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MSI's N480GTX Lighting Becomes World's Fastest Single GPU in 3DMark 11

Although the GTX 580 has become the fastest performing video card in Nvidia's arsenal for quite some time now, it still seems to be some life left in the “old” GTX 480 as MSI has just announced that their N480GTX Lighting has become the fastest single GPU in 3DMark 11. MSI's card managed to s...

17 January 2011
07:11 GMT

Gigabyte Still Likes the GTX 480 Enough to Equip It With WindForce 3X

It seems that moving on to a newer top-grade NVIDIA card is not Gigabyte's choice right now, the company having decided to push a certain board one last time, this time equipped with a superior cooling device.No doubt enthusiasts are already eagerly playing with, or dreaming about, the newest top-end card from ...

21 December 2010
06:36 GMT

Progress XTG Gaming Notebooks Packs Core i7 CPU and Dual GTX 480M Graphics

Although high-end desktop processors are far from what I would call laptop friendly, this hasn't stopped notebook manufacturers everywhere to release such solutions to the market, Progress being the latest company to take this route by building the Intel Core i7 packing XTG series. Like many other companies t...

17 December 2010
05:13 GMT

Gigabyte Intros GeForce GTX 570 Graphics Card

Taiwan based Gigabyte seems to be the latest manufacturer to add its name to the list of GTX 570 solutions that are available out there, the company just outing the GV-N570D5-13I-B graphics cards that is build using Nvidia's latest 500 series GPU.Coming as just a regular GTX 570 with no factory improved clocks, ...

8 December 2010
04:00 GMT

Club3D Outs Its Own GeForce GTX 570 Graphics Card

There seems to be no end to the number of GTX 570 graphics cards to appear after Nvidia just made official its latest GF110 based GTX 570 GPU core, Club3D also releasing their own version of this board, although I can't say this differs a lot for all the other such offerings that have surfaced in the last few h...

7 December 2010
13:31 GMT

GTX 570 Review Leaked, Deemed Cooler than GTX 480

Lately we have seen all sort of GTX 570 leaks coming out just ahead of Nvidia launching its second GTX 500 series graphics card, but earlier today we managed to hit the jackpot as a hardware website accidentally posted a full review of the card and came with some pretty interesting conclusions.Although the article ha...

7 December 2010
07:11 GMT

GTX 570 Availability to Be Plentiful in the UK, 2000 Units Expected

Although Nvidia certainly hasn't the best track record when it comes down to hardware launches, it seems like the company is determined to make the upcoming GTX 570 available in as many units as possible at launch, recent rumors suggesting the company will release somewhere in the vicinity of 2000 cards in the U...

6 December 2010
02:14 GMT

Gigabyte Sends the GeForce GTX 480 Super Overclock to Europe

Even though the GTX 580 is supposedly on the way, Gigabyte seems quite eager to quickly enforce its hold over the enthusiast market, its method being the marketing of the GTX 480 Super Overclock, which has now headed to Europe.The GeForce GTX 480 Super Oveclock is, essentially, Gigabyte's currently most powerfu...

2 November 2010
07:53 GMT

Point of View GTX 480 Beast Is Supposedly the Fastest Fermi Card

Even though the GTX 480 is known for being both power-hungry and hot, hardware makers will always find a way to go around these limitations if they truly wish to, and POV seems to have succeeded in this by creating the GeForce GTX 480 Beast. When NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 480 first came out, it managed to reclaim th...

12 October 2010
07:52 GMT

MSI Gives GeForce GTX 480 the Twin Frozr II Treatment

Even though it hasn't seen as many custom designs as some of its siblings, the GTX 460 and GTX 450 in particular, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 has just been taken in by MSI and equipped with the Twin Frozr II cooling device, known as N480GTX.As end-users well know, the GeForce GTX 480 video board is the most powe...

30 September 2010
04:08 GMT

KFA2 Overclocks GTX 480 and Chills It With Three Fans

Coming up in the long streak of GeForce GTX 400 cards, KFA2 has just stepped up and unveiled its newest iteration of the top-grade GeForce GTX 480, the so-called GeForce GTX 480 LTD OC Anarchy, which uses a triple-fan cooler to stay at acceptable heat levels.The GeForce GTX 480 video board was the first DirectX 11-c...

23 September 2010
06:53 GMT

NVIDIA GTX 480 Again Gets Overclocked By POV and TGT

Though the GTX 480 isn't exactly overclocking-friendly, what with its high heat generation, some factory tuned models have still been released, and it seems that another one is on the way, the GTX 480 Ultra Charged TFC form TGT and Point of View that is.As end-users no doubt know, the GeForce GTX 480 was the fi...

15 September 2010
06:03 GMT

MSI N480GTX Lightning Is Heavily Customized

Micro-Star International has several series of high-end cards, the Lightning being a particularly performance-oriented one, and the latest model, the N480GTX Lightning, has just been pictured and detailed, revealing a massive card with its own design.The GeForce GTX 480 video card was the first model based on the Fe...

11 September 2010
05:02 GMT

NVIDIA GTX 480 With 512 Stream Processors Pictured

When it was first announced, all those months ago, NVIDIA's GF100 Fermi graphics processing unit was implied to have 512 stream processors, instead of just 480. Due to tight supply of 40nm chips, however, the outfit was forced to tone it down in order to actually get enough cards on the market. Now, it seems tha...

5 August 2010
09:27 GMT

EVGA Trumpets Powerful GTX 480 SuperClocked+

The Fermi architecture was one of those products and/or technologies that managed to build a considerable amount of hype prior to its official introduction. Unfortunately, reviewers' feelings were mixed once the smoke cleared. On the one hand, performance leadership was unquestionable. On the other hand, the hi...

