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Not letting Danger Den steal the limelight, EKWaterBlocks too unveils water blocks for GeForce GTX 295 reference design. The cool thing about this water block is that the middle part is made of acrylic glass and can be lit up with two 5mm LED diodes. The bases are made of electrolytic copper. Another cool thing is that is SLI ready which means fittings can be used on both sides of the block. It weighs 1.35KG and is priced at 124.96EUR to be available from 2nd February onwards.

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It seems the bad bump/underfill issue doesn't just plagued some of the Nvidia G84/G86 notebook GPUs. Their 3 year old "high end" G71M GPUs might suffer the same problem as well. For your information, notebooks with GeForce Go 7950 GTX, Go 7900 GTX and Go 7900 GS are based on G71M. Click for more details.

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Danger Den has produced a small batch of GTX295 blocks that have gone on sale on their website for US$189.95.  It is fully compatible with all the reference GTX295 cards out there.

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We first told you about the GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition card a while back and now we have some sneak peek on the card itself. What differs from the current GeForce 9600 GT cards is the PCB itself. We can expect this card to be priced cheaper (less than US$90 perhaps) than the current 9600GT cards due to some savings on the PCB department. As such, this move by Nvidia will put a squeeze on ATI Radeon HD 4670 card which is currently priced at around US$80.

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Palit GeForce GTX260 Sonic 216SP is the first custom designed graphics card based on the 55nm GT200 GPU. The memory is clocked at 2.2GHz with a core frequency of 625MHz. The card's dual fan cooling system comes with two PWM fans and three heat-pipes that allows the card to be clocked higher.

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Nvidia will soon roll out a special edition of the GeForce 9600 GT card with lower power consumption. This card is known as GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition based on the new 55nm G94-350-B1 core. The reason why Nvidia called it Green Edition is because its core voltage is 0.1V lower than the current 55nm G94 cores thus reducing power consumption further. However, it has similar specs to the current 9600 GT lineup with 650MHz core and 900MHz memories. To check whether if the GeForce 9600 GT is Green Edition, it comes with a device ID 0x0624 where the current lineup is 0x0622.

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LEADTEK announces its latest WinFast GTX 260 EXTREME+ with a new graphics card packaging design. This card has 216 shader processors and is clocked at 602MHz for the core.

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Recently, we revealed the 40nm desktop GPUs lineup from Nvidia and now we will reveal their 40nm mobile GPUs lineup for this year to give you a better picture. Nvidia naming scheme for mobile side is pretty confusing, let alone the number of re-branding and renaming taking place but we have compiled a nice table to make it easy for you to understand.

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According to some documents VR-Zone has seen, Nvidia is preparing move to 40nm process technology for their top to bottom GPU line-up by Q2 next year. This transition to 40nm will first take place with their high end GT212 GPU in Q2 follows by the mainstream GT214 and GT216 as well as value GT218 in Q3. Read more to find out.

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Nvidia apparently has a solution to the problems faced by many in their notebooks powered by GeForce 8M series, that is, to encourage the OEM/ODMs to buy their new problem free chips. Of course, this doesn't solve the issues faced by current users and there won't be any replacement for them.

Nvidia has come out with a new GPU called NB8E-SET which is essentially NB8E-SE with the new underfill. NB8E-SE is used on many notebooks most commonly advertised as GeForce 8700M GT, GeForce 8800M GS or GeForce 9650M GS. NB8E-SET (G84-751) uses the new Hitachi underfill and is clocked at 625MHz core and 128-bit 800MHz GDDR2/3 memories similar to the current NB8E-SE.

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SPARKLE today announced the SPARKLE GeForce 9600 GT  and GeForce 9800 GT Low Profile 512MB GDDR3 Graphics  Cards, providing powerful 3D performance and HD experience to HTPC enthusiasts with low profile design and native HDMI support.

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Out to get the most eye candy in the latest games regardless of the cost? Or looking to squeeze every last drop of value out of a limited budget? VR-Zone's guide will help you to maximize your enjoyment regardless of how much you are prepared to fork out...

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As you can see that a slew of GeForce GTX 295 previews are out today, some 20 days before its official launch at CES next month. Certainly, it is a tried and proven method employed by the red camp previously. The main motive is to deter people from purchasing the HD 4870 X2 this Christmas and wait for their GTX 295 card instead. Apparently, the previews now are restricted to certain benchmarks that Nvidia wants the reviewers to test only. No card for you if you don't follow their rules :) Probably, those are the ones that offer the best performance advantage over the 4870 X2 but you will get a clearer picture when the NDA is officially lifted on Jan 8th.

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Users with notebooks equipped with NVIDIA GPUs now have the added flexibility of downloading upgradeable graphics drivers directly from NVIDIA.com so they can immediately take advantage of new features, improved application compatibility, and performance optimizations. Starting today, customers with GeForce® 8 and 9-series GPUs or Quadro NVS-equipped notebooks can download a BETA version of the drivers from http://www.nvidia.com/. Customers will be able to download a WHQL-certified version supporting all GeForce 7, 8, and 9 series and Quadro NVS series notebook GPUs early next year.

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