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I think it depends on what resolution your gaming at, and how much certain features like DirectX 10, PureVideo HD / AVIVIO, power draw and noise matter to you. I dont think the larger memory bandwidth really helps unless you game at larger resolutions and use AA. I am not sure of how much of a price difference there is now though. I've found some benchmarks comparing the 8600 GT to the X1950 Pro, just remember that the Gigabyte model comes a bit overclocked. http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?ca...3&card2=466 http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2114753,00.asp I also learned that the Gigabyte comes with V-Tuner3, an overclocking utility. PIC:

Active Virus Shield, free 1 year subscription just provide an email address, this is an AOL branded version of Kaspersky AV. http://www.activevirusshield.com/ http://download.nullsoft.com/avs/AVS_v25.exe

Just wanted to inform I got the Gigabyte 8600 GT for my Shuttle only two days ago and so far I am very pleased with it. PROS: It handles Oblivion on 'Ultra High' @ 1280x1024 very well, RoboBlitz (Unreal 3 Engine) also runs excellent at this resolution. It fits in the Shuttle with no difficulty and temperatures are pretty good, seems to swing from about 55C up to 70C after prolonged gaming. Taking the case cover off only reduces temps by 1 or 2C for the most part. Never have to worry about the bearings in a fan wearing out and the card subsequently dying. CONS: I also tested this card in Vista but was disappointed by the approx 20% loss of fps in CS:S and the blurring of colors that reminded me of watercolor paintings. The PureVideo HD included with the latest Vista drivers requires the installation of a 3rd party decoder, such as PowerDVD to function, however I could not get hardware acceleration for mkv's containing x264 video. THOUGHTS: nVidia is supposed to release a new driver for XP, which adds PureVideo HD support. Vista drivers should continue to improve.

I got the 8600 GT (yesterday) because it has twice the # of Pixel Shaders and ROPs as the HD 2600 XT will (allegedly) have, HD 2600 has more shaders than 8600 GT but they are at a lower clock speed, nVidia has better drivers imo, nVidia handles OpenGL and linux better, Purevideo > AVIVO imo, and when it finally is released the HD 2600 XT will probably cost more than a comparable 8600 GT. I know they are different but look at the disappointment of the HD 2900 XT being beat by the 8800 GTS, a card that costs a little more than half as much. Is this due to architectural problems or driver problems, time will tell.

You can say that again, tried Vista again the other day, switched back to XP because of poor in-game image quality and fps and much slower h264 playback. But back on topic, awesome changelog nuhi, 1.4b be working good for me. Thanks!

http://www.osnews.com/story.php/18047/Ubun...lpha-1-Released

Awesome thanks for the news

Thanks for uploading it to divShare Shark007; no wait and it downloads fine

both sites are down

use MrNxDmX's addon with nlite http://www.ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4289

http://www.windowclippings.com/ Window Clippings precisely captures the transparency (alpha channel) of a window, including the shadow: Best screenshot tool IMO

CubicExplorer - http://www.cubicreality.com/ce/about Deskloops - http://www.xilokit.com/deskloops/deskloops.html Floola - http://www.floola.com/modules/wiwimod/ ObjectDock - http://www.stardock.com/products/objectdock/ Pitaschio - http://pitaschio.ara3.net/index.htm Power Dimmer - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/powerdimmer/ Revo Uninstaller - http://www.revouninstaller.com/index.html UltraExplorer - http://www.mustangpeak.net/ultraexplorer.html Yahoo! Widgets - http://widgets.yahoo.com/ YamiPod - http://www.yamipod.com/main/modules/home/ Yammy - http://yammy.sourceforge.net/

http://pc.ign.com/articles/789/789321p1.html thats about the whole article; hope its true.

Should work on other hard drives, basically a free version of Acronis True Image. Both appear to be the same program and are about 103~104MB download. http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?loca...000dd04090aRCRD http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?loca...000dd04090aRCRD

XnView can also show txt files as thumbnails, you can change the thumbnail size in options.

http://www.starcraft2.com/ http://www.starcraft2.com/screenshots.xml

the 8600GT is about twice as powerful as the 8500GT in terms of synthetic benchmarks. The 8600GT uses around 50-70 Watts from what I remember and does not require an additional power connector. Comparison at GPUreview: http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?ca...3&card2=514

0.43 is out

there is documentation included in the zip package you download. There is a TXT, DOC, and HTML file.

MAY 16 2007 cdrtfe - http://cdrtfe.sourceforge.net/ nCleaner - http://nkprod.ro/ncleaner/ DriveImage XML - http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htm HDDScan - http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/ HD Tune - http://www.hdtune.com/ Scratch - http://scratch.media.mit.edu/ SelfImage - http://selfimage.excelcia.org/ Switcher - http://insentient.net/index.html SIV System Information Viewer - http://siv.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/ doPDF - http://www.dopdf.com/ crawlpaper - http://sourceforge.net/projects/crawlpaper/

Does that motherboard have an nForce chipset? If so go download install the nForce drivers and report back.

^ in short: quantity != quality

ATI 65 nanometre RV630 is not ready yet http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39540 nice pictures :-)

SIW - System Information for Windows (freeware) http://www.gtopala.com/ Driverpacks.net http://driverpacks.net/DriverPacks/ also look in the forums there for "save_hwids.exe" its in Bashrats signature.

HOME: http://dm2.sourceforge.net/ DOWNLOAD: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=134504 This is like PowerMenu with more features and still being worked on. FYI you can hide the tray icon and open the options window with a key combo.