Heatpipe+water block, P45 Diamond first look

 

MSI have already post one P45 with loads of heatpipe, but this time they are going further, prepared a water block on the chipset. The design reminds us lots of ASUS boards. All these pics are from HKEPC.

Different from ASUS, MSI using flashion acrylic as part of the water block.

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NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT with color red scheme going wild…

 

The 9500GT launch still have a month to go, but Chinese website ZOL have already got a non reference version 9500GT. The version of 9500GT using a Red color scheme, a aluminum cooler and a DisplayPort. We have just post a 9500GT review, so if you wanna know more of this mainstream card, please click here to jump.

Because it is for mainstream, so you can not expect it is a good looking card …

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Review: NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT,first budget card in GeForce 9 series

 

GeForce 8600GTS/GT have been launched for more than a year, but till now NVIDIA did not push any new product to replace it. All NVIDIA doing is keep replacing product in the high end segment: 8800GT, 8800GTS 512MB, 8800GS, 9600GT, 9800GX2 and 9800GTX. All these cards are 140USD above, and What NVIDIA going to do is going a new GeForce 9 product to replace the 8600GT/8600GTS. That’s our today’s review card: GeForce 9500GT.

Before we post this review, other site have already make some news out of the card: (all in Chinese)

PConline | ZOL | IT168

Because of some obvious reasons, we can not post any pics of GeForce 9500GT(except the core shot and cooler shot).

We must point out, PConline in their 9500GT review totally copied HD video playback part of our G98-8400GS review word by word, (of course they copy our Chinese versions so you probably can not read it) which totally mis-info their readers, because HD playback of 9500GT is not the same with G98-8400GS. now please click over to read our whole review.

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