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Today LucidLogix Technologies (Lucid) announced its arming video card manufacturers with the new Unity graphics board architecture for the HYDRALOGIX engine (previously known as HYDRA). Now graphics board vendors for the first time can combine a single HYDRALOGIX 200 real time distributed processor with any single NVIDIA or ATI GPU, creating an affordable, flexible multi-GPU-ready [...]

TUL Corporation, a leading manufacturer of AMD graphics cards, today announces an adaptor to make utilizing Eyefinity technology even easier. The PowerColor Active DisplayPort to Single-Link DVI-D adaptor, enables the multi-display ability through 3 DVI monitors. The PowerColor Active DisplayPort to Single-Link DVI-D adaptor supports resolutions up to 1920×1200 (WUXGA) and 1080p HDTV, fully compliant [...]

NVIDIA formally introduced the GeForce 400 “Fermi” graphics card series in late March when rolling out the GeForce GTX 470 and 480. This launch was followed by the GeForce GTX 465 availability in late May and then in the middle of July there was the launch of the GeForce GTX 460 768MB and GeForce GTX [...]

The enthusiast community witnessed the sad “demise” of BFG Tech, as it categorically announced an exit from graphics cards business, and then unofficially left other businesses such as PSUs and PCs. It has come to light, however, that BFG Tech did in fact toy with the idea of doing what XFX did, and become an [...]

When NVIDIA released their GeForce GTX 480 the first issue that arrised was a very hot chip. The heat levels had to be compensated for somehow, NVIDIA opted for a cooling solution that was rather loud. With the release of the GeForce GTX 470 things had gotten a fraction better, but the GPU was still [...]

For many a year even the thought of setting up a multi-GPU system has caused the most tech-savvy of PC enthusiasts to eat their own heads in complete and utter frustration. It wasn’t just the fact that the mere action of setting a CrossFire or SLI system up was a tiring process of exacting component [...]

Gainward is working on an upper-mid range graphics card based on the newly released NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 graphics processor, with 2 GB of GDDR5 memory across a 256-bit wide memory interface, and some factory-overclocked speeds. It is branded under Gainward’s GOOD Golden Sample marker. That card uses Gainward’s own design PCB and cooling solution. [...]

Physics engine, called Lagoa Multiphysics 1.0, was created by Thiago Costa and essentially simulates real-life physics in a completely realistic way. This demo shows a piece of charcoal breaking and spreading as it hits the ground. The engine features: – High friction granular materials – Incompressible fluids – Elastic structures – Plastic deformations & more

At first glance this might look like a gimmick or novelty product, but the canny engineers at TUL Corporation (better known for its PowerColor brand) may have come up with something fairly revolutionary. The PowerColor PowerJack is an extendible support that can take the weight of a graphics cards, relieving the strain that it puts [...]

A new firmware which came with Mac OS X 10.6.4 for the new Mac mini, as well as a set of leaked NVIDIA drivers, has suggested that Macs will have Radeon HD 5000 and GeForce 400 graphics in the near future. The ATI-oriented code doesn’t identify any graphics processors by name, but does appear to [...]

Graphics cards have evolved over the decades from being “display adapters” to “video cards”, to “graphics accelerators”, to what it is today, something that forms a key component to the PC, in which the increasing complexity of visuals are what define the evolution of pretty much every other key PC component, be it the graphics [...]

When it was first implemented, the PCI Express 2.0 specifications allowed for newer and much more powerful motherboards and graphics cards to be made. Still, as time moves on, technologies become outdated and unable to handle next-generation products. The PCI Express 2.0 can’t really be said to have reached this stage, but neither is it [...]

ZOTAC International, a leading innovator and the world’s largest channel manufacturer of graphics cards, mini-PCs and small form factor platforms, today unleashes the world’s fastest air cooled GeForce GTX 400 series graphics cards – the lightning-fast ZOTAC GeForce GTX 480 AMP! Edition and GTX 470 AMP! Edition graphics cards. ZOTAC takes air-cooled performance to the [...]

MSI has another interesting product up its sleeve and although it isn’t innovative it is still enough to draw some pretty good attention, the Graphics Upgrade Solution, aka GUS. MSI’s GUS is an external graphics card interface that connects to the notebook via Express card interface and has support for PCI-Express x16 graphics cards. According [...]

Futuremark, the developer of the world’s most popular benchmarking software, today announced 3DMark 11, the latest version of their industry standard benchmark for real-time 3D graphics. Designed to measure the performance of DirectX 11 gaming PCs, 3DMark 11 uses a native DirectX 11 engine created in-house. To accompany the announcement Futuremark has released a trailer [...]

It looks like MSI will be one of the names that we will see in FutureMark’s 3DMark 11. According to what MSI had to show at its pre-Computex event, MSI’s logo will be present in at least one part of the 3DMark 11 benchmark. In addition, MSI also pretty much confirmed that the new Futuremark [...]

Futuremark is readying the next generation of its popular 3D graphics benchmark, the 3DMark. The new version will be called 3DMark 11 (probably named after the year 2011 or DirectX 11), and will strive to be every present-generation GPU’s worst nightmare (stress test). With NVIDIA’s entry into the DirectX 11 generation of graphics following ATI [...]

For years we have been talking about open-source ATI Radeon power management for their Linux driver and it’s finally all coming to fruition. Back in April of 2008 we talked about dynamic clocks coming to R500+ ASICs and various other initiatives to improve the Radeon power management in their DDX driver, but everything got shook [...]

EK Water Blocks released as many as eight water blocks for the GeForce 400 series, four each for the GTX 470 and GTX 480. All four carry essentially the same full-coverage monolithic design, but differ with the selection of materials. The EK-FC470 GTX and EK-FC480 GTX are base-models, which are copper-based, and which use clear [...]

MOTHERBOARD MAKER MSI has released what it claims is a major driver update to its range topping Big Bang-Fuzion board. The board features Lucid’s Hydra chip, which allows AMD and NVIDIA cards in multi-GPU configurations. The board was the first to incorporate the chip and while the firm did well to overcome some of the [...]