Nvidia

by Rafael Hernandez on April 1, 2004 · 0 comments

NVIDIA has a few video clips displaying some of the neat effects their upcoming NV40 graphics processing unit is capable of. Impressive effects, here’s to hoping games and programs make use of them although there’s always a long wait time…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 26, 2004 · 0 comments

A few months ago Apex had announced its ApeXtreme gaming system based around a package of VIA chips. It seems they’ve changed their minds and have gone with an AMD CPU and NVIDIA nForce2 (with integrated graphics) solution. Games Domain…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 24, 2004 · 0 comments

DigiTimes has done some digging around and come up with some more information on upcoming video products namely ATI’s project codenamed “R420” and NVIDIA’s “NV40”. The biggest news is both companies planning on moving from AGP completely after these new…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 24, 2004 · 0 comments

Hot Hardware has an informative article that explains just what PCI Express is and how the two popular video chip makers, ATI and NVIDIA, will implement support for the new high speed connection. ATI’s approach sounds better on paper but…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 23, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech picks apart (figuratively) the nForce3 250, NVIDIA’s newest chipset for the AMD Athlon 64 platform. Impressive features built in this time around, their previous chipset, the nForce3 150, was seriously lacking value compared to VIA’s offerings….

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 18, 2004 · 0 comments

MetkuMods has a review of the Shuttle AN50R Athlon 64 based motherboard. It sports an NVIDIA nForce 3 150 chipset and almost every single peripheral connection available on board including Gigabit LAN which is powered by Intel. I don’t know…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 13, 2004 · 0 comments

Digital-Daily had a bit of free time on their hands so they’ve compared twenty different video cards ranging from the lowliest GeForce2 MX to the mighty FX5950s and 9800XTs. Some image quality comparisons would have been nice but what are…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 11, 2004 · 0 comments

Hexus.net was lucky enough to get a motherboard outfitted with NVIDIA’s nForce3 250, their latest chipset for the AMD Athlon 64 processor line. It boasts a huge lists of features and matches up quite well with VIA’s chipset offerings so…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 10, 2004 · 0 comments

Hexus.net has a review on what will probably be the last major chipset release that will support the AMD Athlon (non 64-bit) platform. The VIA KT880 has a feature set on par with NVIDIA’s Nforce2 chipsets but to find out…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 22, 2004 · 0 comments

Viper Lair had a NVIDIA based MSI FX5950 Ultra-VTD256 video card at their disposal and they just so happen to have some opinions on it. The board uses the current top chip from NVIDIA and it’s crammed with a large…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 21, 2004 · 0 comments

Sharky Extreme compares two motherboards featuring the current high end chipsets from the top two AMD Athlon chipset makers. The AOpen AK77-600 Max using the VIA KT600 chipset and sporting Gigabit LAN support on one side and the MSI K7N…

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