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You may have heard by now that NVIDIA will be launching a technology called Hybrid SLI in the near future. This technology has been in the works for the better part of a year, and now it will be developed for a little bit longer, says a report on DailyTech.

Today is the official launch of NVIDIA’s Quad SLI. While one could previously run dual 9800GX2’s before this, the dual card solution wasn’t working appropriately until today’s release of the official QuadSLI driver. Head over to the NVIDIA website to scoop out these new .ini files which are marked 174.53

Today we’re going to go over Tritton Technologies’ two “5.1” headsets, the AXPC and the AX360. Do they really stand up to other “5.1” headphones or are they just another dead corpse along the consumer electronics highway. This past summer it seemed that everyone and their mom had their own take

Last week we brought you a story regarding a piece of software that NVIDIA will be launching in the near future. This software is designed to basically show how a GPU upgrade will produce a more substantial performance increase than a CPU upgrade. To quote our earlier article

The NVIDIA GeForce 9800GX2 makes a splash while ASUS, SteelSeries, and OCZ announce new products. eVGA counters BFG’s 100 Day Trade Up Program with a special 120 Day Step Up extension. Systems Alienware’s desktop Area-51 gets updatedASUS M50 Notebook Hits a High Note with Sound and Style Audio ASUS releases

Engineers from Thorrn Micro Technologies have developed a solid-state fan that exploits corona wind to move more air than a traditional fan 35 times its size. Corona wind is a physical phenomenon that is produced by strong electric fields. Such electric fields are commonly found on sharp conductive points

While nobody was surprised that NVIDIA’s GeForce 9800GX2 launch was delayed several weeks due to the complexity of the design and getting full software support out the door, a few people were surprised when news came that their 9800GTX would be launching in March. The card, which retains the suffix

It is nice to see our government making money on nothing but air. The 700MHz auction has been ongoing since January 24th and it seems it has finally come to close. According to Engadet In 10 days the FCC will announce who has won which parts

SP1 has been “pending” for a few months now since it was first released to developers and early testers. Today is the official roll out for consumers via Windows Update and the Microsoft site. The standalone installer is available here at Microsoft’s site, or you can refresh your Windows Update

OCZ, Cooler Master, NVIDIA dominate the headlines the week after CeBIT while MiBR gets sponsored by SteelSeries and the CPL goes boom.SystemsAcer and the new Aspire Gemstone blue designAudioMadCatz AirDrives(TM) Interactive Earphones to Begin Shipping in the UKCoolingOCZ Technology Group Addresses Ultra Efficient Cooling with the Introduction the Vendetta 2

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Apparently after NVIDIA launches its GeForce 9800GX2 and 9800GTX video cards and nForce 780a, 790i and Ultra motherboards, it will launch a piece of software designed to show why GPUs are more important than CPUs. Of course this is bound to ruffle feathers with CPU manufacturers like Intel.

Slides illustrating Intel’s plans to transition its enterprise microprocessor shipments in the coming year have shown up on VR-Zone. The slides graphically show the proportions of which microprocessors Intel plans to ship in the future and which they plan to phase out. We reported on Nehalem back in January when

The vogue towards smaller computing solutions of late shouldn’t be a surprise. Since the second half of 2005, during which notebook sales finally surpassed those of desktops, companies have truly become infatuated with the higher profit margins of these smaller machines. The tremendous push to ride the ASUS Eee PC

Aural acuity is paramount when it comes to situational awareness in any game these days. Unfortunately sound isn’t the problem with this latest headset from Razer. Introduction Razer has been catering to gamers with a variety of peripherals for a long time. Such dedication to an obsessively meticulous crowd demands countless

It is no secret that the chip inside the Sony’s Playstation 3 holds enormous potential for gaming applications. Less known is the fact that the architecture of the Cell Broadband Engine - the product of a joint effort by Sony, IBM, and Toshiba- facilitates massive parallel computing power that can

The on going hostile takeover attempt of Yahoo from the guys at Redmond continued to heat up this week. Earlier today Microsoft sent a letter to Yahoo’s board of directors in regards to their buyout offer from two months ago. Microsoft insists their offer is still good today, possibly even

By now you may have heard about a new processor from Intel that is going to be used in all sorts of new notebook PCs. The processor, which was announced on March 2nd, is currently available in five different versions that cater to different specific purposes. Built on Intel’s existing

With the launch of Windows Vista at the beginning of 2007, Microsoft forced a changing of the guards in the operating system world. While the company was gung-ho about their new version of Windows, millions of XP users were not ready to let go of their tried and true OS

Although the reviews have been scarce, it’s been a busy week for us behind the scenes. We’re very aware when we haven’t been hitting the mark in terms of content flow, so you can expect us to ramp it up in the following weeks ahead. One thing I’ve personally noted

