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Two New NVIDIA-Based Boards from MSI

MSI, one of the world's leading vendors of desktop platforms and PC motherboards, has just announced the introduction of two new products, the NF750-G55 and the NF980-G65, two desktop platforms designed for the latest line of AMD Phenom II processors. Both solutions are based on NVIDIA's latest chipsets for...

25 August 2009
04:46 GMT

NVIDIA SLI Coming to P55 Core i7 and Core i5 Platforms

Although Intel has been relatively quiet about its upcoming P55 platform and the new Core i7 and Core i5 processors for mainstream computing, there are a series of leaked details on said products that point to an upcoming official unveiling on the part of the Santa Clara, California-based chip maker. On that note, NV...

10 August 2009
09:01 GMT

Recent Hack Enables SLI on P45 Motherboards

Intel, the world's leading vendor of computer processors, and NVIDIA, the inventor of the GPU and a leading vendor of discrete desktop graphics cards, haven't exactly been best buddies in recent years. Two of the world's leading chip makers have recently engaged in a legal dispute over the latter&rsquo...

6 August 2009
10:39 GMT

EVGA's X58 3X SLI 'Classified' Is a Secret No More

As most computer enthusiasts already know, NVIDIA partner EVGA is focused on providing its users with high-end products, mostly based on NVIDIA's chipsets or GPUs. However, ever since Intel launched the Nehalem-based X58 platform, the graphics card maker has decided to take a different path and build a Core i7-s...

12 March 2009
05:33 GMT

NVIDIA SLI Now Available on Intel's 'Smackover' Mobo

Santa Clara, California-based graphics maker NVIDIA has just announced that Intel's X58-based Smackover motherboard will now be providing users with support for its multi-GPU SLI technology. According to the company, users of Intel's DX58SO motherboard, which has been specifically designed to deliver suppor...

12 February 2009
03:02 GMT

NVIDIA Triple SLI GTX 285 Benchmarked

After AMD released its HD 4000-series graphics cards, NVIDIA was faced with a surprisingly powerful competitor for its new GT200-based video cards, especially after the Sunnyvale, California-based chip maker released the dual-GPU HD 4870 X2 graphics card, which managed to take the number one spot as the highest-perfo...

28 January 2009
06:01 GMT

GTX 295 SLI Setup Scores over 32,000 in 3DMark Vantage

For those that haven't grown tired of reading about leaked details on NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce GTX 295 graphics cards, we have a new round of performance results regarding what is to become the fastest graphics card on the market, a dual-GPU card based on NVIDIA 55nm GT200 graphics processor. While previou...

23 December 2008
11:18 GMT

XFX Launches Its Own Core i7-Supporting Mobo

It looks like XFX, one of NVIDIA's largest board partners, has finally decided to officially roll out its first Core i7-supporting X58 motherboard. As it was to be expected, the company has designed its board to support NVIDIA's high-performance triple-SLI technology, which allows PC users and technology en...

12 December 2008
05:33 GMT

OCZ Expands Fatal1ty Family with New PSUs

Coming to expand its range of Fatal1ty-branded products, OCZ Technology, one of the world's leading manufacturers of high-performance memory and computer hardware products, has recently announced the introduction of the first power supply models designed to be part of the Fatal1ty series.  As it was to be e...

26 November 2008
04:35 GMT

EVGA Takes the Wraps Off Its X58 SLI Motherboard

Coming to confirm what was only expected, NVIDIA's long-time board partner, EVGA, has officially unveiled its new X58-based desktop platform, the much anticipated EVGA X58 SLI. The new desktop platform is a considerable change for the motherboard and desktop graphics card maker, which, up until now, has only rel...

18 November 2008
08:29 GMT

Performance Test for GTX 280 SLI on X58 Platform

It's somehow hard to believe that when Intel finally goes ahead and officially introduces its next-generation desktop platform, in the form of the X58 motherboard chipset and the new Core i7 processors, it will get many “wows” and “ahhs” from the fans. This is mostly because we already ha...

23 October 2008
08:29 GMT

NVIDIA Officially Announces Support for X58 Platforms

NVIDIA has just announced something that has been rumored for quite some time now, namely that motherboard makers will implement the nForce 200 SLI chipset that will enable SLI configurations for upcoming Intel Bloomfield platforms. The feature is set to allow Core i7 users to connect up to three GeForce graphics car...

21 October 2008
10:35 GMT

NVIDIA Said to Be Planning SLI 2

NVIDIA is said to be planning the release of SLI 2, a new brand that should ultimately improve the graphics quality of today's high-end desktop gaming rigs. Although the details of the upcoming product are rather scarce, it seems that this is just another NVIDIA strategy to try to get back on the high-performanc...

