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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Friday, April 6, 2007
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
Thursday, April 5, 2007
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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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
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
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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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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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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Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Geforce 8800 GTS 320 SLI report
Already with our Geforce 8800 GTS 320 report we briefly began to cut the topic SLI, since it interested us whether 8800 GTS 320 SLI system would be worthwhile itself and whether one could make the lost memory performance compared with the large 8800 models again. Today the day of the truth is, today goes we to the thing on the reason. We have 2. Geforce 8800 GTS 320 from BFG to the order posed get, so that we can answer these questions.
Already before the acquisition of a diagram map we considered 8800 whether we 8800 GTX, 640 MT 8800 GTS or nevertheless the 320 MT a variant to purchase to be supposed itself. The reason for long considering are apart from the different initial costs also the future use of the map. 8800 GTX under-demanded and bored GHz dual core system would be obviously with the today's Games in a 3. On other side 2 pieces would cost 8800 GTS 320 the same. But a SLI pays the system in this variant at all? Questions over questions, which one can answer only by measurements.
This article is translated from Austrian webpage, so some systax errors in this text can be easily found.
This is the link to translated page (google)
And here's the original link
Wrapping up on CeBIT 2007 - Intel P35 to support AMD Crossfire
Hi people
I was just surfing around the net, and thought that I've give you pretty much all details on SLI and news around it... but I've unforetunately read one article that dissapointed me! No it's not Nvidia it's Intel (again) :-(
I mean... why does Intel produces motherboards with Crossfire?! About 0.1% people use it! It's a waste of time and valuable pci/pci-e slots! Ah... I'm going home now, and this news really bothers me!
We expect AMD to announce Crossfire support for Intel P35 on the chipset's launch, if this Foxconn presentation slide is anything to go by at least.The Foxconn board we've snapped showing the Crossfire support looks suitably high-end, with support for up to 8GiB of DDR2-800, a 1333MHz front-side bus, Core 2 Quad and Fox One overclocking support.
We're not sure what IC they're using for IDE support, since the ICH9R I/O processor doesn't suppport any IDE channels (ICH8 was the first to drop it). Foxconn say pricing should be competitive with other boards with the same rough feature
DFI Launches LANPARTY UT NF680i LT SLI-T2R Series
This is a good news for all of you core2duo enthusiasts out there. DFI has just release nForce 680i LT SLI motherboard!
It looks like that DFI Corp. has released new motherboard featuring NVIDIA's nForce 680i LT SLI chipset and NVIDIA MCP55P southbridge. The LANPARTY UT NF680i LT SLI-T2R mainboard supports all Intel Core2 Duo/Quad/Extreme, Pentium D and Intel Pentium 4 processors with 1333/1066/800MHz FSB. There are also 3x PCI Express x16 slots: two x16 slots for SLI and one x8 for future physics cards. Click for more details..
Velocity Micro Gamers' Edge DualX Custom Gaming Computer
I know that you're probably tired of so many links and reviews of complete based systems (Alienware, Dell, Velocity Micro etc.) but it's just that there are so many reviews around the web, that it's a shame not to mention it....
When you are looking for an ultimate gaming PC there are not a lot of choices. It's not like you can go down to your local Best Buy or Circuit City and get a great gaming PC. At those retail stores you will find basic consumer systems, no hardcore gaming systems. So where do you turn if you want a top of the line gaming PC where you can choose the components inside and have it professionally built for you? Velocity Micro is one of the few companies out there that will do this for you. Today we will be taking a look at their Gamers' Edge DualX Custom Gaming PC. We will see how it performs against our test system and compare results to the price of each system.
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When you are looking for an ultimate gaming PC there are not a lot of choices. It's not like you can go down to your local Best Buy or Circuit City and get a great gaming PC. At those retail stores you will find basic consumer systems, no hardcore gaming systems. So where do you turn if you want a top of the line gaming PC where you can choose the components inside and have it professionally built for you? Velocity Micro is one of the few companies out there that will do this for you. Today we will be taking a look at their Gamers' Edge DualX Custom Gaming PC. We will see how it performs against our test system and compare results to the price of each system.
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CompAmerica Announces "Most Powerful Laptop on Earth": ORCA EXTREME
New Dual SLi Video Core 2 Duo Laptop exceeds capability of most desktops and all prior laptops.
Cranford, NJ April 2, 2007 -- CompAmerica's new ORCA EXTREME laptop can do anything an extreme gaming or CAD CAM workstation can do. Hence, CompAmerica has dubbed ORCA EXTREME: "the most powerful laptop on earth."
New ORCA EXTREME Laptops sport amazing new dual video adapter "as one" SLi technology based on up to twoVidia 7950GT series Video Adapters with up to 1G Video Ram. This remarkable combining of two video adapters into a single display, achieves unequaled video performance for gaming, cad cam, multimedia and graphics applications.
Cranford, NJ April 2, 2007 -- CompAmerica's new ORCA EXTREME laptop can do anything an extreme gaming or CAD CAM workstation can do. Hence, CompAmerica has dubbed ORCA EXTREME: "the most powerful laptop on earth."
New ORCA EXTREME Laptops sport amazing new dual video adapter "as one" SLi technology based on up to twoVidia 7950GT series Video Adapters with up to 1G Video Ram. This remarkable combining of two video adapters into a single display, achieves unequaled video performance for gaming, cad cam, multimedia and graphics applications.
