NVIDIA has an overcomplicated lineup

Written by Thomas Gribble in May 8th, 2008  
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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

Some Updates

Written by Thomas Gribble in May 7th, 2008  
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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

Blu-Ray adoption slows down, Can you tell HD from SD?

Written by slapnuts in May 1st, 2008  
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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

AMD Quick with Catalyst Hotfix for Vantage

Written by Thomas Gribble in April 28th, 2008  
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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

3DMark Vantage Launch Day

Written by Thomas Gribble in April 28th, 2008  
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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 Lycosa Review (2nd Look)

Written by divito in April 23rd, 2008  
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Razer Lycosa Review (2nd Look)
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

Newbie’s Guide to Vista: The Look

Written by system in April 21st, 2008  
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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

AMD Radeon HD4800, SB750 southbridge incoming

Written by Thomas Gribble in April 21st, 2008  
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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

AMD Shanghai derivatives to use 12 cores

Written by Thomas Gribble in April 19th, 2008  
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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

Seagate Brings Down The Gavel On SSD Manufacturers

Written by slapnuts in April 15th, 2008  
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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

Precision: EVGA’s Advanced Graphics Tuner

Written by slapnuts in April 15th, 2008  
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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

Windows XP Service Pack 3 News

Written by slapnuts in April 15th, 2008  
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I know quite a few of you die hards are still using Windows XP and may be curious as to the schedule for Service Pack 3, when it will be out, etc. Microsoft has seemingly continued to delay this release for testing purposes, much like they did with Vista's

The Weekly Hardware Recap

Written by Oscar Meade in April 10th, 2008  
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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

Razer Piranha Review

Written by Oscar Meade in April 9th, 2008  
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Razer Piranha Review
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

Toshiba’s SpursEngine SE1000 brings Cell to the PC

Written by Thomas Gribble in April 9th, 2008  
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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
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