BFGTech GeForce 8800 GTX OC2

The most important aspect of the BFGTech GeForce 8800 GTX OC2 that sets it apart from the other GeForce 8800 GTX video cards is its clock speed. This video card comes from the factory with a 51 MHz overclock on the GPU, and 200 MHz overclock on the memory. The GPU on this video card is clocked at 626 MHz and the memory is clocked at 2.0 GHz. Subsequently the stream processors are also overclocked at 1.45 GHz versus 1.35 GHz on a standard 8800 GTX. The memory speed increase extends the memory bandwidth to 96 gigabytes per second, and the GPU overclock increases the texture fill rate to 40 billion pixels per second. Apart from the clock speeds, it appears to be identical to its older brother.
The BFGTech GeForce 8800 GTX OC2 has 768 MB of GDDR3 on board, running at 2.0 GHz on a 384-bit bus. The GPU has the same 128 streaming processors 6 ROP partitions that ever other GeForce 8800 GTX has. The GPU is manufactured on a 90nm process and comprises 681 million transistors. It fully supports HDCP and has two dual-link DVI-I connectors.
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GEFORCE 8XXX NEW DATA

We got some new data suggesting the final specs of the upcoming nVIDIA GeForce 8600 and 8500 series GPUs...As it seems GeForce 8600 GTS will NOT have 64 Stream Processors BUT only 32..The same is true for the GeForce 8600GT. On the other hand GeForce 8500GT has only 16 Stream Processor i.e 1 shader cluster as compared to 2 shader clusters in the8600 series and 8 shader clusters in the 8800GTX form..The cards will be available on April the 17.
Just my quick comment, what's important is that they will all support SLI technology!!
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ECS NF650iSLIT-A Motherboard – Much more affordable than 680i

The platform for Core 2 keeps growing on a daily basis - chipsets are coming left, right and centre - and we are more than pleased about that.

Intel has chipsets for their processor and it is no surprise that both are for high-end (975X), mainstream (P965) and value (G965). While Intel does make their own chipsets and some are very solid indeed, they aren’t always the most feature rich or technically impressive, what the market even wants. I do remember the old Intel I820 chipset and the attempt to push people on to RDRAM (Rambus) but that was a total failure, which they seem to have learnt from.

nVidia is definitely the major player in the Core 2 market. AMD/ATI does have a chipset for this market, but we haven’t heard much more about upcoming chipsets for this platform. VIA has no intention of pushing into the market as the major player, only SiS has the opportunity, and they are starting to work on this.

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CyberPower Gamer SLI KO QX6800 System

Today, we're looking at the other end of the spectrum from CyberPower. We know what they can do with a budget based build, but can they impress us when dropping a small fortune on a PC? The model we're looking at today we're told will cost $3999 (more on that later), and for $4K, we expect the white glove treatment. After all, that's more than some people pay for an engagement ring, and while we can't expect a PC to offer the same benefits as a giddy girlfriend turned fiancé, a four thousand dollar rig better put out (heh) nothing short of an ass kicking computing experience.

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Inno3D iChill 7300GT 256MB GDDR3 Graphics Card Review

Roughly around a month ago we reported that Inno3D plans to introduce separate overclocked cards’ range in their product line. Every other successful graphic card manufacturer has one and thus Inno3D brought one as well. Instead of just increasing the clocks and renaming the overclocked models, Inno3D opted for a different product line approach and brought ichill in to equation. Basically the concept behind ichill is a product line equipped with best of the best of graphic card cooling industry has to offer. Currently different models equipped with Zalman’s V series and Arctic Cooling’s Silencer and Accelero series have been introduced but it wouldn’t be long when they bring 8 series card with better cooling performance as well. Aside all the bells and whistles, the idea behind this is to offer cards pre-equipped with third party cooling devices saving customer's costs and efforts while reducing significant RMAs from overheating and so on. Inno3D, however, propogates the idea of producing cream of graphics cards through several enhancement over the lowend model, we'll see how that is achieved through this product here in this review.

