


If you've been holding off on an upgrade for a while, there's no reason to continue if a gaming addiction is pulling at your sleeve. The selection for mid-range cards right now is ideal, and anything you pick up will deliver good performance for the money. The best card for the buck right now might be the HD 4870, and we take Palit's version for a spin to find out why.
NVIDIA's SLI won't be available on X58? Think again! The company has just announced 'native' support on select X58-based motherboards, all without the use of their own chipset. Dual-GPU configurations will be enabled without a bridge, while the higher-end offerings, including a potential Quad-GPU, will.
One of the more exciting third-party demonstrations we saw at Intel's 2008 Developer Forum was by a little-known company called Lucid, who promises highly-efficient multi-GPU performance scaling via their unique "Hydra Engine" technology. We take a look at Hydra Engine, and what it means for ATI's Crossfire and NVIDIA's SLI.
Both Intel and NVIDIA have lots to say about their respective GPU architectures, as well as the competition's. Partly because of this, there are numerous misconceptions floating around about both Larrabee and CUDA, so we decided to see if we could put to rest a few of the most common ones.
AMD has gone too long without a real high-end graphics card to compete with the competition, but they're done with the pity, and prove it with the HD 4870 X2, which becomes the fastest graphics card the planet has ever seen. It may cost more than the competition, but its end performance easily negates that premium.
| Title | Author | Date | Categories |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA's PhysX: Performance and Status Report - Part 2 | Rob Williams | August 6, 2008 | NVIDIA-Based GPU |
| Intel Opens Up About Larrabee | Rob Williams | August 4, 2008 | Video Cards |
| Palit GeForce GTX 280 1GB | Rob Williams | July 10, 2008 | NVIDIA-Based GPU |
| NVIDIA's PhysX: Performance and Status Report | Rob Williams | June 27, 2008 | NVIDIA-Based GPU |
| AMD Tunes Back In with All-In-Wonder HD | Rob Williams | June 26, 2008 | AMD-Based GPU, TV Tuners |
| ASUS EAH4850 512MB | Rob Williams | June 25, 2008 | AMD-Based GPU |
| Splitting The Atom: NVIDIA Tegra | Rob Williams | June 2, 2008 | Video Cards |
| Palit GeForce 9600GSO Sonic 768MB | Rob Williams | May 22, 2008 | NVIDIA-Based GPU |
| ASUS EN9600GT Silent 512MB | Rob Williams | May 5, 2008 | NVIDIA-Based GPU |
| ASUS EN9800GTX 512MB | Rob Williams | April 9, 2008 | NVIDIA-Based GPU |
| Gigabyte 9600 GT 512MB | Rob Williams | April 7, 2008 | NVIDIA-Based GPU |
| ASUS EN8800GTS TOP 512MB | Rob Williams | April 2, 2008 | NVIDIA-Based GPU |
| ASUS EN9600GT TOP 512MB | Rob Williams | March 31, 2008 | NVIDIA-Based GPU |
| Matrox TripleHead2Go Digital Edition | Greg King | March 18, 2008 | Video Cards |
| ATI TV Wonder HD 600 PCI & HD 650 Combo USB | Nate Marion | February 28, 2008 | TV Tuners |
| Palit GeForce 8800GT Super+1GB | Rob Williams | February 27, 2008 | NVIDIA-Based GPU |
| ASUS EN8800GT TOP 512MB | Rob Williams | February 25, 2008 | NVIDIA-Based GPU |
| Palit GeForce 8600GT Super+1GB | Rob Williams | February 19, 2008 | NVIDIA-Based GPU |
| ASUS EAH3870 X2 1GB | Rob Williams | February 18, 2008 | AMD-Based GPU |
| DisplayLink - Multi-Display Setups with USB | Rob Williams | January 24, 2008 | Video Cards |
| Sparkle Calibre P850+ 8500GT 512MB | Rob Williams | August 21, 2007 | NVIDIA-Based GPU |
| Gigabyte 8600GTS 256MB Silent Pipe 3 | Rob Williams | August 13, 2007 | NVIDIA-Based GPU |
| eVGA e-GeForce 7900GS KO | Rob Williams | June 18, 2007 | NVIDIA-Based GPU |
| Hauppauge WinTV HVR-950 | Greg King | May 3, 2007 | TV Tuners |
| Sapphire X1050 and X1550 | Rob Williams | March 5, 2007 | AMD-Based GPU |
| ASUS EAX1950PRO 256MB | Rob Williams | December 12, 2006 | AMD-Based GPU |
| ASUS EAX1650XT 256MB | Rob Williams | December 5, 2006 | AMD-Based GPU |
| PowerColor X1650 PRO | Greg King | November 29, 2006 | AMD-Based GPU |
| ASUS EN7950GT HTDP 512MB | Rob Williams | November 21, 2006 | NVIDIA-Based GPU |
| ATI Radeon x1950 Pro Preview | Greg King | October 17, 2006 | AMD-Based GPU |
| Ageia PhysX: First Look | Greg King | May 5, 2006 | Video Cards |
| Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 | Greg King | May 2, 2006 | TV Tuners |
| AGEIA PhysX.. First Impressions | Greg King | March 28, 2006 | Video Cards |
| PowerColor X1600 XT BRAVO Edition | Rob Williams | March 13, 2006 | AMD-Based GPU |
| eVGA 7800 GT PCI-E 256MB | Rob Williams | August 22, 2005 | NVIDIA-Based GPU |
| BFG PCI-E 6800 GT OC 256MB | Rob Williams | June 15, 2005 | NVIDIA-Based GPU |