Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Graphics Card ( VGA Card)

For those of you who like to play games, graphics cards become a vital component in your computer. High-performance graphics card with a yearning for a gamer. For graphics card add-on, you have the choice between the two manufacturers namely ATI and NVIDIA.

ATI
The presence of the latest generation graphics card from this manufacturer, ATI HD 5000 series, adds a long line of ATI graphics cards to choose from. As usual, the ATI graphics card is divided into several classes, adjusted for the performance and price offered. In the high-end graphics cards populated with high performance with a higher price. For mainstream graphics cards populated with
performance under the high-end with a more affordable price. While low-end graphics cards populated with the most affordable price with slower performance of more than two classes on it.

Class high-end ATI HD 5000 series graphics cards filled out by the ATI HD 5970, HD 5870 and HD 5850. Graphics cards are sold at a price range $ 300 to over $ 500. While the mainstream classes in the range of prices below the $ 200 charged by the ATI HD 5770 and HD 5750. For low-end series ATI HD 5000 series, is still present today. For high-end ATI HD 4000 series, ATI HD 4870X2 there. Unfortunately, this graphics card is hard to find in the market. While the mainstream classes at a price below $ 200, filled in by the ATI HD 4890, HD 4870, HD 4850 and HD 4770. Meanwhile, low-end ATI HD 4670 inhabited, HD 4650, and the underlying series is now sold under $ 100. When compared to when ATI HD 4000 series first came out, graphics card of this series have experienced significant price declines. One cause of this is the emergence of the ATI HD 5000 series.

NVIDIA
Graphics cards from NVIDIA was divided into high-end, mainstream, and low-end. Some residents of high-end graphics cards from NVIDIA GTX 200 series. Some of them are the GTX 295, GTX 285, GTX 280, GTX 275 and GTX 260. Graphics cards are sold at a price range above $ 200 to $ 500. For the NVIDIA GTX 280 graphics card is enough hard to find in the market because it has been present successors of the NVIDIA GTX 285. For the NVIDIA GTX 260 itself there are 2 variants with 192 stream processors and 216 processors stream. Some NVIDIA GTX 260 is currently in the market using 216 stream processors, no longer uses 192 stream processors.

For mainstream classes at a price below the $ 200 charged by some old players and new players. GTS 250 NVIDIA, 9800 GT, and GT 240 GDDR5 new players. GT 240 has several new features not found in previous series. Such as DirectX 10.1, GDDR5 memory, and the new 40nm fabrication technology.
While the graphics card NVIDIA low-end that is in the price range under $ 100, also filled some old graphics card and new players. Such as the NVIDIA 9600 GT, 9500 GT, 9400 GT, GT 240 GDDR3, GT 220, GT 210, and previous generation graphics cards.


Note:
NVIDIA "Fermi"
The presence of DirectX 11 features in Windows 7 pushed the graphics chipset manufacturer to remove the graphics card that fully supports this feature. ATI has initiated the first step by releasing the graphics card chipset codenamed "Evergreen". Chipset graphics card that is the motor that is the latest generation graphics card ATI HD 5000 series.
Although to date NVIDIA has not released their latest generation graphics cards to the market, NVIDIA has set the graphics card chipset codenamed "Fermi" to compete with ATI. This latest generation graphics cards are expected to attend around the beginning of 2010. Besides being equipped with the latest features, candidate for the latest generation of NVIDIA graphics cards will be equipped with a higher specification than the previous generation.

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