Nvidia Geforce 9400 GT

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Nvidia has just released another low end graphics card, the Geforce 9400 GT shares many of the same optimizations as the rest of the 9 series, the chipset has 16 visual effects cores but is fast enough to double the performance of the Geforce 8400 from just a year ago.
The GPU has a 550MHz core [...]

Nvidia Getting Out of the Motherboard Chipset Business

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Rumor has it that Nvidia may be getting out of the motherboard chipset business.
“AS the story is told, Nvidia called a meeting earlier this week with its motherboard partners to gauge support for it continuing to develop chipsets in the future,” DigiTimes said. “The motherboard makers’ response? Silence.”
Details of the whole situation are few and [...]

All G84 and G86 Mobile Chips Defective

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Nvidia has announced that “significant quantities” of previous generation GPUs and mobile communications processors were defective and that it would take a $250M charge against earnings to repair and replace affected chips.
Nvidia didn’t say specifically what chips were faulty or how many are faulty but according to The Inquirer every single G84 and G86 GPU [...]

Nvidia Introduces Geforce GTX 280 and GTX 260

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Nvidia has officially introduced its new Geforce GTX 280 and GTX 260 graphics cards. The GTX 280, which will be Nvidia’s new high end GPU, is supposed to be 50% faster then the 8800GX2 when in its overclocked AMP! Edition.
The GTX 280 has 1GB of GDDR3 memory with a 512-bit memory interface, this means you’ll [...]

Turn Your Geforce 9600 into an 8800GTS With Bios Modding

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If you have a certain kind of Geforce 9600 like this one, all you have to do is flash the BIOS and it will unlock the unused shader units and the 2 memory units that Nvidia has deactivated. To simplify this you are adding 128MB of RAM and some extra hardware pipelines only by modifying [...]

Nvidia Coming With Two CPU Lines

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In case you haven’t heard already Nvidia is planning to get into the CPU market and word recently came out saying that they would actually have two lines of CPUs that should be coming out on or shortly after June 3rd.
No one at the Inquirer was actually invited to this week’s reviewers day which means [...]

Nvidia Changing the 9900s Name to GTX 200… Why?

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Nvidia recently informed its partners that they would be changing the name for the upcoming Geforce 9900 series to the GT200 series. I don’t know if this was to confuse us but it surely will.
So now, what was previously referred to as the Geforce 9900 GTX is now the Geforce GTX 280 (oh, how wonderful [...]

Nvidia to Acquire Ageia

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Ageia, the not-so-successful company that makes physics processors for PCs will be acquired by Nvidia. The announcement came on monday, along with this press release.
AMD was considering purchasing Ageia last November but since they were still dealing with the ATI acquisition the decided that it wasn’t the time to do so.
Both Nvidia and ATI have [...]


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