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The HIS iClear Card Solves Your Noisy Video Card Problems (I'm Confused)

What is the HIS iClear Card you ask? Here is what the product page has to say:

"the latest solution to video card noise reduction. It has an excellent implement of state-of-the-art design and technology and give you a better gaming experience by reducing the distortion and noise generated from graphic card. It reduces the noise distortion generated from high-end graphic card (from both Radeon and GeForce) or TV tuner card, which provide up to 10% increase performance on Signal-to-Noise Ratio"

So to sum things up, it seems that the iClear doesn't do a damn thing. As far as anyone can tell, it is simply a slab of plastic that plugs into PCIe x1 socket.

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psystar

Surprise! Psystar Tech Support Gets Off To a Shaky Start

One of our seven reasons for not buying a Psystar computer right now was their untested tech support. Well, one of our readers tested it, and turns out they should have studied a little more. More »

peripherals

ASUS EAH3850 Trinity Prototype Video Card Goes Triple Penetration With Three Cores

What the crap? As if shoving two GPUs onto a single card wasn't enough to play contemporary games at a decent frame rate, Asus has just made an EAH3850 Trinity, a tri-core card with its own connected water-based cooling system. When you break it down, it's three RV670 cores in one card, generating output for four DVI ports allowing you to power four monitors (or one gigantic one at insane-o resolution). More »

motherboard

Motherboard and Video Card Box Art Make No Sense

It's something we've noticed ourselves over the years, but Joel over at Boing Boing Gadgets just did a roundup of some of the most atrocious motherboard and video card box art in existence. Face it, if you were an artist hired to design a box cover for a motherboard, what would you draw? A truck that's also a snake? A ripoff of Gears of War? Voyager from Star Trek: Voyager with guns? Yes. Head over and see Joel's examples, followed up by his funny, funny remarks on each one. [Boing Boing Gadgets]

video boost

MSI Luxium Lets You Add an External Graphics Card to Your Notebook

Tired of your notebook's integrated graphics? MSI's Luxium is an enclosure that houses a x16 PCI Express graphics card, which you can then connect to your notebook via your lappie's ExpressCard slot. It works much like Asus' XG Station (which is the only other external graphics card solution out there). More »

video card master

Asus' OCGear Lets You Overclock, Keep Tabs on Your Video Card

Remember the XG Station we spotted back at CES? Well, Asus is releasing a desktop version that'll connect to one of Nvidia's 8600 GT cards. The breakout box will let you overclock your video card without having to rely on any software. It fits into a 5.25-inch drive bay in your PC and also keeps track of your card's temperature, fan speed, and overall performance. No word on pricing yet, although Asus plans on demoing the device next week. More »

faster than a speeding bullet

XFX Hits Mach Speeds with Overclocked 8800 Ultra

We all know that Nvidia's 8800 Ultra is the fastest card on the planet, right? Well, not anymore. XFX has become the first company to overclock an 8800 Ultra and they're calling their creation the XFX 8800 Ultra XXX. More »

pcs

24-inch iMac's Graphics Card is Self-Upgradeable

Good news for 24-inch iMac owners. Your computer can spit out the stock graphics card in favor of a new one, if you so desire. Thanks to the iMac's MXM PCI Express connector, you can go out and buy an upgrade for your computer, ensuring your Mac gaming (or Boot Camp Windows gaming) is always up to date. More »