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Seiitsu

Jun 25 2008, 05:49

This has to be among the most amusing things I've seen in a long while: http://www.hisdigital.com/html/product_ov.php?id=340

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The HIS iClear card is HIS latest solution to video card noise reduction. It has an excellent implement of state-of-the-art design and technology and give you a better gaming experience by reducing the distortion and noise generated from graphic card. It reduces the noise distortion generated from high-end graphic card (from both Radeon and GeForce) or TV tuner card, which provide up to 10% increase performance on Signal-to-Noise Ratio.

For example: The SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio) is up to 10% (SNR 38 vs 34.3) better in ATI X1300XT model.

Found it here: http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/06/24/the-nothing-card/

cabbagerat

Jun 25 2008, 07:39

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# It can eliminate the noise generate from high-end card such as 8800GTX, GTS graphic card to provide a "clear picture" when they play can

Eh?

DVDdoug

Jun 25 2008, 18:55

The picture looks like a bunch of "filter" capacitors. (The manufacturere's "specs." page is blank!)

But, if this helps the graphics performance, I don't know... I would expect high-end graphics card manufacturers are already doing their best to make their cards immune power supply noise (and any other noise inside the computer). I know soundcard manufacturers try to make their cards immune to the nasty environment inside a computer.

Computer power supplies are noisy, and big-enough capacitors would reduce the noise. I found-out how bad computer power supplies are when I once had the "bright idea" of tapping into the computer's +/-12V supply to power a set of speakers that had a dead power supply... Pretty terrible results.

And, who cares about video quality anyway! This is the HydrogenAUDIO forum! (Dispite my screen name, I'm more "picky" about audio quality...)

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