29 September 2008
05:46 GMT

X58 Mobos to Include Native SLI Support

It appears that after the NVISION event, which took place on August 25-27 in San Jose, California, NVIDIA gathered a number of reporters to disclose a rather surprising business decision. The company seemingly plans to enable its SLI multi-GPU technology for upcoming X58-based motherboards, without the need of t...

28 August 2008
06:42 GMT

GTX 280 and 260 Don't Do 4-way SLI

In case you haven't grown tired of reading all the rumors that have recently surfaced about NVIDIA's soon-to-be released graphics card lineup, here's another bit of information. Apparently, the GTX 280 and 260 will come with support for dual- and 3-way SLI, which means that the new lineup is not going ...

6 June 2008
05:45 GMT

MSI Board Supports 5GHz Overclocked CPU

This year's Computex show held in Taipei, Taiwan is just the place to be for all of you overclocking enthusiasts. That is, only if we're to trust the statements of the Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer, MSI, according to which it's prepping an impressive overclocking show. As indicated by a recent pre...

4 June 2008
08:16 GMT

Eurocom Introduces D901C PHANTOM-X Server Notebook

Eurocom has announced a less usual notebook offering called the D901C PHANTOM-X. The so-called notebook has nothing in common with the Eee PC and the likes; on the contrary, it is a fully-fledged mobile server solution that weighs in at 5.44kg but packs all the horsepower it takes to run a data center. According to i...

13 May 2008
04:55 GMT

X58, Intel's First Nehalem Chipset

Intel's upcoming generation of processors, called the Nehalem, will be introduced later this year, and all the signals point to a Q4 release. As previously stated by the chip manufacturer during this spring's Intel Developer Forum, the first Nehalem units to hit the market will be built on the 45-nanometer ...

10 May 2008
04:37 GMT

Intel: No Overclocking for Mainstream Nehalems

Intel's upcoming generation of processors will have limited overclocking capabilities. The chip manufacturer is reportedly gearing up for a strict overclocking policy, as it is leaving the LGA775 platform for the faster and more powerful Nehalem platform.Currently known as Bloomfield, the upcoming generation of ...

22 April 2008
06:22 GMT

Matrox TripleHead2Go: When Two Monitors Are Not Enough

Dual monitors setups have become a common thing among the advanced PC users. These setups are easy to achieve using a simple video card that comes with a pair of monitor outputs (most of them feature a VGA/DVI combination). Moreover, there are even single monitors equipped with dual displays, such as Samsung's 2...

17 January 2008
06:56 GMT

OCZ Announces the Ultimate DDR2 Kits for Nvidia Mainboards

OCZ Technology Group recently announced the launch of yet another high end DDR2 random access memory kit that is aimed at the extreme gamers and computer enthusiast market segments as it offers the ultimate gaming performance along with high overall system responsiveness. This new memory kit is the latest addition to...

10 October 2007
05:40 GMT

Two Graphics Cards Are Good, Three Are Even Better

When the graphics processing units and mainboard chipsets manufacturing company Nvidia introduced the SLI technology it opened in fact the way for a number of additional versions and modifications of that multi graphics cards setup. After the classic two cards setup came the quad configuration that supported up to fo...

28 September 2007
06:22 GMT

Graphics Cards Technologies Explained

The graphics cards segment is one of the most dynamic places of the entire computer hardware manufacturing business. While there are many graphics cards producers (some very good, most simply good, and a few that don't even deserve to be called producers at all), there is only a handful of graphics chips manufac...

19 July 2007
08:44 GMT

Nvidia Will Release a Hybrid SLI Solution

...to multi GPU setups. And since no one thought about this at first, at the moment integrating power saving features inside the SLI technology seems pretty weird. And if you also add up the fact that in order to obtain the highest performance you need the maximum amount of juice, power saving features are pretty poi...

26 June 2007
06:26 GMT

SLI for Vista Is Coming

If you're one of those people who bought Vista in the first 24 hours from the launch, you're probably running a very fast system equipped with SLI or Crossfire support. In this case, you probably found out pretty fast that Nvidia didn't offer SLI support for the new OS produced by Microsoft.Sad one, is...

19 June 2007
02:59 GMT

INTEL Motherboards Will Receive SLI Support

Remember the moment when AMD announced that they will be buying Ati? Well, that same moment produced an "extra" effect which was totally unexpected at first. As INTEL and AMD were rivals in terms of almost everything IT-related, INTEL could no longer integrate Ati technology onto its boards. Fortunately for them, the...

7 June 2007
08:56 GMT

SLI Configuration Using AGP+PCI-e Cards Possible!

The PCI-Express technology for graphics cards came to replace the previous AGPX8 format by mid 2004, but at that time, performance gains were minimal. Later on, although performance gains were irrelevant, GPU integrators had to abandon the AGP solutions, concentrating on the heavily promoted PCIe format. With the imp...

15 March 2007
10:12 GMT


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