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Friday, November 14, 2008
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PNY's Vintage Attache is a no-
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
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The aim of PNY's Mobility Pack
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Friday, October 3, 2008
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As is the natural way of thing
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Friday, September 5, 2008
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It's an unfortunate thing that the 9800 GTX doesn't quite live up to a souped-up, though no longer available, 8800 GTX. I mean, it's definitely a better card in most respects. It consumes less power, is much better at video playback, and though it's relatively louder, the 9800 GTX costs one third today what the 8800 GTX cost yesterday. So for the same kind of dough, you can go SLI (with its inherent drawbacks of power and motherboard costs). Which isn't clearly an advantage with Intel CrossFire boards being as ubiquitous as they are. Nobody's saying it's a bad card, it just hasn't lived up to its expectations. As a card by itself, it's not bad, and if you're limited to one card, it's really the way to go. And while it does beat an HD 4850, it does cost more--I'd say they're equal on that front. If not for the massive difference in power consumption, choosing a 9800 GTX over an HD 4850 would just be a matter of preference. Adding the GTX+ to the equation further weighs against this card, as it'll improve on the performance quite a bit--although the plus is reported to use just as much power and it will definitely cost more. If you're looking for the next amazing card that will last two years and still look its successor in the eye, you'll have to turn to the GTX 200-series.
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008
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PNY's XLR8 9800GTX OC is an overclocked version of nVidia's 9800GTX, a solid card but not a huge improvement on the 8800GTX. Pitched at enthusiast games without the cash to splash on a spunky new GTX 200 Series, the XLR8 9800GTX OC is an attempt to inject a little more life into a once-flagship graphics card for just £30 premium (around £220). But with jaw-dropping GeForce 9800GX2 cards in the wild (two GeForce 9800 graphics processors on a single card), is simply overclocking a 9800GTX enough? The answer is yes - if value is considered.
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Friday, July 4, 2008
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Today we are checking out the PNY GTX 260 video card. The GTX 260 is the lower performing of the pair of GTX 200 series GPUs recently announced. The GTX 260 is about $100 cheaper than its GTX 280 brother. In the end the performance of the PNY GTX 260 was good. The price for the card is a bit high at $449.99 when compared to new offerings from AMD. The card performs well and I suspect over time the price will come down and make it more attractive.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
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Overall the GeForce GTX 280 graphics card was a winner in our books and it made a difference while gaming, which is the most important thing. The game we noticed the performance gains the most was actually Age of Conan when we cranked up the image quality at a resolution of 1920x1200 . Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures passed the astounding 'One Million Copies Shipped' milestone in less than three weeks after the game's launch, so that is a huge potential market in the months to come...
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Friday, June 6, 2008
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No doubt the PNY Verto GeForce 9600 GT was up against some stiff competition when we tested it at a resolution of 2560x1600. Given that the card is a reference model it performed admirably against the GeForce 8800 GT and GTS, and outperformed the Radeon HD 3870 in many of our tests at both resolutions. Considering that currently the Radeon HD 3870 has to have a rebate to match the price of our PNY 9600 GT it?s hard to argue against what a great value this card is...
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Monday, May 26, 2008
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Today we will be looking at a 9600GT from PNY which comes in under the Verto naming scheme. While this might sound like some form of OC series, it isn't. Verto is simply what PNY choose to call their graphics card line-up. It still carries the same one-slot profile, but we have a smaller fan that sits on the left of the card as opposed to the right. The shape of the cooler is also slightly different to the standard cooler.
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Thursday, March 6, 2008
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Today we are looking at the PNY 9600 GT graphics card. The PNY 9600 GT is virtually identical in performance to the XFX 9600 GT we tested a while back. After all the test were done the PNY Verto GeForce 9600 GT was a near tie in performance with the XFX 9600 GT, which was to be expected since the cards both run the same clock speeds. The PNY Verto GeForce 9600 GT retails for $179.99 and is available now.
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Monday, February 11, 2008
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We're writing to let you all know that we have just posted a new article at HotHardware, in which we evaluate the features, performance, and overclockability of PNY's XLR8 GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB graphics card. Like other 512MB GTS cards, the PNY XLR8 GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB is based on the recently released 65nm G92 GPU that features a full 128 stream processors and a 256-bit memory interface. Head on over to the site and check it out...
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Monday, January 7, 2008
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Intel still supports DDR2 quite readily, and even X38 and upcoming X48 motherboards will both have DDR3 and DDR2 memory controllers as options on select boards, so you still have the flexibility there depending on what board you get. Today we are testing out another somewhat unknown company to us; while we have heard of PNY before, we haven't seen them in the extreme memory range which they are pushing for today with the new PC2-9384 DDR2 memory kit we have been sent.
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Friday, January 4, 2008
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I was surprised by the performance of the stock clocked PNY XLR8 8800 GTS 512MB. It was very close to the performance of the overclocked XFX 8800 GTS 512MB XXX card I reviewed previously. The MSRP of the PNY XLR8 8800 GTS 512MB is $369.99 from PNY.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007
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If you are a user of flash drives for transporting data that is sensitive or personal in nature, you should consider an encrypting flash drive like the PNY IronKey 4GB flash drive we are testing today. Setting up the PNY IronKey 4GB flash drive is easy and when you first plug the drive into your USB port an onscreen menu pops up to prompt you to initialize the drive. This includes accepting a couple user agreements and choosing your password for the drive. The IronKey then generates the AES keys needed for encryption your data.
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Tuesday, November 6, 2007
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In the end I was very pleased with the performance of the stock clocked PNY XLR8 8800 GT 512MB video card. This card carries a bargain price that most gamers can afford and provides performance that is better than many video cards costing more money. The stock PNY XLR8 8800 GT 512MB ran impressively close to the super expensive and high-end XFX 8800 Ultra XXX in 3DMark06.
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