This is a rant. This is only a rant. If this were a real review you would be notified by your local emergency broadcast station…Now that I have your attention, I want to direct you to what is happening with the latest version of Fedora and X configuration. If you have installed Fedora 10 and [...]
Create Video Card Profiles To Save Power And Reduce Noise
The following article is a guide to create profiles for the installed video card to optimize it for different applications, namely working on the desktop and gaming. The problem with running a video card in Windows is that the video card will always use the same clock and fan speeds no matter if it is [...]
Guy Builds Folding Farm With 51 NVIDIA Video Cards
Folding@Home is a distributed computing project to better understand disease development and currently under supervision of Professor Vijay Pande at Stanford University’s chemistry department. Everyone can join with his computer donating free computer cycles to the project. To make it more competitive users can form groups that race, just like in an online game, for [...]
Dell Releases Bios Updates For Several Nvidia Video Cards
Dell has released a Nvidia GPU (Graphics Processing Units) Bios Update for several Dell notebooks on their Dell Direct website. Nvidia confirmed earlier this month that some notebook GPUs were affected caused by a weak die packaging material set.
The GPU may fail due to temperature fluctuations and users may experience symptoms like random characters or [...]
Install the latest Nvidia Drivers on your Notebook
Graphic card drivers for notebooks are usually not updated that often by the manufacturer of the Notebook. Nvidia on the other hand does not provide access to many graphic card drivers for Notebook graphic cards on their website and the desktop graphic cards cannot be installed on notebooks.
The guys from Laptop Video 2 Go have [...]
Fix for Nwiz.exe Causing High CPU Load
Nwiz.exe is a component that gets installed when Nvidia video card drivers are installed on a system. It is automatically started with Windows which can be checked with the msconfig command. It is only beneficial on systems that use multiple monitors or tv out settings and can be easily disabled without causing ill or harm [...]
Lower Video Card noise by reducing the fan speed
Modern video cards come in two flavors. The noisy ones that have lots of horsepower and the silent ones that trade some of the horsepower for a reduced noise level. This is currently changing with the release of the Nvidia Geforce 8600GT but most users have an older video card in their computer.
