There was a lot of hype surrounding the NVIDIA GT200 before it was launched. Fans weren’t happy when NVIDIA took them on a long ride with the G92 core, which is found in both the GeForce 8800 GTS 512, and the GeForce 9800 GTX. To make things worse, the G92 could not give any substantial [...]

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Recently, Vjeran Mandic had the opportunity to speak with David Makin, Palit Multimedia’s Consumer Marketing Manager. The idea was to get a better idea of Palit, the hitherto little known manufacturer of graphics cards.
They may not be as well-known as ASUS or Gigabyte but they are certainly more than just another manufacturer of reference-design graphics [...]

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We’re not far away from going ‘out with the old and in with the new’ as the launch of the 4k series of AMD graphics card close in upon us. This month, looking through the release notes for the latest incarnation of Catalyst drivers we see that a few performance increases have been promised.
Maybe AMD [...]

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Phoronix gives a run-down of what the new 8.5 drivers bring to the table.
All of the Catalyst Linux driver releases this year have been… well, boring. There have been a few bug fixes in each release and new product support for the latest ATI/AMD GPUs, but no major features have been introduced in several months. [...]

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Tomshardware does extensive tests to see what will deliver better results, a faster CPU or GPU.
This is an endless topic of conversation, with everybody you meet having their own pet opinion. What brings better results, purchasing a faster graphics card, or investing your cash in a more powerful processor? In an effort to find out, [...]

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In this article, [H]ardOCP looks at how a 9800 GTX in a Single, 3-Way and Quad SLI using their real world gamplay techniques to see how much any of these configurations improves one’s gameplay.
In this evaluation we are going to utilize three GeForce 9800 GTX video cards, as well as two GeForce 9800 GX2 video [...]

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The Best Graphics Cards for the Money: May 2008
Detailed graphics card specifications and reviews are great — that is, if you have the time to do the research. But at the end of the day, what a gamer needs is the best graphics card within a certain budget.
If you don’t have the time to research [...]

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