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Giz Explains: Intel's Centrino 2

Intel's Centrino 2 notebook platform officially launched yesterday, and brought an armada of new laptops with it. Centrino (2) is actually just a brand name for a mobile platform, which is really a fancy way saying a combination of Intel parts: a processor, chipset and wireless module. The latest and greatest is Montevina, which is not only energy efficient, but more powerful than the previous set, Santa Rosa. It also makes wireless N standard, puts WiMax in its future, and has graphics that can switch between integrated and discrete for battery/performance needs. In short, this year's crop of notebooks will blow last year's away. More »

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11:00 AM on Thu Jul 17 2008
By matt buchanan
10,480 views, 44 comments

Latest by basicxman: great, and right when I'm trying to catch up with 3 years of computer hardware more »

nvidia

Inquirer: Every Nvidia Graphics Card With G84 or G86 Chipset Is Ready to Die

Those overheating Nvidia laptop graphics cards that are dying en masse? The Inquirer is reporting that "all the G84 and G86 parts are bad. Period. No exceptions," on mobile and desktop. Those chipsets are in pretty much every GeForce 8-series graphics card below the 8800s (here's a complete list of cards and chipsets). Notably, that means every MacBook Pro since the Santa Rosa update has the bad cards, which fail at a "higher-than-normal" rate. More »

3:15 PM on Thu Jul 10 2008
By matt buchanan
15,751 views, 71 comments

nvidia

Nvidia Helping Modders Port PhysX Engine to ATI Radeon

Remember those modders from NGOHQ who were swolling out ATI's Radeon graphics cards with Nvidia's PhysX physics engine? Surprise, Nvidia loves the idea of their physics engine running on rival ATI's graphics cards, so they're giving Eran Badit and his crew total support, with access to documentation, SDKs, hardware and actual engineers. AMD, on the other hand, isn't being so cooperative. More »

8:30 PM on Tue Jul 8 2008
By matt buchanan
5,358 views, 19 comments

giz explains

Giz Explains: Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard Parallel Processing and GPU Computing

As you've probably heard, the next version of OS X, Snow Leopard, will not wow us with a crazy circus of features like Time Machine and Boot Camp. So why would Apple spend a year programming an OS that they can't boast has over 300 new features? Here's a quick rundown of how Apple is totally rebuilding OS X to take advantage of Core 2 Duos, graphics cards and parallel processing, in order to deliver serious performance gains. And yes, that is a big deal. More »

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2:00 PM on Wed Jun 18 2008
By matt buchanan
20,781 views, 65 comments

Latest by n/a: @Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!: I thought Mac wanted only thier stuff in Mac's. Isn't that why they build all thier own units in house. more »

nvidia

Nvidia GeForce GTX 200 Graphics Cards Makes Your Gaming Rig Officially Outdated

Nvidia's latest line of graphics cards gets official today: The GeForce GTX 260 and GTX 280 mark the debut of the next-gen 200 series, a completely overhauled and badass line of GPUs. The GTX 280 rocks 240 processing cores and 1GB of RAM, while the 260 comes with 192 cores and 896MB of memory, making them equally adept at generating eye-popping graphics or serious parallel computing and physics crunching. Nvidia demoed for me some of the stuff these puppies can do in SLI—and it's pretty incredible. Check out some of Nvidia's ass-beating benchmarks for yourself. Update: Benchmarks and reviews are rolling in, and they're not looking as hot. More »

9:00 AM on Mon Jun 16 2008
By matt buchanan
18,036 views, 63 comments

Latest by nobodyzhome: Oh my GOD those graphs are laughable! I don't have a gaming rig nor do I give a shit about who makes the best GPU, but those graphs made me laugh. The scale is set such that if more »

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Photoshop CS 4 Will Use Your Graphics Card to Run at Light Speed, Do Fancy 3D Tricks

