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Monday, March 3, 2008
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NVIDIA's 3-way SLI indeed works but at the price of entry, it had better. The problem however is that in this instance it is based on technology that is approaching the end of its life. The 8800 GTX and Ultra have all but been replaced by the 8800 GTS 512MB and the 9000 series cards have already started to launch. The Quad SLI launch of the 9800GX2 is imminent and should undercut the cost of either Triple GTX's or Ultra's and perform on par or better. So really the only way this is going to be of benefit to anyone is if you've already got a 680i or 780i and a pair of GTX's or Ultra's...
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Friday, February 29, 2008
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The mid-range segment got a boost recently with the release of NVIDIA's GeForce 9600 GT, shaking up the competition and leading to price cuts from ATI. It also means a flood of new cards from the many NVIDIA board partners. To help you navigate these newcomers, here's our GeForce 9600 GT shootout.
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Friday, February 22, 2008
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The NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT graphics card based on company's newest G94 GPU pushes the GeForce 8600 GTS down the price line. The new solution ranks in between the 8800 GT and the 8600 GTS. The GPU itself differs from the G92 only by fewer unified processors and texture units, bringing the 256-bit bus into the sub-$200 price range.
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NVIDIA's GeForce 9 series hits the streets today in the form of the GeForce 9600 GT 512MB. Targeted at mainstream users, this new card inherits the DNA of the successful GeForce 8800 GT but at a more affordable price. Can it be the new mid-range bestseller?
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Nvidia's GeForce 9600 GT 512MB is a great performer, as long as it hits the right price point. If it doesn't, there's even more of a reason to buy the GeForce 8800 GT than there ever was before - it just goes to show how great that product really was for gamers. Thankfully, there are a few partners and retailers out there willing to charge what the card should ship at instead of what they'd like it to be in order to cash in on the sales rush at launch. Simply put, don't pay any more than £130 for a GeForce 9600 GT - regardless of whether it's a standard card or one with a factory overclock.
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
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NVIDIA officially lifts the veil on the GeForce 8200 mGPU chipset, which boasts the first retail integrated graphics solution capable of 100% HD decoding of MPEG-2, VC-1 and H.264. Finally, a proper low cost chip to build a HD HTPC around, but is it still too soon? Read our preview to find out.
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Monday, February 18, 2008
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The latest graphics card to make its way to the labs at TweakTown (and the public very soon) is the 9600GT. Generally speaking, any x600 form of card has never been that exciting really; sure the 8600GT and 8600GTS weren't bad, but far from what you'd call exciting. What makes this one any more interesting you say? Well, word floating around the interweb is that the card is supposed to be quite the performer. How much of a performer is it? It doesn't really matter at this second because we're only a few pages away from finding out exactly that!
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Friday, January 25, 2008
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Despite numerous reviews of every GeForce 8800 graphics card since NVIDIA first launched the series, many consumers are still left without any real information to compare their choices when shopping for their gaming system. Graphics performance is the most importance function of a video card, and Benchmark Reviews offers this comparison of the three most popular GeForce 8800 video card models on the market. Our tests will include benchmarks on the: ZOTAC 8800 GT vs. the FOXCONN 8800 GTS vs. the MSI 8800 GTX.
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Monday, December 24, 2007
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The NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT is based on the new NVIDIA G92 GPU. This is basically a tweaked and G80 silicon die-shrinked using the 65 nm process technology. This allows NVIDIA to cramp even more transistors into the die and yet produce a smaller chip. The NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT will be available in two "flavours" - the standard 512MB model and a cheaper 256MB model. Both models will retain the same clock speeds and 256-bit memory bus. So, the only real difference is the size of the memory buffer.
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Friday, December 21, 2007
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The new modification of the GeForce 8800 GTS is based on the G92 GPU also used in the GeForce 8800 GT. The new solution has the recommended price of $349-399 and supports only 256-bit memory bus. But it has more unified processors unlocked. Now let's examine the new Lower High-End card from NVIDIA...
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Thursday, December 20, 2007
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We were most impressed with the performance and affordability of the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB that we feel it deserves nothing less than an Editor's Choice Award. We hope this will encourage NVIDIA to offer more graphics cards of such caliber and value.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007
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We're writing to let you all know that we've just posted a new article at HotHardware in which we evaluate the features and performance of NVIDIA's nForce 780i SLI chipset using the brand new Asus P5N-T Deluxe motherboard. We compare its performance to the nForce 680i SLI and X38 chipsets, outline the 780i SLI's new features, and talk a bit about the mainstream 750i SLI chipset as well. Head on over to the site and check it out...
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
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We were prepared to be underwhelmed by the nForce 780i SLI, but in all honesty we're actually impressed that it isn't simply an NF200 taped onto an nForce 680i SLI board - the nForce 780i SLI reference design looks far better than before and internally things have been re-jigged for the better. The BIOS has been improved a bit too and the new nTune looks frikkin awesome, on the proviso that it actually arrives at some point!
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Friday, December 14, 2007
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NVIDIA has been the forerunner in multi-GPU rendering for a long time now. With years of maturity and performance tuning, their SLI technology has shown very strong scaling when chaining a pair of GPUs together to tackle the 3D graphics processing workload. We've seen quad-SLI on mid-range GPUs previously with NVIDIA's GeForce 7950 GX2 but what about three GeForce 8800 Ultra cards strapped in under the hood? Green-friendly, eco-minded, tree-huggers or those of you with weak constitutions for that matter; look away. This might not be for you. Put the kids to bed early - NVIDIA's 3-Way SLI is in the house. We'll show you exactly what it can and can't do for you, next.
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I am actually quite pleasantly surprised at how well 3-way SLI actually works at this early stage and, in fact, I'm almost lost for words - that's generally not a good thing in my line of work. If you compare this brief experience with the time we spent playing with Quad-SLI on some of the top games at that point in time, they couldn't be much farther apart. The difference is almost like night and day; north and south; east and west... you get the idea.
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