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LG Preps 3D Laptop with DirectX 11 and a Near-Full HD Display

Coming to say its piece on the 3D market, LG has put together the A510, a mobile PC with a 3D panel of 15.6 inches and powered by an Intel central processing unit, paired with one of NVIDIA's latest discrete graphics cards.The Calpella CPU that lies at the heart of the configuration is an Intel Core i7, the exa...

28 September 2010
03:37 GMT

Leak Reveals AMD Radeon HD 6770 and 6750 Specifications

Though no real official information has, so far, been unveiled, the HD 6000 series of upcoming AMD video boards definitely do not suffer form lack of leaks, the latest ones even detailing, to some extent, the HD 6770 and HD 6750.As some may know, Advanced Micro Devices intends to soon unleash yet another series of v...

27 September 2010
07:25 GMT

Gaming Desktop Acer Aspire G5900 Predator Heads to Europe

As one would expect, Acer is as eager as ever when it comes to launching new systems, as is made obvious by how it has set the Aspire G5900 Predator, one of its newer high-end gaming systems, to Europe.As end-users well know, a PC can be said to be part of the gaming system category when it excels in all areas (proc...

24 September 2010
09:21 GMT

Palit Makes the GeForce GTS 450 Half as Large

The GeForce GTS 450 video board was unveiled some time ago, and while it has already appeared under various guises, only now has Palit unveiled its low-profile iteration of it, which sticks to stock specifications.The GeForce GTS 450 video card is NVIDIA's latest DirectX 11 adapter for desktops, being aimed at ...

16 September 2010
04:55 GMT

ASRock Combines Calpella and NVIDIA's GT 425M in new Mini PC

Though the Intel Calpella platform and the 400M series of DirectX 11 NVIDIA GPUs are intended for laptops, ASRock decided to use a combination of both in the Vision 3D 135B Mini PC, a nettop with fairly decent specifications.NVIDIA, some time ago, unveiled a full line of graphics processing units aimed at mobile PCs...

15 September 2010
05:32 GMT

AMD and Valve Make ATI Catalyst Driver Updates Available Through Steam

ATI is definitely playing its DirectX 11 market dominion card and has decided to enter a deal with Valve, who has agreed to make ATI Catalyst Driver updates possible through its Steam PC games and digital entertainment platform. Though NVIDIA aims to regain dominance on the graphics card market, AMD can still brag a...

15 September 2010
04:50 GMT

Leadtek Announces Two GeForce GTS 450 Video Cards

The GeForce GTS 450 card has finally arrived, and Leadtek has decided to join NVIDIA's partners and release a pair of models of its own, one that sticks to the reference specifications while the other one is factory overclocked.The GeForce GTS 450 video card is the mainstream-level video board that NVIDIA has r...

14 September 2010
05:58 GMT

EVGA GeForce GTS 450 Collection Unveiled

With most of NVIDIA's other partners already offering their own versions of the GeForce GTS 450, EVGA decided to do the same, only instead of one or two, it brought out four distinct models, each with its own perks, though they all stay true to the reference design, to some extent.The GeForce GTS 450 will now s...

13 September 2010
11:25 GMT

Sparkle Also Offers a GTS 450 Video Board

The GeForce GTS 450 has now received yet another set of incarnations, including a fairly powerful one at that, in the shape of the Sparkle Calibre X450G, which is both factory overclocked and equipped with a non-reference cooling solution.Set to become the replacement for the GeForce GTS 250, the NVIDIA GeForce GTS ...

13 September 2010
10:55 GMT

Club 3D Hops on GTS 450 Bandwagon

With NVIDIA having made the formal introduction of the GeForce GTS 450 video card, Club 3D wasted no time in joining the stream of custom-models, so it brought out its own device, based on the reference design and lacking any major changes to the performance numbers.While the GeForce GTX 460 is intended for the uppe...

13 September 2010
10:21 GMT

High-Performance AMD Fusion Llano Chips Come Summer 2011

AMD will soon start manufacturing and sending out the various chips based on its Fusion architecture, and it seems that the Llano APUs will enter mass production during the first half of 2011, only to finally make it into systems during summer.The Fusion architecture is AMD's project that places a DirectX 11 GP...

13 September 2010
09:54 GMT

ASUS Gives the GTS 450 the DirectCU Treatment

Like many others of NVIDIA's partners, ASUS has brought forth its customized versions of the GeForce GTS 450 graphics card, the newest video board that the Santa Clara, California-based GPU maker just released.As many consumers will have no doubt at least heard by know, NVIDIA only a short while ago launched th...

