MSI N275GTX Lightning Sneak Preview
May 21, 2009 by Cabro · Leave a Comment
It seems that MSI has something interesting up their sleeves to showcase over at Computex but nevertheless we will bring you an early sneak peek at their upcoming N275GTX Lightning card. No clocks are revealed at this point of time yet. The cooler remains a mystery now but you can catch a glimpse of the [...]
First Radeon HD 4730 Card To Hit Retail Soon
May 21, 2009 by Cabro · Leave a Comment
The situation right now seems a little unfavorable for AMD as the Radeon HD 4770 stocks ran dry the moment the cards hit the market. Switching over to Radeon HD 4850 and HD 4830 might help a little but it seems HD 4830 stocks are running dry too.
As such, AMD is planning on releasing a new Radeon HD 4730 card [...]
Sapphire’s Radeon HD 4890 Vapor-X spotted
May 20, 2009 by Cabro · Leave a Comment
While we’re still waiting for the 1GHz GPU clock-topping Radeon HD 4890 Atomic, Sapphire has presented a new RV790-powered card to make use of a Vapor-X cooler. Named simply Radeon HD 4890 Vapor-X, the card has a blue PCB and a dual-slot cooler (similar to that used on the Vapor-X Radeon HD 4870), 800 Stream [...]
Nvidia to increase 40nm orders with TSMC for 2009
May 20, 2009 by Cabro · Leave a Comment
Monica Chen, Taipei; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES [Wednesday 20 May 2009]
Nvidia has moved to scale up its orders for 40nm graphics chips at foundry partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) for 2009, according to sources at graphics card makers. The chip designer expects 40nm to account for 30% of its overall GPU shipments by the end [...]
ATI Catalyst 9.5 Driver – Everything you want to know
May 19, 2009 by Cabro · Leave a Comment
Do you regularly update your graphics drivers?
With 2 months of ATI CatalystTM driver blogs under our belt, we are seeing a steady engagement from you guys in the community via this blog site. Please keep up the comments and suggestions and we will endeavor to answer as many as we can. So, without further [...]
GIGABYTE Presents Radeon HD 4650 AGP Version
May 18, 2009 by Cabro · Leave a Comment
If you still feel some love for your old AGP platform, GIGABYTE’s new Radeon HD 4650 AGP edition video card might be the best present for it. Named GV-R465D2-1GI, the card has 1 GB GDDR2 memory, 128-bit memory interface, supports Microsoft DirectX 10.1/OpenGL 2.1 and the AGP 8x standard. The card is even suitable for [...]
EVGA GeForce GTX 285 2 GB FTW Edition Video Card Launched
May 18, 2009 by Cabro · Leave a Comment
Performance
NVIDIA GTX 285
702 MHz GPU
240 Processing Cores
400 MHz RAMDAC
Memory
2048 MB, 512 bit DDR3
2448 MHz (effective)
143.3 GB/s Memory Bandwidth
Interface
PCI-E 2.0 x16
DVI-I, DVI-I, HDTV-7
Resolution & Refresh
Max Refresh Rate
Max Analog
Max Digital
Key Features
NVIDIA® SLI™ Technology
Dramatically scales performance by allowing two graphics cards to be run in parallel. [...]
nVidia GT300 already taped out, A1 silicon in Santa Clara
May 16, 2009 by Cabro · Leave a Comment
According to our sources, nVidia got the silicon a while ago, meaning that the chip taped out between January and March. The silicon is A1, but neither of our sources wanted to confirm is this the final silicon or will nVidia be forced to tape out A2 silicon to get production-grade yields. We heard that [...]
May 15, 2009 by Cabro · Leave a Comment
XFX HD 4890 Black Edition 1GHz is out and about. and we scored some pictures of it. The card, along with Sapphire’s Atomic, is the first 1GHz clocked card on the market. As our Toxic is stuck at customs and Black XFX is on the way, we are quite sure that there will be plenty [...]
NVIDIA GeForce Version 185.85 WHQL Released
May 8, 2009 by Cabro · Leave a Comment
Nvidia has just released the latest 185.85 WHQL version of its video driver for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200-series desktop GPUs and ION. To download it please follow one of the links below:
DOWNLOAD: NVIDIA GeForce 185.85 WHQL for Windows XP 32-bit | Windows XP 64-bit | Windows Vista 32-bit | Windows Vista 64-bit [...]