The next version of Photoshop (CS 4) will be juicing up performance by taking advantage of hardware it hasn't tapped before: graphics cards and physics processors. How much faster is the new 64-bit, GPU-injected Photoshop? At a demo at Nvidia's HQ, TG Daily watched "the presenter playing with a 2 GB, 442 megapixel image like it was a 5 megapixel image on an 8-core Skulltrail system. Changes made through image zoom and through a new rotate canvas tool were applied almost instantly." Update: John Nack from Adobe is calling bogus on some of TGDaily's info, namely the Oct. release date and says the demoed tech is not "promised to go into any particular version of Photoshop." So take it for what you will. More »

6:30 PM on Sat May 24 2008
By matt buchanan
36,076 views, 72 comments

Latest by n/a: @bl1nk2much: That's why you get Foxit reader! more »

gpus

ATI Has Triplets Thanks to AMD's New 55nm Processors

AMD has just announced they shall be releasing three new graphics processors. ATI's R680 is the new model grabbing all the attention, thanks to its dual 55nm processor core. AMD were clear in stating the 55nm processors have identical specifications to those used in an earlier model, but the older RV670 GPU contained only one 55nm Phenom processor. The R680 will bring twice the fun with its dual core goodness and CrossFireX support. More »

5:50 AM on Fri Dec 14 2007
By Haroon Malik
3,107 views, 8 comments

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Intel to Enter High-End GPU Market with Larrabee in 2008

Intel's Larabee GPU will be out next year, and due to a highly parallelized architecture, it's not only going to be good for video and math processing, but discreet graphics processing, too. The chips should have manufacturing advantages over those from AMD and NVidia, too, with half of the new chips to be made in the 45nm range, ahead of the competition. Interesting. [Infoweek]

4:22 PM on Wed Sep 19 2007
By Brian Lam
1,266 views, 2 comments

twin gpus

MSI Showcases its Dual GPU RX2600 Geminium Card

Geeks in Taiwan are still flocking to Computex, a trade show for everything PC related, and the latest bit of kit comes to us via MSI, who unveiled their RX2600 Geminium, a graphics card with two mid-tier Radeon 2600 Pro GPUs. The card was designed with gamers in mind, giving them the power of two cards in one. It has an 800MHz core clock speed with 1GB of 1400MHz DDR3 memory and packs both dual DVI connectors and HDMI. No word on when we'll see it Stateside, but MSI is already working on card with two higher-end Radeon 2600 XT chips. – Louis Ramirez More »

4:08 PM on Tue Jun 5 2007
By Louis Ramirez
1,706 views, 13 comments

Latest by zenpoet: So, did Orange County Choppers have anything to do with this card? Please, I don't care how bad ass your computer looks, your still a geek. Proudly, mind you, but still a geek. A computer is much more »

pcs

ATIs 1GB FireGL V7350

The battle between ATI and nVidia just stepped up a notch with the introduction of the ATI FireGL V7350 GPU. The V7350 s claim to fame is that it is the first GPU to boast a full 1GB of memory. Meant for workstations, the card features ATI s Avivo video and display technology, which increases the color depth to 10-bit and allows for a color palette of over a billion colors. Born of the 90nm design process, the V7350 also has a 512-bit ring bus speed. How much would you pay for such a card? Well, $1999 is the price that Alienware et al. are looking for. Looks like it s time to take a second mortgage. More »

12:55 PM on Thu Mar 23 2006
By Gizloco
329 views, 4 comments

Latest by JosephRaymond: damn! remember when hard discs couldn't hold that much. hell, I don't even have that much ram more »

laptops

nVidia Debuts Powerful Mobile GPU

nVidia s Quadro NVS 110 GPU means to deliver powerful performance to the traditionally-ignored area of mobile graphics. Initially found in Toshiba s Tecra M5, Tecra A6 and Tecra A7, the Quadro was actually designed for business applications, but gamers will certainly benefit from the engineering as well. Also fully compatible with Intel s Mobile Centrino technology, the Quadro will power all those fancy spreadsheets and presentations while you re on the go, with a little fragging on the side. More »

3:59 PM on Thu Feb 9 2006
By Gizloco
726 views, 2 comments

Latest by The Brain: Apparently you have to be a burn victim with vitiligo and a fist full of money to get one. more »