NVIDIA has readied Quad SLI for the enthusiast, opening it up for official support in their latest driver release. Does quadrupling your gaming power make sense though?

Only a month or two ago Guru3d took a peek at the NVIDIA's GeForce 7950 GX2 where we tried to enable Quad SLI with the help of two GeForce 7950 GX2 graphics cards. At that time the results were quite a catastrophe and Guru3D halted that "mini" review within one page as there was only one game really supported. Not exactly NVIDIA's fault, Guru3D was just curious. Back then Guru3D stated that they very much doubted if NVIDIA would get Quad SLI running... ever.

NVIDIA's strongest SKUs in the market today is undoubtedly the GeForce 7900GT and 7600GT. We already saw what the GeForce 7600GT, both reference and higher clocked SKUs can do in our last round up. The performance difference, while present, is minimal. The use of a 128 bit memory bus restrains the card from getting enough bandwidth to really stretch its 12 pixel shader units to its maximum potential.

There was reason enough for NVIDIA to release an nForce 500 series for Intel's processors (Core 2 Duo compatible) for a lot of reasons, pretty much .. Conroe rocks and you need to have a platfrom ready for that !. Today guru of 3d will be taking a brief look at the reference NVIDIA NFORCE 590 SLI mainboard. It by all means is test done with a beta reference board that is not 100% finished as the final product will eb available at the end of August. Nonetheless .. even with this very Beta reference mainboard I was shocked by the combination of Conroe and NFORCE 590 SLI for Intel, in very positive way I must add.

DRAMeXchange indicates the raise in working frequency in GPU is the main force to push the development on GDDR memory, providing a higher memory frequency to fulfill the need of bandwidth. Samsung and Hynix have already give GDDR4 samples to ATi and nVidia.

Ageia recently released its PhysX card to the public, and it didn't take long for Nvidia and ATI to in turn present their own take on how to best calculate physics.

Thinking upgrading that Dell XPS M1710 to the latest Intel Core 2 Duo mobile CPU down the road? We experiment with our Core 2 Duo in the M1710 to see what's possible.

PC Perspective

You've seen the Core 2 Extreme X6800 and the Athlon 64 FX-62 duke it out in our Core 2 Performance Review, but now we're offering you a glimpse into the future as we try to determine what the upcoming Core 2 Extreme X6900 and Athlon 64 FX-64 will bring to the table, performance-wise.

Intel's Merom processor brings Core 2 Duo to the mobile world. Will it make as big of an impression as Conroe has on the desktop?

Some of the readers of Behardware.com have sent e-mails about a possible risk of delay of image displayed on LCD monitors compared to CRTs. The website checked this information and found that they were right!

It looks like AMDs strategy against Intels Core 2 Duo is getting clearer. Just like Intel the Athlon 64 will get a shared Cache for 2 (or 4) cores, but AMD won't use the L2 cache for this, they will add a L3 cache with 2 MB or more.

Does the Intel Core 2 need fast DDR2 memory to perform at its best? In this article Madshrimps compares different memory speed and timings to provide you with the answer. Read on to find if cheap memory is enough to feed the Conroe

XtremeSystems have found the first screenie of AMD's 65nm AM2 CPU.

We have exclusive information on ATI's upcoming RD600 CrossFire Xpress 3200 IE chipset for Conroe ? Overclocking anyone?

Our overclocking Buddy from Taiwan, Coolaler has been up to some Liquid Nitrogen mischief again! This time, he acheives some very impressive scores in 3D Mark 2001 with his Intel Core 2 Duo X6800 running 3D at 5200MHz!

VR-Zone

CoolerMaster has been sponsoring reviews and giveaways here at OCIA.net for several years now and we are pleased to be working with them again on what is easily the biggest giveaway news in site history. Each month this year, Coolermaster will be sponsoring a different giveaway here in the OCIA.net forums just for you guys! CoolerMaster is committed to giving back to the community as shown here by their efforts and generosity.

We got word that there will be three models of X1950, the first is the X1950XTX CrossFire edition, the 2nd is X1950XTX and there is a X1950Pro.

OCWorkbench

Futuremark, the leader in making 3D Benchmarks, has just opened up the floodgates to allow users to publish their Intel Core 2 Duo results. We have ran SLI @ x16 x16 with Intel Core 2 Duo and published some orthodorx SLI results using Futuremark Approved Drivers. Interesting results from a chipset you have not seen much of yet.

VR-Zone

With the outrageous performance of Conroe, we thought we'd round up some of the best heatsinks on the market for the LGA 775 socket. If you're looking to get a Core 2 Duo, check out our opinions on the best cooling options.

Bit-Tech

At last we are ending today with the definitive Multi-GPU World Tour as part 9 has been posted today on Guru3D.com The Definitive Multi-GPU World Tour is a collaboration between nine respected sites around the world to cover the entire ecosystem of products that make up the multi-GPU marketplace. In this comprehensive series of articles we cover the basics of implementing a multi-GPU setup and the technology behind it, what products we feel represent the best performance and feature-set for each price point, and how each setup performs using 60+ applications and benchmarks.