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by Rafael Hernandez on July 5, 2006 · 0 comments

TweakTown has a look at a pair of Palit GeForce 7900GT 512MB graphics cards. The amount of on-board memory is high for a 7900GT and they also deviate from the norm with a strange two slot cooler but it seems…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 28, 2006 · 0 comments

PC Modding Malaysia has a look at the Thermalright HR-05 northbridge chipset heatsink. The northbridge has been getting quite a bit more power hungry as time has gone on and a cooler like this makes sense for many performance enthusiasts,…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 27, 2006 · 0 comments

HotHardware has the Asus EN7950GX2 graphics card on their testbench today. The “card” is really a pair of lower clocked 7900GTx’s mashed together with a bridge chip enabling single slot SLI. It’s all so very much confusing but the performance…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 27, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech has an early look at the Nvidia nForce 590 SLI Intel Edition chipset. Intel’s 975X is the current big-name for Intel’s high-end dual core CPUs and future Conroe core chips but it has so far been limited to ATI…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 27, 2006 · 0 comments

PCSTATS has a review of the Epox 9U1697 GLI ULi M1697 AMD Socket 939 motherboard. The board’s ULi chipset isn’t as well known as the Nvidia and ATIs of the world (although Nvidia has recently purchased the company) it’s a…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 26, 2006 · 0 comments

HotHardware has a look at the Sony VAIO VGN-SZ150. As with Sony’s other notebooks this one is quite stylish but it also packs in a fair amount of power with an Intel Core Duo processor and Nvidia GeForce Go 7400…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 22, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at the Foxconn C51-XEM2AA and Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 AMD AM2 based motherboards. They both feature Nvidia’s nForce 590 SLI chipset and various levels of enthusiast features. An odd pair but they both perform well and sport features…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 21, 2006 · 0 comments

Legit Reviews has a look at 8 power supplies and how they handle the stressful task of powering ATI CrossFire and Nvidia SLI rigs. Quite a bit of load placed on the PSUs and it’s nice to see a number…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 13, 2006 · 0 comments

HardwareZone has a review of the Palit GeForce 7900 GT Sonic 512MB graphics card. The board does a few things differently, namely its two slot cooler and the 512MB of memory on board. Odd looking setup but its performance figures…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 13, 2006 · 0 comments

EETimes has the details on some challenges in Nvidia’s path. The company has lost a source for its AGP bridge chip which allow their natively PCIe graphics cores to run on the older bus and are reportedly sitting on quite…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 9, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at the new control panel for Nvidia’s 90-series graphics drivers. Gone are the days of a few mild choices such as bilinear or trlinear filtering and v-sync on or off, now there are enough settings, with…

Read more Nvidia Control Center Overview