The unit ships with a choice of Intel Core 2 Duo CPUs up to the Extreme 2.93GHz X6800, and up to 3 Mobil Hard Drives of up to 200GB each supporting Raid 0, 1 and 5. The Raid support insures that data integrity is maintained despite single drive failure. The new Core 2 Duo Extreme X6800 achieves extreme performance, and despite being a so-called "desktop Core 2 Duo" also has amazing ability to conserve energy usage.
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
8-way SLI and Crossfire Power Supply (PSU) Roundup
This article is a bit older, about 9 months. But it's definately worth readin so you could decide which quality PSU you should buy to hav enough power for your SLI configuration.
When NVIDIA and ATI started certifying power supplies to work on their SLI and Crossfire gaming platforms a number of problems instantly popped up. The first issue was that ATI and NVIDIA only tested power supplies submitted to them, resulting in their list of approved power supplies being small. The second issue is that both companies test their certified power supplies on a ?current system?, not a high end platform running wide open on all cylinders.
A number of weeks ago a number of system integrators contacted Legit Reviews looking for stable power supplies to power their top end gaming systems. It turns out their systems were not working right with ?approved? power supplies and they turned to us looking for an answer to their problem. We then contacted Aerocool, Antec, Mushkin, OCZ Technology, and Thermaltake for SLI/Crossfire power supplies to see which ones could hang in our test systems.
A number of weeks ago a number of system integrators contacted Legit Reviews looking for stable power supplies to power their top end gaming systems. It turns out their systems were not working right with ?approved? power supplies and they turned to us looking for an answer to their problem. We then contacted Aerocool, Antec, Mushkin, OCZ Technology, and Thermaltake for SLI/Crossfire power supplies to see which ones could hang in our test systems.
Dell XPS 710 H2C
The XPS 710 H2C represents the pinnacle of Dell’s engineering, and is the company’s first true no-holds-barred gaming machine, so we’re looking for unparalleled gaming performance, stunning design, rock-solid stability, and exceptional tech support. At $5,500, if ever we expected a PC to be damn near perfect, it’s this one.
Dell has stated very clearly that it wants to compete with the other hardcore PC builders, and for a couple of years now we’ve been waiting for Dell to whip out the big guns and go toe-to-toe with the best the rest of the industry can offer. With the H2C, which is Dell’s first factory-overclocked gaming PC, it has finally thrown down the gauntlet – or at least answered the gauntlet that has been thrown down by the boutique integrators.
But anyone can build a PC with high-end specs and a modest overclock. Whether or not the H2C’s build quality, Windows build (Dell is notorious for bloatware), and tech support (it also has a spotty record in this category) can live up to the level of quality we’ve seen from other boutique builders remains to be seen.
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Dell has stated very clearly that it wants to compete with the other hardcore PC builders, and for a couple of years now we’ve been waiting for Dell to whip out the big guns and go toe-to-toe with the best the rest of the industry can offer. With the H2C, which is Dell’s first factory-overclocked gaming PC, it has finally thrown down the gauntlet – or at least answered the gauntlet that has been thrown down by the boutique integrators.
But anyone can build a PC with high-end specs and a modest overclock. Whether or not the H2C’s build quality, Windows build (Dell is notorious for bloatware), and tech support (it also has a spotty record in this category) can live up to the level of quality we’ve seen from other boutique builders remains to be seen.
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Purepower Express 250W
With each new generation of high-end video cards the demand for power just keeps growing. Not only does the separate video cards need more power, using two in SLI or Crossfire mode increases the power demand even more. It is of course possible to just buy a new more powerful PSU every time you upgrade but that is not always practical, especially if you have a PSU that you are happy with and do not want to have to replace.
With the release of the GeForce 8 cards from NVIDIA and R600 from AMD we also have another problem. While two PCI-Express power cables were enough to power two previous generation video cards in SLI or Crossfire, we now need 4(!) cables if we happen to be able to afford a second GeForce 8800GTX or R600.
High end multi-GPU solutions - part 2 -The NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX and GTS in SLI
Hi people!
I can only say that I'm very happy to make this post! Since in my yesterday post I've shown you the comparision of Ati's X1950XTX vs. Geforce 7900GTX. And the battle was neck to neck... but I was a bit dissapointed that the test didn't include Geforce 8800 GTS/X series of cards in that test! Luckily that's is now changed - and after a few hours of google-ing, searching around various tech sites, I was able to find a good article comparing Geforce's 8800 GTS/X with Ati's X1950XTX in single mode and in dual mode!
You can go into details on every benchmark, and I think that pictures are are speaking more that anything else.
Several weeks have passed since we first began our analysis of NVIDIA’s new generation of DirectX 10 video cards. Launched on November 8, 2006, the GeForce 8 series have become the leading performers out of all single GPU solutions, NVIDIA and ATI alike, available for retail. Today our analysis will center on multi-GPU configurations of the GTX and GTS models of the 8800 series. At the present moment, these are the only video cards available that support Microsoft DirectX 10.
For the past two years nearly all high-end solutions introduced by NVIDIA have supported SLI technology. This holds true for the 88000 GTS and GTX. In SLI, consumers are allowed to connect two 8800 video cards that are the same models. It is not required, however, to have the video cards be produced from the same manufacturer.
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