We round out our series on multiGPU performance with a look at 4-way SLI and CrossFire. Who will come out on top? The answer will surprise you….
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Archive for February, 2009
MultiGPU Update: Finding the True Halo with 4-way
Saturday, February 28th, 2009
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How Much do Cost and Value Matter?
Saturday, February 28th, 2009
So here we are once again to find out what you guys think about some aspect of graphics hardware. In response to our recent articles on multiGPU scaling, set to conclude with a 4-way shootout coming soon, we have gotten a lot of feedback about cost and value.
Our attempt to distill some of the decision making process will always be clunky, as there is no…
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Posted in Blog Post By Derek Wilson, Tech News | No Comments »
So here we are once again to find out what you guys think about some aspect of graphics hardware. In response to our recent articles on multiGPU scaling, set to conclude with a 4-way shootout coming soon, we have gotten a lot of feedback about cost and value.
Our attempt to distill some of the decision making process will always be clunky, as there is no…
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Istanbul versus Nehalem, some extra notes
Friday, February 27th, 2009
My last post generated quite a bit of discussion, some of it based on misunderstandings. In this post I’ll try to make a few things more clear. In a previous post, I pointed out that there are a good indications that a dual Nehalem EP has a 40 to 100% advantage over Shanghai (depending on the application, based on the SAP and Core i7 workstation benchmarks).
If…
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Posted in Blog Post By Johan De Gelas, Tech News | No Comments »
My last post generated quite a bit of discussion, some of it based on misunderstandings. In this post I’ll try to make a few things more clear. In a previous post, I pointed out that there are a good indications that a dual Nehalem EP has a 40 to 100% advantage over Shanghai (depending on the application, based on the SAP and Core i7 workstation benchmarks).
If…
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EVGA X58 Classified - First Look
Friday, February 27th, 2009
We take a quick look at the EVGA X58 Classified and provide an early BIOS guide for getting the most out of this X58 board and others….
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We take a quick look at the EVGA X58 Classified and provide an early BIOS guide for getting the most out of this X58 board and others….
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VMware’s Fault Tolerance feature explained
Friday, February 27th, 2009
Now that the actual conference is behind us, and we’ve found our way back to the lab, it’s time to finish what we started. First off, an apology for our radio silence on day 3: our schedule turned out to be quite a bit more packed than we thought it was, so finding our way to the quiet of the press room proved to be more of a hurdle than originally…
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Posted in Blog Post By Liz van Dijk, Tech News | No Comments »
Now that the actual conference is behind us, and we’ve found our way back to the lab, it’s time to finish what we started. First off, an apology for our radio silence on day 3: our schedule turned out to be quite a bit more packed than we thought it was, so finding our way to the quiet of the press room proved to be more of a hurdle than originally…
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MSI X58 Platinum
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
Among MSI’s boards supporting the Intel Core i7 CPU, the X58 Platinum seems to have a good mix of features and performance all while being one of the most inexpensive LGA 1366 motherboards you can purchase..
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Among MSI’s boards supporting the Intel Core i7 CPU, the X58 Platinum seems to have a good mix of features and performance all while being one of the most inexpensive LGA 1366 motherboards you can purchase..
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F.E.A.R. 2 Gameplay Performance and IQ
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
F.E.A.R. 2 is here for all of you to get your Alma fix. But is Alma Wade the only terrifying part of the game, or will the performance make you want to crawl out of your skin too? We’ll find out with seven of today’s most popular video cards.
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F.E.A.R. 2 is here for all of you to get your Alma fix. But is Alma Wade the only terrifying part of the game, or will the performance make you want to crawl out of your skin too? We’ll find out with seven of today’s most popular video cards.
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 Quad SLI
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
We take a close look at gameplay performance with the GeForce GTX 295 Quad SLI and compare it to Radeon HD 4870 X2 CrossFireX. The results may surprise you and make you question whether Quad SLI or CrossFireX are worth investing in for gaming at this time. You will want to see what happened with GTA4.
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We take a close look at gameplay performance with the GeForce GTX 295 Quad SLI and compare it to Radeon HD 4870 X2 CrossFireX. The results may surprise you and make you question whether Quad SLI or CrossFireX are worth investing in for gaming at this time. You will want to see what happened with GTA4.
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Entry Level Power Supply Roundup
Monday, February 16th, 2009
Not everyone needs 1200 honking watts of power sitting in their new computer build. Not much has changed there. But what has changed is the enthusiast brands of power supplies that will now occupy the entry level PSU space. We have a few PSUs for you today that will not break the bank.
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Not everyone needs 1200 honking watts of power sitting in their new computer build. Not much has changed there. But what has changed is the enthusiast brands of power supplies that will now occupy the entry level PSU space. We have a few PSUs for you today that will not break the bank.
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XFX GeForce GTX 285 Black Edition
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
The XFX “Black Edition” GTX 285 is shipped with clock frequencies well above GTX 285 reference clocks. It is faster than anything XFX has previously produced and is poised to deliver an experience beyond what the GTX 280 could deliver. Does it have value, or is it just faster for the sake of being faster?
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The XFX “Black Edition” GTX 285 is shipped with clock frequencies well above GTX 285 reference clocks. It is faster than anything XFX has previously produced and is poised to deliver an experience beyond what the GTX 280 could deliver. Does it have value, or is it just faster for the sake of being faster?
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