Liquid clothing for your cooler: emit 10% more heat |
The little thing will cost you 30USD, but according to the manufacturer it it effective, can emit 10% heat out of the original cooler. It is a bottle of liquid about 5CC, you can clothing it on any cooler you want. When it is totally dryed, it can help cooler to spray out more heat by far-infard radiation. The full report is here. Will you buy this stuff?(if the price is lower)
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Sapphire transform RV670Pro into a budget card |
Finally, Sapphire rolls out their HD 3690(which we have some posts before).
GeForce 9800GX2 got reviewed and still buggy |
Pconline.com just released an review of NVIDIA GeForce 9800GX2(but to me, it is only a quick bench). In the test they use a QX6850(333*9=3GHz) , Striker II Formula(nVIDIA 780i), GA-X48-DQ6, PNY DDR2-1066 1GB x 2. Driver is 173.67beta and Cat 8.3.
RV770 is coming out in late Q2, NVIDIA begin to shrink G92 |
According to Digitimes, AMD’s latest innovation, RV770 is going to debut in late Q2. The Latest info said the card will have 480SP, is the first VGA card using GDDR5 graphic memory. The product lineup is pretty like the current HD 3800 series, all the mid to high end product of next-gen is based on RV770, their only difference will be their frequency and the memory size.
On NVIDIA’s side, they are now shrinking G92 to 55nm, codenamed G92b. The shrink not only because they need a new product to fight with RV770 but also they want to lower the G92′s production cost. As NVIDIA’s next gen flagship, GT200′s detail information is still unknown.
Follow-up to NVIDIA’s shady trick on 9600GT |
Page 2: No more linkBoost in nForce mobos
Page 4: 9600GT runs better on NVIDIA mobo?
Page 5: 9600GT’s GPU and PCIe clock relations
Page 6: Other cards also have this issue?
GeForce 9600GT is released on Feb 21, 2008. The card’s good performance per watt and performance per dollar really fascinated us. But after we read TPU’s NVIDIA’s shady trick to boost the GeForce 9600GT, we think we really should take a look inside.
Surf around the Internet for several hours, we find people around the world all discussing this matters. People focus on these questions:
Compatibility issue: PowerColor HD3870 512MB GDDR3 and Asus P5N-T Deluxe |
There is always an urban legend: NVIDIA motherboard didn’t get along well with ATI cards. We always think this kind of thing is only tales but we just met one today.
Our test bed have encountered a compatibility issue
Antec planning something werid… |
Yesterday we have a small meeting with Antec. After some new product introduction, Rep of Antec show us a this weird fan. The diameter of the fan is 25cm. It have six color change-able LEDs, and the power source is USB.
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3DMark Vantage RC1 screen shots |
Click on pic to enlarge. This is custom mode score, 1680×1050, no AA/AF. 169.25 WHQL.
memory size 768MB? GeForce 9800GTX info sum-up |
Today Fudzilla said the the price of 9800GTX will be €399, and giving a wrong spec(graphic memory:768MB). So maybe it is time to re-info the basic spec of the card again.
Intel preparing a mini-ITX G45 mobo |
Intel try to put G45 and a Quad CPU into a mini-ITX box. According to sources, Intel not only unleashing their Atom CPU and Centrino Atom platform, they also planning for a nimi-ITX G45 called DG45FC, FC for “Flying Creek”.
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ASUS ROG strikes back: Striker II Extreme |
Finally the mobo comes out with NVIDIA’s improvement:DDR3 support. Of course Asus slaps a water block on the north bridge, changes the heat sink of the south bridge. the mobo will begin selling soon but we don’t know their price yet.
Leak！9800GTX sample pics are everywhere |
9800GTX is just around the corner, will hit the market between March and April. So the leak is not surprising.
