Posted 12/11/07 at 01:12:41 PM by Michael Brown

Previous generations of Nvidia GPUs (AMD’s, too) presented buyers with a difficult choice: You could get great 3D performance for gaming or you could offload high-definition video decoding from the host CPU, but you couldn’t have both. Nvidia’s 8800 GT not only changes that situation, it does so at a competitive price.

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Posted 10/29/07 at 07:42:04 PM by Michael Brown

Not content with owning the high end of the market, Nvidia turns it skills to dominating the budget segment, too.

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Posted 09/10/07 at 05:09:03 PM by Michael Brown

ATI and Nvidia have long entertained us with their game of GPU one-upmanship. Each time ATI thought it had a part that could beat Nvidia, Nvidia moved the goalposts. But now that ATI has been reduced to an AMD brand, it seems its engineers no longer want to play.

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Posted 02/22/07 at 01:38:44 PM by Michael Brown

New toys arrive in the Lab as frequently as political scandals erupt in Washington, D.C., a phenomenon that renders the Maximum PC staff a fickle, jaded bunch. But in the absence of any competition from AT—er, AMD—we remain intrigued by videocards based on Nvidia’s 8800 series GPUs. And so this month, we take a close look at EVGA’s e-GeForce 8800 GTS.

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Posted 02/06/07 at 03:45:01 PM by Michael Brown

The first wave of DirectX 10 cards are here, but just how well do they preform with DX10?

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