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The world is at its knees because of financial crisis threatening to surpass the great depression of '29 and at times like these even the large manufacturers do change their marketing strategies in order to cope. AMD and NVIDIA gained momentum by releasing products that have high price/performance ratio, and while the…
Recently NVIDIA released their new core named GT200 and the GeForce GTX 260 and GeFroce GTX 280 cards based on it. The core is manufactured by the 65nm process unlike AMD ones that are for quite a while now made by the 55nm process. Now NVIDIA released GT200b, or in other words the old GT200 core only with smaller…
Between 2006 and 2008, NVIDIA hat a two years of comfortable rule over the video card market always maintaining their positions a step ahead of AMD/ATI in technology, performance and price. AMD were always big, yet review results inevitably assured the users of the superiority of some GeForce family model. Until the…
The release of the new generation of AMD cards in the form of HD4800 and GT200 for NVIDIA was rather interesting event, since the both companies were preparing new cores for their cards, cores promising ultra-high performance and even better price /performance ratios. The competing models were released almost…
The last two years were extremely rough for AMD. The company began trailing a lot behind Intel with their brilliant Core 2 processor, and if that wasn't enough, upon acquiring ATI, things didn't work out with video cards either. When at the end of 2006 NVIDIA came with its G80 core and the DirectX 10 videocards based…
One of the newest NVIDIA models, the one named GeForce 9600 GT, began to gather popularity because it's excellent price/performance ratio. In the ModReactor lab we have already tested few models of this card, including a non referent factory overclocked card, but all of them were with the NVIDIA recommended 512MB of…
NVIDIA's second attempt at dual core cards is at hand. It's named GeForce 9800GX2 and here in the ModReactor laboratory it's tome to check how well they did this time, considering their failure of a first attempt at it with the GeForce 795O GX2 an the recent AMD flop in the form of HD3870X2. The past 2007 was intense…
This is another ModReactor review of the first model of the new 9-th NVIDIA series - 9600 GT. This time the card in the focus of our attention is made by the well known XFX, its exact model is XFX GeForce 9600GT 512MB DDR3 PV-T94P-YDF4. Now let's see what the company has to offer and at what price. Let's begin with…
Since its unveiling, NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT reaped laurels amongst the mid class videocards. Understandable, companies manufacturing such hardware rushed to push out wit a myriad variations based on 9600GT's chip - G94. MSI, leaders in the field had presented 6 different cards (some of them with 2 variations each) and…
In this ModReactor review we will be having our first view at NVIDIA's newest core - G94. Yep, the first card of the 9th NVIDIA series - GeForce 9600 GT is in our lab. Undoubtedly NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT offers the best price/performance ratio ever since it's release. It offers performance similar to the one of the…
Earlier this year NVIDIA released their new G92 core and the 8800 GT card based on it, winning this way the battle in the mid-high range cards sector, waged against AMD and their HD 3870. NVIDIA had no competition against the 8800 GTS 512 that followed, but the Canadians took the middle sector with the successful…
The end of the past year was crucial for the both leaders in videocard business - NVIDIA and AMD. NVIDIA managed to release their new G92 core and the 8800GT based on it, at the end of October. Few weeks later AMD released RV670 or as it's more known to the end user - HD 3870. Bad thing for AMD was not only that they…
After the AMD's screw-ups through the past year, HD3800 was supposed to be AMD's saviour in the middle-high range of video cards. Did it succeed? Let's find out. Background Since acquiring ATI, AMD are not flourishing. The company is in it's deepest crisis through the few past years, loosing shares in the processor…
November last year was crucial for the two graphic card leaders. The NVIDIA's G92 core was expected to provide incredible performance delivered on tempting price. The same applied to RV670, which was to be ATI's "salvation" to return good profit and to gain on NVIDIA at the high-performance market. Back in November…