Often underappreciated by those who only casually play games, fast and accurate physical models and calculations are a key to a games playability and realism. From the effect of explosions on nearby objects, to the Continue reading “REALTIME WORLDS PUTS OUT AN APB FOR NVIDIA PHYSX TECHNOLOGY”.
Last month on July 1st, Corsair Memory announced the immediate availability of a new DOMINATOR DDR3 memory kit running at 2133MHz. The launch of this memory kit made it the world’s fastest DDR3 memory solution in production volume, a title that it still holds over a month later. Read on to see how this kit does on an EVGA nForce 790i SLI Ultra motherboard at 2135MHz.
Today, AMDs top CPU and GPU executives, Randy Allen and Rick Bergman, covered a number of key industry topics that are sure to get lots of attention during IDF in a conference call with the Continue reading “AMD Says Intel Nehalem Microarchitecture Copied Their Design”.
CoolIT Systems late yesterday announced the Dual Drive Bay VGA Cooler designed to aggressively cool AMDs new ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 Graphics card. The unique form factor enables extreme computing performance for PC Enthusiasts Continue reading “CoolIT Announces Water Cooling Kit For Radeon 4870 X2 GPUs”.
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has reportedly recently place orders for VIA Technologies’ Nano CPUs the chipmaker has already started shipping. However, it is currently unknown whether HP will use the CPUs in its mainstream notebooks or netbook Continue reading “VIA lands roughly 500,000 Nano processor orders from Hewlett-Packard (HP)”.
Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile USA will be the first carrier to offer a mobile phone based on Google Inc’s Android software, the New York Times reported, citing people briefed on the company’s plans. The phone is Continue reading “T-Mobile to offer first Android smartphone”.
Responding the demands of enthusiasts and high-performance mobile computing consumers, OCZ Technology has unveiled the newest addition to their industry-leading OCZ Core Series SATA II 2.5 Solid State Drives. The Core Series has established OCZ Continue reading “OCZ Announces New Solid State Drive (SSD) – Core Series V2 SATA II”.
Today the team over at VIA announced the VIA EPIA N700, their first mainboard based on Nano-ITX form factor to feature the highly-integrated VX800 media system processor, which combines the north bridge and south bridge Continue reading “VIA Announces First Nano-ITX Board with VIA VX800 – EPIA N700”.
Lian-Li is launching the PC-XB01 chassis for the Xbox 360 today. The XB01 is a chassis replacement for the XBox 360 chassis, which alleviates heating issues from hot components and reduces noise from vibrating optical Continue reading “Lian Li launches PC-XB01 – Xbox 360 Chassis Replacement”.
Another industry first is in the works this week during SIGGRAPH 2008 in Los AngelesNVIDIA is demonstrating the world’s first fully interactive GPU-based ray tracer. Based purely on NVIDIA GPU technology, the ray tracer shows Continue reading “NVIDIA Demonstrates First Fully Interactive GPU-Based Ray Tracer”.
Today we look at a Kingston HyperX 2GB 1800MHz DDR3 memory that has been certified under the Intel Extreme Memory Profile (Intel XMP) validation program to offer PC builders and gaming enthusiasts automatic setup when using select Intel X38/X48-series chipsets. Read on to see how the kit performs against DDR3 memory kits running at 1333MHz/1600MHz and then when overclocked!
Intel is planning to launch a 45nm quad-core CPU Core 2 Quad Q8200 with a core frequency of 2.33GHz and price of US$224 in thousand-unit tray quantities by the end of August along with a Continue reading “Intel desktop CPU plans updated – Q8200 and E5200 Coming Soon”.
Nvidia Corp., the second-largest maker of computer graphics chips, yesterday posted its first quarterly loss in six years. The shares jumped in late trading after the company said it boosted a share buyback program by Continue reading “Nvidia Has First Loss in 6 Years, but Announces Buyback”.
The Inq has posted up another story about faulty NVIDIA graphics cards and this time around they are making a big claim. They are saying that the Geforce 8800GT, 8800GTS, 8800GS, mobile 8800’s, most of Continue reading “Rumor Says Nvidia Desktop Cards are Failing! G92 and G94 Cores in Question!”.
It didn’t take long for Intel to see our news post about NVIDIA takling about Intel’s Larrabee chip and they have sent over a response for us to publish. They didn’t directly answer the questions Continue reading “Intel Responds to NVIDIA Talking Smack About Larrabee”.
