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Wednesday, November 8, 2006
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There's nothing much to say here, other than it's incredibly fast, the image quality is superb and NVIDIA appears to have made a lot of good decisions during the development process. There are a couple of driver bugs to be ironed out, but even with the strange image quality in Half-Life 2: Episode One, I'd still buy this product if I'd got a wallet deep enough to soak up the cost along with a monitor large enough to harness the power. Simply awesome - roll on Crysis!
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Thursday, October 12, 2006
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If you were to buy a mid-range Nvidia graphics card today, what would you get? Currently a no frills version of the 7600GS will set you back about $95, while the average 7600GT card is $140. Because of the close price range and the potential of being able to put two GS cards running in parallel, then the question becomes which will deliver the best performance?
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Monday, October 9, 2006
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With next generation graphics card on the horizon, users will less likely be willing to pay more for a graphics card than they want to. Particularly if that graphics card will be obsolete in three to six months time. Users looking to upgrade their high end graphics card will likely wait for the launch of the next generation graphics card instead of buying one right now. However, those who have to buy a PC today don't have that luxury. There's also users who want to upgrade their mainstream graphics card to a high end card to have better performance. They will also most likely be budget conscious as well. The GeForce 7900GS and GeForce 7950GT are targeted for users in this situations - the GeForce 7900GS for its value and GeForce 7950GT for its feature and price / performance.
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Thursday, September 21, 2006
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VGA's card represents the best purchase for a number of reasons - the fact that the card is future-proofed when it comes to next-generation content protection methods is a definite plus point and one that should be given some serious consideration. If you're even remotely considering using your PC to play next-generation HD content, you're going to need a system that is HDCP capable.
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Monday, September 18, 2006
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Today Socket AM2 is AMD?s new weapon for the Athlon 64 and Sempron series of K8 processors. While new chipsets aren?t required to run these processors, since there is no memory controller on the chipset itself, nor any change to the Hypertransport link that connects the CPU to the Northbridge, nVidia has taken the new AM2 chipset to revamp its K8 portfolio with the new nForce 500 series chipsets for AMD and soon to be released for Intel Core 2 processors.
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Sunday, September 17, 2006
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The successor to the venerable GeForce 7900 GT, the 'new' GeForce 7950 GT has been given a good clock speed bump with double the frame buffer size, HDCP compliancy and is tagged not much higher at US$299. ATI too has a 'renewed' part in this segment and we intend to find out how well NVIDIA's entry can hold up against it.
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Thursday, September 14, 2006
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The 7900 series of cards, particularly the lower end 7900's, have built a sturdy reputation for being good overclockers, so we expected plenty of headroom with the 7950GT. From the default clocks of 550/700 on the Core and RAM, I achieved an overclock of 604 or +54MHz on the core, and 816 or +116MHz on the RAM - not the biggest I've seen for the 7900 series but still impressive.
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Ready to check out the full-G71-sporting, 550/700-clocked, 512MiB-carrying, HDCP-protected, supposedly quiet new NVIDIA assault on the top end of the mid-range? Hold on to your tighty whiteys then, pixel fans, as we do just that.
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Sunday, September 10, 2006
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The 7900GS Graphic Card from NVIDIA arrived Technic3D. The Word "Midrange" for the 7900GS with Overclocking is Understatement?
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Thursday, September 7, 2006
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NVIDIA wasn't just going to let ATI grab all the headlines with its recent graphics revamp. The green team has decided to take the same approach by splitting its GeForce 7900 GT model into two new separate products. Today, we look at the less endowed of the two offspring, the GeForce 7900 GS.
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Wednesday, September 6, 2006
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Despite the 7900GT's success though, in the past few weeks and months, Nvidia have been working on a chip with potentially even more bang for your buck, and this goes by the name 7900GS. Unlike the 7800GS which was AGP only, the 7900GS is more or less aimed squarely at the PCI-E user who would consider the 7900GT, but might decide instead to go the 7600GT route due to cost. This is because the 7900GS will sell at the US$199 price point - wedged nicely in between a US$160-ish 7600GT and US$260-ish 7900GT.
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Friday, August 18, 2006
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NVIDIA has done a great job with the DualTV MCE. It offers excellent image quality matching ATI?s Theater 550 Pro which isn?t too surprising consider the DualTV MCE is ISF certified. Its dual tuners makes it a better choice for a Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 system than ATI Theater 550 Pro based cards, allowing users to record one source while watching another. Aside from Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, the DualTV is also compatible with other PVR software packages such as Beyond TV 4 and Yahoo! Go for TV. CPU utilization was also quite respectable and low, comparable to the ATI Theater 550 Pro.
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Saturday, August 12, 2006
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Six heatsinks, one chipset, and a truckload full screws. We
mount these little metal blocks onto a hot nForce4 motherboard to find
out which one cools best and is most SLI friendly.
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Wednesday, August 9, 2006
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The use of a 128 bit memory bus restrains the card from getting enough bandwidth to really stretch its 12 pixel shader units to its maximum potential. So could a higher clocked GeForce 7900GT offer more punch than reference clocked GeForce 7900GT? If it can, would it be significant or even 'just enough'? To answer these questions, we test four cards from different manufacturers: the ASUS EN7900GT TOP, Gigabyte GeForce 7900GT TurboForce (GV-NX79T256DP-RH), Leadtek PX7900GT Extreme and the reference clocked MSI NX7900GT (VT2D256E) to the test.
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Thursday, August 3, 2006
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With the announcement of the AMD-ATI merger, the video card market is in a state of flux. The 7600GS is a good mainstream card, available on Newegg for $129.99 after a $20 mail-in rebate. For this price, you get 512MB of memory; double that of other cards on the mainstream market. This will help with anti-aliasing enabled and in applications like Maya that requires more memory.
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