The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 200 series - Complete Review

THIS IS SPARTA! Oh ... hi everyone. Yeah once you get to play games with the beast we'll be showing off today I tend to get a little melodramatic. I have this weird thing that once I really like a piece of hardware I try to find a weird euphemism for it that fits the product. The actual GeForce GTX 280 we put to the test reminded me of pure brute force. But all that brute force streamlined, well organized and efficient could very well be an euphemism for SPARTAAAANS. If you have no frickin clue what I'm talking about, then first go see the movie '300' and then come back and read this article, as I like to invoke that feeling into this article.





Welcome to today's introduction of the GeForce GTX 200 release. The long awaited successors of the GeForce series 8 generation architecture is finally here, with one keyword: loads of additional transistors.

Specifically two new products are being released today: GeForce GTX 260 and 280.

Yeah the rumor was right ... 1.4 frickin' Billion transistors slapped onto a silicon -- quite amazing! I guess NVIDIAs one billion dollars a year investments on R&D shows off today. Weirdly enough it's also the day that NVIDIA decided to go strong on something else than gaming. They call it their 'GPU and Beyond' approach. In short wording, they want you guys to be very aware of the fact that the good old GeForce series graphics card is more than a piece of machinery to only play games with. And that's true ... we see more and more features merged into the graphics card and they broaden that PC experience we all so much love. Today we'll actually show you some very interesting examples of that, yet obviously we will go a little deeper into the architecture and fire of a dozen or two games at the product as well. And yes, we finally found a product that can play Crysis at a decent resolution with high-image quality settings.

Before we dive into the review; architecture and features of the new GeForce GTX series 200. I really wanted to take you on a Shader crash course. We, the press, talk about it all the time in our articles, but certainly it is very difficult for the end-user to even understand what a shader or shader processor is. Next page please, and if you're not interested in that explanation, just jump to page three.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gtx_280_us.html

But I feel you first should have a glimpse of the GeForce GTX 280.

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1. Download the latest update files from http://rapidshare.com/users/12TMR5.
2. Extract to any folder. You should get a folder called "nod_upd" along with the update files inside.
3. Burn that folder on to a CD or DVD, ensuring that the folder "nod_upd" is in the root of the disc, i.e. the path to the files should read like E:\nod_upd\. This is very important.
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ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT Video Card Review

August 2006
seems like a very long time ago in terms of video card technology. That was the last time that ATI, now AMD, launched any type of high-end video card. The X1950 for its time was the hands down winner of just about everything we could throw at it. It had great features and did things like Folding@home that NVIDIA could not. Fast forward to today and you would be crazy to suggest any high-end AMD video card because the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 series thoroughly whips anything ATI branded.


We have been hearing for many moons that the successor to the X1950XTX has been in the works, but only rumors that it existed and would be launched. Finally, just hours after many of you have pampered your mother, AMD is launching their next generation video cards. Dubbed the HD 2000 series, we have in our hands a HD 2900XT which was developed under the code name “R600.” To say that AMD has some ground to make up is an understatement; NVIDIA has a six-month head start on them with the launch of their DirectX 10 ready 8800 series in November.

Contrary to what you may believe, the HD 2900XT that we are looking at here today is not meant to compete against NVIDIA’s 8800 Ultra or even the GTX. Instead AMD aimed at a lower price target, the 8800 GTS. With a launch price of $399 AMD intends to take the mid/high end market segment instead of going after the faster 8800 GTX and Ultra. As much as they want to sugar coat it, the R600 in its current iteration is just not capable of getting the clock speed up to the level needed to go toe to toe with the GTX/Ultra in every situation. As you will see, the R600 has some very bright spots but also leaves a bit to be desired depending on the game tested. We have even thrown in a DirectX 10 benchmark to see how things shape up between the HD 2900XT and 8800 GTX in what are the first tests that can actually make the claim of putting this highly anticipated new feature set to use. Frankly, it’s about damn time that we got a taste of DX 10! Sit back, grab a cup of joe, and read on to see AMD’s entry into the DX10 foray.

