Published on Sunday, June 13, 2010 by admin The fastest single GPU can be made even faster Just about everyone knows that Nvidia’s hot new Fermi graphics chip is literally hot. So, when Asus bundled its new ENGTX480 card with a custom voltage tweaker for overclocking, we wondered if it was such a good idea. After all, do you really need the card to run hotter? And with the speed of the ENGTX480, you p...

Published on Monday, May 31, 2010 by admin Our inbox quickly lit up this morning when we received notice about this NGOHQ article, discussing how NVIDIA had removed the heterogeneous GPU restriction on PhysX in their latest beta drivers. This struck us as a bit of an odd reversal of positions from NVIDIA, and now that we've had a chance to chat with them we finally know what's going on. As a quick ...

Published on Monday, May 24, 2010 by admin NVIDIA's plans for their upcoming drivers: the 256 series of drivers (don't ask us why they jumped from 197 to 256). Today, NVIDIA has released the first beta of the 256 drivers. We'll keep this short as our previous article already covered what this release entails, but you can read the full press release or just grab the drivers from NVIDIA and start testing. If you...

Published on Thursday, May 20, 2010 by admin Power and heat output are often issues which stride the minds of graphics card enthusiasts. Sufficient cooling and a beefy power supply are often a prerequisite if one wishes to invest in NVIDIA’s latest Fermi offering. So what happens when we catch word of a single slot graphics card containing a Fermi GPU? Hot on the heels of Galaxy’s custom GTX470 GC, the ...

Published on Monday, May 17, 2010 by admin The sunny beaches of the Isle of Kezan are calling. It's time for a vacation, World of WarCraft fans, and now is your chance to buy your ticket out of Northrend. Blizzard is now looking for candidates for the beta to its upcoming WoW expansion, Cataclysm. Blizzard dropped the news yesterday afternoon on its official WoW forum, so if you want to be considered, you'd...

Published on Monday, May 10, 2010 by admin The Fermi cards have now been out (and only just available) for the just over a month.  Like the AMD 5xxx series, the first cards used reference PCBs and reference coolers - the only way you could distinguish between the different companies was by the branded sticker on the large chunky cooler.  Given time, and knowledge of the system, custom coolers were just aroun...

Published on Saturday, May 8, 2010 by admin Galaxy have pleasantly surprised us, and the folks at vr-zone. To the table, they bring their GTX 470 GC, a 100% non-reference design graphics card utilising an NVIDIA GeForce Fermi 470 GPU. Measuring 9 inches (compared to the reference 9.5 inches) and featuring a blue PCB, Galaxy have essentially mated a graphics card with a robot figurine. This 470 uses a qu...

Published on Friday, April 30, 2010 by admin Today, Sapphire have announced the latest in their lineup of ATI 5xxx series graphics cards - the passively cooled HD 5550, dubbed the 'Ultimate'. The party piece of this hardware comes in the form of the wrap around heatsink - the passive design and the low power usage (10W in 2D or idle mode) is destined to appeal to HTPC and quiet systems enthusiasts who yearn...

Published on Thursday, January 7, 2010 by admin Intel on Thursday officially released its next-generation chips, which should improve the system performance and battery life of laptops. For the past year, the chip maker has talked about the chips as a giant upgrade over existing Core chips that go into laptops and desktops. The chips provide close to double the processing and graphics performance than their comp...