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Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Jan 25, 2011
Titanium. It’s a lightweight, yet relatively strong metal that conjures up images of sleek airplanes or powerful spacecraft. It’s used in a multitude of different machines and tools, from the Boeing 777 to surgical implants, where high tensile strength, low weight, and strong resistance to corrosion and high temperatures are desired....
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Ray Willington - Mon, Jan 24, 2011
Good news for AMD users who have been waiting for OpenGL 4.1 support within Windows and Linux. AMD has just announced wide-ranging support for OpenGL 4.1 for Windows 7, Vista, XP and Linux across select ATI FirePro, FireGL and Radeon graphics card. The new support is being enabled with a new...
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Marco Chiappetta - Thu, Jan 20, 2011
Today HIS Divulges its Secret Weapons: HIS 6850 IceQ X TURBO & HIS 6850 IceQ X HIS today unveils its Secret Weapons – the HIS 6850 IceQ X TURBO & 6850 IceQ X, which are HIS revolutionary Series. The HIS 6850 IceQ X Series is equipped with performance-leading cooling...
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Marco Chiappetta - Wed, Jan 19, 2011
The EVGA GTX 580 FTW Hydro Copper 2 is made for a specific type of enthusiast. It comes with a custom, pre-installed water block that eliminates two of the biggest concerns associated with high end graphics cards: heat and noise. When interconnected to a liquid cooling loop, the HC2 makes no sound and operates at relatively frigid temperatures....
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Marco Chiappetta - Thu, Jan 13, 2011
As enthusiasts, one of the things we can always count on is the never-ending progression of computer hardware. Year after year, video cards get faster, processors offer more cores and / or performance, and motherboards provide additional features. That top of the line, $500 GPU you bought a...
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Mathew Miranda - Thu, Jan 13, 2011
As enthusiasts, one of the things we can always count on is the never-ending progression of computer hardware. Year after year, video cards get faster, processors offer more cores and / or performance, and motherboards provide additional features. That top of the line, $500...
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Ray Willington - Tue, Jan 04, 2011
There was once a time where notebooks were no good for gaming. And now, that time has passed. There was once a time where embedded machines weren't even capable of displaying graphics that were even the slightest bit intense. And now, that time has also passed. VIA has today launched the eH1...
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Ray Willington - Fri, Dec 24, 2010
Looking for a new graphics card to spruce up your holiday season? No one wants to play laggy titles, particularly with all of this time off, and MSI is looking out for the Elves who are interested in making those FPS numbers head sky-high. The company has just released their R6850 Cyclone 1GD5...
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Ray Willington - Mon, Dec 20, 2010
In a gamer's world, the fastest GPU is only the fastest for a small period of time. The technology behind graphics today is moving insanely fast, and it seems that a new GPU hits the shelves every month or so. If you have been in the market for a GeForce GTX 570, Zotac has a new card out. The...
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Ray Willington - Sun, Dec 19, 2010
AMD's Radeon HD 6900 series of graphics card are really making a mark on the gaming world, as evidenced by loads of custom PC makers leaping at the chance to offer them across their gaming PC lineups. Now, iBuyPower is doing the same, offering two systems with these new GPUs just in time for...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Dec 16, 2010
Sandy Bridge is coming! Sandy Bridge is coming! Given all the hoopla surrounding Intel's next-generation processors with built-in graphics that promise to decimate today's integrated chipsets, discrete videocard makers should be trembling in their knickerbockers, right? Not so fast, Johhny...
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Marco Chiappetta - Wed, Dec 15, 2010
We have been hearing rumblings about the products we’ll be showing you today, which are based on AMD’s next-gen “Cayman” GPU, for months now. In fact, back in October we were able to leak a tiny bit of official information in our coverage of the AMD Radeon HD 6800...
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David Altavilla - Wed, Dec 15, 2010
As many of you may be aware, Cayman is the codename given to AMD’s newest flagship GPU, which will power the Radeon HD 6900 series (Antilles, aka the Radeon HD 6990, will uses a pair of Cayman GPUs when it arrives sometime next year). Cayman is the successor to the Cypress XT that was employed on the Radeon HD 5800 series, and while...
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Ray Willington - Sat, Dec 11, 2010
You know what they say? Mac users need multi-monitor attention as well! Matrox has been extending displays for years and years now, though the company has focused mostly on helping PC users. But now, they're introducing a new Mac-friendly set of adapters, the DualHead2Go DP and...
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Marco Chiappetta - Fri, Dec 10, 2010
A funny thing happened during the course of this article—life got in the way. And in the few weeks that things were delayed, the PC graphics landscape changed dramatically. A couple of weeks before NVIDIA unleashed the GeForce GTX 580 onto the world, MSI and Gigabyte readied a pair of...
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Marco Chiappetta - Fri, Dec 10, 2010
A funny thing happened during the course of this article—life got in the way. And in the few weeks that things were delayed, the PC graphics landscape changed dramatically. A couple of weeks before NVIDIA unleashed the GeForce GTX 580 onto the world, MSI and Gigabyte readied a pair of...
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Ray Willington - Thu, Dec 09, 2010
With the recent explosion in internet content, many people are considering hooking their computers to a television. But if your video card doesn't have an HDMI output, the options get tricky. Converters and adapters get involved, and there's generally a loss of quality or worse: some material...
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Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Dec 07, 2010
Hot on the heels of the arrival of their flagship GeForce GTX 580, NVIDIA is launching another new graphics card today, based on the GF110 GPU. As we’ve come to expect from NVIDIA, and AMD for that matter, when a new GPU arrives, derivatives based on pared down version of the chip...
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Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Dec 07, 2010
Hot on the heels of the arrival of their flagship GeForce GTX 580, NVIDIA is launching another new graphics card based on the GF110 GPU. As we’ve come to expect from NVIDIA, and AMD for that matter, when a new GPU arrives, derivatives based on pared-down version of the chip typically get...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Dec 06, 2010
Out with the old and in with the old, but with new clockspeeds and a new name. That pretty sums up Nvidia's newly unveiled GeForce GT 540M notebook GPU, which kicks off Nvidia's GeForce 500M family of mobile graphics. The new part comes built on a 40nm manufacturing process and boasts 96 CUDA...
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Ray Willington - Wed, Dec 01, 2010
Now this is the definition of convergence! A graphics card, and a network card, all wrapped up in one nice, neat package. The package is being co-delivered by Bigfoot Networks (providing the NIC) and VisionTek (providing the GPU). The end...
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Ray Willington - Sat, Nov 27, 2010
AMD's Radeon HD6870 GPU is definitely a powerhouse, and you've got a bunch of options when it comes time to buy that core on any variety of cards. Now you have one more. MSI has released their version of the card, a Twin Frozr II graphics card. The MSI R6870 Twin Frozr II has 1GB GDDR5...
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