14: HotHardware's Two and A Half Geeks Webcast - March 18, 2011

by Marco Chiappetta — Friday, March 18, 2011, 05:56 PM EDT

In this latest episode of HotHardware’s Two and a Half Geeks, Dave, Iyaz and Marco talk about NVIDIA’s just released GeForce GTX 550 Ti graphics card and Lucid’s Virtu GPU Virtualization software for Intel’s Sandy Bridge platform, in addition to HotHardware’s coverage of PAX East which just took place in Boston, MA, and OCZ Technology’s announcement that they’ll be acquiring Indilinx. We also drop some hints about an absolutely awesome gaming system give-away that we’ll be formally announcing on Monday...

Show Notes:
00:57 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti Debut: ZOTAC, MSI and Asus
03:26 - Lucid Virtu and Intel Quick Sync: Pairing GPUs
07:00 - PAX East 2011: Gaming and Tech Mosh Pit
09:14 - OCZ Technology to Acquire Indilinx Co., Ltd
12:24 - Upcoming HotHardware System Sweepstakes Hints

Tags: Nvidia, giveaway, GeForce, OCZ, contest, Geeks, indilinx, pax, Lucid, Virtu, GTX 550 Ti, podcase

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com