Leaked: Gainward 9800GTX pics |
GT200 to become 9900GTX and 9900GX2, launch date set to July*Update* |
Update: According to sources, 9900GX2 do not exist. We are sorry for the mistakes.
According to our sources, GT200’s final product name and launch day have been set. Two NVIDIA GeForce card will use the core, they are 9900GX2 and 9900GTX.
It is similar to today’s NV tactic: 9900GX2 just like todays 9800GX2, it is a two GPU product, and 9900GTX is a conventional single GPU product. Source mentions that both cards will be announce in July. In previous rumors, words have it that NV will improve G9X core by rolling out GT200. But detailed information still unknown.
Core 2 Duo E7300 VS Phenom X3 8600, Who wins? |
As an mid-end product, Intel‘s Core 2 Duo E7300 will facing its rival, AMD’s Phenom X3 8600 in the near future. So who will win the up-coming mid range war? China-based website IT168.com has posted an comparison review, featuring E7200, E7300, and a Phenom X3 8600.The full review is here, and here is our highlights.
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Official: No more discrete chipset from NVIDIA |
From now on, NVIDIA will only focus on chipsets with integrated graphics, no more discrete chipset. The 750a and 780a will be the first mainstream and high end nForce mobo with integrated graphics.
This announcement means NVIDIA want to fortify their VGA card market. In the past time on nForce board you can run ATI or other company’s VGA card, but after 750a/780a no one will do this: because NVIDIA have paper launched Hybrid SLI. No nForce user want to disable Geforce Boost and Hybrid Power by buying ATI or other company’s card. So it is a win-win situation: users got more performance, save more power, NVIDIA got more bankroll.
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en.Expreview.com online again |
Due to a HDD issue, en.Expreview.com have been disconnected for more than 20 hours. However, the issues have been fixed and we are online again!
G94 VS G92: NVIDIA SLI performance scaling test |
Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: Cards in the test
Page 3: The Drivers
Page 4: Testbed and remarks
Page 5: Old driver VS new
Page 6: Performance Scaling in SLI mode,Part one
Page 7: Performance Scaling in SLI mode,Part two
Page 8: Under 174.16, 9600GT SLI scales better than 8800GT
Page 9: 9600 GT SLI vs 8800 GT SLI
Page 10: Final conclusion
[No one cares about NDA] Colorful 9800GTX leaked pics |
A desktop full of colorful cards. I guess all these pics are taken in Colorful’s lab.
NVIDIA shady trick to 9600GT following-up #2 |
Related:Follow-up to NVIDIA’s shady trick on 9600GT
Some days after TPU’s NVIDIA’s shady trick, and our following-up, NVIDIA replied our questions. This is the first time NVIDIA officially answer us the question on 9600GT. But as you can expected, they still hiding some truth. However we can already guess what’s in their mind.
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9800GTX pushed back to April Fool’s Day |
According to multiple sources, 9800GTX’s launch day pushed back to April Fool’s Day.
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Another NDA-free review of 9800GX2 and 9800GTX |
Both of the cards will be released later, but the crew of Chinese based website it168.com have already got their hands on both 9800GX2 and 9800GTX and posted a full review. The full review is here, and I will highlight some interesting parts:(it is not the best review, but still worth a read)
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Details of Intel Atom |
What’s Intel Atom? Intel’s Atom is a basic moblie platform, including N270 CPU and 945GSE/ICH-7M chipset. N270 is a 1.60GHz/533MHz/512K L2 cache/Single Core/2 Threads small CPU. They developing under codename Diamondville.
What can Intel’s Atom do? According to Noury Al-Khaledy Intel’s manager of Atom division, the platform can let you surfing on net, or playing normal movies. Don’t expect the platform can have much power, it is only a 1.6GHz 512K L2 thingy. The small platform can run Win Vista Starter, WinXP, and Linux.
What intel gonna do is to make it a ultra mobile nettop, and make lots of money from it. According to PCGH, the price ranged from 199USD to 250USD.
AMD roadmap updated with B3 Phenoms |
AMD finally fixed the annoying TLB bug in their Phenoms and pushing it out again with stepping B3. Phenoms with B3 stepping will be called 9850, 9750, 9650, 9550 and 9150. All of them will hit the market within two weeks, according to Digitimes.
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