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Next-Gen 28nm GPUs in Volume Production

The semiconductor manufacturer TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company), with customers that include AMD and Nvidia, reveals that the company has started "volume production" of chips at 28 nanometers. These new chips are primarily intended for use in next-generation graphics processors. ...

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Nvidia Releases 285.62 WHQL Drivers

Everyone sitting on a laptop with an Nvidia GPU should have a look at the latest Verde notebook driver update that were released today, which brings a number of improvements to quite a few games--most notably it is recommended for Battlefield 3 because it contains performance improvement and solves ...

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MSI GT780DXR/GT680DXR First to Receive New Intel Chips

The only just released versions of MSI's gaming laptop lineup with the new and more powerful Nvidia GeForce GTX 570M are due for another upgrade. Intel's halfway refresh of its Sandy Bridge (2nd-gen Core) processors will apparently find their way into MSI's laptops pretty soon. Other manufacturers ...

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Nvidia 3D Vision 2 Backwards Compatible

Nvidia’s 3D solution is still the most popular and arguably best option for gaming, considering the extensive support for both new and older titles. Now the manufacturer has released Mk. 2 of the 3D glasses, and existing owners of 3D Vision-enabled gaming laptops and monitors will be happy to hear ...

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Intel Launches New Mobile CPUs

This is not a major update in any way but rather some slight improvements to the Sandy Bridge lineup, which continues to be the best choice for gaming laptops as far as we're concerned, even if AMD is catching up with its Fusion lineup, which is now available in the HP dv6z among other ...

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ASUS G53SX Unboxing

These kinds of video clips should be marked "not safe for work" because 99% of your colleagues will probably consider you a complete nutjob for watching stuff coming out of boxes. At any rate, we stay true to geek traditions and bring you this video straight from our so-called "test lab". I can ...

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Toshiba Glasses-Free 3D Laptop Now Shipping

The Toshiba Qosmio F755-3D290 with the huge Nintendo 3DS display is now starting to leave store shelves, but is this the glasses-free 3D *gaming* laptop we've all been waiting for? Unfortunately not--at least not yet. It's a really nice 15-inch laptop in general, with a quad-core Core i7 CPU, 6GB ...

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More about the Non-Death of PC Gaming

Razer recently announced that PC gaming is not dead, which was nice of them to point out. Then they went on to announce "the world's first gaming laptop" to a cheering crowd. Amazing. Lest anyone suspected that PC gaming might be dead or even on the way out, Nvidia now comes to the rescue and ...

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M11x Hinge Problem? No Problem, Says Dell

There's a lot of talk out there about broken hinges on the Alienware M11x, and the short version of this story is that Dell has promised to fix the issue--globally and even if it's outside the warranty period. Not everyone have had problems with the hinges, but as usual (and appropriately) those ...

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MSI GT780DXR (with GTX 570M) Now Shipping

While the Nvidia GeForce GTX 470M quickly disappeared into obscurity--it was only used in a very small amount of custom built Clevo-based laptops--the GTX 570M is headed down an entirely different direction. This is great news, because this mobile GPU offers a significant speed boost over the GTX ...

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AMD 28nm Mobile GPUs On the Way

A few days ago, we mentioned that NVIDIA is well underway towards building its first batch of mobile graphics chips in the new and more power-efficient 28nm process, which will be based on the manufacturer's existing Fermi architecture for the time being but take advantage of the 28nm improvements ...

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GPU-Z Version 0.5.5 Released

If you have no idea what GPU-Z is you should probably congratulate yourself for not for not having turned into a complete geek, but the already converted are no doubt aware of this neat little tool.What GPU-Z does is more or less what it's CPU counterpart CPU-Z does with your processor; it ...

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