GeForce 7900GTX Round Up
If you're looking at various GeForce 7900GTX cards, you probably notice most of them are similar - right down to the cooling solution used. There are slightly higher clocked versions from different manufacturers, however users have reported some problems with these cards. While comparing reference clocked cards may not be the most interesting in the world, we muster ourselves to finish this round up.Are there any differences between the ASUS EN7900GTX, Gigabyte GeForce 7900GTX and Leadtek PX7900GTX TDH? Read the article to found out.Read the article here.
Revisiting SLI
Spurred on by what we saw with Crossfire, we were intrigued to see whether or not NVIDIA have stepped up to the challenge with SLI. In this article, we take a good look at SLI can offer (again) but this time with a pair of GeForce 7600GT. When all the dust have cleared and testing finished, we came away disappointed. Even the addition of new vertex shader units and a higher clocked core is not enough to tip the balance to SLI's favor.Read the article here.
Crossfire: ATI's Answer to SLI - Part 2
After seeing what a pair of Radeon X1600XTs has to offer when used in a Crossfire setup, we were itching to get our hands on the high end parts - the Radeon X1900 Crossfire. After some time testing and playing with this pixel processing beast, we came away very much impressed. A high end Crossfire setup will not only give you a boost of performance, buat also quality that is pretty much unrivaled by SLI.Read the article here.
Crossfire: ATI's Answer to SLI - Part 1
Undoubtedly, NVIDIA came on the multi rendering scene much earlier than ATI. Much alike to the more general graphics cards race, ATI had to play catch up - deliver a generation of SM 3.0 cards from top to bottom and also a stable multirendering platform that is more flexible than SLI. Their first try was not very impressive, however times have changed and ATI now have a compelling platform with the X1K series.Read the article here.
Radeon X1900XTX Round Up
IIf you're looking for a Radeon X1900XTX card, you might want to take a look at this article. With card from most vendorst practically identical, which one should you buy. Unlike the usual graphics card comparison test, this time it all comes down to the bundle, price and support you're getting. In this round up, we'll be looking at ASUS EAX1900XTX, Gigabyte Radeon X1900XTX and Sapphire Radeon X1900XTX.Read the article here.
News from the Web
ASUS sent a press release concerning their latest product, the AGEIA PhysX card.Here's a snip from the press release:
"The PhysX P1 card is first to leverage the PhysX core that optimized specifically for dynamic large-scale, physics processing," said Kent Chien, Director of ASUS graphics and multimedia business. "This new video technology accelerates real-time physical motion and interaction at a scale far beyond those of CPUs and GPUs."
No doubt, if you've been paying attention to the news lately, you'll see that early reviews have not been kind. Hopefully, this will change as more games using the card becomes available. After all, we can't really judge a hardware with just one game, can't we?
More info can be found on their official website, here.
The other 'problematic' hardware launch this past few weeks is Quad SLI from NVIDIA. There's a lot of previews mentioning issues and problems with this setup out there, but Tweaktown's review is more on the positive potential Quad SLI offer.
You car read their preview here.
There's also some other news you might be interested to look at:
- Thermaltake Toughpower 550 watt PSU Review from TweakPC.de
- Thermaltake 600 watt PSU Review from A1Electronics.net
- Logitech G-15 Gaming Keyboard from ShortMedia
Looking Past the Present - Part 2
It literally took a while, but it's finally finished. We wrap up this this article series by looking at how the GeForce 7900GTX and Radeon X1900XTX handle newer games, including the much discussed, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Ohlivion is really a graphical torture test, which makes it a perfect tool to see which card has the power necessary for next generation games. While testing was actually a breeze, it's the playing through the entire game that has taken a good part of the past two weeks. Unlike many games, Oblivion is an open ended game, so benchmarking with it can be very tricky and we had to make compromises. At the same time, we didn't want to compromise too much on the graphics side, for the obvious reasons.Read the article here.
Looking Past the Present
With high end cards costing around USD 400 to 600 each these days, you want to be sure your high end card can provide high enough frame rates for future games coming in the months to come. In this article, we try to examine what to look for when buying a card that will provide high enough frame rates will all the bells and whistles and won't be obsolote in the next 6 months or so. The key here is not just measuring frame rates be it minimum, average and maximum fps, but to see just how the card perform with heavier workloads - efficiency. For games, heavier workloads usually means higher resolution textures, which is memory related and loads of shader effects, which are fillrate related. So, what we're interested in is both fillrate and bandwidth efficiency of a graphics card. Today, we will be examing the GeForce 7900GTX from that perspective.Read the article here.
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