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Windows 7 Guide - Installing - Introduction
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Windows 7 will not help SSD sales much, say notebook vendors
Windows 7 will not help SSD sales much, say notebook vendors
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Nvidia's 40nm OEM desktop graphics cards pixellized
Fudzilla — ... serious and features 48 stream processors, a 128-bit memory interface and 1GB of GDDR3 memory. It works at a higher 615MHz clock for the core, 1335MHz for shaders and 1580MHz for memory. Same as the G210, the G220 has DVI, HDMI and D-Sub outputs and features active cooling. Both of these cards should start popping up in various systems pretty soon, while the consumer oriented parts will have to wait a while. You can check out the G210 here while the GT 220 can be found here . Image Nvidia Geforce G210 Image Nvidia Geforce GT 220

40nm desktop GeForces appear on Nvidia website
The Tech Report: News — ... that two desktop GeForce graphics cards with 40nm GPUs would launch in September. That was incorrect, apparently: information pages that correspond exactly to the rumored GPUs have already appeared on Nvidia's website. The company provides specifications and images for the GeForce GT 220 and ...

Nvidia Details Desktop DirectX 10.1 GeForce Chips at Its Web-Site
X-bit labs — ... (GT218 chip) OEM graphics solution has only 16 stream processing units, which means that its performance should be comparable to Nvidia GeForce 9400M core-logic with built-in graphics core. The GeForce GT220 (GT215 chip) OEM graphics processor sports 48 stream processors, therefore, its performance will be higher compared to GeForce 9500-series discrete graphics chips. Both new chips support DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.0 application programming interfaces, hardware decoding and post-processing of high-definition videos as well as other functionality of contemporary graphics ...

Nvidia "stealth launches" two new products
TG Daily - Hardware News — Graphics fabless chip company Nvidia snuck two new products into the world but without the marketing and press fanfare that usually accompanies such things. The GT220 is described on the Nvidia website as an OEM product - that is to say it will end up with one of Nvidia's stickers on it. You can find the specs of the card on this page . Image The GT210 is ...

GT220 40nm silently launched
Fudzilla — ... 615MHz core clock, 1335MHz shader clock and 790MHz memory. It uses 1GB of GDDR3 memory with a 128-bit interface and it can push 25.3MB/s. It comes with VGA, DVI and HDMI out and the most important thing it gets is DirectX 10.1 support, something that ATI has had for two years. This card should be enough for some basic gaming and it would be much better if they used GDDR5 memory or a 256-bit interface with GDDR3 but, at least it should be affordable. You can check the official specs here . Also read ...

NVIDIA GeForce G210 and GeForce GT 220 Now Official
techPowerUp! — ... Its shaders run at 1402 MHz. As for the NVIDIA GeForce GT 220, it has 48 processor cores and a 615 MHz clock speed, paired with 1 GB of GDDR3 memory with a 790 MHz clock and a 128-bit interface. It has a slightly slower shaders clock speed of 1335 MHz. Neither of the two cards is expected to be available directly to consumers, both offerings are marked as OEM products and meant to be entry-level options in pre-built PCs. NVIDIA GeForce G210 (OEM Product) Specs NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 (OEM Product) Specs ...

Nvidia Quietly Launches Two New DX10.1 Videocards
Maximum PC — ... The first is the GT220, a half-height card with 48 processor cores chugging along at 615MHz (GPU) with 1GB of GDDR3 memory running a 790MHz on a 128-bit memory interface. That adds up to 25.3GB/s of memory bandwidth. For what it's worth, the OEM card also boasts support for DirectX 10.1. ...

nVidia Launches GeForce GT 220 and 210
Hardware Secrets - Latest News — nVidia launched today its first 40-nm desktop GPUs, GeForce GT 220 and GeForce 210 . GeForce GT 220 works internally at 625 MHz, accesses its 1 GB DDR3 at 790 MHz thru a 128-bit interface, has 48 shader processors working at 1,360 MHz and supports DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.1 programming models. GeForce 210 works internally at 589 MHz, accesses its 512 MB DDR2 at 500 MHz thru a 64-bit interface, has 16 shader processors working at 1,402 MHz and supports DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.1 programming models. Below you can see a list of the manufacturers who already launched ...

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