Items tagged with GeForce
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Marco Chiappetta - Thu, Oct 12, 2006
NVIDIA has officially announced their latest high-end killer mobile GPU, branded the GeForce Go 7950 GTX. With 24 pixel shader engines, a core speed of 575MHz, and memory speeds of up to 1.4GHz with 512MB on board, this new MXM form-factor card offers a ton of Graphics horsepower for the DTR Notebook crowd. This preview of the technology goes...
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Sean Pelletier - Thu, Oct 12, 2006
The enthusiast gaming notebook has become an extremely viable and desirable alternative to today's desktop systems, which in-part explains why the mobile segment is one of the fastest growing in the PC industry. The latest crop of high performance notebooks are an engineering marvel of sorts, as they come dangerously close to...
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Shane Unrein - Thu, Sep 21, 2006
NVIDIA created a ton of buzz in the gaming community when it first introduced SLI. That buzz quickly gave way to a huge success, and the buzz and success really haven't diminished since. In fact, the birth of Quad SLI has only reinvigorated the buzz. Quad SLI is currently possible thanks to NVIDIA's GeForce 7950 GX2 video card....
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Marco Chiappetta - Thu, Sep 21, 2006
It seems a relatively large quantity of GeForce 7900 GS cards had been stolen from MSI while in transit, and they have since surfaced for sale on-line. There's no word on exactly how many of the stolen cards are out there, but it was a large enough quantity that MSI has made a statement on their corporate website......
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Marco Chiappetta - Sun, Sep 17, 2006
If your NVIDIA GeForce 6 or 7 series overclocking adventures haven't yielded the kind of results you had hoped, this guide on the AOA Forums may be of interest. They outline the steps necessary to soft-mod the BIOS on many GeForce cards to increase the GPU's voltage using NiBiTor and nvFlash. I've done this mod on a...
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David Altavilla - Sat, Sep 16, 2006
Gainward weighs in this evening with their own offering of GeForce 7950GT cards. There are two flavors, a standard 512MB version with RAM at 1.4GHz and a 256MB version with RAM clocked in at 1.2GHz. Both look to have pretty swank cooling solutions... Gainward BLISS 7950GT 512MB TV-out Dual DVI BLISS 7950GT 256MB...
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Marco Chiappetta - Thu, Sep 14, 2006
Hello Everyone. We've just finished putting NVIDIA's new $299 GeForce 7950 GT through the wringer, and have a fresh article on-line for your perusal. The card we looked at wasn't a vanilla reference card, however. Instead, XFX sent over a retail-ready GeForce 7950 GT 570M Extreme, complete with a dead-silent, passive cooler. And...
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Marco Chiappetta - Thu, Sep 14, 2006
Last week NVIDIA officially launched the $199 GeForce 7900 GS, and jointly announced the $299 GeForce 7950 GT. In our coverage of the GeForce 7900 GS, we were able to reveal the 7950 GT's specifications and features, but were asked to reserve posting any benchmark results until the cards were made available. Well, here we are only...
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Sandy Drew - Thu, Sep 07, 2006
Guru3d has posted a review of 3 NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS cards in a detailed 3-way shootout. They take Nvidia's latest offering and put them through their paces to determine a winner. By all means this is not a "new" product though. The graphics core is based on the NVIDIA series...
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Marco Chiappetta - Wed, Sep 06, 2006
Hello everyone. NVIDIA has just taken the wraps off of two new mainstream GPUs, the GeForce 7900 GS and GeForce 7950 GT. We took a retail-ready XFX GeForce 7900 GS for a spin at its factory-overclocked speeds and down-clocked it to illustrate how reference cards would perform as well. We've also got some information regarding the new GeForce...
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Sean Pelletier - Wed, Sep 06, 2006
Over the course of the last few months, the vast majority of news coming through the doors of NVIDIA has been in regards to enthusiast-class products such as the GeForce 7950 GX2 GPU and nForce 570 chipset. However, today the company is launching two new GPUs aimed squarely at the more...
