Hopefully we have come across pretty well as a bunch of cheap bastards in every article we’ve ever written. Although performance is always something we herald pretty highly, price is probably the most important factor in the majority of our reviews. If there is a product second on the food chain that offers similar performance [...]

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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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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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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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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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Amidst the huge success of AMD’s current Radeon HD4800 series video cards, rumors about the next generation part have already begun to surface. The new part, temporarily codenamed or at least referred to as the RV870, appears to be a beefed up version of the current RV770. More importantly, however is that AMD will [...]

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By now most of you probably already know this, but the Radeon HD 4870 X2 (R700) graphics card will be launching in the middle of August. Upon launch it will be the single most powerful video card ever created. Early previews have hit the web on many sites, all of which herald the card for [...]

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As a consumer it might be a bit difficult to even consider that perhaps this new graphics war might have some negative connotations for the future. Low prices, high performance, and a wide array of options are all mashed together into a puree of gaming bliss for those of us looking to buy. However, the [...]

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