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by Rafael Hernandez on August 12, 2004 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has quite a few details on the NVIDIA NV43 graphics chipset which wil debut in GeForce 6600 labeled boards in the very near future. The chip is very similar to their current high-end offerings with a slimmed…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 10, 2004 · 0 comments

Hexus.net has a review of AOpen’s Aeolus GeForce 6800 GT video card. The GT chip series has so far shown the best price:performance ratio in NVIDIA’s line up sporting all 16 fully functional texturing pipes just like its bigger brother…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 9, 2004 · 0 comments

The Tech Report grabbed five of the newest, high performance video cards based on NVIDIA’s GeForce 6800 chipsets and had a go at some gaming benchmarks. The whole 6800 line is represented from the “lowly” non-badged to the GT and…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 6, 2004 · 0 comments

ExtremeTech has an article that focuses mostly on NVIDIA’s loss of market share and how it is now in a tie with rival ATI. The company didn’t lose the market share to ATI, rather, they lost it to Intel and…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 3, 2004 · 0 comments

NVIDIA has a list of companies which will be offering bundles of hardware using its PCI Express enabled system chipsets and video cores. It’s a no brainer at this point in time since both are difficult to find, but I’m…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 2, 2004 · 0 comments

GamePC has another fine article, this time they compare the performance of PCI Express versions of mid-range chips from both NVIDIA and ATI against their older AGP cousins. Decent performance out of the boards though a revisit would be great…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 1, 2004 · 0 comments

No that’s not a typo. ASUS marketing folk thought it would be a great plan to name an NVIDIA GeForce 6800 powered video card the V9999 Gamer Edition. Naming issues aside it’s a very potent card and should handle all…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 27, 2004 · 0 comments

Microsoft has launched the DirectX 9.0c package, usually reserved for developers to include with their products, but freely available to the meer mortals out there. It supposedly contains support for some of the ATI Radeon x800 and NVIDIA 6800’s advanced…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 25, 2004 · 0 comments

Bjorn3D found themselves at the North American unveiling of the SLI graphics system NVIDIA has been working on for its GeForce 6800 line of video cards. Their peek at the technology includes video of a side by side performance comparison…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 22, 2004 · 0 comments

HardOCP had the first, published, shot at id Software’s highly anticipated DOOM3 with today’s top video cards and the best from the last generation. The early numbers are in NVIDIA’s GeForce 6800 line of cards by quite a bit although…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 13, 2004 · 0 comments

DigiTimes has word that both ATI and NVIDIA have scaled back their low-end graphics chip production a little bit due to Intel’s i915G chipset and the respectable performance it pumps out. Few system vendors will toss in an added card…

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