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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
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Today we have not one, but four new 8800GT's in our test labs from some of the leading manufacturer's. We will be giving the card a thorough analysis in all the leading DX9 and DX10 games, including Crysis. The big question on everyones lips? Is the 8800GT the new class leader as the best "bang for buck"?
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
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In this review we take a closer look at the Club 3D 8600 GT based video card, it comes with no less than 512Mb DDR2. We compare the performance of this card in twelve of the most recent games, including Team Fortress 2, Unreal Tournament 3, Quake Wars, Bioshock and many others against a 256mb DDR3 8600 GT and previous mid-range champ, the 7600 GT.
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Thursday, September 27, 2007
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Even though in previous reviews we showed that 8800Ultras are severely CPU limited, we thought that since we happened to have two in the office for a short while, we might see what SLI performance is like with them.
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Monday, August 13, 2007
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Only a few weeks ago we compared the new 8500 GT to the cheaper and older 7300 GT video card and found the new NVIDIA budget card to be average at best. This week we compare the mid range offering, a Sparkle 8600 GT 256Mb which can be found at ~E100 in stores, to a ~E100 XFX 7600 GT 256Mb which comes with higher clock speeds. To round
up the comparison we threw in a factory overclocked Calibre 8600 GT with 512Mb. Let's see if the new cards can beat the revived price/performance champ.
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007
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When we finished our first round of testing with the PNY 7300 GT DDR2 and 8500 GT DDR2 we came to the conclusion that the 7300 GT was only able to keep up with the newer card if we overclocked it. NVIDIA had succeeded in making a new generation low end card which improved performance over its predecessor. But then we got our hands on a DDR3 equipped 7300 GT and we had to change our conclusion.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007
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The fact is that the 8600 is a "quarter" of the 8800. We do not mean dimensions, of course, but technologies and GPU capabilities. 128 stream processors of 8800 vs. 32 of 8600. 32 texture units vs. 16 (tests indicate there's only 8). 384-bit bus vs. 128-bit bus. And so forth.
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Thursday, May 24, 2007
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The GeForce 8600 GTS failed to wow us in the price-performance department but how would the other members in the cohort fare in our labs? We put the other mainstream GeForce 8 cards to test and here's our experience.
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Monday, May 21, 2007
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The GeForce 8800 GTX was significantly faster than anything available at the time, and even today it still holds the performance crown for Nvidia. Also cut-down 8800 GTS versions were also very impressive and soon became favourites amongst gamers. However, only a small percentage of gamers can afford to drop over $300 on a graphics card. This means the real battle, the battle of sales, takes place at the more affordable $200 - and below - price range. And now finally, after a long wait Nvidia has released their mainstream GeForce 8 series graphics cards, but was the wait worth it?
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Thursday, May 10, 2007
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Following last month's launch of the mid and entry-level GeForce 8 graphics parts, today NVIDIA launches the mobile variants ensuring DirectX 10 graphics is within everyone's grasp. We captured the juicy details of this new mobile GPU that will soon prevail in many of the upcoming notebooks.
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Tuesday, May 8, 2007
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DirectX 10 has gone mainstream with the release of NVIDIA's GeForce 8600 and 8500 series. With NVIDIA achieving another hard product launch milestone, there are many vendors all vying for your attention. Which NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS should you get? We rounded up 12 contenders for your consideration.
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Alright, let's say you've got $600 US to spend on a kick ass videocard... or videocards. :-) What are you going to get!? The nVIDIA GeForce 8800GTX is the undisputed king of graphics cards right now, but on the next notch down the GeForce 8800GTS 320MB offers a heck of a lot of value and that's hard to pass up. Doing the math, for the price of one super high end PCI Express videocard, you could have two 8800GTSs running in SLI! This is definitely an enticing option, but which route really is the faster choice?
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Thursday, May 3, 2007
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Right after the Internet was set abuzz with news that the new ATI Radeon HD X2000 series of graphics cards will be launched on May 14th, NVIDIA launches a preemptive strike by launching a new flagship card, the GeForce 8800 Ultra. Designed to replace the GeForce 8800 GTX as the new top-end graphics card from NVIDIA, the GeForce 8800 Ultra seems destined to be the card that kills the ATI Radeon HD X2900 before it is even released. However, the picture isn't as rosy as it seems. Read on and find out why the new NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra will not be a card we have all been waiting for.
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In the best traditions of upsetting the competitor, NVIDIA launches a faster-clocked GeForce 8800 to counteract any performance announcements for AMD's R600.
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Wednesday, May 2, 2007
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The GeForce 8800 Ultra takes the world's fastest GPU and pushes it further: with a core clock of 612 MHz, a shader clock of 1500MHz and a memory clock of 1080MHz. The GeForce 8800 Ultra costs 36% more and has a performance improvement of 10.7% over the GeForce 8800 GTX. Will consumers cough up 36% more for something ~11% faster? Only time will tell and since NVIDIA has a product that can't be beat by anything that ATI has on the market they have the ability to keep pushing prices up.
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There's nothing more to really say about GeForce 8800 Ultra without repeating ourselves. It's definitely not a graphics card for everyone, but if you're looking for the fastest graphics card on the planet and have a monitor that can show the benefits of its power, you don't need to look much further than Nvidia's GeForce 8800 Ultra.
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