A few independent sources have confirmed that the D9E, NVIDIA's sandwich board will officially launch as GeForce 9800 GX2. The add in boards partners got the final okay on the name so they can now proceed on designing their own boxes and printing. And there is no way back from there. A few sources also independently confirmed that the board should launch by mid February time. The GeForce 9800 GX2 will have a massive cooler in-between two PCB's. The cooler itself will have a two copper parts that will fit on the GPU's and it will be placed in the middle. At the end, when looking at the gaming performance matters this GX2 will be fastest graphics card around. At least for a while. - FudZilla
Today a new article from the guys and gals at Galaxy technology. Now you all know it, the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB is a trendy and hip card. Even if the card is fully reference it still rocks due to it's price versus performance ratio. Ever since the GeForce 8800 GT and GTS series have been released everyone was flabbergasted by two things, precisely the vast amount of bang for bucks and more unfortunate the heat the card creates. The cards can handle it though, so don't be worried about it. It however is not sexy, see sexy is when a card will diverts from traditional cooling and utilize a more unconventional cooling method. So what then if a company decides to pimp a graphics card? - Guru3D
When the Radeon HD 2900 XT card was released mid-last year after numerous delays it unfortunately wasn't quite what the hardware community was looking for both under performing NVIDIA's high-end GeForce 8 cards and yet drawing more power than them. ATI's start into DirectX 10 graphics was not a good one and this was not a good sign for AMD who not long ago dropped billions of dollars to pick up the graphics company. After NVIDIA refreshed their core with the 65nm G92 chip, ATI did the same for the R600 which has addressed almost all of the problems of the old cards and brought hefty competition back into the market. Today we have one of these cards to look at from VisionTek. - AMDZone
The Atomic branding on the Radeon HD 3870 card just sounds high-end, and we eagerly awaited for it to show us that Sapphire still has what it takes. Sapphire took RV670's GPU and had a green light to play with GPU and memory clocks, and of course, to develop a new cooling system. The reference design is usually good enough to keep the card temperatures at bay, but we and every other enthusiast out there always want better and more efficient cooling. For the new technology to develop it takes time and a lot of effort, at least if you want to have something good and revolutionary. So how did Sapphire actually solve this burden and came to Atomic edition with improved cooling? - FudZilla
As usually, after the basic models all made in the same fashion as the reference one, the first cards with more exotic cooling systems begin to arrive. Not that it is an imperative with such cold weather at the moment, but an overclocker values every extra bit to lower the temperature. This time, we got a graphics card from HIS, made in cooperation with Arctic Cooling, the well known manufacturer of different advanced cooling systems for PC components. The card is following the usual Turbo equipment with again a new version of the popular IceQ cooling. The full name of the graphics card we present you with today is HIS Radeon HD 3850 512MB IceQ3 Turbo edition. - InsideHW
There are a plethora of Radeon HD 2600 series cards available to buy and many manufacturers have applied different customisations to their specific models. Some are supplied with silent coolers, others with factory overclocked settings and then there is the product we are checking out today. VisionTek have taken the Radeon HD 2600 XT 256MB and redesigned it to perfectly suit low profile PC's or media centres. Part of this redesign is a native HDMI port which when added to full high definition video support could make the card an essential purchase. We will be putting the card through a number of games to find out if media centre enthusiasts have a new must have purchase. - DriverHeaven
So with the latest bunch of game releases are you noticing that your system just isn't quite up to the task of playing these games? Is the new GeForce 8800 line of video cards just not in your budget, but yet you still need to upgrade to something better? There are budget cards out there that are very capable of running the latest games in DirectX 9.0c and DirectX 10, of course you're not going to max the video settings but the games still look great. We've got two EVGA e-GeForce 8600 GTS video cards, not quite a budget card but they won't set you back too much either. They're quite capable of playing the latest games, like Crysis, Gears of War or Call of Duty 4. - DragonSteelMods
We've said before that the Radeon HD 2600 PRO should be passed over in favor of the XT for anyone who wants to play video games, or the Radeon HD 2400 XT for people just interested in having a discrete graphics card without all that gaming malarkey. But then, Gigabyte has put together a compelling package with the Radeon HD 2600 PRO board. A memory bump to 512MB, a clock speed bump, passive cooling, component and video out and Neverwinter Nights 2, a popular sequel by a big developer. But it's still a Radeon HD 2600 PRO, right? Is a pretty package enough for the card to surpass its shortcomings? Sure, there's double the memory. Can the quantity make up for the quality? - TheTechLounge
The hot new graphics cards right now are based on the the affordable GeForce 8800 GT chipset from NVIDIA. We recently received an XFX GeForce 8800 GT Alpha Dog edition graphics card to check out. This card came in at standard GeForce 8800 GT clocking with 256MB of GDDR3 memory. We will take a look at this card, run it through benchmarks with some of the latest games, and then compare it to another GeForce 8800 GT that we have looked at recently. How does it stack up? The smaller amount of memory appeared to have made a drastic difference in a few cases. Overall, though, this is an impressive card and with a very attractive price tag which wil please a lot of buyers. - nV News