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Sean Pelletier - Tue, Sep 05, 2006
HKEPC has uncovered an interesting discovery with the launch of NVIDIA's latest Forceware 91.47 drivers. Apparently, the latest drivers have unlocked Transparency Anti-Aliasing within the GeForce6 family of GPU's. Originally noted as an exclusive feature of the GeForce7...
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David Altavilla - Thu, Aug 17, 2006
Fudo over at The Inquirer reports that NVIDIA is preparing to launch a new GeForce 7950 GT to combat ATI's upcoming RV570 GPU. The latest addition to the GeForce family of GPU's boasts a 550MHz core frequency and is equipped with 512MB of RAM operating at a healthy 700MHz. Furthermore, the $299 card is rumored to have 24 pipelines,...
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Matt Beauvais - Mon, Aug 14, 2006
The GeForce 7900 GS is nothing new, but it hasn't been available in the retail market since its birth. According to HKEPC Hardware, Nvidia will be changing the situation by releasing the 7900 GS for around $179-$199. The GeForce 7900 GS is equipped with 20 Pixel Shader Pipeline, 7 Vertex Shader Engine, with a core speed of 450MHz,...
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Marco Chiappetta - Fri, Jul 21, 2006
Hello Everyone. For those of you that like to jump right down to the news, we wanted to let you know that we've just posted a new article we evaluate the features and performance of XFX's GeForce 7900 GT 550M Xtreme VIVO. Here's a snip from the article... "As of late, due to reported issues with overheating and graphic anomalies...
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Shane Unrein - Fri, Jul 21, 2006
As of late, due to reported issues with overheating and graphic anomalies with overclocked GeForce cards, many gamers are starting to think twice before purchasing factory overclocked cards. Some hesitation before buying the highest overclocked card makes sense, but XFX along with the other companies affected by this problem are...
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Marco Chiappetta - Thu, Jul 20, 2006
NVIDIA just sent word regarding a new mid-level AGP graphics card that should be hitting store shelves soon. It is a new product for the AGP market called the NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS AGP. It has the same specifications as the PCI Express version: 400MHz core clock 400MHz memory clock 12 pixel pipes. 5 vertex shaders 256MB of DDR2 DRAM...
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Robert Maloney - Tue, Jul 11, 2006
The never ending see-saw battle between NVIDIA and ATi has resulted in quicker card releases to the market. Whereas such events were met with much anticipation and speculation from the online community, the onslaught of new releases with their various "flavors" have also perhaps confused the average prospective buyer somewhat in...
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Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Jun 27, 2006
Hello All! We've taken Asus' GeForce 7950 GX2 for a spin around the benchmark park here at HH and even dropped it into a Quad SLI setup for a thorough beating in that mode as well. Here's a sneak peek! "One area to consider seriously though is warranty and Asus is strong in that regard, offering a full 3 years to the end user....
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David Altavilla - Tue, Jun 27, 2006
The fastest single graphics card in the world. This is the goal that NVIDIA was shooting for when they conjured up the GeForce 7950 GX2. Some might argue that a GeForce 7950 GX2, however, with its double stacked dual GPU powered PCB design, is anything but a single graphics card. We'd remind you that it does drop into...
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Marco Chiappetta - Mon, Jun 26, 2006
Legion Hardware answers the age old question today, "Which GeForce 7 graphics card is the best value?" The author runs through a handful of benchmarks with 7900, 7600, and 7300 GTs, and explains where each card fits in the 3D food chain. "Providing you are going to play...
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David Altavilla - Mon, Jun 26, 2006
If you are in the market for a new Core Duo powered notebook, you'll want to check out this article. We take a look at Sony's slick VAIO VGN-SZ150P/C. This notebook features a 13.3" XBrite screen and a hybrid graphics sub-system that can be powered by a GeForce Go 7400 or an Intel...
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