NVIDIA’s success in 2005-2006, when it was launching products step by step ending up with GeForce 8800, turned the company’s head and brought chaos. We have an impression that marketing specialists of this company forgot about primary needs, permanently celebrating victories over the competitor. I was told once that some companies build their entire business [...]

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The Sapphire 1024MB Radeon HD3850 graphics card is shown in the promotional image above, and while it may feature one of the more mainstream GPUs in the Radeon HD3XXX series, it definitely has an aggressive appearance. The blue PCB and non-standard single slot cooling solution make it look a good deal like the high performance [...]

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If you think back to a few years ago (circa 2002 to 2003), ATI was flying high with the release of some of the best graphics cards on the market with the 9800 and 9700-series which were considered to be the crème de la crème at the time. These cards were competing against a somewhat [...]

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In the last few months the mid and high end graphics card market has once again become a battleground between the two heavyweights: AMD (the artist formerly known as ATI) and Nvidia. There was a time where ATI slipped a bit with the release of their R600 and it seemed like Nvidia was going to [...]

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When a new graphics card comes out, I tend to do the TweakTown review and then have a look around and see what some other reviewers thought of the card. However, I’ve been so busy lately with the new release of the HD 4800 series from AMD and the GTX 280 from NVIDIA that I [...]

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A very smart man at Intel once told me that when designing a microprocessor you can either build a new architecture, or move to a smaller manufacturing process, but you don’t do both at the same time. The reason you don’t do both is because it significantly complicates the design, validation and manufacturing processes - [...]

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The AeroCool DoublePower VGA Cooler arrived Technic3D. AeroCool DoublePower supports VGA cards from NVIDIA Geforce 8800- / 7900- / 7800 series and ATI Radeon X1950- / X1900- / X1800 series. The VGA cooler comes with one 92mm white LED Fan. See you in the following Review the Cooler on a Palit/Xpertvision HD3870 compared with Standard [...]

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Occasionally here at OCIA.net we receive review requests from overseas companies that we’ve never heard of before. Such was the case with computer and home electronics manufacturer NorthQ. Based in Denmark, NorthQ offers chassis, cooling and power supply products as well as other electronics for home and car. Today I will be taking a look [...]

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The usual bla-bla about every new graphics accelerator released does get boring for readers and writers alike. To keep things simple, the HD4850 will pack all the features of the HD3850 and offer better number crunching. Priced to beat the NVIDIA 9800GTX in speed and value, the official threat from the Green Camp would be [...]

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Word has been floating around the big cyber town we call the internet that the new WHQL drivers were going to give some much needed performance increases to the just launched GTX 200 series of cards.
We figured that graphs speak louder than words, so today we took the time to test the new drivers under [...]

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