Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 295 setup was the fastest "single card" graphics product on the market for some time. The issue was that the design is in fact two graphics cards attached together into a nightmare cooling scenario. This changes things.Gainward’s…
Read more Gainward Single PCB GTX 295, Incredibly Fast and now Much Longer
The trouble with many video card reviews is they’re generally tested once they’re launched and rarely, if ever, reevaluated with newer drivers or, for that matter, games outside of the insanely demanding first person shooter, RTS, or flight sim environment.Legit…
Read more Nvidia's GeForce GTX 275 vs ATI Radeon HD 4890, Mid-Range Gaming at its Finest
There was a time when mid-range graphics cards weren’t much faster than their low-end counter parts, that and they still cost you a decent chunk of change despite their less than stellar performance. Nowadays innovation and cut-throat competition means that…
Lets face it, if you’re an Apple workstation user your upgrade options are limited at best. That’s not to say that the same graphics power found in Windows PCs can’t be found on a Mac Pro it’s just that you’re…
Read more EVGA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition, Mac Pros Get Some GPU Power
You can’t fault AMD’s Richard Huddy for being a little enthusiastic about Microsoft’s upcoming DirectX 11 and the features it brings along for graphics cards. The graphics API’s "Local Data Share" capability is, in his words, the killer feature which…
Read more DirectX 11 Compute Shader Leads to Speed Up, Sharing is a "Killer Feature"
It used to be that first person shooters, flight simulators, and real time strategy games that forced a player’s hand to upgrade their gaming computer. Given the amount of pull MMO titles have now you’re looking at a whole…
Read more The Great MMORPG Graphics Card Conundrum
Nvidia, apparently, isn’t content to leave good enough alone so the company is rumored to be silently working on a newer version of their ION chipset.ION 2 is purportedly set to offer twice as many shader processors which should…
Read more Nvidia Rumored to be Working on ION 2
Despite all of the recent issues Nvidia has gone through the company is forging ahead with their latest in mobile graphics chips by launching their new GeForce 200 GPU lineup.The new chips are all made with the 40nm manufacturing…
You may have mistaken Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system as a gussied up and streamlined version of their previous operating systems but you’d be ingoring the changes under the hood that are set to make it one of the…
Read more Windows 7's Direct3D Improvements, DirectX 11 Brings Whole Lots of Changes
AMD and Nvidia’s graphics card lineups have matched each other in performance, image quality, and feature sets. There’s not much more for fanboys to argue over but that doesn’t mean they won’t try.HotHardware has a roundup of Nvidia GeForce GTX…
Read more GeForce GTX 275 and Radeon HD 4890s Rounded Up and Tested
The GPU is set to become one of the most utilized components in your computer, and not just for video games. Nvidia and ATI/AMD have been coming up with graphics chip designs that are extremely parallel in nature and…
Read more ATI AVIVO Video Converter Still Flawed
