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10 Most Popular Graphics Cards July 2009

JeGX — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:21:08 +0000

I recently took the time to play with SQL requests and FurMark scores database. I extracted two lists: the 10 most popular graphics cards for the last 30 days and for the last 12 months. I also...

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NVIDIA ForceWare 190.38 BETA Graphics Drivers With Power Management Capabilities

JeGX — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:15:00 +0000

NVIDIA has just released a new set of graphics drivers in beta version for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, and 200-series desktop GPUs and ION GPUs. This driver also installs PhysX runtimes...

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Asus Bravo 9500 Graphics Card Can Auto-Adjust the Brightness of Your Monitor

JeGX — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:08:44 +0000

Asus’s Bravo 9500 is a GeForce 9500 GT graphics card. What’s the bonus of this card? Answer: ASUS Splendid Plus. This technology uses a light sensor (where is it???) to determine the...

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Need a Barbecue? Try GIGABYTE GeForce 9800 GT Silence Cell

JeGX — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:17:09 +0000

This GIGABYTE’s product is equiped with the Silent Cell technology, giving us a massive and passive cooler, nicely designed for barbecue… Features of the GIGABYTE GeForce 9800 GT...

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GeForce GTS 250 Overclocking Tutorial Update

JeGX — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:22:36 +0000

Shader too high overclock I just updated the GeForce GTS 250 Overclocking tutorial with two better videos showing artifacts when shader clock or memory clock are too high. Memory too high...

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Coder Girl: An Ode to Female Programmers

JeGX — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:30:38 +0000

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MSI Radeon HD 4890 Cyclone Series Graphics Cards

JeGX — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:16:40 +0000

MSI should release in the next few weeks its new Radeon HD 4890 based Cyclone series graphics cards. There will be 3 models: R4890 Cyclone: GPU @ 850MHz and Memory @ 3900MHz R4890 Cyclone OC: GPU @...

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Direct3D 9 Programming: Graphics Pipeline Poster and Free PDF Book

JeGX — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:26:45 +0000

Direct3D 9 is still an up to date technology like OpenGL 2.x even if we can read many news about Direct3D 10/11 or OpenGL 3.x. So if you want to dive into Direct3D 9 prgramming, I guess you’re...

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Tutorial: GeForce GTS 250 Overclocking

JeGX — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:04:46 +0000

CAUTION: Overclocking can damage your graphics card (not covered by your warranty) so use the information of this post at your own risk. Today, a small hardware tutorial: how to overclock a GeForce...

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Javascript Depth of Field Effect

JeGX — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:21:44 +0000

This a nice demo done 100% in Javascript and one of the purpose is to show the speed of Google Chrome Javascript engine. You can launch the demo directly HERE The demo runs faster on Google Chrome...

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NVIDIA CUDA Programming Best Practices Guide

JeGX — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:05:18 +0000

NVIDIA has just released the CUDA C Programming Best Practices Guide. This guide is designed to help developers programming for the CUDA architecture using C with CUDA extensions implement high...

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OpenAL Summer 2009 Update!

JeGX — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:17:10 +0000

OpenAL, the cross-platform 3D audio API has been updated. New binaries and SDK are available. OpenAL Binaries Installer Updated Summer 2009 : Version 2.0.7.0 The OpenAL Installer for Windows will...

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NVIDIA GeForce G 210 and GT 220 Graphics Cards

JeGX — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:18:27 +0000

NVIDIA GeForce G 210 NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 GeForce G 210 and GT 220 are NVIDIA’s first 40nm desktop graphics cards. They will be only available in prebuilt (OEM) systems. GeForce G 210 main...

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CausticGL API Details: Ray and Frame Shaders

JeGX — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:25:44 +0000

CausticRT is a hardware+software solution to accelerate raytracing. The CausticOne is the hardware side of CausticRT and offloads all raytracing calculations from CPU/GPU. CausticGL is the software...

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Techland: Chrome Engine 4 Video-Demo

JeGX — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:18:38 +0000

Very nice tech video-demo of the Chrome Engine 4! Chrome Engine 4 is a complete game development framework developed by Techland (leading Polish computer game developer). Chrome Engine 4 is...

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Tutorial – Discovering Blender Part 1: Introduction to Blender’s Interface

Satyr — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:35:57 +0000

Since Blender 2.49a has been released recently, I think it is time for me to make a short and I hope clear introduction to it. Trying to use a new program is most of the time a painful process,...

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CPU-Z Wants To Kill GPU-Z Supremacy By Adding Graphics Card Information?

JeGX — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:03:18 +0000

CPU-Z – Graphics – Performance level: 3D Applications The upcoming version of CPU-Z has a new tab: Graphics. This tab shows most important graphics card data such as clocks (core,...

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Volume Rendering Demo Accelerated by GPU

JeGX — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:19:30 +0000

Here is an OpenGL demo that shows a raycasting volume rendering accelerated by GPU. This demo uses voxel 3D datasets from computed tomography. The demo is based on the Linderdaum engine, an OpenGL...

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Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 Vapor-X With 2Gb of Graphics Memory

JeGX — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:54:24 +0000

Sapphire will release shortly a Radeon HD 4890 equiped with the dual slot Vapor-X cooler and offering 2048Mb of graphics memory. Here are some specifications of this new product: - GPU: RV790 @...

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FurMark 1.7.0: The Bad Boy of Graphics Cards Utilities is Back!

JeGX — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:05:24 +0000

Prepare your graphics cards for a hot summer! The new version of FurMark is here at last guys! After 4 months, it was time. You can download it here: FurMark, is graphics card stability test...

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