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[news 28]

NVIDIA GTX 285 is scheduled for 8 Jan 2009 launch Link

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Posted on 12/16/2008 ( -at -) 10:21 PM

 

 

According to news we gathered, the next NVIDIA card that will be launch is

the NVIDIA GTX 285. The GTX 285 will perform better than the GTX 280 and is

scheduled to be launched on 8 Jan 2009.

 

Adopting P891 as reference design, GeForce GTX285 remains 10.5" length just

as GTX280. And its cooler is dual-slot designed with dual DVI and S-Video

output. The graphic memory carries on 1GB GDDR3, and its stream processors

is 240. The frequency of GeForce GTX285 remains to be confirmed, but its

performance can get up to 110% of GTX280.

 

We can regard GeForce GTX285 as GTX280 Overclocking Edition with less power

consumption. GeForce GTX280's Maximum Graphics Card Power is 236W, and it

requires a 6-pin and a 8-pin PEG Power Connectors. However, GeForce GTX285's

power consumption has been reduced to 183W with only 2 6-pin PEG power

connectors needed.

 

NVIDIA Atom chipset can support SLI Link

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Posted on 12/16/2008 ( -at -) 12:45 PM

 

 

As we all know, NVIDIA is slated to launch their chipsets to support the

Intel Atom processor for nettops and netbooks. These two chipsets, as

discussed before are variants of MCP7A and MCP79.

 

Although the current 945GM suits the Atom, it is a yesteryear production,

lacking in a lot of new functionalities. Only if they have G45, you would

get ClearVideo really working to decode H.264 with hardware acceleration.

The MCP7A/79 should be capable of PureVideo and thus this is one of the plus

point of the NVIDIA chipests.

 

As MCP7A and MCP79 supports Dual PCI-E x8, it is actually possible to enable

SLI support for the Atom based product, possibly in a Nettop. In addition,

MCP7A supports single channel 4x DDR2 533/667/800 and 6 SATA II ports, 12

USB, 1 PCIex1, HD audio, GbE LAN and 1394. Would final implementations of

NetPC uses all these features and throw in SLI support? What about Netbook ?

Would it be the next low cost Desk top replacement if it is cheap to

produce. It is also a good opportunity to get rid of those MCP7A which not

many desktop mainboard manufacturers were interested in when it was first

launched early this year.