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- AMD Unleashes Six-Core Desktop CPU
- WD Doubles Capacity of Fastest SATA Drive
- Nvidia Announces Blazing GeForce GTX 480, 470 GPUs
- SanDisk's SSD As Rapid As It Is Reliable
- OCZ Launches Limited-Edition SSD
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Features

- PC Buyer's Guide for Gaming Enthusiasts -- January 2012
- PC Buyer's Guide for Entry-Level Gaming -- January 2012
- Build Your Own Gaming PC Guide -- Nov. 2011
- PC Buyer's Guide for Gaming Enthusiasts, August, 2011
- July Entry-Level Gaming PC Guide

Buyer's Guides

- PC Buyer's Guide for Entry-Level Gaming -- January 2012
- Build Your Own Gaming PC Guide -- Nov. 2011
- February High-end Gaming PC Buyer's Guide
- November Value Gaming PC Buyer's Guide
- September Extreme Gaming PC Buyer's Guide

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  • We won't list the entire spec sheet here; instead we're going to give you a brief run-down of the features:

  • 32 MB 5ns SDR SDRAM
  • 256-bit internal data transfer bandwidth
  • 350MHz RAMDAC
  • AGP 4x/2x/1x with fast writes
  • S-Video TV-Out
  • Optional flat panel output
  • Peak fill rate of 480 million bilinear filtered, multi-textured pixels
  • Up to 15 million triangles per second at peak rates integrated transform, lighting, setup and rendering engines

    Video Acceleration

  • DVD and HDTV-ready motion compensation
  • DVD sub-picture alpha blending
  • 5-tap horizontal and 3-tap vertical video filtering

    As DVD becomes more commonplace on new systems, these video acceleration features become increasingly important, so it's important to understand them.

    The DVD motion compensation is a performance feature that allows a significant drop in system requirements (PII 266 without dropping any frames). The TNT2 didn't have this, making the GeForce better in terms of DVD.

    DVD sub-picture alpha blending is a quality feature supported by the TNT2 and the GeForce (as well as the Rage 128, S3's Savage series and the TNT). You know all of those menus you click on for navigation in a DVD? Without sub-picture blending these menus would be dithered, crosshatched and downright ugly.





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