(03/08) NVIDIA 9800 GX2, 9800 GTX, 9800 GT AND 9600 GT AT ULTIMATE HARDWARE - "The Nvidia video card chart has now been updated to include the latest information about the Nvidia Geforce 9800 GX2, 9800 GTX, 9800 GT and 9600 GT. We include information on the chip, core clock speed, memory clock speed, memory interface, memory transfer rate, pixels per clock and directx version."
(03/08) ATI RADEON HD 3870 X2 AND HD 3690 AT ULTIMATE HARDWARE - "The Ati video card chart has now been updated to include the latest information about the ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 and 3690. We include information on the chip, core clock speed, memory clock speed, memory interface, memory transfer rate, pixels per clock and directx version."
(03/08) NVIDIA 9800 GX2, 9800 GTX AND 9800 GTS DETAILS AT ULTIMATE HARDWARE - "The Nvidia video card chart has now been updated to include the latest information about the 9800 GX2, 9800 GTX and 9800 GTS. We include information on the chip, core clock speed, memory clock speed, memory interface, memory transfer rate, pixels per clock and directx version."
(03/08) XFX GEFORCE 9800 GX2 QUAD SLI REVIEW AT HARDOCP - "Today we evaluate the gameplay experience supplied by Quad SLI using two XFX GeForce 9800 GX2. We play Crysis, Jericho, & CoD4 to examine real-world advantages at high resolutions and compare the Radeon HD 3870 X2 CrossFireX & GeForce 8800 GTX SLI."
(03/08) NVIDIA'S SHADY TRICK TO BOOST THE GEFORCE 9600GT AT TECHPOWERUP - "The execution of this from NVIDIA's side is less than poor in my opinion. They did not communicate this new feature to reviewers at all, nor invented a marketing name for it and branded it as a feature that their competitors do not have. Even when asked directly we got a bogus reply: "the crystal frequency is...". No, there is no 25 MHz crystal and its frequency is not fixed either. I'm not accusing the sender of the E-Mail of course, I just believe he didn't know, maybe this fact wasn't communicated to the marketing team at all."
(03/08) S3 CHROME 400 DX10 GRAPHICS CARDS AT S3 GRAPHICS - "The new S3 Graphics Chrome 400 Series brings the latest DirectX®10.1 graphics, Blu-ray™ and HD-DVD™ support to energy-efficient desktop and notebook platforms. S3 Graphics Chrome 400 Series logoDesigned to provide the latest gaming experience coupled with outstanding HD content playback, S3 Graphics Chrome 400 Series graphics processors brings the highest performance-per-watt ratio ever to a new breed of energy-efficient desktop systems and portable notebook PCs."
(03/08) XFX GEFORCE 9800 GX2 REVIEW AT BJORN3D - "Well today NVIDIA and its board partners are introducing NVIDIA’s new high-end GPU the 9800GX2. We should actually just call this NVIDIA’s new card since like AMD/ATI’s 3870X2 this is a card using 2 GPU’s. NVIDIA has been down this road before with the 7950GX2 of 2 years ago. At this time NVIDIA is now bringing the 9800GX2 out to replace its flagship product the 8800 Ultra which until today was still the fastest card out. We also want to point out that the 8800 Ultra XXX from XFX which we will test against today sold for $889.00 when launched about a year ago at this time. The XFX 9800GX2 we should see selling for from $599.00 to $649.00 e-tail."
(03/08) XFX GEFORCE 9800 GX2 REVIEW AT LEGIT REVIEWS - "The GeForce 9800 GX2 features a new video bridge and a re-architected driver to allow for four frames to be rendered concurrently, but there is a catch. The OS framework required to support four frames in-flight is only available in Windows Vista. With the new 4-way AFR technique, geometry, texture, and shader processing all benefit from GPU scaling. Now that frame rendering was taken care of with n-Way SLI architecture and the drivers, the focus then turned to horse power. For that, NVIDIA went with a pair of G92-450-A2 cores, which should be plenty of power for gaming."
(03/08) XFX GEFORCE 9800 GX2 REVIEW AT HARDOCP - "We saw what the ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 can do; now it is time for NVIDIA to step up and impress us with their “SLI on a card” video card with the GeForce 9800 GX2. Inside we will compare an XFX GeForce 9800 GX2 with two SLI setups and the ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 in Crysis, Clive Barker’s Jericho, and COD 4."
(03/08) BFG GEFORCE 9800 GX2 REVIEW AT GURU3D - "Helleuw everyone, today is the day that this green colored company called NVIDIA is set to announce two new products. That's right, two products on one day. The first the scrumptious nForce 790 series of mainboard, with keywords like ESA, 45-nm Processors and DDR3 support written all over it. The second, obviously being the all new GeForce 9800 GX2, the new flagship performance product that will expand the borders of performance a little more."
