Foxconn NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT G96 Video Card Review

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Benchmark Reviews published a review of the Foxconn GeForce 9500 GT G96 Video Card.
Quote from the review: "Not everyone can afford the bleeding edge of graphics hardware, and not everyone needs it. NVIDIA has already made headlines with their high-end GeForce GTX 280 video card, which offers high performance at a premium price. Most enthusiasts have seen so much coverage for the high-level graphic products that it might feel like nothing exists for the lower consumer segment. Read more

Posted on Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

NVIDIA ships OPENGL 3.0 Drivers

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NVIDIA Corporation released beta drivers for the new OpenGL 3.0 cross-platform, 3D graphics standard.
The new drivers implement the OpenGL 3.0 API and the GLSL 1.30 shading language for both Windows XP and Windows Vista on selected GeForce and Quadro boards.
With these drivers any developer can now explore the capabilities of the new OpenGL 3.0 specification. Read more

Posted on Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

NVIDIA GeForce 8200 powers Acer Aspire SFF PCs

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NVIDIA announces that PC makers like Acer are using NVIDIA motherboard GPUs to deliver new lines of consumer-oriented, small-form-factor PCs that have the performance, functionality, price, and visual performance of full-sized desktop machines.
The Acer Aspire x1200 and x3200 line of PCs use the NVIDIA GeForce 8200 GPU to deliver visual performance while solving many of the thermal, noise, and cost issues traditionally associated with designing smaller machines. Read more

Posted on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:53:29 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

NVIDIA announces new PhysX Games and Software

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NVIDIA PhysX technology is already used in more than 140 shipping titles for Sony PS3, Microsoft Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii.
Starting today, any owner of a GeForce 8 Series or higher GPU can immediately discover the immersive playability that NVIDIA PhysX technology brings to PC gaming. This first of many planned GeForce Power Packs is a showcase of how PhysX technology is fundamentally changing video games and interactive entertainment. Read more

Posted on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:47:08 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New NVIDIA Quadro Fx Notebook GPUs announced

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NVIDIA announces the introduction of a new series of NVIDIA Quadro FX mobile GPUs, featuring an NVIDIA CUDA Parallel Computing Processor.
Workstation manufacturers such as Dell, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, HP and Lenovo are now offering the new series of Quadro FX mobile GPUs across a wide range of professional notebook workstations.

Highlighting the flagship product of the series is the Quadro FX 3700M, with 128 CUDA Parallel Computing Processor cores, which offers an unprecedented 1 GB of dedicated graphics memory for graphics-performance hungry industries such as oil and gas exploration, mechanical design and digital content creation. Read more

Posted on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:39:34 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

NVIDIA Quadro Plex Systems unveiled

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The new NVIDIA Quadro Plex Systems bring visual Supercomputing to the deskside with 480 processing cores, NVIDIA CUDA programmability and 8GB of Graphics Memory.
The new D series of NVIDIA Quadro Plex Visual Computing Systems (VCS) are available in deskside or rackmount configurations.

The Quadro Plex systems are ideal for the styling and design, geosciences and scientific visualization industries, working with extremely large 3D models, datasets and power walls. Read more

Posted on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:35:32 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

NVIDIA GeForce Power Pack includes Folding@home and Badaboom

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NVIDIA announced new software that uses the processing power of GeForce video cards for other applications than graphics and games. The new GeForce Power Pack includes the Stanford University’s Folding@home distributed-computing, protein-folding client and a trial version of Elemental Technologies' Badaboom video transcoder.
Folding@home is already a huge success on the PS3, now also PCs can leverage their graphics prowness for the good. Read more

Posted on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:29:02 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

ATI HD 4870 X2 versus NVIDIA GTX 280

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AMD introduced today the new HD 4870 X2 and claims the top spot for video cards. Madshrimps compares the new HD 4870 X2 with its direct enemy NVIDIA GTX 280.
Quote from the comparison: "ATI launches their high end single VGA card today, the HD4870X2 is compared to NVIDIA top offering in this review using 8 different games to see which ones comes out on top." Read more

Posted on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:02:27 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

NVIDIA announces PhysX Support in Bionic Commando

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NVIDIA today announced that CAPCOM’s upcoming Bionic Commando video game will use GPU-accelerated NVIDIA PhysX technology to enhance the game’s debris, smoke, dust, and weapon effects.
Bionic Commando, which will be released by GRIN in early 2009, is one of many titles to take advantage of NVIDIA PhysX technology, interactive entertainment’s most pervasive physics engine. Read more

Posted on Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:05:56 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

XFX NVIDIA nForce 750a SLI Motherboard Review

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Motherboards published a review of the XFX NVIDIA nForce 750a SLI Motherboard. This motherboard is available for about $150.
Quote from the review: "Making it targeted for the mid-range market and not the enthusiast motherboard market another board in the $200-300 range would be in. Read more

Posted on Thu, 7 Aug 2008 07:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

eVGA NVIDIA nForce 750i SLI FTW Review

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Techgage published a review of the eVGA nForce 750i SLI FTW mid-range motherboard.
Quote from the review: "Need an SLI motherboard but have less than $200 to spend? No need to stress, as the 750i SLI chipset was designed with you in mind. Read more

Posted on Tue, 5 Aug 2008 07:30:47 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

NVIDIA not quitting Chipset Business

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NVIDIA has reacted to a report from Digitimes about the company getting out of the chipset business. Today Digitimes reports that NVIDIA issued a statement saying that they are not stopping to make chipsets.

