Windows 7 series: NVIDIA and AMD Graphics and Gaming Performance

Though officially in beta, Windows 7 is probably the most talked about subject in the world of PC technology today.  Released to the public on January 7th, 2009, Windows 7 has quickly found its way onto many computers including netbooks, laptops, virtual machines and even gaming and enthusiast PCs.  Users that were once distrusting of [...]

Turn your Geforce 9800 GTX+ into a GTS 250

Nvidia didn’t make much friends over their recent launch of the Geforce GTS 250. Not surprising, as many tech sites found out that the GTS 250 is nothing more than a Geforce 9800GTX+ with an updated BIOS. To make matters worse, Nvidia then refused many tech sites for sampling their GTS 250 (knowing they will [...]

Graphics Card Failure Rates

We found this interesting article and thought it would be useful to translate for our English speaking readers.
We finish our series of current events on the failure rates with the graphics cards and GPU. These statistics are always those of a large French E-tradesman. They relate to the charts sold from March to August 2008, [...]

Galaxy Geforce 9500 GT Voltage Modification and Overclocking

We have had this out-of-the-box overclocked 9500GT for a while now, over 7 months to be more precise, but every time we thought of overclocking this card something came in between. Last weekend, however, we did find the time to work on this little overclocking article!

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ATI Catalyst 9.3 Driver: Performance Express-Test

ATI Catalyst drivers development follows a very precise schedule. The number after the point in the driver index stands for the release month. Since February is over and March has already passed its middle, the time has come for the new ATI Catalyst driver version 9.3 to be released. So, what do the ATI Catalyst [...]

ATI HD4870 & HD4850 Crossfire & Mixed Crossfire Performance Review

When you think of Crossfire what is the first thing you think of? Performance? Price? Driver issues? Well, if we were back in 2005 when Crossfire was first introduced as a competitor to Nvidia’s SLI, you would have probably said “frustration”. Back then, Crossfire was a mishmash of ultra-expensive “Crossfire Edition” cards, wonky external cable [...]

Graphics Slugfest: ATI Radeon HD 4850 CF, HD 4870, HD 4870 CF vs. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260, GTX 280

There was a lot of hype surrounding the NVIDIA GT200 before it was launched. Fans weren’t happy when NVIDIA took them on a long ride with the G92 core, which is found in both the GeForce 8800 GTS 512, and the GeForce 9800 GTX. To make things worse, the G92 could not give any substantial [...]

An Interview With Palit

Recently, Vjeran Mandic had the opportunity to speak with David Makin, Palit Multimedia’s Consumer Marketing Manager. The idea was to get a better idea of Palit, the hitherto little known manufacturer of graphics cards.
They may not be as well-known as ASUS or Gigabyte but they are certainly more than just another manufacturer of reference-design graphics [...]

ATI Catalyst 8.5 Analysis – XP & Vista

We’re not far away from going ‘out with the old and in with the new’ as the launch of the 4k series of AMD graphics card close in upon us. This month, looking through the release notes for the latest incarnation of Catalyst drivers we see that a few performance increases have been promised.
Maybe AMD [...]

AMD Catalyst 8.5 For Linux

Phoronix gives a run-down of what the new 8.5 drivers bring to the table.
All of the Catalyst Linux driver releases this year have been… well, boring. There have been a few bug fixes in each release and new product support for the latest ATI/AMD GPUs, but no major features have been introduced in several months. [...]

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