Nvidia Graphics cards for dummies

Which to choose?? there are like tons of Nvidia graphics card out there in the market and the price varies from $30 - $1000.

In this short post i will summarise what you would need to look out for when finding a Nvidia graphics card. I am sorry for those ATI fans because i never purchase or study ATI graphics before. :P

Nvidia launch their cards in series according to their Graphics processing technology as while as architecture.

Nvidia Cards often range from 100-900

100 - 400 == Low end card (Cost around $30 - $100)
500 - 700 == Mid range card (Cost around $100 - $250)
800 - 900 == High end card ($250 onwards)

After dealing with the series, there are also abbreviation for each card on each series namely

GS, GT, GTX

GS == Worst in performance
- They are normally a scaled down version of the GT and thus contains lesser pipelines, slower clock speed etc
GT == Normal performance
- Normally the flagship card of the series where it will usually be extended to GTX
GTX == Best performance
- Best in the class

Overclocked versions
It is actually to increase the clock rate of the card so that it out performs if default performance, some graphics card dealers like Asus have some overclocked cards which will perform better then the default card (Common sense) but it usually needs some time for card dealers to release it.

Mobile versions
Those are mostly scaled down integrated cards found in laptops/notebooks or even desktops. Their performance will be much lesser then their non-mobile counterpart.
For example :
9600m GS < 9600GS
So when you are buying a new so called "Gaming"notebooks please do not only see the series of the graphics card installed however check if whether it is the Mobile version as you will cry after purchase it and find that it cannot run certain games or programs. Some laptops/notebooks have a full non-scaled down version of the card but it will cost you around $3600 or more.

Slice of the world in this week. Though my blog is relatively new, i am happy that some of the world apart from Singaporeans have already found my blog via search engines. Hmmm doesnt this chart seems familiar? Its like our workforce :P. Most of the search is problems under vista wireless so if you want to help yourself create a wireless environment using vista and skip the spiking here is the article again.
Also please post comments so that i could maybe help if you encounter any problems.

ITSHOW 09

IT show 09 will be held tomorrow 12/3/09 until Sunday 15/3/09. It will be as usual a platform for companies to showoff their products and try to get as much recognition as they could. Of cause they are off to sell their products but the publicity is far-more important then 3 days of sales.

I might be going there myself to see what IT companies now have to offer and hopefully find some good bargains on the way.

Tips

• Application software(Not games) are usually on low prices so for those who wants to get you hands on them get them at these shows. Anti-malware programs, backup programs etc
  
• Some tech gadgets might be over priced especially those newer products so you might want to think twice before buying them on impulse.
  
• Laptops/Desktops are usually packed with alot of freebies to go with, however despite the awesome sales and promotions be careful on what you spend on and check on the technical details before you buy one.
  Example : $999 for a desktop with free printer and monitor might have a substandard motherboard which will at most last your computer for a year before it gets obsolete and you find it hard to upgrade as the motherboard doesn't support them(Bad investment because of buying on impulse) and also the printer itself might be cheap but the ink cartridges will definitely be expensive.
  
• Do your research before going down to the show. Things are not always cheap there, you might find yourself buying items which you do not need or are substandard in quailty.
  

Conclusion
ITShow is merely a platform for companies to increase their publicity image for their products and popularity in the Market, It is definitely not the place where things are sold lower then in any other shops so do your research before going down to increase your chance in getting the right deal.

Mini desktop to stay?

As the laptops shrunk in size, so do the desktops. They are getting smaller and smaller in size to target the wider and larger market which mostly comprises of causal computer users. Recently Dell have introduced their own Mini PC, although they are not the first to introduce it, they are keen to fight with Asus whom already launched their own Mini PC.

I will do a comparison between them both.

1) Design

Dells Hybrids

Nice colours
Ultra compact speaker-like design



Asus Eee Box B202



Sleek and ultra slim
Design looks more to a Wii



2)Technical Specification & Price

Dells Hybrids
Processor: Intel® Pentium® Processor T3400 (2.16 GHz) or Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor T8100 (2.10GHz)
Operating system: Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic/Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium
Chipset: Mobile Intel GM965 Express
Memory: 1GB DDR-2 SDRAM/3GB DDR-2 SDRAM
Monitor: No monitor/18.5" Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor (S1909WFP)
Hard Drive: 250GB* Hard Drive/320GB* Hard Drive
Optical Drive: DVD Burner*
Graphic Card: Integrated Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 Graphics Card
Networking: 10/100/1000 Mbps LAN
Priced at $999/$1299

Asus Eee Box B202

Processor: Intel Atom N270 (1.6 GHz, FSB 533)
OS: Linux System / Hardware Compatible with Windows XP
Memory: DDRII 512 MB / 1 GB / 2 GB
Storage: 80 GB / 120 GB / 160 GB / 250 GB
Chipset: 945GSE + ICH7M
Graphics :
On-board Intel GMA 950, 1600 x 1200 maximum resolution
Networking:
10/100/1000 Mbps LAN, 802.11n WLAN, Bluetooth optional
Priced at USD$269-299

