Adrian’s Rojak Pot tried out Arctic Cooling’s NV Silencer 5 heatsink/fan designed for the toasty NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series of video cards. The new generation of cards pump out major amounts of heat and noise under load but given this…
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The Crucible has a look at the AMD Athlon 64 supporting MSI K8N Neo Platinum(socket754) and K8N Neo2 Platinum(socket939) both of which feature NVIDIA nForce3 chipsets, 250Gb in the former and Ultra in the latter. They both perform well with…
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HardOCP is all over Shuttle’s latest barebones PC, the XPC SN95G5. The system comes stocked with NVIDIA’s nForce3 Ultra chipset and can handle all flavors of AMD’s Athlon 64 Socket 939 chips. The performance out of this small box is…
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AnandTech had a chance to toy around with NVIDIA’s SLI feature on an nForce4 based motherboard recently. Extremely impressive numbers for the GeForce 6800GTs although the 6600GTs are anemic performance wise, most people are better off purchasing a single 6800…
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Guru3D has a look at the NVIDIA powered Galaxy GeForce 6600. The card is aimed at the lower end of the market but it packs respectable performance in both today’s titles and games out of the past. It’s interesting how…
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HardOCP has a look at the latest 1.3 patch for Crytek’s popular FarCry FPS. The lastest patch includes Shader Model 2 and 3 support, which has been a point of contention between ATI and NVIDIA fanatics, and some nifty High…
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GamePC does their thing with the AMD Athlon64 FX-55, the current top-of-the-line processor in AMD’s lineup. The chip has some of the fastest performance seen in a dekstop chip, now it’s just waiting for chipsets that can complement its power…
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PenStar Systems has word from NVIDIA that “SoundStorm is dead”. The integrated audio processor that was made popular by their nForce2 system chipset appears to be disliked by motherboard manufacturers. Considering the number of problems that crept up in the…
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Legion Hardware has a look at the VIA powered MSI K8T Neo2 and the NVIDIA chipset based Gigabyte K8NSNXP-939 in a psuedo fight to the finish. The boards are all around solid and both perform extremely well so it comes…
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AnandTech has a look at a somewhat late entry into the AMD Socket 939 motherboard arena, the Epox 9NDA3+. The board’s NVIDIA nForce3 Ultra chipset gives it a ton of onboard features but early BIOS problems give it a black…
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Guru3D tests out the 6x.xx series of ForceWare drivers from NVIDIA for their GeForce line of video cards. The later drivers contain all sorts of new tweaks and techniques that should boost performance and compatibility with software. So far the…
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