Hardware

Rumored prices for Nvidia’s GTX 470 and GTX 480, is Fermi cheaper than expected?

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March 16th, 2010

Everybody was expecting Nvidia’s Geforce GTX 480 to cost somewhere around $600 but it seems that Nvidia will reserve those kind of high prices for their dual GPU card that will probably hit the market in the coming months.
According to Fudzilla the Geforce GTX 480 will actually be launched at a much smaller price, Nvidia [...]

Intel Xeon 5600 Series Announced, Xeon X5677 Blows Your Mind

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March 16th, 2010

Today, Intel has announced their new line of server processors: the Intel Xeon 5600 series. The leading chip producer in the world claims that the new Xeon 5600 processors will be capable of producing up to 60% more processing power than the previous series, the Xeon 5500, launched almost a year [...]

Nvidia GTX 480 vs. ATI Radeon 5870

March 13th, 2010

Even though Nvidia’s Fermi GPUs (GTX 470 and GTX 480) will have their official launch on March 26th, our beloved Internet started being assaulted with unofficial board shots and performance benchmarks with almost a month prior to the Fermi’s release.
That “unofficiality” ended a few days ago when Nvidia released a demo benchmark that’s pitting a [...]

PS3 Motion Controller Gets An Official Name

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March 10th, 2010

Shu Yoshida, President of Sony’s Worldwide Studios, unveiled today, at Sony’s GSDC press conference, the highly anticipated PS3 motion controller. Even though it was rumored that the controller’s name will be ‘The Arc’, the official name is well……let’s say a little bit unimaginative……the PS3 motion controller is actually called ‘Move’ .
The PlayStation Move Starter Kit [...]

CeBIT 2010: Nvidia Ion 2 With Optimus GPU Finally Becomes Official

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March 2nd, 2010

Captain Obvious is at CeBIT 2010 and it goes by the name of NVIDIA as the Santa Clara-based company has finally unveiled the second-generation Ion chipset. The Nvidia Ion 2 chipset is based on the Nvidia Optimus GPU that has the incredible capability to switching between Intel’s Pinetrail integrated GMA 3150 and the Nvidia Ion [...]

March 26th, the release date for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 and 470 Fermi cards

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February 23rd, 2010

The company is pretty close on launching their new products: GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 470. The most exciting feature on this graphic accelerators is that they are the first ones to use the Fermi architecture. Their release date is over a month, on Friday, March 26th. The NVIDIA launch coincide with the opening [...]

Nvidia ION 2 Slower Than Original ION

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February 23rd, 2010

As you already know, the Acer Aspire One 532G is the first officially announced Nvidia ION 2 netbook but unfortunately we don’t know very much about the “the next generation ION” despite the rumors that it will be a discrete GPU part, possibly the GeForce-GT218. The great news is that this [...]

Sony anounced they have delayed the release date of the PS3 Motion Controller

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January 20th, 2010

Although it was expected this spring, the new PS3 Motion Controller’s release has been postponed until 2010’s fall. Avoiding mentioning an actual date, Kazuo Hirai, President and Group CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. declared that the decision to wait until fall 2010 is suported by their desire to offer a new, exciting and varied [...]

Intel Unveils Q4 2009 Financial Results: $2.3bn Net Earnings, Up 875%

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January 15th, 2010

Intel has just posted its quarter earnings and shows how things should go if you’re a great company. In Q4 2009 (financial year) Intel has generated $10.6 billion in revenue, which represents an impressive $2.3 billion amount over last year. With 28% year-over-year, Intel has also generated a record gross margin of up to 65% [...]

The $100 ATI Radeon HD 5670 is now available with DirectX 11 and Eyefinity already included

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January 14th, 2010

If you are a Battleforge or S.T.A.L.K.E.R. gamer then you are probably among those who couldn`t pull off those annoying framerates. Well, it turns out that ATI has found the best solution for your problems, at the cheapest price. I`m talking about its new Radeon HD5670 graphic card, with DirectX 11 and Eyefinity support, which [...]