Pros and cons

1) Dells Hybrids

Pros :
DVD/CD functionality with Blueray support
Supports HDMI
Good Intel driven graphic card on a mini desktop
Spacious harddrive
Saves electricity

Cons :
No in built Wi-fi adaptor so you must buy your own
Slow processor on the core bundle unless upgraded to dual core
Little ports
Expensive for a desktop of this specification

2) Asus Eee Box B202

Pros :
Very slim and tiny, about the same size as a book
onboard wireless lan
adequate storage
Cheap, the same price as a Sony PSP

Cons :
Slow processor with small FSB
Slow Chipset
No CD/DVD drives
May come with Custom linux destro but can support XP OS

Conclusion
If i am a casual PC user i will choose the ASUS Eee Box even though the processor is slow and there is not CD/DVD drives because mainly i will just use it to do my spreadsheets or to surf the net. These does not require alot of processing power and the price is very reasonable. It might be too cheap to be honest. $299 for the best in the Eee Box B202 line. For Dell Hybrids even though it has CD/DVD drives, faster processer and blueray support it does not justify the price of $999, a $700 difference between the two. Using the $700 if i buy the Asus box i could have easily buy a portable DVD drive under $20. $999 is about the same price as a regular desktop which specification surpass those of the Hybrids.

Before you get "Con" by the Sales person that is promoting mini desktop, think properly as you might be throwing your money to waste.

STREET FIGHTER 4

The street fighter series have captured the hearts of hardcore arcade fans all around the world, movies have been made about it and a new street fighter movie is coming out talking about chun li and how she have gotten leg muscles . What excite me is the new Street Fighter game SF4, OMG its like the best fighting game you can have and a PC version is coming out in summer.

Here are some of the screenshot for the game.


Console versions of the game all gets ratings above 90 and personally i feel that there are few fighting games that can rival SF in terms of story/Characters. So get your gamepads/keyboard out and exercise your fingers and plams(do some finger ups and plams jumps) cause you will be punching buttons for your "KOs" soon

HADUKEN!!<<<<@@>>>>

CBox is the culprit for popups on your blogs

Tired of having stupid popup advertisments in your blog and do not know why it happens?
Well i am tired of it so i when through a full line by line code reading on the layout and widget coding of blogger. I was fustrated at the end of the sweep because i cannot find any malicious coding.
I used Ccleaner to clear my cookies and cahce once again so that i could see the popup again and try see if i can find anything from it from the source. I have popup blocker installed so when the popup comes up i can see the intermmediate advertising company which yeild this line of html coding

http://ad.yieldmanager.com/iframe3?lAYAADtAAADIlBoAX9cIAAIAAAAAAP8AAAACDwICAAOmUwAAYI0DAACpDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKOwchVWt9A.SOFqphVe1D9mJr8jOtzbP2dmrgoS-eA.AKB0yIU35z8BAHi8yEnsPwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAelFbZPBn9AWIAWYRumGcu5vQtSekpY4uXzOOtAAAAAA=,,http://www3.cbox.ws/box/?boxid=2168636&boxtag=3133&sec=form

See something familiar? Well its cbox, and finally i see which widget is the root of the problem and removed it. Popups are now gone and i am happy with it. Its a shame on Cbox because on the website they only states that they will put advertisment inside the Cbox and not popups.

"Upgrading means you're paying for your own bandwidth and space on our servers, so there's no need to put ads on your Cbox." Quote from Cbox FAQ

Well i do not like pop-ups and i think neither will you guys so i removed it. Any comments post them in the respective comment pages. ;) Or go to my facebook, its easy enough.

There is a reason why even my facilitator for operation systems said that even some paid anti-virus software are crap. Here is one example.


This Hint is taken from my Spybot - Search and Destroy program which i use regulary to "clean" my computer. I loled at it. I personally think that it is a design flaw in the anti-malware program which lets anti-spyware program categorise it under their spyware defination. Casual PC users might delete those file when scanning and thus impair the function of the anti-malware program

Read reviews before you buy anti-virus program, do not go for name nor price, go for real world perform

Random Post on OSes

They said mac is barging into the PC computer market by storm via their innovative, sleek and powerful design that every mac user loves. But hey check this out










I have about 222 visitors since the day that i have created my blog and these are the stats calculated for this week. 88 Windows users,1 windows(Unknown Version/prob unofficial) 3 mac and 1 Linux

Windows win this round due to the domination of the OS market! YAY!
Why market domination? Because people simply to not what to change their way of life on the computer and Windows is perhaps the most user friendly OS ever made. Mac OSes... well unless you are a photographer or design student there are nothing really you can do on it. Sure it has lower chance of getting viruses however this is prob because virus makers are simply too lazy to create viruses or mac and less to say for Linux.
Virus makers usually do things to harm people and when caught they may even become celebrities in the Computing world. This fact made them target market leaders so that they can cause the most widespread damage and thus made known easier. (Rather then doing a virus they attack mac OSes and no one knows about you :S ) 90% of the people uses Windows and although some claimed that Windows Vista sucks people inevitably needs to upgrade and here comes Windows 7! :P

End of random PC digest