The Santa Clara-based chip maker nVidia, hot off the heels of its recent DirectX 10-compliant videocard showdown with ATI, has decided to go the extra mile and release the first of its next batch of DX 10 compliant videocards. The Geforce 9 series is currently fronted by nVidia’s GeForce 9400GT, which is said to be designed with entry-level users in mind, making it one of their budget offerings, proven by the suggested market price that is as low as $59. Don’t let the low pricetag fool you, because nVidia’s GeForce 9400GT is a full featured videocard that can handle the current generation’s graphics needs, with suport for HD Video, nVidia’s patented PhysX and CUDA technologies as well as full compliance with DirectX 10 and OpenGL 2.1 standards. In the technical side of things, nVidia’s GeForce 9400GT’s specs are nothing to balk at. With a standard GPU clock speed of 500 Mhz at the lowest models and 1400 Mhz at the higher end, the 9400GT has enough muscle to handle the complex graphics provided by today’s best PC games. The current reference models made by nVidia only offers 512 MB of vram clocked at 800 mhz, but it’s only a matter of time ...