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Maingear Shift’s Spartan Case Belies High Performance PC Line
1:00AM Jack Loftus | Maingear, the custom PC maker and purveyor of tramp-stamp laptops, has let loose a duo of simplistic-looking desktop towers this morning designed to “shed the bling” and focus instead on what’s going down inside the case. More »
Hardware
Nvidia GeForce 200M Graphics Cards Makes Notebook Old, Busted
11:00PM Matt Buchanan | A year after Nvidia’s monstrous GeForce 200 series graphics cards first stomped onto the scene (literally the biggest GPUs ever), Nvidia’s finished making them mobile, delivering double the performance of current 9M series using half the power. More »
Hardware
Giz Explains: GPGPU Computing, and Why It’ll Melt Your Face Off
5:00AM Matt Buchanan | No, I didn’t stutter: GPGPU—general-purpose computing on graphics processor units—is what’s going to bring hot screaming gaming GPUs to the mainstream, with Windows 7 and Snow Leopard. Finally, everbody’s face melts! Here’s how. More »
Hardware
Are the New 17-Inch MacBook Pros Plagued by Faulty Graphics Cards?
3:40AM Matt Buchanan | This is all too familiar. The Apple support forums are lit up by complaints that the new 17-inch MacBook Pros are plagued by faulty Nvidia GeForce 9600 graphics cards. More »
Gadgets
Nvidia GeForce GTX 295 Graphics Card Is Insane: Two GTX 260s Bolted Together
1:30PM Matt Buchanan | Tired of ATI ruling the uberidiculous end of the graphics card space, Nvidia is apparently striking back with its own super-stacked GTX295—it’s basically two GTX 200 GPUs hot-glued together. More »
Hardware
Nvidia Bringing GeForce 9400M to Atom Netbooks to Make Them Suck Less
2:30AM Matt Buchanan | Digitimes says that Nvidia is bringing its GeForce 9400m chipset (from the new MacBooks) to Atom-based netbooks, which would markedly boost graphics performance. Netbooks that don’t totally bite balls performance-wise, holee crap. [Digitimes] More »
Hardware
Get Ready for Cheap Nvidia Graphics Cards
7:40AM Matt Buchanan | ATI has been hitting Nvidia hard with its 4000-series big guns like the Radeon HD 4870 X2, and they’re starting to feel it, with ATI successfully clawing away marketshare from Nvidia. Which has Nvidia skurred. So, sources say, Nvidia’s readying a barrage of price cuts to keep the territory loss to a minimum. If it pans out, we should be in for some sweet deals—last time Nvidia played hard ball with ATI, they threw bricks, cutting their top-end graphics cards by $US200 just a month out the gate, and let loose its GeForce 9800 GTX for around $US200 as well. It could be a Merry Christmas after all. [Digitimes via Maximum PC] More »
Hardware
Defective Nvidia Graphics Cards Confirmed in Desktops
12:20AM Matt Buchanan | Really Nvidia, what the hell? After steadfastly arguing that its defective graphics cards were limited to notebooks only—they’ve even sent me a lovely email or two reiterating that claim—HP has just confirmed that 38 different desktop models are plagued with faulty Nvidia graphics cards. More »
Computers
Nvidia Launch Points to Possible October 14 MacBook Intro
2:47AM Jesus Diaz | It seems like the stars are aligning for that rumoured MacBook intro event on October 14. Nvidia, which was supposed to launch their MCP7A chipset on September 30, has announced the chipset will actually be available right after the alleged Apple event. Apparently, the new chipset–which is rumoured to be part of the new MacBooks–bests Intel’s own G45 in the graphics and audio department. More »
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