We have a 7300GT model from the ichill to start with Inno3D, although this is our first Inno3D product review, we hope to work with them on future endeavors as well. The 7300GT here is equipped with arctic cooling’s Silencer 6. Inno3D offers 7300GT, 7600GT, 7600GST, 7900GS and 7950GT under ichill brand, we just happened to acquire the lowend model. However it is a fact that no one has reviewed iChill's lowend and mainstream series so its a good chance for those who want to see how these cards par up against your everyday off the shelf graphic card.

Just a quick comment - SLI is also supported on this card..

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Liebermann Olympus 20" Widescreen Notebook with SLI Announced

Just when you thought a 19" notebook was big, the Liebermann Olympus 20" gets rolled out. The Olympus 20" seems almost mythical based on the spec sheet. It supports Intel's Pentium-D Dual-Core and Extreme Edition processors, along with quad DVI-out, an integrated 3 megapixel camera, dual Blue-Ray and HD-DVD optical drives, and dual graphics cards with up to 1GB RAM each.....
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The Liebermann Olympus 20" sounds pretty hot right? The only down side is the machine sounds too good to be true, and may in fact be. There's no release date known and the company representative we talked with could offer no guidance on pricing either. Rest assured it will probably approach, if not surpass $10,000. If nothing else it acts as a nice proof of concept.

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I'm on my easter vacation

Hi readers!
Just one quick note I wanted to add before I go on my vacation
First of all happy easter to all of you and I hope that you'll spend it with your family and friends with tons of drinks and food :-)
Secondly, since I'm going to a trip I won't be able to update my SLI blog page regulary. So there won't be new posts for about 2/3 days.
But I'll catch up with the news in SLI world when I return.

MSI NX8800 GTX OC Liquid - compared to MSI 8800 GTX SLI and others..

Hi people

I've just saw on the internet one great review of MSI's NX8800 GTX OC Liquid card. The cool thing is that you can easily compare results to MSI 8800 GTX SLI cards which where review about two months ago... and also comparision with single 8800 GTX/S models, and Ati's X1950 XTX CrossFire

MSI uses a different water-cooling kit than the Thermaltake based one we saw on ASUS' AquaTank. We're not sure who makes this for MSI but basically, instead of taking up PCI slots, this one fits on the back of your chassis next to the CPU, where you generally install back fans. The good thing about it is that, unlike ASUS, you dont lose any PCI/PCI-E slots. However, the bad thing is that you need a chassis with enough room behind the CPU to install the large radiator/fan combo.

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MALIBAL Releases 20-inch Notebook Computer with NVIDIA SLI Technology

Las Vegas, Nev., April 5th, 2007 - MALIBAL, a world leader in innovative laptop design and development, today announced the release of its new Veda Series™ line of notebooks. Available immediately, the Veda Series features an extensive collection of high-end options, including: 20.1" widescreen display, two hard drive bays and RAID 0/1, dual GPU capabilities with NVIDIA® SLI™ technology and AMD dual-core mobile technology.

NVIDIA® SLI™ technology is a multi-GPU solution that increases graphical processing power by linking multiple NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) together to produce a single, high-performance output.
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New NVIDIA Drivers for GeForce 8-series - v97.94 Windows XP

There are new drivers on NVIDIA's website for it's GeForce 8-series GPUs for Windows XP and Vista.
Now at version 97.94, these drivers are said to fix the following:

Single-GPU Issues Resolved
• The media player hangs when playing MPEG2 HD video clips using overlay in 1080i and then switching to full-screen mode.
• Added application profile for "Titan Quest Demo.exe" to support the current demo version.
• The system crashes after four or more suspend/resume cycles.

SLI Mode Issues Resolved
• Company of Heroes, SLI: Screen corruption occurs when "Enhance the Application Setting" mode is set to 4x or 8x in the NVIDIA Control Panel
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Cool prize - a chance to win 1/2 EVGA nForce 680i LT SLI Motherboard!!!!

This contest is really simple, just fill in your info and if you're chosen at the end of this month you could win, what else then top gamer board for those core 2 duo processors. What a great gift, don't you think? So head over there, and you could stand a chance to win

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CeBIT 2007 Modding Roundup

Just wanted to add one last thing from CeBit.. be sure to check out other mods.. this on is really cool SLI setup..


