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Intel has recently revealed more details on its Larrabee project, which will indeed see Intel entering the discrete graphics market, at IDF Beijing 2009.

In February Intel reformated the IDF (Intel Developer Forum) Beijing 2009 from two days into a one-... More

Razer, the world's leading manufacturer of high-end gaming and lifestyle peripherals and Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises and leading technologies, today announced an unprecedented partnership to usher the first person shooter (FPS) genre to... More

AMD’s RV790 will probably be remembered as the first GPU that will easily overclock to over 1GHz core clock.

Some partners will ship overclocked cards but 900+ MHz should be the fastest clock out of the box which with some little help of the overdrive... More

Microsoft appears to have prematurely answered the question of when we'll all have our hands on the final pre-release version of Windows 7.

According to a unscheduled and since-removed page on Microsoft TechNet, the Windows 7 Release Candidate will be m... More

Introduction in May

Nvidia will indeed make a GTX 295 card with two GPUs on one PCB. The plan is to bring this SKU (Stock Keeping Unit) to market at some point in May.


This is a rather surprising move and it obviously means that Nvidia doesn’t re... More

Expreview has published this picture of the new GTX 295, which it says features a single PCB and a new cooler.
Although Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 295 looks like a single unit with a huge cooler, anyone who’s seen the insides of one will know that the cardâ... More

Intel's new flagship Core i7 975 processor should launch in early April, at least if the several retailers and distributors who have it listed are right.

Retailers expect to have the new Bloomfield in stock in the first week of April, and as expected th... More

In a somewhat surprising announcement, Take-Two has today revealed that long suffering New York cop Max Payne will be returning this winter, with Max Payne 3 heading for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.

It’s been almost six years since we were last in Max’s wi... More

With all the attention the RV790 (Radeon HD 4890) is grabbing as it heads for launch, we almost seem to forget its smaller sibling, the RV740 (Radeon HD 4750) is also in the works. What makes the special, is the fact that it is the industry's first GPU to ... More

The new Q8400 is nothing more than a Core 2 Quad Q9400 with a bit less cache. The Q8400 has 4MB of cache and a 2.66GHz core clock, while the Q9400 shares the same clock, but has 6MB of cache.

At launch you can expect Q8400 to sell for about €160 and i... More

Radeon HD 4890 (55nm RV790)

* HD 4890 is slated for launch on April 9th instead of 6th
* Cards have been shipped out to distributors and reviewers already
* 800 stream processors
* 1GB GDDR5 memory on 256-bit memory inter... More

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