NVIDIA
As GPU families enter the later part of their lifecycles, we often see chip manufacturers start to offload stockpiles of salvaged chips that, for one reason or another, didn't make the grade for the tier of cards they normally are used in. These recovered chips are fairly unremarkable overall, but they are unsold silicon that still works and has economic value, leading to them being used in lower-tier cards so that they can be sold. And, judging by the appearance of a new video card design from MSI, it looks like NVIDIA's Ada Lovelace generation of chips has reached that stage, as the Taiwanese video card maker has put out a new GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super card based on a salvaged AD102 GPU. Typically...
ASUS U30Jc: Refining Thin and Light Performance
Over the past year or so, we've been watching the evolution of ASUS' U-series (and UL-series) of ultraportable laptops. The first generation ULxxVt models were highly promising, coupling switchable...
57 by Jarred Walton on 5/18/2010Galaxy GTX 470 GC - The world's first non-reference Fermi
Galaxy have pleasantly surprised us, and the folks at vr-zone. To the table, they bring their GTX 470 GC, a 100% non-reference design graphics card utilising an NVIDIA...
22 by Ian Cutress on 5/7/2010Zotac ZBOX HD-ID11 Review: Next Gen ION is Better & Worse than ION1
The nForce 2 was one of the best chipsets to come out of NVIDIA. It was NVIDIA’s second attempt at a desktop chipset yet it cemented NVIDIA’s position as...
44 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/6/2010This Just In: Zotac's ZBOX HD-ID11 Next Gen ION
Two months ago NVIDIA unveiled its next-generation ION GPU. Sporting either 8 or 16 SPs (or CUDA cores if you bleed green), the next-generation ION is strictly a GPU...
25 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/30/2010NVIDIA's Updated Verde Driver Program
Last week, NVIDIA held a conference call and presentation to let us know about updates to their Verde driver program. Initially rolled out in 2008, the Verde program was...
9 by Jarred Walton on 4/28/2010Update: NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 400 Series Shows Up Early
Now that the week of the 12th is upon us, let's see how a quick stock check at the usual suspects turns out. April 2010 Video Card Prices Video Card Original MSRP Available...
62 by Ryan Smith on 4/12/2010Alienware M11x: World’s Smallest Gaming Laptop
When you think of a gaming notebook what usually comes to mind is a 17" behemoth with a ridiculous paint job and the weight of a small child. ...
47 by Jarred Walton on 3/30/2010ASUS N61Jv-X2: Optimus GT325M Meets Arrandale
Mobile users that actually use their laptop unplugged for any extended amount of time should absolutely love NVIDIA's Optimus technology. The ASUS N61J pairs a higher spec GT325M GPU...
44 by Jarred Walton on 3/13/2010Dell M6500: A Precision Strike on Bling
The Dell Precision M6500 is what we expect from a mobile workstation: high on quality and low on fluff. It’s also very expensive, but the cost of the hardware...
42 by Jarred Walton on 3/9/2010NVIDIA's Next Generation ION Announced, Optimus + a 16-core Version
Next generation products are always better... just look at Star Trek! At least, that's the theory behind the new NVIDIA ION platform, and it looks like the best thing...
35 by Jarred Walton on 3/2/2010NVIDIA Optimus - Truly Seamless Switchable Graphics and ASUS UL50Vf
NVIDIA's new Optimus technology is set to change the way we interact with our laptops. The information has been under tight wraps for the past couple of months, but...
49 by Jarred Walton on 2/9/2010