Factory overclocked graphics cards are something that we take for granted these days on the NVIDIA side of the fence, such that we are usually inundated with a selection of cards from different partners with often vastly different clock speeds. This is good in many ways, because it allows each partner to carve out a niche within their market. However, it can often lead to some quite fierce competition between some of the top partners. This goes right to the extreme where some partners will spend more time down playing other manufacturer's products than they spend marketing their own. By comparison, this whole pre-overclocked malarkey is fairly new to the ATI side of the fence. - Bit-Tech
Currently on the market, you can find two cards based on NVIDIA's G92 graphics processor, and you know them as GeForce 8800 GT and GTS. NVIDIA's G92 chip is made in 65nm and it's a great processor with excellent bang for the buck ratio. We've already checked out numerous cards based on this chip, but since Gainward has been kind enough to supply us with a GeForce 8800 GTS at reference speeds, we shall remind you, as well as ourselves, of what you should expect from NVIDIA's latest offspring. The card follows the standard Gainward looks and feel, but isn't much more than a standard GeForce 8800 GTS graphics card following the reference design. - FudZilla
Most of us have already seen the G92 based GeForce 8800 GT offerings from various manufacturers. Maybe you have, like others, made the mad rush to grab one whilst stocks were low during initial launch. Regardless of maker, every GeForce 8800 GT was always based on the reference PCB design from NVIDIA. We used was because XpertVision is just about to change that with the GeForce 8800 GT Sonic version. As it currently stands, XpertVision is using a slightly modified PCB that should allow greater stability and overclocked settings. And although a change has also been done by NVIDIA to make the cards cheaper, XpertVision took another route for teh better. - VR-Zone
Today we take a look at one of the most talked about video cards on the market. You got it, we have the GeForce 8800 GT card to check out. To make things even more interesting it is also the TOP version from ASUS which is already overclocked so we are expecting some real performance from this graphics card. In fact ASUS is offering two versions of their Extreme N8800 GT video card, with the TOP edition being the stronger and faster version. Of course that means that ASUS is asking a bit more money than just the standard version for it. We are also going to look at noise and temperatures to really see if this card is worth the $250 that it costs out on the market. - R&B Mods
Now let's face it, 2007 was full of drama for AMD. Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong except the Radeon HD 3800 series. NVIDIA fails to deliver good price and/or performance cards at that $200 price segment and when ATI released the Radeon HD 3800 series the dynamics changed. As we speak NVIDIA is still trying to prepare a card to match this series but until released the Radeon HD 3800 series offer a stack load of performance, compatibility and features at a terrific price. Shortly after the release of the reference cards, HIS adapted another line of these cards as well. In their very successful product line they always release their IceQ version of their graphics cards. - Guru3D
NVIDIA's yet to be released GeForce 9800 GX2 in the flesh. We reveal some of the specifications and what should be expected. The best way to think of the GeForce 9800 GX2 card is as a GeForce 8800 GPU that has been die shrunk to 65nm and placed in an SLI configuration in a single card. The GeForce 9800 GX2 is very reminiscent of the GeForce 7950 GX2 of days past. And we loved the GeForce 7950 GX2 at launch, but terrible support and diminishing returns soon painted it as one of NVIDIA's biggest failures. The GeForce 9800 GX2 will launch in late February or early March as it now stands and will replace the GeForce 8800 Ultra card in NVIDIA's high-end product lineup. - FudZilla
ATI enters a new era of performance with the arrival of the Radeon HD 3800 series. The two released products, the Radeon HD 3850 and Radeon HD 3870, are both based on a new GPU, the RV670. There have been several major changes in the architecture of the hardware compared with the previous R600, of the Radeon HD 2900 XT series. What AMD is proud of, is that the RV670 is fabricated on a 55nm TSMC process. That should give an advantage in die size, cost and hopefully clock speeds and power consumption. Other improvements are the newly PCI Express 2.0 and DirectX 10.1 extensions support. AMD has supported video playback performance with an Unified Video Decoder. - CDRInfo
NVIDIA put a smile on gamers around the world with its release of the G92 graphics core. Thus far, competition from the AMD camp has been pretty light, even though it has refreshed its product lineup recently. The NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT GPU offers gamers exceptional performance for a relatively low price point, and we think of all graphics cores on the market today it has the best value. At the moment there are two G92 based products from NVIDIA, the GeForce 8800 GT and GTS. Most of the attention has been focused on the GeForce 8800 GT simply because it's slightly cheaper, and many GeForce 8800 GT video cards have no problem overclocking to GTS speeds. - PCStats
