What Is Nvidia Max-Q Graphics? A Basic Definition By Scharon Harding What is a Max-Q graphics card? Laptops with Nvidia Max-Q GPUs explained.
Nvidia's SLI Technology In 2015: What You Need To Know By Filippo L. Scognamiglio Pasini Nvidia's SLI is in great health as of early 2015. Here’s an overview of how SLI works, pros and cons, and what you’ll need for a build.
BestConfigs Poll Results: Your Winning Builds By Jennifer MacAdam-Miller Have you ever come up with your own idea for a killer rig? Don't forget to tell us about it on the Tom's Hardware forums. The following ten setups were configured by forum members and chosen as winners in the Q2 2014 BestConfigs Poll.
How Realistic Is Multi-Monitor Gaming On A Budget? By Jason Schrader Is a triple-monitor Eyefinity or Surround gaming rig just a toy for the rich, or can it be achieved using parts purchased on a shoestring budget? We test one affordable Radeon and one efficient GeForce to better answer that question.
CrossFire Versus SLI Scaling: Does AMD's FX Actually Favor GeForce? By Thomas Soderstrom We've heard it said before that AMD's GPUs are more platform-dependent than Nvidia's. So, what happens when you drop a Radeon and a GeForce into an FX-8350-based system? Does AMD's CPU get in the way of its GPU running as well as it possibly could?
Challenging FPS: Testing SLI And CrossFire Using Video Capture By Don Woligroski What if the performance data you used for deciding which graphics card to buy was flawed? We're taking a deeper look at some of the problems with benchmarking multi-GPU configs using conventional tools. Nvidia's new FCAT suite helps us collect more info.
FX Vs. Core i7: Exploring CPU Bottlenecks And AMD CrossFire By Thomas Soderstrom AMD and Intel continue serving up increasingly faster CPUs. But graphics card performance is accelerating even faster. Is there still such a thing as processor-bound gaming? We take two Radeon HD 7970s, high-end desktop CPUs, and a few games to find out.
