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How NVIDIA made the 9600 GT gain extra performance .. secretly

L31mr0d · 2008-03-14 14:20:28

Source: Shady 9600 GT Interesting article. Although its a feature i've always thought should of been introduced earlier

14-03-2008 2:20pm

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L31mr0d

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Source: Shady 9600 GT

Interesting article. Although its a feature i've always thought should of been introduced earlier

The idea of implementing a mechanism that directly increases the GPU frequency (and performance) based on the PCI-Express base frequency is a great novelty. It has the potential to offer hassle-free performance improvements to a large number of less experienced users. Being able to adjust this frequency in most modern BIOSes is a big plus because it will be applied without any software installation requirement in Windows (or any other operating system - there is your Linux overclocking).

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#2 14-03-2008 5:53pm

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Thats been known for a while, and yeah its quite sneaky, having said that though simular stuff has happened in the past afaik from both manufacturers...

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#3 14-03-2008 6:08pm

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Ya, I already posted this last week in the graphics forum, here.
Sneaky trick, wouldn't expect anything less from Nvidia.

I posted the following before, hope it comes true:
An interesting situation developing ATM, Intel have been refusing Nvidia a licence to produce chipsets for their chips, consequence of this being no more nvidia motherboards, the 790i could be the last one, which leads to no more Sli as Nvidia wont allow it on any other chipset but theirs.

Intel are holding out and won't budge on this and serves Nvidia right for their own business tactics. It could eventually lead to Nvidia having no choice but to allow Sli on other chipsets in order to allow Sli to continue as a technology.

Would be amazing for us consumers, Sli on an Intel chipset motherboard. ATM this is only blocked at driver level.

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#4 14-03-2008 8:08pm

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Was going to move to graphics but it's there already so locking.

Edit: Merging

Edit edit: Bollix, I can't merge. Back to locking. Go post on the other thread.

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