As we know it, IT industry is growing vastly and all attention has been drawn to Graphic Card and Mother Boards as it technology wise. I recently subcribed to PC.COM magazine after one full year of being out of touch with the IT industry development and later found out my most loved PC magazine "CHIP" has stop its publication... **sob**...
Now as i read the latest publications, motherboards and graphic cards catch my attention every time. Graphic cards has come a long way since i used my first Nvidia GeForce 2 which im still using till today... U see... There are currently 2 manufacturer on the graphic card chips in the market that is ATI and NVDIA... This company has been there since the those days... At that time, graphic cards din come with a built in fan and onli had 32Mb of RAM on it... But now, things have changed big time... Let not even talk bout fans, graphic cards now r using thermal cooling, liquid cooling and things i've never heard of to reduce the heat produced... Speaking of 32MB of RAM?? If any graphic card comes with 32MB RAM, its a guaranty no sale!!.. ATI Radeon x1600 series of grahpic cards now comes with 512MB of RAM in it... If we talk bout a standard everyday use computer, 512MB of RAM is more than enough to ensure a fast performing PC. Even better, 512 MB of RAM is even enough to run VISTA!!
Lets not go so detailed into it... cuz i might jus confuse my self... let me show u how graphic cards has evolved...
The first card i use : NVIDIA GeForce 2 -> NVIDIA GeForce 3 -> NVIDIA GeForce 4 -> NVIDIA Geforce FX 5xxx Series -> NVIDIA GeForce 6xxx Series -> NVIDIA GeForce GO 7xxx Series -> NVIDIA GeForce 8xxx Series...
GeForce 2
GeForce 4
GeForce 6600
GeForce 8800GTX AquaTank
ATI Fans out there... forgive me... im onli doing the review on NVIDIA cards.... From GeForce 2 till GeForce FX 5700, the connection type to the computer was the AGP slot... later models were then released on PCI Express x16 slots.... if ur asking ur self... Wats the difference between AGP and PCI-E??? AGP slot speed can onli go up to 8X where else PCI-E slots can go up to 64X speed... But Graphic cards nowadays onli go up to 16X speed... Wat i would like to point out in this post (finally! after all the reading) is the cooling system the grahpic card has... In Geforce 2 to GeForce 4... u see a slight change in the fan size... Card manufactures tried to reduce the heat using bigger fans.. Unfortunately, the issue of heat still presist when they introduced Geforce FX 5700. So, they used heat-sinks to reduce the heat. Next in GeForce 6600 and 7600, they had to rely on big fans and copper heat sink.. I was astonished and shocked when i saw the GeForce 8800 card by ASUS where they used water cooling system... In the real world of machinery... water-cooling systems is nothing new.. But its such a known fact that electronic compartments r very sensitive to water or moist... This was wat caught my attention... In addition to that, they r also using a fan and heat-sink together...
Thats Not all wat Graphic Cards have come too... U'll see more when i show u the ATI cards..
