While the top-end of the graphics card segment is always on the mind of the performance gamer there’s something to be said for aiming just a tiny bit lower, especially when it can save you a bit of your hard earned money in the end. NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 470 in an SLI setup provides a […]
Read more NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 SLI is the high-end consolation prize
Depending on who you ask Nvidia’s “Fermi” based lineup of GPUs was supposed to be released many months ago in order to go up against AMD’s Radeon HD 5000 series of graphics chips. Ah the best laid schemes of mice and men. Well the NDAs have been lifted and Nvidia’s GTX 480 and GTX 470 […]
Read more Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 / GTX 470 is upon us…finally
Building your own PC is a test of patience and fortitude where selecting the right components and avoiding the various pitfalls attached to certain configurations is key to avoiding long hours of troubleshooting….or you could put one together out of pre-selected parts. Nvidia is rolling out their very own GeForce PC Kit which ships with […]
Nvidia’s graphics division is having a rough time getting new products out the door but that doesn’t mean the rest of the company is stagnating. The company has announced its newest system on a chip dubbed Tegra 2. The new Nvidia Tegra 250 will sport a total of 8 RISC-based processor cores running at up […]
Read more Nvidia Tegra 2 piles on the cores
With all of the attention being paid to AMD and Intel’s impressive chipset lineups there’s still Nvidia’s lineup to consider. Sure the company has had some knocks as of late but they still produce some interesting options if you’re going for the all out performance angle. TechwareLabs has a look at the MSI NF980-G65 Motherboard […]
Read more MSI NF980-G65 Motherboard brings Nvidia chipsets back into style
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
Normally when you go for the low-end of the market you know what you’re in for. You’re looking for some cost savings or power savings by going with chips that aren’t as powerful as the more expensive options but still offer plenty of power for the mundane usage scenarios. There’s still room for tweaking though. […]
Read more EVGA GeForce GT 220 SSC DDR3 the low-end tweaker’s approach
There was a time when you’d have to stick to one of the two graphics chips makers in case you wanted, some day, the Multi-GPU upgrade option. Heck you even had to stay within the same card generation, same specs as well, if you wanted that sweet sweet frame rate boost two graphics cards offered. […]
Read more Lucid Hydra 200 brings multiple vendor graphics cards together at last
Nvidia’s GeForce 210 GPU isn’t designed to wow you with its 3D prowess or further computing, instead it was made to get some decent multimedia playback into your basic desktop or office system. Thankfully such a pared down product comes with a smaller price tag. techPowerUp has a look at Inno3D’s take on a GeForce […]
Read more Inno3D GeForce 210 aimed at your HTPC
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
Gaming has come a long way graphics-wise but there’s still quite a ways to go when it comes to the details that would make them truly immersive. One of those somewhat under-represented features is physics modeling which would improve realism…
Read more AMD Hopes to Push "Open Physics"
