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Mobile Technology Is The Future Of Supercomputers

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3:05PM March 21, 2011 | Nick Broughall

Last year, the CSIRO’s supercomputer was ranked as the 145th most powerful supercomputer in the world. Powered by NVIDIA’s Tesla GPUs and constructed by Aussie company Xenon, the supercomputer is used is a fine example of the benefits of using GPUs for scientific discovery. but according to NVIDIA’s GM of Tesla computing, Andy Keane, it’s the current developments in the mobile processing space that will drive the next generation of supercomputers. More »


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NVIDIA Kegputer – The Best Tasting PC Out Of CES

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3:30PM January 11, 2011 | Nick Broughall

Nestled up the back of the NVIDIA stand at CES was the Kegputer, a Sandy Bridge powered gaming PC with liquid cooling stuffed inside a fully-functional beer keg. Yes, this is heaven in a PC. More »


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Nvidia’s GeForce 400M Series Roids Up Notebook Graphics Of All Classes

2:00PM September 3, 2010 | Brian Barrett

Nvidia gave us a taste of what its Fermi-based notebook graphics cards would be like with the GeForce GTX 480M, but now it’s time to meet the whole family. That’s seven Fermi GPUs, running the gamut from face-melting to face-singeing. More »


What’s The Best Graphics Card For StarCraft II?

8:20AM July 30, 2010 | Adam Frucci

The gang over at TechSpot loaded up the newly released StarCraft II on what seems like a hundred different PC setups to determine what the best hardware setup for the insanely popular real-time strategy game is. Here are the results: More »


The Best Graphics Cards At Every Price

2:00AM June 24, 2010 | a

Choosing a graphics cards is a confusing endeavour. So Tom’s Hardware shared their buying results after testing pretty much every card on the planet. Whether you’ve got $US50 to spend or $US250 to spend, this list will come in handy: More »


Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 480M Just Turned Your Notebook’s Graphics Card Into A Sad Little Chip

12:19AM May 26, 2010 | Matt Buchanan

Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 480M is the steroidal notebook graphics card you’ve been waiting for (if you’re a huge nerd): The world’s fastest notebook GPU according to Nvidia, it’s the first mobile chip using Nvidia’s ridiculous Fermi architecture. More »


Nvidia’s Fermi Graphics Card Roadmap: When You Can Melt Your Eyeballs For Cheaper

11:58PM May 4, 2010 | Matt Buchanan

Nvidia’s Fermi-based GeForce GTX 480 might be the fastest GPU in the world, but it’s five hundred dollars. So, you might be more interested in their actually affordable variants, coming out later in winter, which are $US300 and $US100. More »


Nvidia’s GTX 480: First Fermi Benchmarks

10:08AM March 27, 2010 | MaximumPC

Can a three billion transistor GPU that eats power supplies for lunch find love and glory in the hearts of gamers? More »


Nvidia GeForce GTX 480: The “Fastest GPU In The World” Is $US500 Of Eyeball Toastiness

10:01AM March 27, 2010 | Matt Buchanan

Some of the hard specs on Nvidia’s completely next-gen Fermi graphics cards have been out there, but this is what you can actually buy around April 12: The $US500 GeForce GTX 480 and $US350 GeForce GTX 470. More »


Nvidia Optimus Switched This GPU Off! I’ll Yank It Out To Prove It!

3:00PM March 3, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

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The Nvidia Optimus seamlessly switches between GPUs based on need. And based on this fellow being able to yank out a GPU while the rest of a system is running, it works rather well too. More »