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GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost Review, SLI Performance Tested

GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost Review, SLI Performance Tested
  • Posted April 22, 2013, 3:16 AM by Steven Walton | Filed in TechSpot, Hardware
  • The GTX 650 Ti was our favorite $100 - $150 graphics card last year, as it thrashed the Radeon HD 7770, its direct competitor. Then last month AMD decided to attack the $150 price point with a new HD 7790 GPU, but the reaction didn't take long to arrive.

    Just a week later Nvidia officially countered by releasing the poorly named GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost, now the third graphics card to carry the GTX 650 name. At $170, the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost sits between the Radeon HD 7790 and the 7850. In terms of performance, we actually expect the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost to be a lot faster than the GTX 650 Ti, even when it's based on the same GK106 architecture.

Triple Monitor Gaming on a Budget: SLI vs. Crossfire vs. Single High-end GPU

Triple Monitor Gaming on a Budget: SLI vs. Crossfire vs. Single High-end GPU
  • Posted February 25, 2013, 4:22 AM by Steven Walton | Filed in TechSpot, Hardware
  • Considering next-gen cards are still months away, we didn't expect to bring any more GPU reviews until the second quarter of 2013. However, we realized there was a gap in our current-gen coverage: triple-monitor gaming. In fact, it's been almost two years since we last stress tested games at resolutions of up to 7680x1600.

    We're going to mix things up a little this time. Instead of using each camp's ultra-pricey dual-GPU card (or the new $999 Titan), we're going to see how more affordable Crossfire and SLI setups handle triple-monitor gaming compared to today's single-GPU flagships.

GeForce 310.33 beta boosts speed by up to 15%, adds profiles

GeForce 310.33 beta boosts speed by up to 15%, adds profiles
  • Posted October 23, 2012, 5:00 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Gaming, Software
  • Not to be outdone by AMD, Nvidia has published a fresh beta driver of its own, offering up to 15% more performance on certain hardware and software setups as well as new and updated profiles. Compared to the GeForce 306.89 WHQL released earlier this month, the new 310.33 beta...

Origin launches EON17-SLX laptop with SLI / CrossFireX support

Origin launches EON17-SLX laptop with SLI / CrossFireX support
  • Posted August 21, 2012, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Gaming, Mobile Computing
  • Origin PC has launched their most powerful gaming laptop to date, the EON17-SLX. The new system is SLI and CrossFireX ready with Nvidia GeForce GTX 680M and AMD Radeon HD 7970M graphics cards on tap depending on how serious you…

GeForce 304.79 beta brings TXAA, SLI profiles and bug fixes

GeForce 304.79 beta brings TXAA, SLI profiles and bug fixes
  • Posted July 3, 2012, 5:00 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Gaming, Software
  • You've probably barely broken in June's 304.48 beta drivers, but Nvidia has already prepared another update that brings "essential" changes for The Secret World players as well as other improvements and fixes. Perhaps the most notable change in 304.79 beta is the inclusion of TXAA...

GeForce 301.42 WHQL packs performance gains, new features

GeForce 301.42 WHQL packs performance gains, new features
  • Posted May 22, 2012, 5:00 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Gaming, Hardware
  • Nvidia's first GeForce R300 drivers have received Microsoft's approval, bringing a slew of new features and improvements, including some added since April's 301.24 beta. In case you missed that pre-WHQL update, it introduced various technologies such as FXAA, Adaptive VSync...

GeForce v295.73 boosts Skyrim performance up to 44.5%, tons more

GeForce v295.73 boosts Skyrim performance up to 44.5%, tons more
  • Posted February 21, 2012, 4:00 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Gaming, Software
  • Thumbing its nose at AMD, Nvidia has announced a "game-changing" GeForce update with many "exclusive" improvements, including a substantial performance boost in Skyrim. Today's release expands on December's 290.53 beta drivers, which raised indoor frame rates by up to 25%…

GeForce 295.51 beta fixes GTX 590 fan bug, adds 3D Vision profiles

  • Posted February 2, 2012, 7:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Gaming, Software
  • Nvidia kicked off the R295 driver family with a new pre-release build this week, adding or improving support for tons of games along with introducing several bug fixes. Among the problems is one that caused the GTX 590's fan to operate improperly. Under certain circumstances...

AMD adds Nvidia SLI support to its chipsets

AMD adds Nvidia SLI support to its chipsets
  • Posted April 28, 2011, 6:01 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Hardware
  • Nvidia has announced that it has licensed SLI to the leading motherboard companies for integration onto their upcoming motherboards featuring AMD's 990FX, 990X, and 970 chipsets. Asus, Gigabyte, ASRock, and MSI will be among the first motherboard manufacturers to offer…

AMD's 990X, 990FX chipsets to have SLI support?

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  • Posted March 31, 2011, 3:30 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware
  • According to a slide published by VR-Zone, it should get a whole lot easier to find AMD-based motherboards with SLI support. As you probably know, Nvidia was forced to shut down its chipset business after Intel forbade the GPU-maker from…

Nvidia GeForce GTS 450, GeForce GTS 450 SLI and Palit GTS 450 Sonic Platinum Review

  • Posted September 12, 2010, 11:45 PM by Steven Walton | Filed in TechSpot, Hardware
  • Nvidia landed an astounding blow to AMD last July pulling the GeForce GTX 460 out of nowhere and quickly taking the lead as the best mid-range graphics card on the market. It's only been a few weeks since and the…

TechSpot Weekly: GTX 460 SLI and Mafia II performance

  • Posted August 23, 2010, 6:22 AM by Julio Franco | Filed in TechSpot Weekly
  • First things first, thank you everyone who has contacted us for the news writer positions we posted about last week. If you haven't heard back from us yet, don't worry, we are just starting to send out emails today. Response…

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