by Rafael Hernandez on February 1, 2006
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LostCircuits has a look at the nVidia Quadro FX4500 SLI graphics chip. The Quadro line is aimed at workstation applications such as 3D modellers and have their own driver set with specific optimizations focused on what those programs require the…
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by Rafael Hernandez on January 27, 2006
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AnandTech has a look at four different Nvidia GeForce 6800GS based graphics cards. The chip has been a surprising performer at the mid-range to low-end segment it sits at and it provides some inexpensive SLI options to the gamer on…
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by Rafael Hernandez on January 18, 2006
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Nvidia has launched a new chipset named the GeForce 7300 GS. The new chip features a good chunk of the technology found in the rest of the 7000 series lineup but it’s targeted at the low-end of the market so…
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by Rafael Hernandez on January 18, 2006
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The Firing Squad takes a look at the anti-aliasing, texture filtering quality, and performance on ATI’s X1800 and Nvidia’s 7800 graphics boards. ATI’s CrossFire seems to perform very well at high AA/AF levels while Nvidia’s SLI performance takes a beating….
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by Rafael Hernandez on January 17, 2006
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AnandTech has the details on a pair of new chipsets, from Nvidia, for Intel CPUs. The chipsets are designed for the more budget oriented systems and are more limited in their “extreme” options but some new additions, like Azalia HD…
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by Rafael Hernandez on January 3, 2006
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AnandTech has three Nvidia nForce 4 equipped motherboards on their testbed today. The SLI technology has matured nicely over the year and these boards all offer up similar performance although the Asus “premium” board is the one to consider if…
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by Rafael Hernandez on December 29, 2005
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X-bit labs has more than you ever wanted to know about the Asus A8N32-SLI motherboard. The board features two PCIe 16X slots for full bandwidth SLI-goodness along with a ton of other high-end features. A very pricey AMD Athlon 64…
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by Rafael Hernandez on December 28, 2005
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AMDZone has a look at Quake4’s performance with the latest dual core enabled patch. They ran into a few issues with Nvidia’s latest driver set but with some tweaking they got it all working in the end. Vast improvements for…
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by Rafael Hernandez on December 22, 2005
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Just in time for the holidays Nvidia has released a new set of ForceWare drivers for their graphics card line. The version 81.98 drivers sport a number of bug fixes and enhancements most notably for their SLI setups and dual-core…
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by Rafael Hernandez on December 21, 2005
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GamePC has a look at the Asus A8R-MVP CrossFire capable motherboard. The board uses ATI’s Radeon XPress 200 chipset and ULi M1575 southbridge that doesn’t exhibit those pesky USB2 performance issues and, as a whole, manages to keep up with…
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by Rafael Hernandez on December 20, 2005
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Nordic Hardware has pushed an ATI X1800XT and Nvidia 7800GTX 512 to extremes. They stested the card’s overclocks with simple air cooling then move up to the ever so extreme liquid nitrogen. Some water cooling results would have been nice…
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