Without any notice the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS comes. This card seems to be powered with another revision of the G92 chipset which features a 192-bit memory interface and coming with 384MB memory. The GeForce 8800 GS card which by any means looks to be a stripped down G80 series GPU although it's branded as the G92 and it's manufactured at 65nm. It has a 192-bit memory interface, 12 raster operation units and 96 stream processors compared to a 256-bit memory interface 16 raster operation units and 112 stream processors for the GeForce 8800 GT. For the remaining it looks quite the same, though will not be as performant as less processing power. - FudZilla
Perhaps by human nature, we learn at an early age that bigger is always better. Why take the small cookie when you can have that big one in the corner, or two fries are better than one right? As we get older, we take this bigger is better approach and apply it to other things in life, men lust after the 400 horsepower sports car while women are dazzled by the huge diamond engagement ring, even though we don't truly need these things. Video cards fall under this same trap as well, only here the feature that can get less knowledgeable consumers who aren't careful isn't clock speed, it's the amount of video memory present on the graphics card that makes the difference. - FiringSquad
It's been a while since we've seen something from Sapphire but it was bound to happen sooner or later with the release of the Radeon HD 3850 and Radeon HD 3870. The thing is though, you don't want to look at boring cards with stock cooling or just stock clocks. That's not exciting at all, you want to see big overclocks or fancy heatsinks on your graphics cards so we waited and waited until a press release was sent out from Sapphire mentioning the release of the new Radeon HD 3850 Ultimate graphics card. We like the word Ultimate, it sounds powerful so we were intrigued and thought it was time to get something new and exciting from Sapphire. - TweakTown
When someone talks about a Palit, we automatically think of a square structure composed of wood that normally is used to keep items off the floor of a warehouse and aid in the ease of transport of those items by forklift to a trailer for delivery. The Palit we are referring to is none of the above. Palit is actually a PC motherboard and video card manufacturer The Palit GeForce 8800 GT is one of the newest NVIDIA based graphics solutions available. This GeForce 8800 GT is unlike the others that we have seen. The heatsink on the Palit GeForce 8800 GT is not just a stock NVIDIA heatsink with the Palit logo on it. Palit ships its GeForce 8800 GT with a unique heatsink and fan. - Overclockers Club
A few weeks ago Sapphire launched the Atomic homepage with content aimed at the enthusiast market. So now we have the first of their enhanced products, the Atomic HD 3870. With this card Sapphire have done all they can to improve on the reference design and in addition to this the overall package has also been enhanced. This is actually one of the true first Radeon HD 3870 cards which comes with their own PCB and improved cooling solution, and overclocked out of the box. These Atomic series will give some extra performance boost, which should improve the gaming experience. Let us take a look at what makes this particular Radeon HD 3870 so special. - DriverHeaven
An atom is the smallest particle known to man and if that atom is split, it can cause devastation in such great proportion its effects will last for years. We have been living in the atomic age for over sixty years and man still has much more to learn in order utilize it to its fullest potential. The Sapphire Atomic HD 3870 edition is a product that uses the word atomic, but is it to profess that the Sapphire card is fast and should blow the other video cards in its class out of the water? The Sapphire Atomic HD 3870 edition is an overclocked version based upon the recently introduced ATI RV670 chipset, which is the basis of the Radeon HD 3800 series of graphics solutions.- Overclockers Club
Today we are going to look at a graphics card from PNY called the PNY GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB, following the XLR8 series. This graphics card is the new GeForce 8800 GTS from NVIDIA with less memory and more shader units. The card is following the reference design and features the new G92 core, which is an optimized die-shrink of the well knows G80 chip. This means that it is somehow an advanced version with some changes to be more competitive. The PNY version runs at stock clock speeds, but should be capable of doing a bit more. A PNY is a loyal partner of NVIDIA they generally stick to the default settings but do come with a very good price compared to their competitors. - I4U News
The very new PCI Express 2.0 interface delivers more power and greater data throughput in new generation PCI Express 2.0 compatible motherboards while maintaining backwards compatible with existing PCI Express motherboards. The new PCI Express 2.0 interface sends data to the graphics card's 512MB of GDDR3 memory for smooth performance and realistic textures in current and next generation PC games. The 512MB of GDDR3 memory communicates with the graphics processor with its ultra wide 256-bit memory interface. The Zotac GeForce 8800 GT 512MB graphics card features 1800MHz fast memory paired with the new NVIDIA G92 graphics processor. - Benchmark Reviews
Turbulent, tumultuous, bumpy, disappointing... There's no shortage of unflattering adjectives to describe AMD's journey through 2007, and including their graphics division, ATI. Being purchased just over a year ago for roughly $5.4 billion, the acquisition's long term verdict remains to be written. In the meantime, the short term outlook hasn't been rosy up to this point, with ATI conceding defeat in the high-end GPU arena and instead focusing primarily on the budget and lower mid-range sectors, much to the chagrin of the ATI loyal. That's about to change. Before we get ahead of ourselves, ATI still doesn't have an answer for NVIDIA's flagship GeForce 8800 GTX and Ultra graphics card. - HardwareLogic
PNY 9600GT PCIe 512MB - Rev 01
