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by Rafael Hernandez on September 18, 2004 · 0 comments

DesignTechnica has a look at the MSI NX6800 128MB which hosts NVIDIA’s GeForce 6800 (non-Ultra/non-GT) GPU yet still boasts a $400 MSRP. The insane cost of the board may be due to its game and application bundle but I bet…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 11, 2004 · 0 comments

SharkyExtreme takes a look at the PNY Verto GeForce 6800 Ultra. The company is known, mostly, for its memory modules but its video card lines have been getting accolades for the past few years so the expectations run high for…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 10, 2004 · 0 comments

Gaming Nexus has a little chat with NVIDIA’s Desktop Graphics Product Manager Steve Sims regarding the company’s impending SLI graphics card push. They certainly have an eagerly anticipated product which will, no doubt, push performance boundaries and will have competitors…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 7, 2004 · 0 comments

NVIDIA’s upcoming “mid-range” video card solution, the GeForce 6600 GT, is causing quite a stir with its $200USD pricetag it’s one of the best price/performance cards to be released in a long time. If NVIDIA decides to keep the SLI…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 6, 2004 · 0 comments

TweakTown has tested the performance of 4 different audio cards and NVIDIA’s very own Soundstorm solution, found in some nForce2 based motherboards, in various games and benchmarks. The numbers do give higher priced sound cards the nod in this roundup…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 30, 2004 · 0 comments

PC Unleash tests out a pair of video card coolers from Arctic Cooling. The company recently expanded its line of coolers to cover most lines of video cards from both ATI and NVIDIA and from the looks of its performance…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 30, 2004 · 0 comments

The Firing Squad has a short summary of an NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT based video card they managed to get ahold of. While its performance won’t rival that of the 6800 and ATI x800 series its $200 price tag, support…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 25, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech checks out the methods ATI and NVIDIA use in dealing with overscan on HDTV displays. With home theater PCs growing in popularity and growing adoption of HDTV capable displays topics such as this merit some closer scrutiny if proper…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 24, 2004 · 0 comments

X-bit labs continues its power draw measurements of modern day graphics cards. This time around they take a look at a NVIDIA based lineup of boards and compare the results with their ATI numbers. It would appear that both companies…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 22, 2004 · 0 comments

Burning Issues has a look at the highly capable Iwill DK8N Dual AMD Opteron motherboard. The board sports NVIDIA’s NFORCE3 Pro/250 and when paired with a proper OS to make use of its features it displays some monsterous performance numbers….

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 13, 2004 · 0 comments

Bjorn3D has some news from QuakeCon currently taking place in the Lone Star State. The big news, of course, at the show, is DOOM3 with everything DOOM centric being peddled and covered at the show but some interesting hardware has…

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