Monthly Archives: May 2010

GeForce 9600GT Video Card

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The NVIDIA GeForce 9600 video card chip set is one of the newest form the trusted IT manufacturer NVIDIA. This is NVIDIA’s ninth generation chip set and is good for all of you video needs. This card uses the the most modern interface PCI-Express 2.0. And with NVIDIA SLI technology (not offered on all brand names) you double your performance just like have dual core in you your video processor. This chip set is offered by several different manufactures From names like Gigabyte, Sparkle galaxy and OCZ just to name a few. This is a very fast chip set, Games really love this chip set on all brand names runs games like COD4, Fallout Goty at high settings. Fans are known to be a little noisy on some brands, and the low profile versions are known to run hot so it would not hurt to add some more fans to your Computer case. Different versions of this card come with different memory configurations and core clocks, also available ports vary from card to card. The fan speed is controlled by the drives and therefore makes the Cards a little loud until the said drivers are loaded into the operating system.

Personally i believe this is a really good chip set that everyone can enjoy from gamers to video enthusiasts and developers, however, i would do my homework to make sure that you get the features you want if just selecting by the chip set

name alone you may not get some of the really cool features listed. I really thing the Open source community would really enjoy this chip set as well seeing as how NVIDIA has great support for LINUX. And don’t forget with being SLI ready you are really future proofing your hardware because when you feel like you don’t have the horse power you need just buy a another and slap it in your box and away you go.

Geforce GTX 275 Video Cards

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This graphics card gets an excellent overall review! This is a brand by the manufacturer “BFG Tech” that is the most common product in the Geforce GTX 200 Series. So I will go over a review of this product.

There is great image quality and media playability. It is very reliable and stable when overclocked whilst under even the most heaviest of loads. Though, you might want to make room in your case, so make some measurements before purchasing this card for it is quite large; approximately 4-inches longer and somewhat taller than the older video cards that users had to replace.

It is also great for budgetary reasons compared to the latest and most recent cards. As far as noise is concerned, it runs smoothly and rather quietly.

It’s very good for your hardcore gamer and you can pretty much play any game without any crashes nor lag. As an example, the graphics intense game “Crysis” was playable just fine with all the graphical settings turned all the way up!

There aren’t many complaints but there are some things to note. Adjustments might need to be made. For instance, this card doesn’t self-adjust it’s speed to compensate for efficient cooling of the card, so you might want to download an application known as “Nvidia’s Ntune” program where you can go in and make the necessary adjustments in the application; make the settings for around 65-70% when running games for an ideal temperature. Also, you might want to provide a decent amount of case space to allow for decent airflow and circulation to optimize cooling in the case.

Other things to note, for any kind of resale, the warranty is non-transferable and is only a valid for the original purchaser. The artistic design of the heat sink is impressive as well as good packaging and attention to detail with great customer service and technical support.

Review of the Radeon HD 5750

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People who bought Radeon HD 5750 are delighted from its performance. Comments like “it’s a tank”, “tens bucks out of ten”, “runs perfectly”, “the card is incredibly fast” are all over the internet.

Modern games like Modern Warfare 2, Doom 3 and UT 3 are a breeze to play on this terrific graphic card. This card is loaded with power; it can run games like Crysis on full settings.

All this graphics power needs worthy power supply to satisfy this giant’s appetite. A branded power supply of at least 600 watts is recommended.

ATI has positioned this card close to Radeon HD4850 and Geforce GTS 250. The GPU supports Directcompute, multi threading, Hardware Tessellation and shader 5.0 extensions.

One other big feature of this card is support for ATI Eyefinity, which allows single card to be connected to up to six monitors. Multiple monitors are give fantastic experience to gamers as well as people who want to multiply their work productivity many folds.

This card is loaded with advanced technology, power and premium features required to experience immersive game play. Radeon HD5750 supports DirectX 11, which enables you to have realistic visuals and mind boggling HD gaming experience.

Radeon HD5750 comes with GDDR 5 memory that gives you the speed and responsiveness from its ultra high bandwidth. ATI CrossFireX technology allows you to put multiple graphics card in the same system, giving you ultimate scalability.

A 40nm core at its heart and dual slot cooler heat is not a problem is this slot. During tests it never crosses 70C. When idle it is so cool that you would not feel much heat while touching it.

This card supports excellent acoustics. Even under full load you will hardly hear it pumping that much graphics power. When it comes to power consumption, this card has the best per watt performance in the market.
For its price the ATI Radeon HD5750 performs really well but if you can spend a little more go for ATI 5770.

The card has better performance than the competition. It’s efficient, runs very quiet, supports DirectX 11, can be coupled with other ATI cards, has very good cooling solution, and most card manufacturers give lifetime warranty.