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NVIDIA Releases $59 dollar graphic card, angels sing

NVIDIA is famous for their high-quality and relentlessly expensive graphic’s cards. Most people interested in games tout a NVIDIA and proclaim how well it runs Crysis. Luckily, for those of us with less cash NVIDIA has released a surprisingly good graphics card for a price which is easier to stomach than most. [...]

Are NVIDIA’s G86 failing as well due to hardware defects?

It seems as though Nvidia is having problems with failing chipsets again.  This time they blame the failings of their Mobile units.  The Inquirer said those issues extended to the desktop as well, which Nvidia denied. Interestingly, VR-Zone is reporting that Nvidia has issued a product change notification to customers that they’re changing the underfill [...]

NVIDIA plans to release PhysX Drivers on August 12th

According to TechReport, GeForce will be delivering new drivers for it’s existing cards which support the new PhysX physics engine which is slated to come out with it’s new PhysX GPU’s. These drivers will be out on August 12th, and will be available for the GeForce 8, GeForce 9, and GeForce GTX 200-series cards [...]

Playstation3 sales are 84% higher than the Xbox 360, still far behind Wii

According to NPD Group Inc., Sony’s Playstation 3 outsold Microsoft’s Xbox 360 by a whopping 84 percent. The popular PS3 80GB Metal Gear Solid 4 bundle pack was a major factor that contributed to 405,488 overall sales for the PS3 in June. 774,647 units of Metal Gear Solid 4 were sold in June alone. It [...]

FiiO headphone amp

Headphones not loud enough, quality bad? Try a headphone amp from FiiO to help improve the sound quality out of your iPod, Sansa, Zune or other MP3 player. Reviews on the head-fi.org forums have been very positive so far. At the size of 2 AAA batteries and at only $8.95 shipped it won’t break the [...]

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 previewed

It appears like AMD is trying to get into the GPU game again. This card had been rumored before, but it seems AMD is getting closer to officially launching. Reviews of the card have been popping up across the net, and so far the reaction to it is very positive. [H] Enthusiast reports [...]

Nvidia’s faulty GPU problem may be bigger than they are letting up

Last week Nvidias stock took a dive after it announced that it would have to recall some products and take a 250 million dollar hit on earnings due to faulty previous generation GPU’s. Nvidia hasn’t specified exactly which chips and how many, but The Inquirer speculating that it may be the all of the [...]

ATI Releases latest water-cooled Nvidia killer

ATI has just announced their latest comeback to Nvidia’s GeForce 9800 GTX+. This comeback is codenamed the “Super RV770″ and is a hot number due to the fact that it is watercooled and has an unlocked BIOS which allows for insane overclocking.
The first Super RV770 is being shipped with as HD 4870 XOC Black [...]