General Comments on Video Cards

General Comments on Video Cards: Overclocking a graphics card (387 words)
by Mr Spanky - written on 28.11.00 (Very useful, 1287 readings)
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You mean you've never o/c your graphics card ? shame on you ;o) Most cards can be overclocked very sucessfully and with much less risk than o/c a CPU ! At worst it will freeze and you'll have to reboot. I will base this guide on Nvidia cards but the principles are the same for all. First does your card have a heatsink & fan ? If not then you'd better get one before you go any further. My Voodoo2 and TNT2 both had a heatsink but no fan. This is simply a matter of screwing a small CPU fan directly to it. My new GeForce2mx didn't have either, (they run cool anyway), so I bought a very good Thermaltake 'Blue Orb' from ocuk. ...

Nvidia GTS2 Review. (615 words)
by gogirl - written on 12.11.00 (Very useful, 305 readings)
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Nvidia GTS2 Review. Graphics cards come and go, and at the moment there are only 2 in the running, they being Nvidia with its 2GTS gpu (GTS= Giga-Texel Shading), and 3Dfx with its voodoo5 series. at the moment there is only one winning this war and thats Nvidia. The chip is far more superior than the 3Dfx chip (but not to take anything away from the voodoo cards there excellent but who wants 128mb ram and quad processor). Its the first card to offer per pixel shading, which in short is each pixel on your screen is now able to be shadded instead of having xx amount of pixels shaded in a block. This give's for far more realism to the rendered images on your ...

General Comments on Video Cards: Whats so good about the GeForce3... now? (520 words)
by JammyB - written on 27.03.01 (Very useful, 541 readings)
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The GeForce3 is a powerful card, and there is no denying that. With many features unavailable on any other card, coupled with sheer speed this card is a gamers dream. But, is it worth splashing out on? When its launched here it will be somewhere in the price range of £500. This card doesn’t come cheap. Whilst only available on the Mac at the moment (boooo), I know many people who are holding off from purchasing a less GeForce model in the hope that the GeForce3 fulfil their hopes and dreams. But is £500 worth it? Would £400 be worth it? As technology advances, software takes time to catch up. This will be particulary evident to early ...