With all of the new products being introduced into NVIDIA's lineup, the prices of many GeForce GTX 400 series cards have been falling with meteoric speed. As a result, the GeForce GTS 450 has found itself playing second fiddle to higher end GeForce GTX 460's which can be bought for under $130 after rebates are applied. The $120 valued GeForce GTS 450 graphics card looked completely overpriced and outmatched but prices have gradually fallen in line with our expectations and recently hit an highly affordable target of $90 to $110. Naturally, the possibility of buying an efficient mid-range graphics card for about a hundred bucks is an quite appealing prospect and our interest was piqued by Sparkle. - HardwareCanucks
According to some sources NVIDIA will introduce its upcoming dual GPU card at an upcoming event, which kicks off around mid March. This new card, designated GeForce GTX 590, packs two GF110 cores on a single PCB though we still don't know the details. It should pack 3072MB of GDDR5 memory on a double 384-bit wide bus, but there is no word on the clocks yet. The biggest concern of course, is the power consumption. There is a good chance this GeForce GTX 590 will be the hottest and hungriest card of all time. AMD is also working on its Radeon HD 6990 Antilles board and it should launch at about the same time. And once again both will face each other on a battle for the performance crown. - FudZilla
In January we saw the launch of the GeForce GTX 560 Ti as the big news of the day. The GeForce GTX 560 Ti card stole the spot light and was a major product launch for NVIDIA filling in the sweet spot of pricing around $249. However, there was actually another launch that was a bit under the radar on that same day from the AMD side of things. In fact, this launch of a new Radeon HD 6950 1GB video card goes to directly compete with the new GeForce GTX 560 Ti. We have taken it through its paces and see how it performs. We are pitting the new Radeon HD 6950 1GB graphics card against this 2GB version and an GeForce GTX 560 Ti in an apples to apples testing to see how they compare in performance. - HardOCP
When we first looked at the Radeon HD 5770 FleX board we were impressed that Sapphire had actually taken the time to acknowledge one of the biggest issues with Eyefinity and was able to fix it. The issue we speak of is the need to have a DisplayPort monitor to make use of the technology. For some it is not an issue, especially if you're only on one monitor and you are going to buy three new ones for your setup. If you are not though, and you already have a couple of monitors, the need for a DisplayPort enabled one is just a pain. What the Radeon HD 5770 FleX edition allowed us to do was use three DVI monitors on a single card. With the inclusion of a DisplayPort monitor you could kick it up a notch. - TweakTown
Our subject of today is the Point of View GeForce GTX 570 Beast video card and many of our readers already know that TGT is in charge of overclocking these Point of View cards and that Beast stands for crème of the crop, the fastest card in its series. You may recall that the GeForce GTX 570 Beast cost around $525 one month ago, which discouraged many from purchasing the card, but you can find the same graphics card today priced at $475. If we look at the GeForce GTX 570 Beast clocks, which stands at 841MHz it is clear that this 109MHz factory overclock will just leave the competitors in the dust. TGT handpicks only the best GPU's that can take anything you throw at them and then some. - FudZilla
October last year, AMD released its second generation Radeon HD 6800 cards using DirectX 11 architecture, with codename Northern Islands. The time spent between the Radeon HD 5000 and following series was used to refine and fine tune its architecture to better suit their existing 40nm silicon fabrication process, by promising to churn out higher performance per Watt and performance per die-area which plays an important role in product pricing, compared to the previous generation Evergreen architecture. With the HIS Radeon HD 6850 IceQ X Turbo, the company is introducing a new heatsink design. This IceQ X cooler uses blue transparent plastic to convey an image of frozen iceblock. - techPowerUp
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.
We have always liked this Turbo series from HIS. It is not our favorite series from the company, with us personally being a larger fan of the iCooler series, but more importantly their iCooler Turbo series which carries the benefits of an upgraded cooler and benefits of that pre-overclock. What the Turbo series offers us though, is quick to the market pre-overclocked cards, because as just the Turbo series and not those iCooler Turbo series, the model carries with it the reference cooler which ultimately means that all HIS need to do is find a stable clock speed. And from what we have seen in the past they are playing this game very fast, to get an Turbo version out as soon as allowed within their agreement. - TweakTown
Today we actually have got two graphics cards from Sparkle, they are both these GeForce GT 240 but one has only 512MB while the other has 1GB of memory. So, that means we will be going into details about this video card, but it is also a comparison of what this 512MB is worth when compared to the double amount in terms of performance. We are very curious ourselves, and ultimately surprised by what we found out. Some might say more is better when it comes to memory, and in general that is an true statement though sometimes less is more and all that depends on what you get with the lesser package. That is what makes it so interesting, what is less versus more, and who comes out on top? - TestFreaks
Just recently we were given some really exciting news. We found out that it was possible to flash the Radeon HD 6950 with a Radeon HD 6970 version BIOS and in turn make it an $369 valuable Radeon HD 6970, and really we don't have to tell you how cool that would be. Therefore we grabbed our closest Radeon HD 6950 to us which was a Sapphire and proceeded to flash it with a Sapphire Radeon HD 6970 BIOS. We used WinFlash, an easy Windows based program that gives you the ability to flash and also backup the BIOS of supported video cards. The whole process is relatively easy, but of course, it's done at your own risk. We can show the potential behind, but the risk remains with you as an onwer. - TweakTown
Less than two weeks after its launch we already checked an handful of GeForce GTX 570 cards, some that have been customized in some way or another. Yeah the GeForce GTX 570 is going to be popular, it certainly offers lot of performance in the high-end segment. As you guys learned by now, the GeForce GTX 480 is officially going end of life, and to replace the product NVIDIA has introduced that GeForce GTX 570. This graphics card that is positioned in the $349 price bracket yet offers an massive chunk of high-end DirectX 11 performance alongside good GPU temperatures and noise levels. And today's offering is an customized model GeForce GTX 570 graphics card version from the good people at Palit. - Guru3D
NiBiTor v6.03
