a second 9800 GX2 rocked up in my hot little hands. It was clear what I needed to do. We found ourselves in the IBP bunker sitting in front of a 4GHz Water-cooled system with an SLI capable motherboard and an 8GB Pen Drive in hand with the 174.53 Quad SLI Driver installed. You want results? We've got 'em!
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NVIDIA has just launched their first DDR3 chipset, the nForce 790i Ultra SLI and we think it's just the thing for hapless NVIDIA fans hoping for a decent Intel processor based SLI chipset with great performance and stability. Find out what NVIDIA put into their latest core logic controller and hope for a price cut.
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With two G92 cores on board, the GeForce 9800 GX2 is NVIDIA's response to the Radeon HD 3870 X2. Does this new graphics flagship possess the panache to retake the performance title from ATI? Check out our findings of this new-generation SLI-sandwich.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
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A new desktop chipset complete with a DDR3-based memory controller is here, along with a dual-GPU powered monolith of a graphics card that is NVIDIA's most powerful to date. Together, the combination of a GeForce 9800 GX2 (or two GX2s) with the nForce 790i SLI Ultra chipset redefine the high-end of desktop PC gaming hardware.
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Monday, March 17, 2008
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We said we would test the GX2 again once we obtained some updated drivers, and that's exactly what we're about to do right now. From a hotmail account this morning, we received the 174.51 drivers. The difference between these drivers and the last batch of 174 drivers we tried is that these ones actually installed! Word is that the new drivers fix the profile issues that were present in the 173.67 release. While some people say SLI just wasn't working in the first driver we tested, the issues seem more related to profiles.
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Sunday, March 16, 2008
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We've all heard about the GX2, so there isn't much to say here; there's no package so we'll get stuck straight into the card and talk about its specifications before we get into the benchmarking. The main thing to compare here today is the performance of the 9800GX2 against the HD 3870 X2 from AMD. We've also thrown in the 8800GT, as the specifications on a single core of a 9800GX2 is only slightly above that of an 8800GT, this should mean that if a game doesn't take advantage of SLI then the performance should only be just above the single 8800GT.
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Wednesday, March 5, 2008
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Workstation GPUs are not our main focus at Phoronix, but with the increasing use of Linux on workstation systems, we will be starting to look at professional graphics products this month and likely more of them in the future. We are beginning this expedition by looking at the Quadro FX1700, which is one of NVIDIA's mid-range workstation graphics cards. This Quadro graphics card boasts 512MB of video memory, support for CUDA, and OpenGL 2.1 support. According to NVIDIA's product literature, the Quadro FX1700 is engineered to deliver exceptional performance, quality, and price for professionals.
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008
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Since 8800 GTS 512MB has the same number of shader processors as 8800 GTX, but operates at higher frequencies, its performance may come close to that of 8800 Ultra. So, it will be very interesting to examine these new products. Some of them have very original design and coolers.
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