Let's have a look over some of the best mods from this year's show!


This mod it's solely constructed by Ediejo, and features similar lighting effects to those used in the CoolerMaster Stacker mod, but it also includes a more improved watercooling loop and lots of carbon fibre loving.

This results in a truly fantastic combination of crisp white metal and black carbon fibre lines, with the flowing green tubing of a heavily integrated watercooling solution. All the components except the power supply are watercooled, with the fluid being distributed by a manifold placed right by the window for optimum effect.

The watercooled hard drive racks look like they are floating and the combination of green LED uplighting with white internal LEDs provides a great overall effect. Overall, it's subtle, practical and still a fantastic piece of modern art! The machine inside the case is also eye wateringly powerful, breaking 15,400 3DMarks with an E6600, two watercooled Point Of View GeForce 8800 GTXs, two 150GB Western Digital Raptors, an EVGA nForce 680i SLI, a 1100W Tagan PSU and 2GB of Corsair Dominator 9136C5D memory.

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Alienware Aurora m9700 17-inch Laptop

The last time we took a look at an Alienware laptop it was the Area-51 m5550 15.4-inch laptop. The m5550 is more of a mid-range budget system. The Aurora m9700 is on high-end being Alienware's 2nd most expensive laptop they sell. This notebook is built for gaming with dual 256MB Nvidia Geforce Go 7900 GS video cards in SLI mode! This is the first and only 17" laptop with a dual graphics card system. Before I reveal anymore about this laptop let's get the review started!

Specs:
Processor: AMD Turion 64 Mobile ML44 2.4GHz 800MHz FSB 1MB L2 Cache
Display: 17" Wide Screen WUXGA 1920 x 1200 with Clearview
Motherboard: Alienware NVIDIA Mobile SLi Chipset
Memory: 2GB Dual Channel DDR SO-DIMM at 400MHz - 2 x 1024MB
Hard Drive: 200GB Serial ATA 1.5Gb/s 4,200 RPM w/ 8MB Cache
Primary CD ROM/DVD ROM: 8X Dual Layer DVD+/-RW / 24X CD-RW
Video/Graphics Card: Dual 256MB NVidia GeForce Go 7900 GS - SLI Enabled

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Intel to support AMD Crossfire / Part 3

Intel blocks Nvidia from running SLI on Conroe platforms

We got some interesting input on Intel not supporting SLI on its Conroe-supporting motherboards. Up until now, we, and our, sources have blamed it all on Nvidia but it turns out we might be wrong about that. There is a big chance that Intel doesn't want to allow Nvidia to run SLI, as it doesn't want to make a big thing about SLI on its own Conroe machines.
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Geeks get Quad SLI to work on a 965 Conroe board

Abass from Tbreak - or someome from his gang - managed to run Quad SLI with two 7950 cards on an Intel 965 board with a Conroe CPU.
Not that Nvidia wants people to test Quad SLI but it is more important to see that SLI contept might run on Intel's board after all. Nvidia is under a lot of pressure to enable its marchitecture on the Intel platform and I don't think it has much choice.
The TBreak chap took a Gigabyte 965P motherboard, stuck in a Conroe E6600 that works at 2.4GHz and managed to make two 7950 GX2 cards work together.
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Intel to support AMD Crossfire / Part 2

Hi people!
I wanted to share some other information to you about Intel chipset support of SLI or (unforetunately) better to say Crossfire. I thought I've remember a moment a year ago, where Intel decided to push Crossfire technology over SLI. Again I was right, but I thought that Nvidia was to blame for that! Well I was wrong, and after google-ing around all night I found what I was looking for! It seems that because of some reason known to Intel, and good relationship with ATI, Intel decided to include support for Crossfire.

Intel could be the real culprit behind the incompatibility between NVIDIA SLI and the new Conroe platform. Earlier NVIDIA has been blaimed for SLI not working with Intel's 975/965-based motherboards, but now it seems that it could be Intel that is stopping NVIDIA.

Here's the link to entire story
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