You would expect the most expensive gaming graphics card to also be the most powerful. Because you're not retarded and this is very much the case. And while it's an excellent pursuit, getting the best gaming hardware, this board surprised us. Zotac made the video card in question, a GeForce GTX 295. Although it's not factory overclocked or anything, it doesn't have to be. This graphics card just is unstoppable. We are not even certain you'd get much from having a pair of them. Of course in a way you are. The GeForce GTX 295 is, like ATI's Radeon HD 4870 X2, two cards in one. It has two GPU's, connected by an on-board PCI Express bridge, in SLI fashion and as such doubling performance. - TechLounge
In fast moving world of hardware development, you can consider ATI's Radeon HD 4800 series having well earned its veteran's pension by now. Released almost a year ago the Radeon HD 4800 series has proved quite a success for ATI, putting them squarely in the battle for the price to performance crown, and making them a bigger thorn in NVIDIA's backside. The foremost member of the Radeon HD 4800 series, the Radeon HD 4870 has been made in many different molds as different companies have tried out different methods of putting together this high performance video card. While reference Radeon HD 4870's are still selling well, the interesting cards have been coming from the big players. - NeoSeeker
It was quite interesting that when the GeForce GTX 260+ launched, the samples where a bit few and far between. This was most likely just due to the fact that companies wanted to get rid of their older versions of the card. Jump forward a few months though, the GeForce GTX 260+ is one of the easiest cards to get a hold of. And like the GeForce GTS 250, because the cards have been out for a while now many companies have decided to mix it up a bit, be it with aftermarket cooling, an overclock or both. Today we're looking at Galaxy's version of the card and it carries everything you want for one that has been out for a while, a pretty mean looking cooler and an overclock to bump the performance. - TweakTown
The GeForce GTX 295, NVIDIA's dual PCB dual chip high-end card is selling well, but only if you can get enough of them. NVIDIA has a severe shortage on its hands but it is shipping every single one it gets into the hands of partners. This is what keeps the Radeon HD 4870 X2 sales in quite healthy level, as people do prefer the GeForce GTX 295 over the Radeon HD 4870 X2, though as one is not readily available, they simply go for the second best. NVIDIA is sending a limited number of card to its partners, and the number is much less than the demand. Both NVIDIA and ATI plans to keep their GeForce GTX 295 and Radeon HD 4870 X2 dominating this market for at least one more quarter. - FudZilla
The new RV790 chip is a 55nm chip and it looks like we are talking about slightly modified and improved version of the 55nm based RV770 chipset. We already wrote that it has a different packaging and at least one pin difference. The newer chip has better thermals and it will have better idle power mode. As such the Radeon HD 4890 should consume less energy in idle mode but due to its higher clocks, it will probably have higher power consumption in full 3D mode. Their shader units should be a bit more efficient but we'd advise you not to expect big improvements. This is a chipset to get ATI by until it launches the 40nm based performance chip and should be enough to hold the fort until then. - FudZilla
Stronger, bigger and faster that is just what we are all seeking for when we are looking for a flash memory stick. And that is exactly what Patriot had in mind as well when they released the Xporter Magnum 64GB memory drive. Their mission is simple, and this is to be the vendor of choice for the computer and consumer electronic industries with a commitment to service and quality. Which is exactly what they have been doing over the last few years, building up a strong service with high quality products and as such becoming a choice for many out there looking for memory related hardware. With a wide variety to choose from and capacities reaching 64GB, you can literally take everything with you.
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
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