Deal of the week: Cheap GeForces ahoy
Nvidia must be making room for upcoming derivatives of its GeForce GTX 680, because there are some unusually juicy deals on the company's previous-gen GPUs today.
The most appealing is probably MSI's GeForce GTX 460 OC2, which you can nab for $119.99 shipped , or $98.99 after a mail-in rebate—with a free copy of NBA 2K11 , I might ...
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One GeForce GTX 680 not enough? Try four
Part of being a PC enthusiast is seeking out the sweet spot—that perfect intersection of features, performance, and price. We tend to look for the best value when our money is on the line. At the same time, though, there's something to be said for basking in the glorious excess of truly extreme setups. If you thought one GeForce GTX 680 was impressive, wait til you get a load of four. Dutch site Hardware.Info has put together a quad-GTX 680 review that includes three- and two-way SLI configurations in addition to a boatload of CrossFire setups based on the Radeon HD 7970.
Multi-GPU setups haven't always scaled gracefully beyond two cards, and it looks like threesomes might still be problematic. ...
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Rumor: Two new Intel SSDs due in May
Intel released its 520 Series SSD last month, but it's just the first in a collection of new solid-state drives due out from the chip giant this year. According to DigiTimes' sources with Taiwanese PC vendors, two more drives are due in May. Maple Crest, which sounds like a Canadian toothpaste flavor, will reportedly spawn a new 300-series SSD. The drive is supposed to be based on 25-nm MLC NAND, and I'm betting it's a replacement for the 320 Series, which is coming up on its first birthday.
Also expected in May is Ramsdale, a decidedly different offering that's rumored to sport a PCI Express interface. This drive will also use 25-nm flash, DigiTimes says, but I'd ...
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Nvidia CEO: Intel should make ARM chips for other firms
Intel has always been ahead of the curve on chip manufacturing, introducing new and finer fabrication processes sometimes years before the competition. So, what if the company allowed ARM-license-toting competitors to make their chips in its fabs?
As Forbes reports , that's the eyebrow-raising suggestion Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang made earlier this week. Huang said Intel ...
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More evidence points to upcoming high-DPI MacBooks
Apple isn't done cramming obscene amounts of pixels into its displays. Now that the new iPad is out, the company is rumored to have high-DPI panels in store for its next-generation MacBook laptops, as well—and Ars Technica says the evidence for those is mounting.
The site was tipped off by someone running the latest OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion developer build. Reportedly, that person encountered supersized icons in "unexpected places," including alerts in the new Messages app. A screenshot of the program's ...
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Windows 8 to scale with high-DPI tablets
High-DPI displays seem to be the wave of the future, especially on tablets—just look at the iPad 3 and the upcoming Transformer Infinity Series. Happily, Windows 8 is being designed to take proper advantage of higher pixel densities without scaling user-interface elements. Microsoft has detailed its work in that arena on the Building Windows 8 blog.
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Release roundup: Platinum PSUs, Mini-ITX cases, and more
The big news this week was, of course, the release of Nvidia's GeForce GTX 680—and the myriad versions of it from various card makers. But other, less momentous launches also took place this week. We've collected such announcements from Antec, Biostar, Lian Li, and Super Talent:
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Report: Ivy Bridge motherboard prices falling already
Could a price war on Ivy Bridge motherboards be brewing before Intel's next-gen CPU even hits the market? According to DigiTimes' moles in the motherboard industry, that's exactly what's happening; first-tier motherboard makers have reportedly dropped their prices on 7-series products. Some of the boards are already on sale in parts of China and Europe, and prices have recently been cut by up to 10%, DigiTimes says.
The site claims that mobo makers were actually set to raise prices to account for the higher cost of copper. Now, it seems they're more concerned with defending market share, which should ...
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13-inch Toshiba tablet prototype spotted
Toshiba's latest Excite tablet is painfully underwhelming. Sure, it's marginally thinner than Apple's iPads. The 10" display has a reasonable 1280x800 resolution, and there are conveniences like a Micro USB port and a tiny SD slot. But the Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 SoC under the hood is only a slightly faster version of the chip found in the Kindle Fire, whose performance is hardly impressive. The Excite also costs quite a bit more than the Fire. Toshiba expects folks to shell out $529 for the 16GB Wi-Fi version, which isn't even running the latest version of Android.
Although the Excite fails to, er, you know, Toshiba's tendency to equip its tablets with standard Micro USB ports and SD slots is encouraging. (The company's cheaper, thicker Thrive tablets boast those amenities, too.) Also encouraging is the fact that Toshiba is toying with larger tablets. Turkish ...
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Nvidia announces GeForce 600M mobile GPUs
The GeForce GTX 680 isn't the only new GeForce to break cover today. Nvidia has also announced a whole family of GeForce 600M-series graphics processors, which includes nine offerings meant to service everything from mainstream laptops to high-end gaming notebooks.
Here's a quick, at-a-glance look at ...
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Nvidia's GeForce GTX 680 graphics processor
At Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference in 2010, CEO Jen-Hsun Huang made some pretty dramatic claims about his company's future GPU architecture, code-named Kepler. Huang predicted the chip would be nearly three times more efficient, in terms of FLOPS per watt, than the firm's prior Fermi architecture. Those improvements, he said, would go "far beyond" the traditional advances chip companies can squeeze out of the move to a newer, smaller fabrication process. The gains would come from changes to the chip's architecture, design, and software together.
Fast forward to today, and it's time to see whether Nvidia has hit its mark. The first chip based on the Kepler architecture is hitting the market, aboard a new graphics card called the GeForce GTX 680, and we now have ...
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GlobalFoundries: 32-nm yields improved, AMD on board at 28 nm
It's no secret that GlobalFoundries' 32-nm yields didn't start out so great. AMD went on record blaming the company for poor A-series APU supply and the resultingly lackluster financial results last September. A couple of months later, the rumor mill even suggested that AMD might ditch GlobalFoundries at 28 nm.
According to the latest announcement from the foundry firm, though, things aren't quite so bleak . GlobalFoundries claims its 32-nm high-k metal gate process actually ended up ramping quicker than its 45-nm process, with more than twice as many wafers churned out during the first ...
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