(03/08) ASUS GEFORCE 9800 GX2 REVIEW AT TBREAK - "After introducing the 9000 series with a mid-range graphics card, nVidia gives us a taste of its power with their first high-end 9000 series graphics card. Like AMD's 3870X2, the GeForce 9800 GX2 is a dual GPU solution with 1GB frame buffer divided equally amongst the two GPUs. Unlike AMD, nVidia already has some experience with their dual GPU based graphics card- the old 7950GX2 which was certainly a breakthrough product and much liked at our labs. Lets find out what the new GeForce 9800 GX2 brings to the table."
(03/08) NVIDIA GEFORCE 9800 GX2 REVIEW AT HOT HARDWARE - "Rumors abound for the last few months regarding the GeForce 9800 GX2 and nForce 790i SLI Ultra, and today we can finally show you what all the fuss has been about. This is a big day for NVIDIA. A new desktop chipset complete with a DDR3-based memory controller is here, along with a dual-GPU powered monolith of a graphics card that is NVIDIA's most powerful to date. Together, the combination of a GeForce 9800 GX2 (or GX2s), with the nForce 790i SLI Ultra chipset, redefine the high-end of desktop PC gaming hardware. Read on for the details and to see just what 2008's version of the ultimate gaming platform can do."
(03/08) NVIDIA GEFORCE 9800 GX2 REVIEW AT PCPER - "The following is a summary of the more detailed analysis of the XFX 9800 GX2 1GB graphics card. For all the in-depth analysis and testing you'd expect from us, be sure to click this link to get all the details! In another parallel between the 9800 GX2 and the HD 3870 X2, NVIDIA's new card is really nothing new when it comes to the chip architecture. The card is built around a pair of G92-based 8800 GTS 512MB GPUs that run at different clock speeds but operate in SLI mode when enabled in the NVIDIA control panel for improved gaming performance. How much gain depends on the game you want to play."
(03/08) NVIDIA GEFORCE 9800 GX2 REVIEW AT TECH REPORT - "The Radeon HD 3870 X2 stole away Nvidia's single-card performance crown by harnessing a duo of mid-range Radeon GPUs. The GeForce 9800 GX2 looks primed to recapture the title using similar methods--and a faster GPU. Do we have a new champ? Let's find out."
(03/08) NVIDIA GEFORCE 9800 GX2 PREVIEW AT TWEAKTOWN - "The latest in stalker letters is here, and it comes attached with another NVIDIA graphics card like our last. If you recall last time this happened, we received the 8800GTS G92 based card anonymously with a letter attached to it. This time we’ve got another new card and accompanying letter."
(03/08) INTEL'S X48 EXPRESS CHIPSET AT TECH REPORT - "Intel's Core 2 Extreme QX9770 is due out this quarter, bringing with it not only four Penryn cores clocked at 3.2GHz, but also a front-side bus running at 1600MHz. That faster FSB presents a bit of a problem, though, because Intel's current P35 and X38 Express chipsets only support front-side bus speeds up to 1333MHz. So the QX9770 needs a new chipset, or at least a new north bridge, which is where the X48 Express comes in."
(03/08) OFFICIAL AMD PHENOM SUPPORT LIST AT AMDZONE - "AMD has just provided us with their offiical Phenom motherboards list. Yes it is long, but bear with me. I couldn't get it to display correctly with the read more link. The boards that are hyperlinked have links to where you can purchase them. A number of these boards are in the $40 range. Yeah, that is cheap. Add to that that these will support triple core Phenoms as well and you have the makings of a very low cost system."
(03/08) SAPPHIRE HD 3450 AND 3650 OC AT AMDZONE - "ATI has come back strong lately after some early issues with the Radeon HD 2xxx series, mostly with the higher-end products. Moving to a 55nm manufacturing process and some design tweaks allowed for the 3870, 3850, and more recently the 3870X2 to see huge gains in performance over the previous cards. That update has also hit the more mainstream cards as the Radeon HD 2400 and 2600 have been replaced with the ATI Radeon HD 3450 and 3650. Today we look at both of those cards from Sapphire included an overclocked version of the Radeon HD 3650."
(03/08) CROSSFIRE X EXPLORED AT TECH REPORT - "MD's CrossFire X will let three or four Radeon HD 3800 GPUs team up in order to kick some green team backside. How well does it work? We've taken a quick look at AMD's first drivers for CrossFire X, we've talked with one of AMD's driver architects, and we have some interesting things to report. CrossFire X is, quite simply, an extension of the CrossFire dual-GPU feature to three and four GPUs. The hardware to make such a thing possible has been on the market for some time now, and last week's release of the Catalyst 8.3 driver revision finally enabled this feature in software, as well. The basic building block of CrossFire X is AMD's RV670 GPU, which is present in all of the various incarnations of the Radeon HD 3800 series of graphics cards."
(03/08) MSI GEFORCE 9600 GT OC REVIEW AT TWEAKTOWN - "The latest company to come to the 9600GT parade is MSI, and like most other cards we’ve looked at they’ve decided to move away from the stock cooler and use their own design. They figure if they’re going to do that, they may as well bump up the speed of the card and see what it’s capable of. I feel like we’ve looked at so many 9600GT cards in such a short period of time that there isn’t all that much to say here. The 9600GT has quickly become a popular little offering thanks to its performance not being like that of normal x600GT offerings from NVIDIA."
