Archive for November, 2006

NVIDIA ForceWare 97.02 For GeForce 8800 Series Released

Monday, November 13th, 2006

NVIDIA has released the new ForceWare 97.02 driver which only supports Geforce 8800 series. Release highlights are:

Adds support for GeForce 8800 GTX and GeForce 8800 GTS GPUs.
New PureVideo technology features allows GeForce 8800 GTX/GTS to achieve a score of 128 in the HQV video quality benchmark.
Includes the new NVIDIA Control Panel.
Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0c and OpenGL® [...]

Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 Motherboard Review @ Xbitlabs

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

X-bit labs reviews the Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 motherboard for Core 2 Duo processors, powered by Intel’s P965 Express chipset. This board features a 1066 MHz Frontsidebus and a single PCI Express X16 slot, along with 6 SATA 3Gb/s connectors. The overclocking capabilities of this Gigabyte motherboard are very good, but it has some small issues, too. [...]

Zalman CNPS8000 CPU Cooler Review @ Madshrimps

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

Madshrimps reviews the Zalman CNPS8000, a compact and silent CPU cooler for Intel’s Socket 775 and AMD’s Sockets 754/939/940 and AM2. Madshrimps writes in the conclusion:
Available for approximately €/$35 the Zalman CNPS8000 is ideally suited for the office PC or HTPC, as long as you use the accompanied fan speed controller and set it to [...]

NVIDIA ForceWare 93.71 WHQL Available

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

NVIDIA has released new ForceWare 93.71 drivers that are WHQL certified. Release highlights are:

NVIDIA PureVideo HD driver with support for the following features:
Hardware acceleration of H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2 HD movie formats.
Video post-processing image enhancements.
Built-in support for HDCP content protection protocol via DVI or HDMI connectors.

You can read the full v93.71 release notes here.
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ATI Catalyst 6.10 WHQL released

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

ATI has released the new Catalyst 6.10 WHQL driver. Release highlights include:

Software driver support for the new products ATI Radeon X1650 Pro, ATI Radeon X1950 XTX and ATI Radeon X1300 XT
HDR + Anti-Aliasing support for The Elder Scrolls Oblivion
Intel 965 CrossFire performance increase

Read the full release notes here.
Download ATI Catalyst 6.10 WHQL.