GeForce 290.36 beta drivers add visual tweaks and more
Radeon owners aren't the only ones being treated to pre-release drivers this week. Earlier today, Nvidia rolled out its GeForce 290.36 beta drivers, touting a blend of visual enhancements, support for new hardware, and bug fixes.
Nvidia says the 290.36 release lets users tweak ambient occlusion for both Skyrim and Modern Warfare 3 via the Nvidia Control Panel. The news story on GeForce.com includes instructions and a handful of comparative screenshots. Other fresh additions include ...
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AMD Memory is coming to North America
This summer, we were surprised to learn that AMD was quietly selling system memory under its own brand name in Japan. Now, it seems, the company is ready to take this initiative to North America. This morning's announcement on the subject says AMD has partnered with Patriot and VisionTek to offer DDR3 modules under the AMD Memory banner in this corner of the world. Modules will be available from major e-tailers including Amazon, Newegg, Micro Center, and TigerDirect.
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Forum leaks spill Ivy Bridge model details
The folks at CPU World have gleaned new details on Intel's upcoming Ivy Bridge lineup from information leaked in several forum posts. The information is split between two articles and covers 18 different CPU models. Based on those model specifications, it looks like Ivy Bridge will be a native quad-core design with 8MB of last-level cache, just like its Sandy Bridge predecessor.
As with Sandy Bridge, Hyper-Threading is being reserved largely for pricier Core i7 models. Turbo Boost appears to be available up and down the line, and there's no ...
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Cyber Monday spawns more deals
Despite offering Black Friday sales last week, some retailers have put together a selection of deals for Cyber Monday. Newegg's Cyber Monday sale is loaded with discounts on enthusiast-worthy gear like Corsair's Graphite 600T enclosure, which has been dropped to $140 before a mail-in rebate knocks the price down to $120. Cases are a popular theme for Newegg today, with Antec's Three Hundred bundled with the company's own BP430 power supply for just $70. A mail-in rebate will knock an additional $15 off the combo's price. If you'd rather not deal with rebates, Lian Li's PC-9F mid-tower is $40 off at $100 even.
Intel's heavily discounted 320 Series SSD has been carried over from Newegg's Black Friday promotion. The 80GB version of this drive costs just $80 after a mail-in ...
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Apple said to prep MacBook Air price cuts
With the first wave of ultrabooks, PC makers have shown they can offer laptops similar to Apple's MacBook Air at lower prices. The ball is now in Apple's court, and according to DigiTimes, the Mac maker will soon cut prices in an effort to stay competitive.
DigiTimes says its sources expect Apple to introduce a new, more affordable MacBook Air family in the first quarter of next year—presumably to take advantage of Intel's 22-nm Ivy Bridge processors, which should be coming ...
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Catalyst 11.11b drivers add CrossFire support for new games
AMD's Catalyst team is on a roll, with its third graphics driver release out in just under two weeks. The Catalyst 11.11b "performance driver" actually went up late Friday, just four days after the previous release; you can grab it now from AMD's website.
What's new this time? The change log looks pretty much the same as for last Monday's 11.11a driver , except AMD now touts "CrossFire performance scaling" for both Assassin's Creed Revelations and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim ...
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Cyber Monday Shortbread
Eight is Enough
- Kingston: Solid state drives will finally supplant hard
drives in second half of 2012 - Maximum PC
- Engadget: Best Buy bids farewell to the UK with blowout sale
- id Software's John Carmack tweets TVs
- The Verge: Siri hacks control your car and media center
- techAU: Microsoft Tellme is NOT the same as Siri [video]
- RIP, PC: How Ubisoft managed to be wrong and right - VG24/7
- GamesDot: Fix Windows 7 input lag with vsync on
- GameInformer reports e-mail survey points to new Call of Juarez game
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