16 June 2010
04:38 GMT

Vapor Chambers Chill Galaxy's GTX 480

When NVIDIA formally released the DirectX 11-ready GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480, the latter became the fastest single-GPU card on the planet, reclaiming NVIDIA's performance crown, though the Radeon HD 5970 remained the sole beneficiary of the dual-GPU hype. In spite of this, the past month has not exactly been b...

4 June 2010
06:53 GMT

Galaxy Dual-GPU GTX 480 Has a Dedicated PhysX Processor

Having had the DirectX 11 market to itself for about six months, ATI, business unit of Advanced Micro Devices, sold a significant number of cards. During that time, NVIDIA sales declined, forcing hardware makers to take unusual measures in order to reduce their GT 200 Series inventories, among other things. This did ...

4 June 2010
03:10 GMT

Zotac GTX 480 Amp! Edition Boasts a 3-Slot Cooler

When NVIDIA finally made the official introduction of its GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480 graphics adapters, it was revealed that, for all their assets and extreme performance capabilities, the adapters had two main drawbacks: their high power consumption and equally high operational temperatures. This meant that, while ...

5 May 2010
04:49 GMT

Shuttle's J3 Mini PC Boasts Intel's Gulftown and GeForce GTX 480

Even though most PC enthusiasts like their desktop chassis large and colorful, with as many silent fans and LEDs as possible, there are those who prefer more compact cases, as long as no impact is made on performance. Such consumers may even consider buying a PC with a smaller form factor that would go unnoticed, esp...

30 April 2010
04:55 GMT

NVIDIA GTX 480 Gets Water-Cooled by Danger Den

When NVIDIA finally made the official introduction of its GF100-powered GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480 adapters, there were several things that end-users and especially reviewers noticed. The GTX 480 was established as the fastest single-GPU card to date but, on the other hand, it had a high power draw and a matching op...

1 April 2010
02:54 GMT

MSI Readies a GTX 480 of Its Own

With the official introduction of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 470 and 480 graphics cards just days away, the industry is getting ready to scrutinize the newcomers in every possible way. NVIDIA is preparing its advertising strategy, reviewers are preparing their benchmarks, rivals are setting up their counter moves and,...

24 March 2010
09:54 GMT

Download UNIGINE Heaven 2.0 DirectX 11 Benchmark

Just days ahead of NVIDIA's imminent release of the highly-anticipated Fermi-based GeForce GTX 480 and 470 graphics cards, UNIGINE has announced the release of the new Heaven 2.0 benchmark. The new benchmark is designed to support the latest DirectX 11 graphics cards and enable computer enthusiasts to put their ...

24 March 2010
07:09 GMT

NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 480 Gets Taken Apart

It seems that enthusiasts' prayers are finally starting to be answered. So far, the most the web was able to get on Fermi, besides the specs, were a few photos of the cards and their boxes, but there were no genuine pictures of a dismantled card. Now, Atomic MPC seems to have gotten a hold of a model and has act...

24 March 2010
05:18 GMT

NVIDIA's Fermi GeForce GTX 480 Finally Pictured

The official announcement of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480 cards is just barely over a week away but, amazingly, any information regarding the product specs still hasn't come out from under whichever rock it is hiding. In fact, all so-called news concerning these cards, or custom versions, have been ...

18 March 2010
07:27 GMT

Inno3D's GTX 480 Box Also Poses for the Camera

Hopes, speculations and a lot of cardboard. This is as much as could be, so far, gathered or seen when it comes to the upcoming GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480 graphics cards from NVIDIA. The Santa Clara GPU maker has already officially disclosed the launch of its cards, set to happen on the 26th or 27th of the ongoing m...

12 March 2010
09:19 GMT

Fermi GTX 480 Is a Bit Camera Shy

We have seen a number of leaked reports on the Internet that talk about NVIDIA's much anticipated GF100 Fermi-based graphics cards, due out two weeks from today. Unfortunately, despite the recently ended CeBIT show in Hanover, Germany, pictures of the card have been scarce, mainly because of NVIDIA's effort...

12 March 2010
06:11 GMT

Palit Hops on Fermi GTX 400 Bandwagon

The hype built around the upcoming GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480 graphics adapters from NVIDIA has reached such levels, that all of NVIDIA's other projects and endeavors are seen as boring or minor compared with the upcoming Fermi launch. In fact, even pictures of just the empty boxes of these adapters have been s...

12 March 2010
04:48 GMT

NVIDIA Explains Fermi GTX 470 and GTX 480 Delay

There is little doubt that the upcoming GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480 are, currently, the most highly anticipated graphics cards from NVIDIA, if not the entire industry. These expectations have arisen because, while NVIDIA claims that the Fermi will set a new standard in graphics technology, it has yet to manage to for...

11 March 2010
06:04 GMT

NVIDIA Demoes GTX 480 on Video, 3-Display 3D Surround Gaming

Following a long and difficult waiting period, which has already lasted for months, NVIDIA seems to have finally broken the silence. After it kept quiet about its upcoming cards' performance even at CeBIT, end-users had most likely resigned themselves to waiting for the official launch before finding out anythin...

6 March 2010
03:33 GMT

NVIDIA's Fermi GTX 470 and 480 Get Spied On

Many end-users were most likely hoping that NVIDIA would at least give a few details on the product specifications of its upcoming Fermi-based graphics adapters at CeBIT, even though the launch won't happen before March 26th. Unfortunately, the GPU maker definitely didn't say a word on the cards and the few...

4 March 2010
10:51 GMT


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