NIVIDIA says that their motherboard chipset business is healthy and the are planning new chipsets for the AMD and Intel based motherboards. Read more

Posted on Mon, 4 Aug 2008 06:07:34 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

NVIDIA to get out of Chipset Business?

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Digitimes reports that NVIDIA has supposedly decided to stop making chipsets.

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NVIDIA not quitting Chipset Business.

Apparently the nForce chipsets do not get enough demand from motherboard makers.
If NVIDIA is not making the chipsets for the SLI functionality needed on motherboards for their high-end cards needs to be enabled through chipsets made by other manufacturers. Read more

Posted on Fri, 1 Aug 2008 08:02:15 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Mythbusters Coming to NVIDIA's NVISION 08

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NVISION 08 is coming up at the end of August and NVIDIA is really stacking the deck to get geeks to show up for the show. NVIDIA announced that Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage will appear in a unique presentation at the conference. The pair are best known for their show Mythbusters on Discovery Channel.

Exactly what the pair will be dong at the show is unknown. NVIDIA will only say that the guys will be shooting or blowing something up. Maybe they will loft an AMD graphics card in the air on a rocket powered by Mentos and Diet Coke. Between these guys and Battlestar Galactica hottie Tricia Helfer, I really need to go. NVIDIA if you are reading send me a plane ticket so I can come to the show. -- for purely professional reasons mind you. Read more

Posted on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:04:12 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Apple ARM and NVIDIA Chips Rumors

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This week a rumor about Apple using some new chipsets along the Intel CPUs in MacBooks have triggered more rumors and speculations on who would supply these chips.

One rumor ties NVIDIA GPUs to upcoming Apple MacBooks. NVIDIA also makes with the Tegra chips a mobile processors, which could also link them to future Apple products. More details on the NVIDIA Apple rumors can be found on AppleInsider. Read more

Posted on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:22:11 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

NVIDIA Launches New Graphics Cards

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Yesterday I mentioned that NVIDIA had launched new notebook GPUs. NVIDIA also officially announced three new desktop graphics cards -- The 9800 GTX+, 9800 GT, and 9500 GT. The cards cover several different price points with the 9500 GT coming in at under $100.

All three of the GPUs support PhysX processing and CUDA processing; the new cards will also support SLI and 3D stereoscopic technology. I saw NVIDIA's 3D drivers in action at CEs this year and it was fantastic. Read more

Posted on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:47:48 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

NVIDIA Announces 9800M GTX for Notebooks

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NVIDIA announced today that its latest high-end GPU for the notebook market called the GeForce 9800M GTX and 9700M GTX is now available. The new 9 series GPUs bring PhysX acceleration to the notebook GPU for the first time.

Features of the 9800M GTX and 9700M GTX include PhysX technology compatibility, 112 processing cores, faster graphics engine, support for SLI, Hybrid SLI support, PureVideo HD, Blu-ray support and support for MXM 3.0 graphics model specification. Notebooks using the new GPUs will be available from Toshiba and several other PC makers. Read more

Posted on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:06:29 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

NVIDIA Launches New Developer Tools

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NVIDIA has announced three new developer tools aimed at allowing game developers to more quickly and easily debug games. NVIDIA says that some of the biggest names in video game development use its tools including Crytek, epic Games, and Rockstar.

The new developer tools are PerfHUD, a graphics debugging and performance analysis tool for DirectX 9 and 10 applications. FX Composer 2.5 is an integrated development environment for fast creation of real-time visual effects. The final application is Shader Debugger, which helps debug and optimize shaders written with HLSL, CgFX, and COLLADA FX Cg in both DirectX and OpenGL. Read more

Posted on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:46:47 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Unofficial, but sexy NVIDIA Video Card Spokesmodel Katarina Van Derham

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The I4U Gadget Model of July is as promised a photo model spread for the NVIDIA video card fans. Meet the very sexy Katarina Van Derham and her EVGA e-Geforce 9800 GX2.

You might have seen Katarina Van Derham already as the face of several advertising campaigns such as Coors Light, Nike, AT&T, Bacardi, and RockStar Energy Drink.

See the Photos Now in our exclusive I4U Gadget Model Gallery.
Read more

Posted on Tue, 8 Jul 2008 14:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

NVIDIA informs about faulty GPUs, takes one-time Charge from $150m to $200m

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NVIDIA announced a new financial outlook that includes information about issues with previous generation GPU and MCP products in notebooks.

The issues are big enough that NVIDIA plans to take a one-time charge from $150 million to $200 million to cover anticipated warranty, repair, return, replacement and other costs and expenses. Read more

Posted on Thu, 3 Jul 2008 01:02:39 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

NVIDIA's PhysX: Performance and Status Report

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Techgage posted an in-depth look at NVIDIA's PhysX, both from a status and technical standpoint. Included are performance comparisons between the GPU, PPU and CPU, in 3DMark Vantage and UT III.

Quote: "PhysX is getting a lot of attention right now, but the reasons vary wildly. Since we haven't taken a look at the technology in a while, this article's goal is to see where things stand. Read more

Posted on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr