DailyTech got their hands on the new G80 from Nvidia, and evidently it cooks. Aging gamers like me can only hope it drives the cost of last-gen cards down a little bit, so I can play Railroad Tycoon and X-com with 4x AA. Anyhoo, here’s the link to the article. It cooks – about 50% quicker than [...]
Video Cards
Additional NVidia GeForce Go Card Drivers
Published by October 11th, 2006 in Drivers, Hardware and Video Cards. 0 CommentsEarlier today, Zach posted about updating drivers for various NVidia Go cards and the frustration that usually comes along with that process. All notebook manufacturers who use these cards generally provide an ‘optimized’ driver that works well with the card and plays nice with the rest of the system. In many cases though, these drivers [...]
Updating NVidia Drivers for Go Graphics Cards
Published by October 11th, 2006 in Drivers, Hardware and Video Cards. 0 CommentsSome of you with laptops using NVidia’s various Go chipsets will understand the frustration involved when trying to update to the latest drivers. My laptop, a Toshiba Tecra M2 with discrete GeForce Go5200 graphics, is a decent little gamer at the KOTOR/Guild Wars/Quake 3 level. The problem is that Toshiba’s latest driver update is for [...]
It has now been almost 3 weeks since I tore my machine down to upgrade. While in the middle of that operation, and much to my dismay, I found that the video card I had ordered was an AGP card and not PCIX as I had apparently assumed (Doh!). Well, my new MSI 6800 video [...]
Always read the item specs before you order…
Published by July 28th, 2005 in Hardware and Video Cards. 0 CommentsWell, so much for the Geforce 6800LE idea. I’m sure it would have worked had we read the specs for the cards before we ordered them. Turns out, they only make that card in an AGP form factor (which was clearly stated on the Newegg item page had we taken the time to read it). [...]
Well, the 64 bit processing age is upon us, so I guess it’s finally time to take the plunge. I’ve been holding off in the hopes of jumping to dual core, but when the fair mistress Opportunity knocks on the door, I seem to be too weak to turn her away. As it happens, Zach [...]