[Review]XFX nForce 790i Ultra
Introduction
First impression: lots of non-solid capacitors looks bad, sharp corners may hurt one’s hand… All these just not suit 79i Ultra as a top board of NVIDIA
[Review] Say no to “single” GeForce 9800GTX!
In NVIDIA’s name scheme, GTX means “GeForce Technology eXtreme”, performs better than a GT card. April 1st, NVIDIA rolls our their 9800GTX, a 9 series “GeForce Technology eXtreme”. Is it really a extreme card which can it feed gamers rising graphic demand? or only a April Fool’s Joke?
G80 VS G92: Med to high end GeForce GFX cards round-up!
One years ago, the most powerful NVIDIA GFX card you can buy is 8800GTX, 8800 GTS 640MB and 8800GTS 320MB. And six month ago, 8800Ultra stands in the top of the hill, but the price is so scary to those people without a deep pocket.
And today, 8800 Ultra have been End of Life cycle, and 8800 GTX/GTS is too old to buy. That’s because some new products available in the market, eg. G9x cards. Anyway, as a first gen of G80 architecture product, GeForce 8800 did a good job in late 2006 to 2007 and now they are fading away. but it is still interesting to round them up with today’s G9x product. Do you still think 8800 Ultra/GTX/GTS can stand in the front of the line?
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
[first review] Unika HD 3850 with 512MB GDDR4
Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: A closer look
Page 3: Testbed
Page 4: Overclock & thermal test
Page 5: Bench: 3DMark06 v1.1.0
Page 6: Bench: ETQW v1.2.1
Page 7: Bench: Half Life 2 EP 2
Page 8: Bench: Call Of Duty 4
Page 9: Bench: DX10: Crysis
Page 10: Bench: DX10: World In Conflict
Page 11: Bench: DX10: Bioshock and UT3
Page 12: Bench: Final thoughts
This is our review product: Unika HD 3850 512M GDDR4. It is fatory-OC at 700/2200MHz(core/mem), and the price is 1499RMB (about 203 USD), the same with the referenced HD 3850 256MB GDDR3. The PCB is shorter than reference version and using a dual slot al-cu cooler. The card have quite a lot nice features, but it is BIOS disable PowerPlay, we will mention it later in the review.
Thermal improvements of eVGA superclock 8800GT new BIOS
First of all, thanks to eVGA. It is an owesome company, providing not only life-time warranty and tech-support to their customer but also BIOS update that normal company can not done. This time eVGA debuts a BIOS update that will allow 8800GT to have advanced RPM control on the cooler. With the BIOS you can have a multiple levels of auto control on the fan, more info about the BIOS please read page 2. Anyway we did a little research on it and find out the BIOS can be flash to ANY reference 8800GT.
But first we must introduce eVGA’s product line-up. Because it is important to find out which BIOS is the most suitable for our reference 8800GT.
eVGA have 4 kind of 8800GT totally. All of them is reference version but three is factory-OCed. About one week ago eVGA debuts BIOS update for their OC version(Superclock, KO and SSC).
[Review] ZEROtherm Hurricane HC92 Cu 8800 VGA cooler
Page 1 Introduction
Page 2 A closer look
Page 3 Closer look, Part 2
Page 4 Installation
Page 5 Testbed & results
Page 6 Final thought
As one of the leading company in the industry, APACK providing lots of remarkable CPU coolers like ZEROtherm BTF80 and BTF90. Of course except CPU cooler they also have product for graphic card: HC92 Cu 8800.