Passive cooled GeForce 9600GT by Sparkle

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Sparkle provides a passive cooled GeForce 9600 GT, which lowers the sound emissions of your system drastically at the expense of performance. This cards GPU clocks at 650MHz while the 512MB GDDR3 memory works at 1800 MHz. While Sparkle didn't provided information about the price, you can grab the model ...

AMD cuts prices for HD3800 series

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Only a short time before Nvidia releases its GeForce 9600 GT to the masses, AMD cuts the prices for all HD38XX products. All those interested should have a look at the Radeon HD3850OC and the Radeon HD3870, both with 512MB RAM. These products are available for 179€ (189$) and 149€ ...

Introduction of the first 9600GT

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Some minutes ago the first fabricator published information about the GeForce 9600GT series, which wasn't presented by Nvidia, yet.According to an official press release, the device's chip clocks at 650MHz and the memory clocks at 1800MHz. The memory interface is 256 Bits wide and counts 512 MB GDDR3 RAM.   GeForce 9600 ...

PhysX on GeForce 8

Monday, February 18th, 2008

After Nvidia bought the development studio Ageia, the PhysX technology will become a GeForce driver and the chips won't be produced anymore. We'll port the PhysX engine on CUDA , reports Nvidia after the takeover of Ageia in early February. At this point it was not clear, if there will be PhysX ...

Buy a GeForce 8800GT for 199€

Friday, February 15th, 2008

In the last hours nVidia decidet to drop the prices for the GeForce 8800GT. This results in lower consumer prices for some branded boards, such as the MSI NX8800GT-T2D512E-OC. This model is equipped with 512MB of GDDR3 RAM which clocks at 1900MHz. The GPU core clocks at 660MHz. It's available ...

nVidia interested in buying AMD?

Friday, February 15th, 2008

According to an article of EETimes.com, Doug Freedman of American Technology Research believes, that nVidia could be interested in buying and restructure the beleaguered AMD concern. This would make sense forasmuch, that the roadmaps of AMD an Intel with the planned integration of CPU and GPU are an imminence to ...