13 September 2010
09:23 GMT

Gainward Contributed Its Own Trio of GTS 450 Cards

NVIDIA finally released the GeForce GTS 450 graphics card and it seems that its manufacturing partners are quite excited, Gainward even bringing out not just one or two, but three distinct models with varying degrees of customization. The AMD Radeon HD 5700 series of graphics adapters, for months, were the only Dire...

13 September 2010
08:51 GMT

Gigabyte Shows Off a Pair of GTS 450 Cards

As consumers will probably have heard by now, NVIDIA just unleashed the GeForce GTS 450, and Gigabyte is now following up with its own two models, the GV-N450-1G and GV-N450OC-1G, which employ non-reference coolers.For those interested in a reminder, the GeForce GTS 450 video board is NVIDIA's Fermi-based graph...

13 September 2010
07:37 GMT

Download NVIDIA Quadro Driver Release 259.57

In addition to finally releasing the mainstream-level GeForce GTS 450 video board, NVIDIA has finished the latest driver version for the Quadro line of professional adapters, the Quadro Driver Release 259.57.NVIDIA has just announced the newest software specifically designed for its line of professional graphics pro...

13 September 2010
05:05 GMT

MSI GeForce GTS 450 Cyclone Formally Released

With NVIDIA now offering the GeForce GTS 450, Micro-Star International has stepped up in order to provide its own take on the adapter, namely the N450GTS Cyclone, which features a special cooling system. The GeForce GTS 450 video board is slated to take the place of the GTS 250 and engage AMD's Radeon HD 5700 s...

13 September 2010
04:23 GMT

Zotac Makes Its Two GTS 450 Cards Official

With the GTS 450 finally out in the open, NVIDIA's partners are already bringing out their own cards, and Zotac has prepared not one, but two versions, both with differing degrees of factory overclocking, though the AMP! edition is, obviously, the more powerful.The GeForce GTS is NVIDIA's mainstream Fermi ...

13 September 2010
03:29 GMT

Mainstream-Level NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Made Official

The many leaks and rumors of the past few weeks will have likely alerted to consumer base to the approach of the GeForce GTS 450 Fermi graphics card, and it appears that NVIDIA has finally issued the official announcement of this DirectX 11 card.Eager to finally get the competition on the mainstream level started fo...

13 September 2010
02:16 GMT

MSI N480GTX Lightning Is Heavily Customized

Micro-Star International has several series of high-end cards, the Lightning being a particularly performance-oriented one, and the latest model, the N480GTX Lightning, has just been pictured and detailed, revealing a massive card with its own design.The GeForce GTX 480 video card was the first model based on the Fe...

11 September 2010
05:02 GMT

Leak Unveils Picture of AMD Barts-Based Graphics Card

Though Advanced Micro Devices has yet to actually announce its HD 6000 Series of video boards, leaks are already cropping up, the most recent actually coming in the shape of a photo of a prototype board that is, allegedly, based on the Barts GPU.As end-users may know, the Southern Islands series of graphics processi...

10 September 2010
09:54 GMT

Zotac Pushes GTS 450 AMP! To 875 MHz

While the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 is getting cheaper, mainstream users are likely eagerly waiting for the arrival of the GTS 450, and it seems that Zotac is quite eager to experiment with performance boosts, its GeForce GTS 450 AMP! model having already been listed.The GeForce GTS 450 is expected to become the succes...

10 September 2010
08:35 GMT

NVIDIA GTX 460 Gets Cheaper

Though it sold for $199 when it was first launched, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 video board with 768 MB of GDDR5 VRAM has been revealed to have dropped in price in a move that will surely boost its appeal, likely allowing it to score even greater sales during the back-to-school season.When it came out, the NVIDIA GeF...

10 September 2010
02:29 GMT

EVGA Unleashes a Pair of GeForce GTX 460 FTW Cards

As there is always room for more video boards, and knowing the appeal of the freshness factor, EVGA decided it was time for its collection of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 video boards to expand, so it brought out two newcomers, both featuring the FTW name. The GeForce GTX 460 released by NVIDIA some time ago is the most p...

9 September 2010
03:54 GMT

EVGA Overclocks the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

Like several other of NVIDIA's manufacturing partners, EVGA will be unleashing custom versions of the GeForce GTS 450 graphics card, namely one that sticks to reference specs and a a factory overclocked version dubbed GTS 450 SuperClocked.As end-users may know by now, the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 is slated to bec...

6 September 2010
11:22 GMT

Colorful GeForce GTS 450 Already Listed in Europe

Of NVIDIA's upcoming Fermi-based desktop graphics cards, the GeForce GTS 450 can be said to be one of, if not the most highly anticipated, and this is reflected in how its specifications have already been leaked, with some European retailers even listing models as available for pre-order. The GeForce GTS 4...

