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by Rafael Hernandez on March 23, 2006 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a look at the MSI K8N Diamond Plus motherboard. The MSI Diamond line has been well received due to its integrated hardware and cooling methods. This time around they have a Creative Labs Audigy chip on-board…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 20, 2006 · 0 comments

HardOCP has the details on Nvidia’s plan to get physics processing going on SLI graphics setups. The Havok physics engine seems to support some acceleration in Shader Model 3 capable graphics cards, which limits it to some of the newer…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 16, 2006 · 0 comments

bit-tech has gathered a trio of Nvidia 7900GTX graphics boards and tested them throughly. The boards are mostly identical, down to the fan/heatsink setup although the BFG board is clocked a little bit higher your choice is down to bundles…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 15, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at the Epox EP-9U1697-GLi SLI-capable motherboard. normally that would mean it sports an Nvidia chipset of some sort but this one uses the ULi M1697 (Nvidia just so happened to buy-out ULi a few weeks ago)….

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 9, 2006 · 0 comments

Legit Reviews has some snapshots of Nvidia’s mobile SLI experiment based on the GeForce Go. The two GPUs do their thing without the need of a bridge adapter. An interesting go but it’s unlikely these will be found in anything…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 9, 2006 · 0 comments

A new batch of graphics cards means a deluge of reviews. The Nvidia 7900GT/GTX appears to be a die-shrink of the 7800 series but that die shrink allows for some much nicer clock speeds while the 7600 comes in with…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 28, 2006 · 0 comments

PureOverclock has a look at the Arctic Cooling Accelero X1 and X2 graphics card coolers. The X1 is designed for Nvidia’s 6800 graphics series on up to the 7800 while the X2 handles ATI’s X1800 and X1900 lineup. An impressive…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 13, 2006 · 0 comments

The Firing Squad has a bit of info on the HDCP standard and why it’s going to make for some disgruntled PC users. The current crop of graphics cards don’t appear to support it fully and your trusty old monitor…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 8, 2006 · 0 comments

Hardware Review has the Arctic Cooling NV Silencer 5 Rev. 3 on their testbed today. The latest design works with Nvidia’s GeForce 7800 lineup which could use a bit of help in the cooling department. Another nice product from Arctic…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 6, 2006 · 0 comments

GamePC pits the top of the heap, graphics card wise, against each other in their comparison of the Nvidia GeForce 7800GTX 512MB in an SLI configuration and ATI’s X1900XT CrossFire setup. The two camps come up pretty much tied but…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 2, 2006 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a review of the BFG GeForce 7800 GS AGP graphics board. There haven’t been many additions to the AGP graphics card landscape over the past year, what with every company busy pushing its customers along to…

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