From the latest sneaky snake pictures taken of X58 boards from at least four of the major motherboard manufacturers, it appears that SLI will be absent in the launch products. We previously wrote a nice long editorial about the whole SLI on X58 debacle, in which we stated that Intel would not be putting an [...]

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Although not the only companies to release new gaming peripherals in the last few days, Microsoft and Razer have likely launched those that will be the most successful. At this year’s Games Convention in Leipzig, Microsoft unleashed two new products: the SideWinder X6 keyboard and the SideWinder X5 mouse. Last year, when we were still [...]

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With the way things have been going in the graphics industry, it would not be to brash an assertion to say that NVIDIA is likely to be on top again in a couple of months. However, taking into consideration other factors might shed some light on the reasons that at least one AMD executive believes [...]

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Lucid, a little-known fabless semiconductor designer, has just announced a new product that could render both NVIDIA’s SLI and ATI’s CrossFire technolgies obsolete. Despite the performance advantages gained using the existing multi-GPU setups, SLI and CrossFire each have drawbacks that prevent many enthusiasts from adopting either. Logic would lead most people to believe that using [...]

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RV870, the next-generation GPU from AMD, is currently being worked on under the codename “Little Dragon”. Of course we don’t know or care what the significance of the codename is, but with this comes other tidbits about the upcoming product. We previously reported that the RV870 will be built on a 40 or 45nm manufacturing [...]

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Perhaps adding insult to injury, NVIDIA has posted a loss of $120.9 million for the second quarter of fiscal 2009. No matter how you slice it this is bad news. Although the earnings represent a year over year increase of 15%, many expect the losses to continue into Q3. NVIDIA cites $198M set aside for [...]

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Just when we thought that maybe the defective G84 and G86 problems were over, new reports that the problem is once again far more widespread than previously understood leaves us wondering just how deep this rabbit hole goes. It was already troubling enough to find out that even a small number of shipped mobile NVIDIA [...]

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Everyone knows that AMD processors are not quite up to scruff with their Intel counterparts. Everyone knows the so-called “native quad-core” characteristic turned out to be a bit less important than superior architecture and higher clock speeds. Despite all the negatives that can be said about AMD’s Phenom series, nobody can deny that the processors [...]

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A year or two ago, after being unhappy with Logitech’s then-current offerings for gaming peripherals, I thought I’d try out this interesting-looking mouse, called the “DeathAdder”, by this company named “Razer”. Though I’d really never had any experience with other Razer products at the time, I instantly fell in love with the DA, and still [...]

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According to Expreview.com Intel’s much-heralded Nehalem will come to market bearing the name “Core i7″. The name “Core i7″ could have something to do with the fact that this is Intel’s 7th generation architecture. Nehalem is set to be announced on August 11th (Monday), so we presume that more details regarding the name choice will [...]

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Intel’s next generation processor has already been previewed to the point where there probably won’t be any surprises when it launches in October of this year (OK, maybe one ;o ). Of course the processor has been shown to be phenomenal. It’s Intel we’re talking about, after all. Intel, the company that just three short [...]

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Tom’s Hardware has posted its monthly “Best Video Cards for the Money” list, and for the first time in recent memory, AMD is pretty much unanimously preferred across the board.
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Clearly this whole G84 and G86 fiasco is pretty bad news for NVIDIA. If recent reports are to be believed, the problem is far more widespread than even the Inquirer initially believed. Not only are all GeForce 8600 and 8400/8500 parts affected by the weak substrate issues, but members of the mobile GeForce Go 6000 [...]

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Yesterday we reported about the major issue of NVIDIA G86 and G84 GPUs being defective. In their second quarter fiscal 2009 business update, NVIDIA detailed a $150 to $200 million dollar allocation to cover the anticipated costs for warranty, repair, replacement, etc. of “certain versions of its previous generation GPU and MCP products used in [...]

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So over the past couple of weeks there has been a huge amount of talk regarding a report revealing that NVIDIA’s mobile G86 and G84 GPUs are defective. It all started on July 2nd when NVIDIA released their second quarter fiscal 2009 business update. In the report, NVIDIA says that it will “take a one-time [...]

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