6 September 2010
08:49 GMT

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 to Succeed GTS 250

Having had already released a, more or less, full range of graphics products for the mobile laptop market, NVIDIA is now working on finishing the GTS 450, the card that appears poised to pick up the mantle of the GTS 250, the popular card that has been holding the line, or trying to, on the sub-$160 market.After man...

6 September 2010
05:20 GMT

NVIDIA Expects to Reclaim Lead in Graphics Market

As end-users likely know, NVIDIA recently unleashed a full range of mobile graphics products, the so-called 400M series of Fermi-based GPUs with DirectX 11 support, and it seems that the company is actually confident enough that it believes it will soon reclaim the leading position in the graphics card market.NVIDIA...

6 September 2010
04:42 GMT

VIA Plans Dual-Core CPU and DirectX 11 Graphics for Next Year

Intel and AMD may be the two biggest players in the CPU industry, but VIA also has its x86 license and it plans to go ahead and release new products next year, not just a new dual-core NANO chip but also a chipset that actually supports DirectX 11 graphics.Intel will soon launch the Sandy Bridge processors with inte...

6 September 2010
02:33 GMT

NVIDIA Also Delivers the GeForce GT 420

NVIDIA just fulfilled PC makers' wish for a rang of mobile graphics cards, but the 400M series is not the only product that the company has completed, the Santa Clara, California-based outfit having also added the GeForce GT 420 to its official website.As end-users well know by now, the Fermi architecture form ...

3 September 2010
05:42 GMT

NVIDIA Releases 7 DirectX 11 Fermi Mobile GPUs

Coming to assist the GeForce GTX 480M in covering the laptop graphics market, seven new mobile graphics products have now been unveiled by NVIDIA, each boasting full support for DirectX 11 and aimed at the enthusiast and performance markets.Though Advanced Micro Devices has been selling DirectX 11 mobile graphics ca...

3 September 2010
02:25 GMT

Powerful MSI GTX 460 HAWK Reaches Europe on September 10

Though not the fastest GTX 460 it ever made, the N460GTX HAWK from Micro-Star International definitely stands out from the fold through its Twin FrozR II cooler and the custom PCB, and it seems that end-users may finally be able to buy this model, in Europe at least, starting September 10.As end-users know by now, t...

31 August 2010
04:27 GMT

ASUS GeForce GTS 450 Listed Prematurely

Shortly after the new NVIDIA driver revealed new graphics products, the ASUS ENGTS450 DirectCU, a custom version of the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450, has been listed by an online retailer, even though its actual launch won't happen for a couple of weeks.Just days ago, a new driver unveiled the codenames for quite a n...

30 August 2010
03:20 GMT

NVIDIA 259.47 WHQL Driver Reveals new GTX 400 Cards

Just days after the latest ATI Catalyst driver revealed the codenames of the Southern Islands HD 6000 GPUs, a similar occurrence appears to have taken place on NVIDIA's side, with Windows having, oddly enough, published a new WHQL-certified NVIDIA driver that mentions a number of unannounced NVIDIA GeForce GTX ...

28 August 2010
07:07 GMT

Pre-SP1 Performance Boost for Windows 7 DirectX 11 Graphics Platform

Customers running the latest iteration of the Windows client can gain a performance boost for the operating system’s graphics platform. Microsoft has released an update designed to improve the performance of DirectX 11 in Windows 7, as well as in Windows Server 2008 R2. According to the Redmond company, the r...

26 August 2010
12:17 GMT

New Gigabyte Radeon HD 5770 is Passively-Cooled

Though Advanced Micro Devices promised it would soon unveil its Southern Islands family of graphics products, its partners are still releasing customized versions of existing cards on a daily basis, and Gigabyte decided it would try to stand out from the fold by giving the HD 5770 a passive cooling treatment.Basical...

25 August 2010
03:13 GMT

Inno3D GeForce GTX 465 Vapor Freeze Listed

Though not as popular as the other GTX 400 cards, the GeForce GTX 465 has been taken under Inno3D's wing and given a quite unique cooling solution meant to drive its temperatures lower than what the stock solution can manage, while still providing a high level of performance.With the GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470...

23 August 2010
10:35 GMT

Dual-GPU AMD ATI Radeon Card to Debut by Year's End

Though the ATI Radeon HD 5970 is, at present, the most powerful video board on the market, as far as reference models go at least, ATI seems to be getting ready to reveal its successor, a dual-chip board based on the Southern Island Architecture that will supposedly come out before the end of 2010.So far, very littl...

