Ge. Force 8 series Wikipedia. The Ge. Force 8 Series is the eighth generation of NVIDIAs Ge. Force line of graphics processing units. The third major GPU architecture developed by Nvidia, Tesla microarchitecture represents the companys first unified shader architecture. Ge. Force 8 Series overvieweditAll Ge. Force 8 Series products are based on Tesla microarchitecture. Can anyone recommend a good software program for monitoring CPU and drive temperature, fan speed, etc., which I can use on my Dell Dimension 8300 Welcome to the forums smileyhappy It depends where you intend buyingbought it from If its direct from Dell, its brand new. If its from a high street store, it. GeForce 8 Series overview. All GeForce 8 Series products are based on Tesla microarchitecture. Max resolution. Dual Duallink DVI Support Able to drive two flat. Hello all First time poster here, ive seen many people have gotten some really good help from people here so thought i would post my issue. I have a Dell xps m1730. Max resolutioneditDual Dual link DVI Support Able to drive two flat panel displays up to 2. Available on select Ge. Dell XPS Xtreme Performance System is a line of gaming and performance computers manufactured by Dell. Dell Xps M1730 Physx Drivers' title='Dell Xps M1730 Physx Drivers' />Force 8. GPUs. One Dual link DVI Support Able to drive one flat panel display up to 2. Available on select Ge. Force 8. 50. 0 GPUs and Ge. Step10.jpg' alt='Dell Xps M1730 Physx Drivers' title='Dell Xps M1730 Physx Drivers' />Force 8. GS cards based on the G9. One Single link DVI Support Able to drive one flat panel display up to 1. Available on select Ge. Force 8. 40. 0 GPUs. Ge. Force 8. 40. 0 GS cards based on the G8. Dell Xps M1730 Physx Drivers' title='Dell Xps M1730 Physx Drivers' />DVI. Display capabilitieseditThe Ge. Force 8 series supports 1. NVIDIA cards. This potentially allows higher fidelity color representation and separation on capable displays. The Ge. Force 8 series, like its recent predecessors, also supports Scalable Link Interface SLI for multiple installed cards to act as one via an SLI Bridge, so long as they are of similar architecture. NVIDIAs Pure. Video HD video rendering technology is an improved version of the original Pure. Video introduced with Ge. Force 6. It now includes GPU based hardware acceleration for decoding HD movie formats, post processing of HD video for enhanced images, and optional High bandwidth Digital Content Protection HDCP support at the card level. Ge. Force 8. 30. 0 and 8. Seriesedit. NVidia Ge. Force 8. 40. 0 GS Rev 1. NVidia Ge. Force 8. GS Rev 3. 0In the summer of 2. NVIDIA released the entry level Ge. Force 8. 30. 0GS and 8. GS graphics cards, based on the G8. The Ge. Force 8. 30. OEM market, and as the Ge. Force 8. 30. 0 m. GPU motherboard GPU. These graphics cards were not intended for intense 3. D applications such as fast, high resolution video games. They were originally designed to replace the 7. It was able to play modern games at playable framerates at low settings and low resolutions making it popular among casual gamers and HTPC Media Center builders without a PCI Express or AGP motherboard. At the end of 2. 00. NVIDIA released a new Ge. Force 8. 40. 0 GS based on the G9. D8. M chip. 5 It is quite different from the G8. GS, as the G9. 8 features VC 1 and MPEG2 video decoding completely in hardware, lower power consumption, lowered 3. D performance and a smaller fabrication process. The G9. 8 also features dual link DVI support and PCI Express 2. G8. 6 and G9. 8 cards were both sold as 8. GS, the difference showing only in the technical specifications. Sometimes this card is called Ge. Force 8. 40. 0 GS Rev. During mid 2. 00. NVidia released another revision of the Ge. Force 8. 40. 0 GS based on the GT2. It has a larger amount of RAM, is capable of Direct. X 1. 0. 1, Open. GL 3. Shader 4. 1. This card is also known as Ge. Force 8. 40. 0 GS Rev. Ge. Force 8. 50. 0 and 8. SerieseditOn 1. April 2. NVIDIA released the Ge. Force 8. 50. 0 GT for the entry level market, and the Ge. Force 8. 60. 0 GT and 8. GTS for the mid range market. As with many GPUs, the larger number these parts carry does not guarantee superior performance over previous generation parts with a lower number. NVIDIA introduced 2nd generation Pure. Video with this series. As the first major update to Pure. Video since the Ge. Force 6s launch, 2nd gen Pure. Video offered much improved hardware decoding for H2. VK 2. 2 video super. Ge. Force 8. 80. 0 Seriesedit. NVIDIA Ge. Force 8. Ultra. NVIDIA Ge. Force 8. 80. 0 Ultra with the heatsink removed. The 8. 80. 0 series, codenamed G8. November 2. 00. 6 with the release of the Ge. Force 8. 80. 0 GTX and GTS for the high end market. A 3. 20 MB GTS was released on 1. February and the Ultra was released on 2 May 2. The cards are larger than their predecessors, with the 8. GTX measuring 1. 