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The main site that this blog is linked to, has put up a page with a list of places to download GeForce drivers. Sometimes it is so hard to find an old driver for an ancient video card and what makes it even more difficult is that some of those who do have the drivers try to profit off them or make you have to download some sort of “scanner” that does who-knows-what to your computer. If you know the specific brand of Nvidia card you have, say for example, you have a XFX video card, go to XFX’s website and try to find the driver you need there. That way you get the most specific driver possible for your video card.

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Face it, the recession is here and no one is buying properties…except for Nvidia, so you know they are doing good business right now.  Looking to expand their campus and headquarters, Nvidia recently purchased 25 acres of land adjacent to their existing empire around the Sam Thomas Expressway.  If you think the 24 hour on site dentist and modern cafeteria they have on their current campus is impressive, wait until they build their new digs.  The land was bought from the previous owners for 140 million dollars.

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Bling, bling. Word is coming out that MSI’s GeForce 9800 GX2, which will be available about a week and half from now, sports a price tag starting around $765.00. And that doesn’t even include the money you might spend for a big new computer case to fit this Xbox sized video processor. It will be hilarious when several years from now we look back with fond amusement at this video card. I can realistically imagine the Video cards of the future will be more than 20 times faster, 50 times smaller and cost a fraction of the price.

Keep in mind that MSI’s GeForce 9800 GX2 is overclocked and it supposedly can run circles around the Nvidia GeForce 8800 Ultra, so that is a reason for the huge price tag.

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Nvidia’s next mobile GPUs will finally be capable of DirectX 10. Is there really that big of a difference between DirectX 9 and DirectX 10? Judging from today’s DirectX 10 games there isn’t anything eye-poppingly different, but who cares, The GeForce 9300M and 9500M will be able to use the current DirectX.

Here are some specs for the GeForce 9500M GS

• Core clock at 475 mhz
• 32 stream processors at 950 mhz
• 512m of DDR3 memory at 700 mhz
• 128 bit memory bus

And the specs of the slower GeForce 9300M G

• Core clock at 400 mhz
• 16 stream processors at 800 mhz
• 256m of DDR3 or DDR2
• 64 bit memory bus

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How often do we see rumors come true? Financial analysts and industry observers believe there is a chance that NVIDIA’s CEO and Co-Founder, Jen-Hsun Huang might make a bid at acquiring AMD.  AMD’s stock has been tumbling down faster than Britney Spear’s career for the last couple of years.  I knew it was a bad move back when AMD bought ATI, you can’t have your hands everywhere and still expect to turn out a superior product (you hear what I just say, Google?) If Nvidia buys AMD/ATI, where will the video card competition come from? No where.  Nvidia would have a monopoly and if you thought these brand new 700 dollar video cards are expensive, wait until there is nobody to compete against.  Plus the development of GPUs will be slowed down a notch I’m sure no matter what anybody says.  I love Nvidia but I would like to see another company acquire AMD if they were to sell themselves out.

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This is a New Nvidia Fan blog and we will update it daily (we hope) with the latest information on Nvidia Video cards and all things related to the graphics card industry.

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Yes, this is a Graphics card, not an industrial ink toner.  What you see here is the upcoming Nvidia GeForce 9800 GX2.  Sources are saying it is 30 percent faster than Nvidia’s current top GeForce, the 8800 Ultra.

This is the Albatron brand that is being shown, but the other 3rd party manufacturers will be using the same size and shape as well.  The specs that is known so far about this monstrous beast is that it will use two 65nm GPUs and will have 256 Stream Processors in total.

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The Cubic Bacteria by Václav Pajkrt.

Nvidia held their first annual NVArt Digital Art Challenge, a contest where artists submit their CGI imagery of imaginary worlds and objects with the winners having been announced. First place went to Václav Pajkrt from the Czech Republic for his creation of Cubic Bacteria who wins 2 nvidia quadro FX 5500 Cards, a holiday package to San Francisco plus a meeting
with the Nvidia CEO. The price value for first place was over 16,000 dollars.

Here is the full list of winners.

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