23 August 2010
05:01 GMT

Swiftech Chills GTX 480 and GTX 470 With Hybrid Coolers

After NVIDIA launched its very hot GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480 DirectX 11-ready graphics cards, various companies unleashed water coolers designed especially for them, but Swiftech figured it would do a better job at driving temperatures down by offering a cross between a heatsink and a waterblock.What Swiftech crea...

20 August 2010
04:14 GMT

Next-Generation AMD GPUs Bound for November

Advanced Micro Devices may be working on its Fusion chips, but it is also developing a new batch of graphics cards meant to give NVIDIA some hard time once November finally kicks in, at least this is what the most recent related report from Digitimes appears to suggest.Since NVIDIA will soon manage to cover the entir...

12 August 2010
11:02 GMT

Club 3D Brings Out Two New NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

After NVIDIA unleashed the performance-grade GeForce GTX 460 DirectX 11-capable graphics adapter, its manufacturing partners went out of their way to release their own versions, overclocked or otherwise, and Club 3D has just come out and unveiled its latest pair of such adapters, quaintly named GeForce GTX 460 Overc...

12 August 2010
02:48 GMT

Gigabyte GTX 470 Super Overclock Up for Pre-Order

Back in June, at Computex, Taipei, became the staging ground for a great many electronics, a large part of which have still not managed to come to market. This extends not just to computers, but all types of components and peripherals, in addition to consumer electronics. Gigabyte was among those who previewed some ...

6 August 2010
11:14 GMT

NVIDIA GTX 480 With 512 Stream Processors Pictured

When it was first announced, all those months ago, NVIDIA's GF100 Fermi graphics processing unit was implied to have 512 stream processors, instead of just 480. Due to tight supply of 40nm chips, however, the outfit was forced to tone it down in order to actually get enough cards on the market. Now, it seems tha...

5 August 2010
09:27 GMT

Palit Also Puts 2GB of VRAM Into GTX 460

August has finally started off and, as AMD and NVIDIA get ready to unleash their respective batches of new products, their partners are hard at work making new iterations of those devices that have already shown up. Not too long ago, Gainward made quite a few ripples on the graphics front by releasing a special versi...

4 August 2010
02:34 GMT

Onda Overclocks Dual-Fan GTX 460 ES

By now, end-users will likely be aware that there are quite a few customized versions of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 460 video board roaming the world. Many of them even have clock speeds of well over 800 MHz, in addition to special cooling mechanisms intended to make up for the extra heat. Now, Onda seems to have deci...

3 August 2010
06:51 GMT

XFX Previews Single-Slot Radeon HD 5770 Duo

Now that the competition between ATI and NVIDIA has finally flared up, both of their manufacturing partners have begun to create more unusual video board models in order to cope with the added pressure. XFX is now joining the crowd, only instead of just playing with the aesthetics and clocks, it also made a point of...

2 August 2010
05:39 GMT

Quad-Core-Equipped Dell Inspiron Zino Inbound

Dell has already expanded its product lineup with the Studio XPS 9100 desktop, but it appears that the PC maker is not ready to stop just yet. In fact, the consumer base may become acquainted with yet another personal computer configuration quite soon, though the exact time of arrival is still unknown. Granted, the ...

2 August 2010
04:26 GMT

Gainward Smashes Market With 2GB GTX 460

NVIDIA launched the GeForce GTX 460 video card some time ago and was finally able to address part of the mainstream market. The card was even well received by reviewers, not just because of its might but due to no longer having the high temperature that GF100-enabled cards have come to be known for. Also, quite a nu...

30 July 2010
04:48 GMT

Single-Slot PowerColor HD 5770 Debuts

When it comes to reasonably capable systems, especially those with support for DirectX 11 graphics, one does not feel compelled to assume that the desktop they build will actually be very compact, and some even prefer it when their casings are of colossal proportions. Mostly this is because competent parts, especial...

30 July 2010
03:38 GMT

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Clocks Revealed

NVIDIA currently has the high-end GeForce GTX 480, the GTX 470 and, to some extent, the GTX 465 covering the high-end DirectX 11 front, and the GTX 460 on the upper level of the mainstream. What remains is for the lower segments to come under the coverage of the graphics boards that have not yet been released. The Ge...

29 July 2010
09:16 GMT

MSI GX660(R) DirectX 11 Gaming Laptop Inbound

Micro-Star International is know to have brought out its fare share of bleeding-edge computing and gaming solutions, but it seems as though it has become somewhat more active in the area of gaming mobile PCs lately. Just around the start of the ongoing month, the PC and hardware maker reintroduced the mighty GT660 ga...

29 July 2010
04:45 GMT


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