0. GTS measuring 9 in 2. Both cards have two dual link DVI connectors and a HDTVS Video out connector. The 8. 80. 0 GTX requires 2 PCIe power inputs to keep within the PCIe standard, while the GTS requires just one. GSeditThe 8. 80. GS is a trimmed down 8. GT with 9. 6 stream processors and either 3. MB of RAM on a 1. In May 2. 00. 8, it was rebranded as the 9. GSO in an attempt to spur sales. On 2. 8 April 2. 00. Apple announced an updated i. Mac line featuring an 8. GS. 8 However, the GPU is actually a rebranded NVIDIA Ge. Force 8. 80. 0M GTS. It features up to 5. MB of 8. 00 MHz GDDR3 video memory, 6. MHz core speed, a 2. MHz shader clock. GTX 8. 80. 0 UltraeditThe 8. GTX is equipped with 7. MB GDDR3 RAM. The 8. Ge. Force 7. 95. 0 Series as NVIDIAs top performing consumer GPU. Ge. Force 8. 80. 0 GTX and GTS use identical GPU cores, but the GTS model disables parts of the GPU and reduces RAM size and bus width to lower production cost. At the time, the G8. GPU ever constructed. It consists of 6. In fact the G8. 0s total transistor count is 6. NVIDIA had to break the main design into two chips Main shader core at 6. NV IO core of about 5 million transistors making the entire G8. A minor manufacturing defect related to a resistor of improper value caused a recall of the 8. GTX models just two days before the product launch, though the launch itself was unaffected. The Ge. Force 8. 80. Crashdiet Generation Wild Rare. GTX was by far the fastest GPU when first released, and 1. The GTX has 1. 28 stream processors clocked at 1. GHz, a core clock of 5. MHz, and 7. 68 MB of 3. GDDR3 memory at 1. GHz, giving it a memory bandwidth of 8. GBs. The card performs faster than a single Radeon HD 2. XT, and faster than 2 Radeon X1. XTXs in Crossfire or 2 Ge. Force 7. 90. 0 GTXs in SLI. The 8. 80. 0 GTX also supports HDCP, but one major flaw is its older NVIDIA Pure. Video processor that uses more CPU resources. Originally retailing for around US6. US4. 00 before it was discontinued. The 8. 80. 0 GTX was also very power hungry for its time, demanding up to 1. PCI E power connectors to operate. The 8. 80. 0 GTX also has 2 SLI connector ports, allowing it to support NVIDIA 3 way SLI for users who run demanding games at extreme resolutions such as 2. Facebook Hacker V1.0'>Facebook Hacker V1.0. The 8. 80. 0 Ultra, retailing at a higher price,clarification needed is identical to the GTX architecturally, but features higher clocked shaders, core and memory. Nvidia laterwhen told the media the 8. Ultra was a new stepping,clarification needed creating less heatclarification needed therefore clocking higher. Originally retailing from 8. GTX but costing hundreds of dollars more. Prices dropped to as low as 2. January 2. 00. 8. The core clock of the Ultra runs at 6. MHz, the shaders at 1. GHz, and finally the memory at 2. GHz, giving the Ultra a theoretical memory bandwidth of 1. GBs. It has 2 SLI connector ports, allowing it to support NVIDIA 3 way SLI. An updated dual slot cooler was also implemented, allowing for quieter and cooler operation at higher clock speeds. GTeditThe 8. 80. GT, codenamed G9. October 2. 00. 7. The card is the first to transition to 6. PCI Express 2. 0. It has a single slot cooler as opposed to the double slot cooler on the 8. GTS and GTX, and uses less power than GTS and GTX due to its 6. While its core processing power is comparable to that of the GTX, the 2. MB of GDDR3 memory often hinders its performance at very high resolutions and graphics settings. The 8. 80. 0 GT, unlike other 8. Dell XPS m. 17. 30 Graphics issue Dell Studio Xps. Hello all. First time poster here, ive seen many people have gotten some really good help from people here so thought i would post my issue. I have a Dell xps m. Intel core 2 duo extreme X9. Windows 7 Ultimate 3. Ram. 2x Nvidia Geforce 8. GTX in sli 5. 12mb eachAnyway the laptop has been performing fine. Running all the games with no issues. Playing 1. 08. 0p movies with no difficulty. The laptop was working perfect with no issues yesterday. Today i turned it on and attempted to watch lord of the rings extended in 1. VERY laggy. I then loaded up Mafia 2 which used to run FLAWLESSLY Now i can barely move in game with so much fps lag. I uninstalled nvidia drivers, booted in safe mode, ran driver sweeper and removed anything that was left. Re downloaded the nvidia drivers and installed and this has still not fixed the issue. Im not a pc techie, but im guessing my graphics card hasnt been burnt out, as i have not got a black screen or anything, and the resolution on the desktop is fine. Can anyone help me outgive me some advice on what to do Or are the graphics cards need to be replacedIf they do need to be replaced can i get anything better than the 8. GTX Or is there a way i can fix this Any help is much appreciatedthanks in advance.