When ATi didn’t counter nVIDIA’s GeForce4 Ti GPU release with a new product of their own earlier this year many people speculated that trouble was afoot in the same way that Matrox has been faltering. To counter the gossip, ATI publicly stated that they didn’t see any value in revising the old R200 (Radeon 8500) core to compete against nVIDIA’s new offering.
The fastest single graphics card in the world. This is the goal that NVIDIA was shooting for when they conjured up the GeForce 7950 GX2. Some might argue that a GeForce 7950 GX2, however, with its double stacked dual GPU powered PCB design, is anything but a single graphics card. We’d remind you that it does drop into a single PCI Express Graphic slot, no matter how you slice it. In fact there’s room for two and yes, for Quad SLI.
“We take an in-depth look at performances offered by the GeForce 8800 GTX and GTS while under SLI. What is the final result? An extremely expensive system that turns out to be the fastest solution on the market.”
ASUS EN8800 Series Scores 10,531 on 3DMark06 with First DirectX 10-Ready Graphics Cards
“ASUSTeK Computer Inc. (ASUS), the leading provider of graphics solutions, today announced the EN8800 series, which includes the world’s first DirectX 10-ready graphics cards and provides powerful video capability to score 10,531 on 3DMark06.”
The ASUS N6600GT Silencer is a fanless graphics card based on Nvidia’s 6600GT GPU. The N6600 used a unique heat pipe solution that mounted the radiator fins atop the card, on a rotating mechanism. Assuming you had a traditional CPU cooler and assuming it wasn’t too high, you could rotate the heat pipe radiator over the air flow from the CPU, which would keep the graphics card running cool.