Now instead of testing the most powerful and expensive graphics card currently available in an high-end system, we will be plugging it into a fairly old AMD dual core system. Yeah, that's right, no fancy Core i7 system not even a Core 2 Duo system. But we will be testing this board in our old ASRock Athlon X2 system that has a single PCI Express expansion slot. We know what you're thinking, why? Why would anyone consider spending such a vast amount of money on a graphics card and then plug it into such a wimpy system? Surely it would be far better to spend that money on a system upgrade first? Well, not everyone can or wants to transfer their current system to a new one. - Accelenation
NVIDIA has made up its mind over the final brand of the new performance card. The card will be known as GeForce GTX 275 and is based on the GT200 55nm chip. The card comes clocked at 633MHz core and 1404MHz shaders. It comes with 896MB memory that runs at 2322MHz and it has 240 shaders and 448-bit memory interface. It should be selling for about $249 for a reference card but we would not be surprised to see cards that are more expensive at launch. Since the boxes are printed or are being printed, it is now too late for any brand change and NVIDIA believes that the GeForce GTX 275 should do well on market. This card should beat the upcoming Radeon HD 4890 in many games. - FudZilla
Today, our lab plays host to what will soon reveal to be the fastest graphics card around. It is made by EVGA, a company well famous for overclocked models of NVIDIA based graphics cards and highly respected for its contributions to the overclocking business. The board is named GeForce GTX 295 HydroCopper, and uses water cooling. Now the clocks are nothing short of impressive, with 720MHz core, 1548MHz shaders and 2160MHz effective memory speeds. If you compare this to reference clocks you will realize this kind of overclock is something only EVGA will dare to do. And once again we see that water cooling can easily lift the bar to the next level, and way beyond if we rely on this model. - FudZilla
Well, the CPU limitation is something that we always talk about when it comes to high-end graphics cards. When we say this, we mean that the CPU is holding back the frames that the graphics card is capable of putting out. Now the less intensive the game, or the lower resolution you play at, this really increases the chances of hitting that bottleneck. There are ultimately three ways to remove the bottleneck on a high-end graphics card. First, increase the settings in the game, things like turning on anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering help. The problem is that this might put you at an unplayable game play level. The second option is to buy a new monitor that offers a higher widescreen resolution. - TweakTown
The Gainward GeForce GTX 260 Goes Like Hell is a faster version of the Golden Sample card, which we've tested few weeks ago. This time around however, you see two suffixes meaning Golden Sample and Goes Like Hell. This suffix is used with only the fastest Gainward boards, and it goes a long way towards explaining how fast they are. The GLH's core runs at +650MHz, which is 75MHz higher than the reference GeForce GTX 260. As far as memory goes, the GLH's memory is overclocked by 400MHz effectively, and so now runs at 2400MHz effectively. The plus sign is there to denote that there's room for additional overclocking, and that Gainward made sure it packs only the top parts that can take it. - FudZilla
We know about the GeForce GTS 250, where it is nothing more than a rebranded GeForce 9800 GTX+ version. And while this is annoying to a degree for the less experienced users who tend not to keep up with what's happening, but if you are looking for something that is to be a well known contender, then this GeForce GTS 250 could well be a good choice. Since the card is a GeForce 9800 GTX+ and it's been out for so long now, so companies have been able to offer a good range of options from the word go. Today we will have just a look at what exactly Gigabyte has done to the card and if it can stand out from the competition. We will have a closer look at the graphics card itself in just a moment. - TweakTown
Lately, NVIDIA has somehow developed the rather bad habit of renaming previous generation models and then trying to really pass them off as part of the latest generation of graphics cards. Previous examples include the GeForce 8800 GS becoming the GeForce 9600 GSO edition, but also the GeForce 8800 GT being rebranded as the GeForce 9800 GT, both of which resulted from the G92 chip. The latest spate of renaming stems largely from NVIDIA's difficulty in getting a scaled down version of the GT200 out the door to cater to the lower segments of the market, where the majority of sales reside. Consequently NVIDIA has no choice but to let the G92 live on and to fill in this part of the market. - VR-Zone
Well we have has just released a new version of NVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor) software. NiBiTor is the original and definitive BIOS tweaker that supports the latest NVIDIA graphics cards, and which is updated on a regular basis. NiBiTor allows graphics card enthusiasts, or the hardcore overclockers to have full control over some advanced features and functionality found on firmware of supporting cards. And doing so users gain some extra performance, enable certain hidden features, tweaking memory latencies, provide extensive information, adapt bootup settings, changing fan speed options and/or get extra stability on their NVIDIA based graphics accelerators which will just give them that little extra value.
The Toxic HD 4870 is the name for Sapphire's special version of their Radeon HD 4870, this time with some special cooling and an overclocked core. The board uses their Vapor-X cooling that does a great job at 780MHz core speeds and 4000MHz effectively memory speed. Today's card comes with 512MB of GDDR5 memory, but as of January this year, the same video card is available with 1GB of GDDR5 memory. Additional memory pays off at high resolutions and in texture intensive games, which are growing in numbers buy the way. And to make things even more interesting, we are soon expecting Sapphire to announce its Radeon HD 4870 with even 2GB of GDDR5 memory being available. - FudZilla
Now last week NVIDIA released their GeForce GTS 250 series. As most of you already know the cards are based on the existing G92 chipset which has been used on a wide range of GeForce 8800 and also GeForce 9800 cards before. The only novelty, if you can call it that, is that there is a 1GB version available now. We also checked already the 2GB exclusive Palit card and saw that there is no need for such a board yet. Galaxy has chosen to use an Arctic Cooling Accelero Twin Turbo cooler instead of the reference GeForce GTS 250 cooler which should hopefully make for a quieter experience. What is even better is that according to Galaxy the price of the video card will not be higher than $149. - techPowerUp
We have just received information that NVIDIA is preparing a GeForce GTX 275 card to go head on with the upcoming 55nm based Radeon HD 4890 which we discussed yesterday. According to the details, NVIDIA has briefed their partners only just recently and details of the counter attack strategy are pretty vague at the moment. However, NVIDIA seems quite confident that this card will have a competitive pricing and performance advantage over the Radeon HD 4890. Keep in mind that this video card is labeled as a GeForce GTX 275 which implies that performance can be expected between the range of a 216 shader strong GeForce GTX 260 and the faster GeForce GTX 280 graphics accelerator. - FudZilla
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