by ZaAndrei Zaharia

Created on: February 28, 2009

The following is a dedication to all the gamers out there!

Have you ever felt left behind by all the new technology advancements? Can you not play all of your games with the "highest" setting on your 22" monitor? Don't you want to get the most out of your computer? Well good news for any of you that have answered yes to any of those questions! Nvidia's new GTx core architecture has arrived! One phrase to summarize this new technology is "un-freaking-believable!"

The new cards have been launched in the early 2009 months. These cards, GTX 280, GTX 260 and GTX 260 core 216, were much anticipated. They are based on Nvidia's new core advancement. The GTX 260 core 216 is right on the middle of the scale. Don't get me wrong, it is still one of the top 5 cards in the world! If you want the best bang for the buck, this is the card for you. ATI's 4870 cards are awesome but cannot be compared to the beastly performance of this core architecture.

The GTX 260 core 216 feature a boost of 24 stream processors from the original 192. It comes with a 576 Mhz clock and 896 MB of video memory. That is plenty for any of today's games. A 9600gt with 1 GB memory wields about 1/10 of the power of this beast. The speed of the GDDR3 video memory is set to 1998 Mhz. All these things put together in this dual slot video card solution gives the user an immense t power resource pool. Just make sure you have a good 500 watt power supply. For example I'm running a Q6600 processor over-clocked at 3.2 with 2 GB of ram, 1 hard drive, 3 fans, 4 cold cathodes, and a mildly over-clocked GTX 260 core 216 55nm. Runs great, just please make sure you have enough juice to run this baby before you go cursing the video card for not working properly.

Online reviews state that this cannot run all games out there on max settings, specifically Crytek's Crysis games. Well I am here to tell you that yes it can! I play all my games maxed out on a 21.6" screen. Yes that includes Crysis on the extreme settings. This card can pump out some really nice frames per second. I don't think I had major event where my frames per second dipped under 30, while the eye can only detect and process about 29 or so per second.

Think you don't enough money for the best? Think again! Nvidia's competition, ATI, has forced Nvidia to drop down their prices and make them very competitive. A GTX 260 card can be found for as cheap as 180$ on www.newegg.com. For Canadians, try Direct Canada. This is a truly affordable card. It doesn't require

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