(03/08) GIGABYTE RADEON HD 3870 512MB REVIEW AT MOTHERBOARD.ORG - "ATI has retaken the high-end of the graphics card market by storm with the release of the HD3870X2 cards for $450. But the vast majority of video card sales are driven by cards in the under $200 range, as that is affordable to most gamers and the performance of cards in this price range has steadily increased to the point where the $189 card of today nearly performs as well as the $500 card of last year."
(03/08) NEW ATI CATALYST v8.3 DRIVERS AT AMD-ATI - HAS THE FOLLOWING FEATURES:-
"This release of Catalyst™ introduces CrossFireX™ Quad support. Users with any combination of a ATI Radeon™ HD 3870, ATI Radeon™ HD 3850, and ATI Radeon™ HD 3870 X2 graphics accelerators running with 3 or 4 GPUs will be able to run in CrossFireX™ Quad mode (when used in a CrossFireX™ compatible PC). CrossFireX™ Quad will deliver significant performance improvements in a number of applications. Users can expect to see further DirectX 10 QUAD CrossFireX™ performance improvements in future Catalyst™ releases."
"This release of Catalyst™ introduces Hybrid™ Graphics support. Hybrid™ Graphics delivers a significant 3D performance boost for systems featuring an AMD 780G integrated graphics motherboard and an ATI Radeon™ HD 3400 series graphics accelerator."
"This release of Catalyst™ introduces WHQL certified support for the DirectX 10.1 API found in Microsoft's Windows Vista Service Pack 1 update for all ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 Series products."
"This release of Catalyst™ introduces anti-aliasing support for all Unreal Engine 3.0 based games (running in DirectX 9 mode). Users can enable Anti-Aliasing for titles such as Gears of War and Unreal Tournament 3 by simply enabling Anti-Aliasing within the ATI Catalyst™ Control Center."
"This release of Catalyst™ allows users to enable narrow tent and wide tent Anti-Aliasing custom filters while running in the CrossFire™ Super Anti-Aliasing modes, (for DirectX9 applications) providing an improved image quality experience."
(03/08) AMD 780G CHIPSET HAS POWERFUL GPU REVIEW AT THG - "With today's introduction of its new 780G chipset, AMD is finally enabling users to build an HTPC or multimedia computer for HDTV, HD-DVD or Blu-ray playback that doesn't require an add-in graphics card. (AMD already included HDCP support and an HDMI interface in its predecessor chipset, the 690G.) The northbridge chip of the new 780G chipset also features an integrated Radeon HD3200 graphics unit that can decode any current high-definition video codec. As a result, CPU load is decreased to such a degree that even a humble AMD Sempron 3200+ is sufficient for HD video playback. Also, while Intel's chipsets get more power-hungry with every generation, AMD's newest design was designed with the goal of reducing power consumption."
(03/08) BIOSTAR GEFORCE 9600 GT 512MB REVIEW AT PCSTATS - "In this review PCSTATS will be testing Biostar's V903GT52-NV1AN Geforce 9600GT, a reference card in every sense of the word. While the V903GT52-NV1AN may lack the extra HD ports and pre-overclocked tuning of Palit's 9600GT Sonic, Biostar's card is affordable, fairly quiet, and single slot. The Biostar V903GT52-NV1AN retails for about $189 CDN ($190 USD, £110 GBP) and comes with the basic essentials, which is fine. I think most consumers would agree that it's better to pay less than have a couple bundled video games thrown in."
(03/08) ASUS EXTREME GEFORCE 9600 GT 512MB REVIEW AT LEGION HARDWARE - "Today we have another GeForce 9600 GT review for you, this time based on a more unique design featuring an upgraded cooling solution. The ASUS Extreme N9600GT might just surprise a few people as this customised 9600 GT costs no more than those based on the Nvidia reference design. Last week we got our first look at the GeForce 9600 GT which is a product we would normally be greatly anticipating. The problem being that the GeForce 8600 series was so poor in terms of performance, that it tarnished the reputation of the x600 GT graphics cards. Nevertheless, being the first graphics card released in the new GeForce 9 series, we were keen to try out the 9600 GT regardless."
(03/08) LEADTEK GEFORCE 9600 GT 512MB REVIEW AT BJORN3D - "Leadtek honored us today by allowing Bjorn3D to review a brand new, just released, Nvidia 9000 series card, more specifically the WinFast PX9600 GT Extreme. One thought popped into my mind when I heard we were going to be reviewing this, "Why are they releasing a 600 series card first and not an 800 series like all the previous releases, as in the 8800?" My opinion is that they have there eyes set and ears open to the people out there that aren't enthusiasts but are instead weekend gamers that can't afford the enthusiast cards or don't want to pull multiple one hundred dollar bills out of thier wallets, or purses (for all you lady gamers). Join me as we take a closer look at the brand new WinFast PX9600 GT from Leadtek."