The latest and semi greatest from Nvidia is on the way and should be in stores now. The follow up to the 8800GTX, little sibling of the 9800GX2, is being reviewed all over the net today. Check out some of our choice reviews as we haven’t had

While Intel’s enthusiast chipsets have garnered a fair amount of respect over the past few months, the price of motherboards based on these top-tier chipsets prevents a very large user base from making a purchase. For these potential customers, slightly nerfed versions of the enthusiast level chipsets are made less

Despite being faced with problems ramping up their 45nm production levels, Intel Corp. today announced the finalization of a business partnership with STMicroelectronics under which a new independent company will be based. The company, Numonyx B.V., will design, develop, and manufacture NOR and NAND flash memory products. Intel’s dealings with

Though advances by competitors have been made over the past couple of years, consumers looking for an alternative to enthusiast-grade sound cards from Creative Labs have had a pretty tough time. This search reached a fevered pitch when Microsoft released Windows Vista and Creative’s driver suite for the operating system

Adobe is not exactly the first company that comes to mind when you think of free software. Their photo manipulation and content creation programs have long been revered as second to none, and are frequently updated with additional features to increase their lead over the competition.

While NVIDIA has long been tolerant of their board partners tweaking reference designs and shipping overclocked graphics cards straight from the factory, AMD’s manufacturers have only had this luxury the better part of a year. Both companies have seen their board partners take existing products to a whole new level

Although Xbox 360 has been the bane of many gamers’ existence thanks to that pesky RROD problem, the console’s success in the worldwide market is undeniable. Thanks in no small part to several very good games and a lower price tag than its high-fidelity console competition, the Xbox 360

It seems like every month we are posting a new story that brings to light one more detail about Intel’s upcoming Nehalem processor. We already know that the processor will have an integrated memory controller capable of triple-channel DDR3 operation. We also know that old technologies like HyperThreading

When GDDR2 was released, not many people cared. The new technology offered only a slight increase in clock speeds over the existing GDDR, and typically cost quite a bit more. When GDDR3 came out, both NVIDIA and ATI were quick adopters due to the potentially tremendous clock speed increases it

When you have a bunch of products with fairly similar names, fairly similar performance, and nearly identical appearance, you tend to cause a fair amount of confusion. NVIDIA is probably learning this lesson the hard way, and consequently will be looking into simplifying their product lineup. NVIDIA’s VP of Content

On the going-on’s at FPSLabs: We’re all still here. We sympathize with those of you who have been missing the daily updates on the site, and we aim to get back in the rhythm here in the very near future. However, in our defense, news has been pretty damn slow

In the wake of the HD format wars we now have one conclusive victor standing tall a top the hillside. Blu-Ray may have beat out HD DVD but it has a long way to go to overthrow DVD and recent sales are showing just that. The NPD, (those same cats)

As AMD video card users awoke this morning and ran their freshly downloaded copies of Futuremark Vantage, they probably got a little pissed off that their graphics scores were significantly lower than anything from NVIDIA. They also probably got a little angry that the first GPU test, featuring Steve Nash’s

Although we are not the biggest fans of synthetic benchmarks like Futuremark’s 3DMark, we can only marvel in amazement at just how widespread such tests have become. With the DirectX 9 graphics API stretched to its limit with recent games like Crysis, the aging 3DMark06, which was really just a

Razer’s Lycosa is their second keyboard offering and seems to be an about-face in terms of approach. Gone is the idea of extra button-laden keyboards with jam-packed features that tend to lack practicality; enter a keyboard that is trying to bring something that’s slightly different to the gaming arena. Introduction Razer first

It has been more than a full year since Microsoft’s revolutionary operating system was available to the masses. Harsh reviews, astounding features, and a lot of troubles, it is still seen as the dark horse amongst most users. Even among power users, Vista is looked down upon. Dissecting the features

Although on the surface it would appear AMD has hit rock bottom in terms of its financial situation, the company has been making great strides lately with its product line. It is likely that the $358 Million dollar loss posted by AMD for Q1 was partly the result of dropping

Just over two short years ago, the race for processor superiority was one waged on the megahertz front. Intel was pushing higher clock frequencies on its Prescott-based Pentium D chips, releasing SKUs like the Pentium 4 672 at 3.8GHz and the Pentium D 960 at 3.6GHz. In fact, processors released

In what is brewing to be another one of the endless patent disputes we hear about in the tech world Seagate is planning on bringing SSD manufacturers to court, starting with STEC. Solid-state drives sales are slowly but surely picking up sales and before they reach a critical juncture.

EVGA has a new toy on the way for you overclockers. Their Precision overclocking utility was shown on their forums yesterday with minimal details. It has been in development for quite some time, and it should work on almost all NVIDA cards. ( hurray! ) One of the big issues