For those interested, the GeForce 9800 GX2 just hit our price-watch databases, for the expected 599 USD. I sorted out a couple should you be interested, just click on the price to visit the stores directly.
NiBiTor allows graphics card enthusiasts, or the hardcore overclockers to have full control over some advanced features and functionality found on firmware of supporting cards. Doing so users gain some extra performance, enable certain hidden features, tweak memory latencies, provide extensive information, adapt boot up settings, change fan speed options and/or get extra stability on the NVIDIA based graphics accelerators.
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OCZ Technology Unveils Ultra-Fast Two Gigahertz DDR3 Modules Optimized for the New NVIDIA nForce 790i Ultra SLI Platform
OCZ Technology today unveiled PC3-16000 DDR3 modules that are also NVIDIA SLI-certified to run at an extreme 2GHz on the next generation NVIDIA nForce
Corsair today released two Dominator kits and one XMS - the TW3X2G2000, TW3X2G1800 and TW3X2G1600, all 2GB offers. The most expensive kit is certified to work at 2000 MHz while the others reach respective frequencies of 1800 and 1600 MHz. All kits come with lifetime warranties.
Corsairannounced today their NVIDIA 790i Ultra SLI high-performance DDR3 partner memory offerings, including a record-breaking 2GHz module.
After extensive partnership efforts between NVIDIA and Corsair, the NVIDIA 790i Ultra SLI platform was found to exhibit extreme overclocking capabilities with the latest in DDR3 memory architectures. All Corsair SLI-ready partner memory is pre-loaded with EPP2, the latest in memory performance specifications. EPP2 is designed to deliver an automatic memory performance boost for enthusiasts when used with the 790i Ultra SLI platform.
Back in early February a source familiar with the plans of AMD revealed that AMD Phenom processor models 9550 (2.20GHz), 9650 (2.30GHz) and 9750 (2.40GHz) based on the new stepping will be released commercially in April. Various media reports now suggest that along with the launch of the new microprocessors AMD will also release model 9850 at 2.50GHz clock-speed.
If you search a little then you'll notice that the upcoming Phenom 9750 and 9850 listed at an American e-tail stores.
AMD Phenom 9850 will come as a black overclockable edition works at 2.5G GHz, has the TDP of 125W and it fits in socket AM2+. It should start selling soon and it will cost $302.99. The second fastest in this line up is Phenom 9750 with the same TDP and 2.4GHz clock. It is not a Black Edition and it will sell for $278.99.
Both CPUs come with free shipping. You can order 9850 here and 9750 here.
The new microprocessors are based on the new B3 core stepping and should generally have a little higher performance due to the lack of the well-known TLB erratum compared to AMD Phenom models 9500 and 9600 available now.
Latest rumors in the channel are now confirming that NVDIA's upcoming GeForce 9800 GTX, normally slated for a release next week. Has been delayed to April the 1st (and that's not a joke).
A well, you'll have to wait a week longer.
We already heard the rumor, which is now confirmed. Intensly sucky howevere is that the trade-up program only applies in Northern America.
BFG Technologies announced today the BFG Trade Up program. The program is designed to give customers a one time opportunity to exchange their current BFG graphics card within 100 days of the original date of purchase for a better model and only pay the difference in price, plus applicable taxes.
Ubisoft sent out a press release announcing that Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2, the sixth iteration of the multimillion-selling Rainbow Six tactical shooter franchise, has shipped to retail stores, for PS3 and Xbox 360. The PC version will be available on April 15th.
NVIDIA today launches it's worst kept secret of all times, the GeForce 9800 GX2. Basically the highest performing graphics card to date, though with a twist .. as pretty much NVIDIA merged two cards together and is selling that symbiosis as one.
Guru3D will put the NVIDIA reference card and a retail sample from BFG towards the test. Guru3D will discuss everything from Architecture towards gaming performance. You can find the article at the direct URL below:
http://www.guru3d.com/article/bfg-geforce-9800-gx2-1024mb-review/
Next to the release of NVIDIA's GeForce 9800 GX2, NVIDIA also is launching their nForce series 790 mainboards. Guru3D will peek at the highest performance model available, the eVGA nForce 790i Ultra SLI. They slap DDR3 memory on it, a 9800 GX2 and started overclocking a Q6600 Core to quad processor towards pretty nice heights and observe overall performance, with a gaming perspective.
Next to that Guru3D has build an entire new water-cooled platform based on ESA components. Just to check how well that bi-directional component communication is actually working out. A pretty interesting read for sure. Check out the full article here:
http://www.guru3d.com/article/nvidia-nforce-790i-ultra-sli-review-evga/
CoolIT Systems announces its new NVIDIA VGA MTEC Coldplate. This newest addition to CoolIT
I'm a little late by posting this. But Inno3D released a new GeForce 9600 GT graphics card with the i-Chill ZeroTherm Hurricane cooler. The card is clocked at 750MHz with 1625MHz shaders and 1940MHz 512MB memory. Not bad.
The i-Chill HC92 cooler is made out of copper and features several large heatpipes. Inno3D says the cooler can be transformed into 3 cooling solutions: passive, standard and overclocking.
Apparantly this is a DIY card, meaning you have to install the cooler yourself (which saves you money).
OCCT (stands for "OverClock Checking Tool) is a CPU stability testing program, version 2.0a has just been released.
Its features :
Download - click here (1,8 MB)
Microsoft's long-awaited service pack for Windows Vista is reported to be heading to consumers today. The RTM version of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) was first released to testers in early February after a lengthy trial period.
Microsoft ended up postponing the public launch because of problems with some device drivers that failed to properly reinstall after the upgrade. The company cited "mid-March" as its release time frame, and since today is this month's "patch Tuesday" (the second Tuesday of the month, during which Microsoft traditionally rolls out security patches) ComputerWorld says many are banking on SP1's release.
Adding weight to that prediction, Amazon currently pins a March 18 release date on its retail-boxed copies of Windows Vista with SP1 pre-installed. If all goes as predicted, users will be able to grab the service pack from Windows Update on Tuesday. However, those expecting it to show up through Vista's Automatic Updates system will be disappointed. ComputerWorld says Microsoft doesn't plan to push out SP1 through Automatic Updates until some time in April. Not all users will be eligible, either: those with device drivers known to cause problems won't be offered the update at all.
In a conference call from intel yesterday details where revealed on Intels up-coimg Dunnington, the company's upcoming six-core server part; Nehalem, the next-generation architecture that will supplant Core 2 processors later this year; and Larrabee, Intel's forthcoming discrete graphics processor.
Dunnington feature six cores, 16MB of L3 cache, and a staggering 1.9 billion transistors. Dunnington's six cores will all be Core 2-based, and the processor will slip into the same Caneland platform as today's Socket 604, Xeon 7300-series CPUs. Dunnington appears to be a single-die product, unlike Intel's four-core offerings that are just two dual-core dies tacked together on the same package. Shipments are due some time in the second half of the year.
Then Intel chatted about Nehalem which boasts the Core microarchitecture that's at the heart of most Intel CPUs today, and we've known for a while that it will bring several major enhancements, like the addition of an integrated memory controller and the QuickPath point-to-point interconnect (the answer to AMD's HyperTransport). it'll feature a three-channel DDR3 memory controller with support for DDR3 speeds as high as 1333MHz. The triple-channel controller will appear on both desktop and server/workstation offerings, and it will support three memory modules per channel. Using current 2GB DDR3-1333 modules, that means you'd be able to cram 18GB of RAM into a single desktop PC and yield a theoretical maximum of 31.99GB/s of bandwidth
