GeForce

by Rafael Hernandez on November 18, 2009 · 0 comments

Granted you don’t need to sort of power today’s high-end and mid-range graphics cards offer but you don’t exactly want bottom rung performance for your PC either. You enjoy a bit of gaming on the side which integrated graphics chips can’t exactly handle and extremely low-end add-on cards aren’t designed to even run on. The […]

Read more Zotac GeForce GT 240 AMP! Edition sports peppy low-end performance

by Rafael Hernandez on October 12, 2009 · 0 comments

Nvidia may be having a tough time coming up with a high end alternative to the competitions products but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other areas to attack them on. techPowerUp has a look at the Zotac GeForce GT 220 graphics card which sports a purpose built design to keep power usage down: What it […]

Read more Zotac GeForce GT 220, redefining the low-end…sort of

by Rafael Hernandez on September 7, 2009 · 0 comments

We all enjoy cheap PC components as much as the next guy but there’s a reason they’re cheap, they stick to components and designs that are stable at or around their shipped speeds. That won’t cut it for the speed…

Read more ASUS GeForce GTX 285 Matrix, eeking out the best performance

by Rafael Hernandez on August 25, 2009 · 0 comments

Most graphics cards nowadays tend to deviate from the reference designs the chip manufacturers create, so while a company might call for a basline of a 600MHz core with 1000MHz memory clock rates the reality is that card manufactures are…

Read more MSI N275GTX Lightning, Pushing the Clock Rates

by Rafael Hernandez on August 22, 2009 · 0 comments

Nvidia has released their latest ForceWare driver sets for Microsoft Windows operating systems. The new drivers sport several improvements and bug fixes that should be especially interesting to OpenGL and Windows 7 users. Here’s a peek at some of the…

Read more Nvidia GeForce / ION ForceWare 190.62 Windows Drivers

by Rafael Hernandez on August 10, 2009 · 0 comments

Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 295 setup was the fastest "single card" graphics product on the market for some time. The issue was that the design is in fact two graphics cards attached together into a nightmare cooling scenario. This changes things.Gainward’s…

Read more Gainward Single PCB GTX 295, Incredibly Fast and now Much Longer

by Rafael Hernandez on July 30, 2009 · 0 comments

The trouble with many video card reviews is they’re generally tested once they’re launched and rarely, if ever, reevaluated with newer drivers or, for that matter, games outside of the insanely demanding first person shooter, RTS, or flight sim environment.Legit…

Read more Nvidia's GeForce GTX 275 vs ATI Radeon HD 4890, Mid-Range Gaming at its Finest

by Rafael Hernandez on July 19, 2009 · 0 comments

It’s tough to match the flexibility that Nvidia’s ION platform offers. It takes the lowly Intel Atom processor, pairs it with a power friendly system chipset which sports a moderately competent graphics core built-in, the perfect combination for media playback.Zotac’s…

Read more Zotac's ION A-Series ITX Board, WiFi'ed Atom Goodness

by Rafael Hernandez on July 18, 2009 · 0 comments

Nvidia has released a Beta set of drivers for their GeForce graphics card lineup and ION system platform bringing them up to version 190.38.The drivers present the users with bug fixes and a new power management setup users can customize…

Read more Nvidia GeForce / ION Windows Driver Version 190.38

by Rafael Hernandez on July 17, 2009 · 0 comments

Lets face it, if you’re an Apple workstation user your upgrade options are limited at best. That’s not to say that the same graphics power found in Windows PCs can’t be found on a Mac Pro it’s just that you’re…

Read more EVGA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition, Mac Pros Get Some GPU Power

by Rafael Hernandez on July 14, 2009 · 0 comments

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