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NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT @ Hot Hardware
DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Tuesday

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
@ TweakTown
@ PC Perspective
@ Hot Hardware
@ Guru3D

Motherboards
ASUS P5Q Pro P45 Motherboard @ Hardware Canucks
ASUS P5Q-E Motherboard @ HardwareLogic

Memory
Kingston 4GB PC2-6400 HyperX Memory @ Virtual-Hideout

Video
ECS GeForce 8800GT 256MB @ Phoronix
Palit GTX 280 @ OCC
GIGABYTE 9800 GT Zalman Edition @ TweakTown

Cases
Thermaltake VH6000BWS Armor+ Case @ HardwareLogic

Cooling
Cooler Master Hyper Z600 CPU Cooler @ DriverHeaven
Thermalright True Black 120 CPU Cooler @ PC Perspective
ASUS Triton 79 Amazing Heatsink @ Frostytech.com

Power Supplies
Tuniq Ensemble 1200W Power Supply @ Bigbruin.com
Be Quiet! Dark Power Pro 650W @ bit-tech
Antec TruePower Quattro 1000W Power Supply @ Tech Lobby

Storage
Thecus N5200B Pro Network Attached Storage @ Overclockers Online
QNAP TS-209 Pro II @ PC Review
Maxtor OneTouch 4 Mini 320GB @ Techgage
QNAP TS-409 PRO Four Bay NAS Network Attached Storage System @ Tweaknews.net

Networking
D-Link DGL-4500 Xtreme N Gaming Router @ Sharky Extreme

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Tweaktown
By MrBowmore on 7/29/2008 2:08:33 PM , Rating: 5
Tweaktown and adblock does not compute. *Deleting Tweaktown from favourites*




RE: Tweaktown
By nlr_2000 on 7/29/2008 2:15:38 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
Deleting Tweaktown from favorites

+1


RE: Tweaktown
By Golgatha on 7/30/2008 5:17:28 PM , Rating: 2
+2


RE: Tweaktown
By abhaxus on 7/30/2008 2:49:41 AM , Rating: 2
as a user of adblock for firefox I think it's pretty lame to call attention to deleting a page 'from your favorites' when it doesnt comply with your preferences for a webpage's use of ads. I love adblock, but if a webmaster wants to call me out on my use of a tool that kills some of their ad revenue I will certainly disable ABP to read their page if I really want to read it. What harm do ads really do? The only reason I have abp is for those pages which are not exactly tech review sites...


RE: Tweaktown
By Chocobollz on 7/30/2008 2:35:25 PM , Rating: 2
I wonder, what ads? :/ I'm using Opera 9 here and there's no sign of ads.. or any popups and no, I'm not using any addon popup-blocker or anything, just the one which come with Opera. Maybe its time to switch browser then? :)

Seriously, I've been on FF campaign for like 4 years and I feel like in the end, FF is so common, there's nothing so special about it. I even don't know why would I still using it? And at the same time, I hate Opera.

But then, when I try Opera, I love it and I feel that Opera is so much better than any other browsers on earth. And don't tell me that FF is the fastest browser on earth because if you have these internet connection like I have (16 KB/s down, 4 KB/s up), then you'll know how it feels between the 3 (FF, IE, and Opera).

Just for example, I've done test for many times, when my bandwidth is being full utilized (because I'm downloading with download-manager and 8 threads), and then trying to browse a webpage at the same time, the score for the 3 will be like: 10-3-1, means that IE would open it in 10 minutes, FF in 3 minutes, and Opera in just 1 minute.

First time I saw that, it make me shocked! I don't know what they've done but its so cool! And don't mention about Opera's sibling, the Opera Mini, it is simply the best mobile browser on earth! :) And also, peoples seems to undervalued Opera widgets, but I think, if you use Opera, you wouldn't need any other. When I use FF, I still need IE (to save a webpage in MHT format for example). Yeah, I know, there's an FF addons that will do the job, but their quality doesn't too good, believe me, I've tried them before. And Opera, it have native support for MHT file-format since a long time ago.

With all those features Opera has, I don't think I need any other browsers, because there's really no other browsers!

Someone: "Hey, have you heard about FF or IE?"
Me: "Firefox? IE? What's that? Never heard!" :D

// Just my 2 cents :)


More 9800GT Reviews
By homerdog on 7/29/2008 1:02:10 PM , Rating: 6
RE: More 9800GT Reviews
By ImSpartacus on 7/29/2008 1:48:57 PM , Rating: 2
At least the idiots of the world won't "upgrade" their 8800GT's to 9600GT's or something.


RE: More 9800GT Reviews
By xsilver on 7/29/2008 10:52:04 PM , Rating: 4
Is there any point to having a card below that of a 9600gt/hd3850 nowadays?

I mean they are around $100 or below.
whats the point of getting a 9500gt or "upgrading" your x300 to a 7900gtx second hand even?

Should make it real tough for anybody who has an old card to sell theirs. The resale value has been totally shot by the high performance of these new "mid range" cards.


By Arese on 7/29/2008 2:35:51 PM , Rating: 2
A bit of funny on the third page of the 9500GT Guru3d review, Silly guru3d... crossfire on a 9500GT!

"Once the card is installed we startup windows. We installed our driver, rebooted and that was it. No need to tag Crossfire active in the drivers or anything. "




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