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XFX Radeon 5970… in a gun shaped case?
Aug 27th
I caught this over on The Firearm Blog (a good site for firearms news, if you’re into that stuff). I quite honestly have no idea what demographic XFX is going for with their Radeon 5970 here. As if the gun bag itself doesn’t seem strange, the plastic gun-shaped carrier for the card itself is just [...]
PAX EAST 2010 Graphics Part 2: AMD/ATI
Apr 2nd
So, clearly PAX East was NVIDIA’s big event. But that doesn’t mean that AMD/ATI was just twiddling their thumbs. Yeah, their booth may not have been huge, but they had boxes running Bad Company 2, DiRT, and Hawx in Eyefinity (BC2 and Hawx were over 3 monitors, while DiRT was on 6). All three boxes [...]
PAX EAST 2010 Graphics Part 1: NVIDIA
Mar 31st
I spent a decent amount of time at PAX talking to people at both the NVIDIA and AMD/ATI booths. This event was undoubtedly dominated by nVidia, since they were using it as the launch event of the new GTX 470 and 480 series of video cards. Here is what I gathered from the two booths. [...]
nVidia 196.75 Drivers: Those Things Are Bad For You!
Mar 5th
Don’t use them! This has come up in a few different places, but apparently the latest iteration of nVidia’s graphics drivers are causing video cards to overheat and die. Tom’s Hardware has a blurb about it, with nVidia and others claiming that it’s being caused by the fans. The drivers have been removed from the [...]
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