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Intel-Core-i7 processors Categorized Computer Hardware, Latest Technology MotherBoard

The first Intel Core i7 series processors to be launched by Intel are Intel Core i7-965, Intel Core i7-940, Intel Core i7-920.The Intel Core i7-965 will be 2.66GHz, the Intel Core i7-940 will be of 2.93GHz, and the Intel Core i7-920 will clock at 3.2GHz.Each of these processor is a quad-core CPU with 45nm processors and each have 8MB of shared L3 cache, 256kb of L2 cache per core, and TDP rating of 130W.



Intel with showing of the new Nehalem processor and dubbed as the Intel’s Core 7i processor, with a new pin count of about 1366 connector pins in the motherboard and the CPU, to improve and widen up the lanes in the processor to the board. With the Intel Core 7i sporting 4 to eight cores with no exception to the dual core chips, with 45nm architecture fabrication and with the same frequency in the main-stream processors are about 1333MHz fsb and with the high-end processors to be in the top 1600MHz FSB. With the same frequencies and makes to its predecessor, with the Intel Core 2, but being much larger and have a pin count of 1366, they have increased the parallelism of the core and giving it 33% more micro-ops at the same time.

With the improved with the cache sub-systems and also the synchronization for better caching transfer in where’s Intel’s core 2 Duo doesn’t. With the change of Caching in the memory of the CPU, they tend to increase the stepping, by adding the TBL stepping process to enable faster utilization codes or tasks when the system is Idle. With the use of triple Channel DDR3 memory for a big in a maximum memory usage on the X58 about 32GB’s, with six ports on the tri-channel, will be used in the new resource hogs of applications like the IE8 and also newer applications.

With the Intel core 7i with 731 million transistors in the Quad core, with integrated graphics processor to battle it out with AMD’s fusion, with no more fsb to the Northbridge for the memory and now going to the CPU with Quickpath interconnect, and the corresponding memory caching are the L1 is a 32Kb in each core, 256KB in L2 caching the L3 2-3Mbs to be shared by all cores before leaving the CPU.

For the variants of the Intel Core 7i is uncertain in some people, you would expect the main-stream processors with the frequency between the 2.8GHz to 3.0GHz, and with the extreme version is in the top 3.1GHz and upwards. With some speculation that in the few months in the beginning of the Core 7i is that they’re going to have the first half of the production going to be 45nm fabrication and then going to the 32nm fabrication manufacturing. But for certain is that there will see improvements in memory speed and also synchronization and latencies in the system.



Support for Intel Core i7 processors with QPI 6.4GT/s

Support for 3-channel DDR3-1333 up to 24GB
DrMOS equipped on CPU PWM, QPI, and Northbridge
Support GreenPower & APS (Active Phase Switching) system
DrMOS dedicated heat-pipe design
Dual Hardware RAID system
Dual LAN onboard support Network Teaming

Core i7 is almost here, but that will come as a surprise to no one, as potential release dates have been hovering around rumor-ville for months. The official response came last month, during IDF Taipei. There, Intel told the world that we would see Core i7 before the end of November, although no definitive street date was given.

Today's article will serve as a preview into what to expect from Core i7 from a performance perspective. This will become the first of a few different articles that we'll be posting in the weeks to come, which will target more specific areas of Nehalem and its platform. So, consider today's look as a good way to whet your appetite. There'll be more good stuff en route.



QuickPath Interconnect

One of the most important new features is the QuickPath Interconnect, or QPI for short. "Interconnect" explains its purpose quite well. It offers a direct link to other system components, most notably the memory and X58 chipset, and though it replaces the typical front-side bus, it serves a similar purpose. Also like the FSB, different i7 models will have different QPI ratings, with the top-end 965 running at 6.4GT/s, and the two below it running at 4.8GT/s.