by Rafael Hernandez on November 27, 2006
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The FiringSquad has a look at how the Nvidia GeForce 8800GTX and GTS perform on AMD CPUs. If you haven’t checked recently Intel is the current performance king with their Core 2 based CPUs which would make great use out…
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by Rafael Hernandez on November 16, 2006
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Hot Hardware has their own look at the current king of the hill in consumer PC builds. Their system consists of the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 CPU (aka quad core) a pair of Nvidia GeForce 8800GTX graphics card in…
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by Rafael Hernandez on November 15, 2006
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HardOCP has a look at the Sapphire RADEON X1650 XT graphics card. The board makes use of the latest in mid-range/low-end die shrunk chips that “should” run cooler and perform better than the previous generation. The X1650 XT seems to…
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by Rafael Hernandez on November 13, 2006
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AnandTech does the ol’ graphics card roundup, early in the game, on Nvidia’s GeForce 8800 series. It might be early but there are some strange cooling designs out of the gate in this batch. Some nice early results when pushing…
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by Rafael Hernandez on November 10, 2006
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Legit Reviews goes for the current dream machine build. Their system features an Nvidia nForce 680i chipset based motherboard fitted with a Quad Core Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 a healthy dose of fast memory and topped it off with…
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by Rafael Hernandez on November 8, 2006
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HardOCP has an early look at an ABS high-end system featuring the Intel Quad Core QX6700 CPU. The system is no slouch while fitted with a pair of ATI Radeon X1950 XTX boards in CrossFire a liquid cooling rig for…
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by Rafael Hernandez on November 8, 2006
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HotHardware is one, of many, sites with a review of the Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX and 8800 GTS based graphics boards. The cards are, in a word, beasts featuring a massive cooler with equally massive amounts of memory and transistor…
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by Rafael Hernandez on November 7, 2006
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t-break has a look at three different GPUs in their mid-range graphics card comparison. The Nvidia GeForce 7900GS and 7950GT are represented as is the ATI Radeon X1950 Pro. Some fancy coolers in this roundup but picking a winner comes…
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by Rafael Hernandez on November 6, 2006
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The Tech Report writes of the latest Folding@Home release that can run on a pair of ATI Radeon X1900 GPUs in your system. It doesn’t split the workload in a CrossFire like manner but it seems to set each GPU…
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by Rafael Hernandez on November 6, 2006
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bit-tech has the details on a recall for boards based on Nvidia’s GeForce 8800GTX GPU. The boards seem to feature an improper resistor which can cause image corruption and reboots in some cases. The problem doesn’t appear to affect the…
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by Rafael Hernandez on November 3, 2006
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Digit-Life has a look at the video decoding performance and quality from ATI and Nvidia. High-def content being all the rage these days it’s a good idea to check out a card’s playback performance as well as its 3D prowess….
Read more ATI/AMD and Nvidia Video Decoding Compared