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Alienware Area-51 m17x Gaming Laptop
The new Alienware’s gaming notebook is available with the following features: – 17 inch Wide Screen WUXGA 1920×1200 – Intel Core 2 Duo – NVIDIA 8800M/8700M/8600M GT/GTX and SLI – up to 4Gb of RAM – HDD: up to 500Mb … Continue reading
GeCube HD3870 X2 X-Turbo
A graphics card with a very nice looking GPU cooler. Unfortunately, this card will available in Korea only… – Source
FurMark Smokes Graphics Cards
I found this thread on [H]ard|Forum where we can read this: “That fur demo is known to get cards the hottest, it is also known for smoking cards as well (it was the last thing run for a number of … Continue reading
Posted in Benchmark, Graphics Cards
Tagged Benchmark, furmark, gpu, heat, temperature
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Dell XPS M1730 Gaming Laptop
Extremetech has reviewed the new gems of Dell, the XPS M1730: This is a beast, with a Core 2 Extreme X9000 mobile CPU running at 2.8GHz, a pair of GeForce 8800M GTX cards in SLI (the dream for all graphics … Continue reading
GPU: a floating-point MONSTER
Here is a sum-up of the next GPGPU: far more important than you think. Think 10x a CPU’s performance. This article discusses about the use of GPU for non-graphical purposes or GPGPU (General Purpose (computation) on Graphics Processing Units). The … Continue reading
Posted in Graphics Cards, Programming
Tagged cuda, firestream, geforce, gpgpu, OpenGL, radeon, sdk, stream computing
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Sapphire Radeon 3870-X2 ATOMIC
Sapphire’s 3870 X2 ATOMIC version will hit US and Europe market next month. This card will have 1Gb of GDDR3 memory, Dual DVI / TVO with Water Cooler. Nice product. You can see two kind of power connectors: 2×3 and … Continue reading
Hacking Your Xbox 360 Fan
If you find your Xbox 360 a little bit too noisy, ExtremTech shows you how to replace the stock fan. Ok cool but why Microsoft does not do this hack directly ???
