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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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Alliances Forged In Hell’s Frozen Recesses: Nvidia And AMD

1:40AM April 29, 2011 | Matt Buchanan

If you’ve ever built a computer, this will be jarring: Nvidia’s agreed to licence its SLI tech for use on AMD motherboards. (AMD, of course, bought Nvidia arch-rival ATI a while ago and buried the ATI brand in favour of a unified AMD front a few months ago.) 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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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 »

Pics, Details Emerge On Latest AMD Radeon HD 6800 Graphics Cards

10:30PM October 19, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Sometime this week two new AMD GPU cards, the 6870 and 6850, will launch. Tested.com’s figured out some of the specs from the images, so if this pic is getting you hot under the collar do check ‘em out. [Tested]

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Every Laptop Plagued By Explode-y Nvidia Graphics Cards

11:38PM October 1, 2010 | Matt Buchanan

It’s been a while, but remember the epidemic of defective Nvidia graphics cards that had a tendency to off themselves? One class-action lawsuit and settlement later, Nvidia’s listing every affected laptop – 50 models sold from 2005-2010. [Nvidia via MaximumPC]

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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 »

The ATI Brand Is Dead

10:04PM August 30, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

I still remember my first 3D card – the ATI Rage Pro – so it’s with great sadness that I’m writing this: AMD has officially killed the ATI brand. OK, I lied. I really don’t give a damn. More »