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Dell Called Out For Misleading Graphics Card Advice

4:30AM November 26, 2011 | Andrew Liszewski

Dell’s approach to letting customers configure their PCs can be a little daunting, so I applaud them for providing helpful advice. Except in this instance where an image implied that choosing a cheaper graphics card would mean a blurry desktop. More »


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How To Make A 50-Petaflop Supercomputer Even More Powerful

6:58AM October 12, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

Supercomputing has hit a wall — researchers can’t simply daisy-chain any more processors together to increase computational power due to energy constraints. The new Titan project hopes to do an end-around on that issue by transferring some of the load to… graphics cards? More »


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AMD Claims The Radeon HD 6990M Is The Fastest Consumer GPU

1:00AM July 13, 2011 | Adrian Covert

Mere weeks after NVIDIA claimed to have the fastest GPU on the market, AMD is now claiming supremacy with its Radeon HD 6990M graphics card, despite having a lower clockspeed by over 500MHz. More »


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How Fast Is The New iMac’s Graphics Card?

3:24AM May 6, 2011 | Matt Buchanan

The stock graphics card in the new Thunderbolt-y iMacs is AMD’s Radeon HD 6970M, in 1GB or 2GB flavours. How powerful is it? More »


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You’re A Judge, Not A Computer Repairman

7:29AM May 4, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

It’s cool, I understand that old people have trouble understanding new technology (*cough* Senator Grassley *cough*). But when it’s your job to understand and make BINDING LEGAL RULINGS on technology, you have to at least know the difference between iOS and Windows 7. More »


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New AMD Video Cards Plays Call Of Duty: BlackOps For Under $US100

10:04AM April 20, 2011 | Kyle Wagner

A hundred bucks isn’t what it used to be. It won’t get you a new pair of Jordans or take you halfway to buying your way out of a Union army conscription. But it’ll buy you a half-decent video card. More »


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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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Hellbeast: AMD Radeon HD 6990 Performance Preview

12:56AM March 9, 2011 | Loyd Case - MaximumPC

AMD’s dual GPU cards have come a long way in the past several years. The original Radeon HD 3870 was noisy, ran hot and didn’t always perform up to snuff. Since then, AMD’s Catalyst Driver suite has substantially improved the performance and breadth of CrossFire-supported games. More »


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Nvidia’s Quad-Core Tegra 3 Chipset Can Handle 1440p Video

11:28AM February 16, 2011 | Adrian Covert

The next Tegra chipset (codename: Ka-El) is still in development, but today we learned that it will feature a quad-core CPU and 12-core GPU that are 5x more powerful than the Tegra 2 innards. It can out 1440p video to a 2550×1600 display as well. More »


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Is This Wireless Graphics Card Stupidly Intuitive Or Just Stupid?

12:00PM January 13, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Cable cutting is almost a reflexively good thing, right? Wireless mice, wireless console controllers, wireless internet – but is this wireless KFA2 GeForce GTX460 graphics card just wireless for the pure sake of it? Or is this the future? More »