NVIDIA Releases Drivers for Windows 7 RC1
April 30, 2009 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Tools
Coinciding with the release of Windows 7 release candidate 1 (today for MSDN and Technet subscribers and on the 5th for the laymen), NVIDIA has released drivers for the OS. The package comes in 32-bit and 64-bit flavors The tech-heads over at Anandtech declare version 185.81 “much more polished” than 185.71, released for the first beta version of Windows 7.
Why is this development important? Well, anyone wanting to run their NVIDIA graphics cards properly on Windows 7 will obviously need this. Which cards are supported? Let’s take a look at the release notes (a more detailed version is available here):
This …read more
Your Video Card Buyer’s Guide for Spring 20
April 3, 2009 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Desktops
Unless you don’t believe what the folks over at Anandtech have to say (and they know their stuff), their new video card buyer’s guide for this North-Hemispherean spring will be quite useful. Especially since it’s got recommendations for a variety of price points:
Price
Product
$75
ATI Radeon HD 4670
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
$100
Wait for a month!
$150
ATI Radeon HD 4850
$165
ATI Radeon HD 4870
$180
An ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB
NVIDIA GTX 260 Core 216
$180 – $280
Errr…
$280 – $400+
ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 2GB
Hmmm… looks like ATI’s winning the current round of the never-ending battle between the maker and its arch-rival NVIDIA. According to Anandtech lately, that’s a …read more
