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WARP speed for Windows 7

The other day the eagle-eyed Long Zheng noticed a document on Microsoft's MSDN site outlining how Microsoft plans to allow DirectX 10 acceleration on the CPU. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Video Card, Microsoft Windows 7, NVidia Corp., Microsoft Windows, ATI Technologies Inc., CPU, Graphics, DirectX, GPU, Video Cards, Processors, Hardware, Components, Semiconductors, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-12-01

NVIDIA GeForce Release 180 drivers give GPU a performance boost

Today I downloaded and installed NVIDIA's latest GeForce Release 180 drivers (180.48) for my GTX 260 and GTX 280 systems and I'm seeing a dramatic and noticeable performance difference. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Performance, Nvidia GeForce, NVidia Corp., Graphics, GPU, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-11-25

More notebooks using two, and now three, GPUs

More notebooks using two, and now three, GPUsI see this going the way of the razor bladeSingle blade razors worked well. Then came the 2 blade razors and yeah, I thought that was an improvement. Then came the 3 blade razors and I started joking about how soon they would...

Tags: Blade servers, Utility computing, Servers, notebook, blade razor, blade, GPU

Discussion threads 2008-11-07

More notebooks using two, and now three, GPUs

Laptops using multiple GPUs aren't new, but they are becoming more widespread. Earlier this week AMD touted the first laptop "from a major manufacturer" with two ATI Mobility Radeon GPUs, the Alienware M17. Not to be outdone, Nvidia announced yesterday that it was powering the first three-GPU laptop, the Toshiba...

Tags: Alienware, Notebook, Nvidia GeForce, Intel Core 2 Duo, Toshiba Corp., GPU, Toshiba Qosmio X305 Series, Alienware M1, Trade-off, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-11-07

Microsoft to discourage hybrid graphics systems for Windows 7

Microsoft to discourage hybrid graphics systems for Windows 7Why should we use hybrid graphics?IMO the graphic card manufactures should do something like what the CPUs manufactures do, dynamic adjustment. When in a lower power battery setting the GPU could adjust to a lower clock speed and or voltage, etc.That is...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Hybrid Graphics, graphics, GPU, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, graphics system, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-11-06

Microsoft to discourage hybrid graphics systems for Windows 7

It seems that Microsoft is discouraging system manufacturers from shipping systems making use of hybrid graphics. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Graphics, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, GPU, Hybrid Graphic

Blog posts 2008-11-06

Confirmed: Dual GPU and on-the-fly switching capability in MacBook Pro

NVIDIA confirmed today to Gizmodo that the GeForce 9400M chip in Apple's new MacBooks can do a whole lot that Intel's integrated graphics can't -- it can support up to 8GB of RAM, it can do on-the-fly GPU switching and it can work together with the MacBook Pro's discrete 9600M...

Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook Pro, GPU, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-10-23

Highlights from the Apple notebook event

Highlights from the Apple notebook event at Apple headquarters in Cupertino.Steve Jobs takes that stage and introduces Tim Cook who discusses Apple's 2-3x the market growth, Vista and their retail successes. US retail market share grows from single digits to 17.6% From 15 -...

Tags: Multi-touch, Nvidia GeForce, NVidia Corp., Apple Inc., Graphics, Aluminum, GPU, Steve, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-14

ElcomSoft uses NVIDIA GPUs to speed up WPA/WPA2 brute-force attack

ElcomSoft uses NVIDIA GPUs to speed up WPA/WPA2 brute-force attackRemember: Use a good password!Yup - this is a reminder that you should use long passwords with punctuation and mixed case.And let's be honest, shall we? It's not just about "Governments, forensic and corporate users." The dark side is interested in...

Tags: SECURITY, NVidia Corp., GPU, Full WPA/WPA2, attack, password, ElcomSoft

Discussion threads 2008-10-12

ElcomSoft uses NVIDIA GPUs to speed up WPA/WPA2 brute-force attack

Russian security firm ElcomSoft has released software that leverages NVIDIA GPUs to speed up the brute-force cracking of WPA and WPA2 pre-shared WiFi keys. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: NVidia Corp., ElcomSoft, GPU, Attack, Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-10-12

Apple agrees to repair MacBook Pros with bad NVIDIA GPUs

Apple agrees to repair MacBook Pros with bad NVIDIA GPUsWhat a nimble companydoes Wilee Coyote only realize there is no ground beneath him when he looks down. You can shout at the television all you want. He'll never hold up that little sign that says " Uh Oh!" until he...

Tags: Notebooks, MacBook PROS, NVIDIA GPU, Apple Inc., GPU, NVidia Corp., Apple MacBook

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

Apple agrees to repair MacBook Pros with bad NVIDIA GPUs

Months after Dell and other notebook manufacturers came clean, Apple has admitted some culpability for failing Nvidia GPUs. The GeForce 8600M GT has been failing recently in MacBook Pros and Apple has agrred t0 will pay for the repairs.Read more about it at setteb.it english translation. by...

Tags: NVidia Corp., Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook Pro, GPU, GeForce 8600M GT, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Defective NVIDIA GPUs present in MacBook Pro

Defective NVIDIA GPUs present in MacBook ProAnd, reportedly, Apple wants to get further into bed with them?Using nVidia Chipsets instead of Intel?I thought Apple uses more quality partsThat's the point iTards throw out every time to justify Macs' insanely high price.I see Dell offering ATI discreet cardson some of their...

Tags: Notebooks, NVidia Corp., NVIDIA GPU, Macs ARE, Apple Inc., GPU, Apple MacBook Pro, Apple MacBook

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

Defective NVIDIA GPUs present in MacBook Pro

Apple has now joined the ranks of Dell and HP and admitted that some if its MacBook Pro notebooks have been shipped with defective NVIDIA GPUs. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: NVidia Corp., Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook Pro, GPU, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-10-10

NVIDIA: Goodbye 9000-series, hello G100-series

Does anyone else here find NVIDIA's latest naming convention for GPUs a little confusing? I know that I find it hard to explain to people why a G200-series GPU is better than say an 8000-series - after all, 8000 is a bigger number than 200! by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: NVidia Corp., GPU, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-09-29

Hardware 2.0 Best Kit List Oct/Nov 08

OK, it's time once again for The Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Oct/Nov 08. Here I've put together a list of the best high-end and mid-range components currently available, with some decent budget parts listed too, along with a few honorable mentions. So if you're thinking of buying, building...

Tags: List, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, hardware, cpu, drive, psu, ram, motherboard, gpu, graphics

Image galleries 2008-09-19

Mythbusters display colourful insight into CPU and GPU differences

Mythbusters display colourful insight into CPU and GPU differencesLove the MythBusters!Love the MythBusters, and love that demo :).RE: Mythbusters display colourful insight into CPU and GPU differencesNow, I love the mythbusters, and I love nVidia, but name one nvidia card that has 1100 stream processors. I understand what they are...

Tags: Processors, MythBusters, colourful insight, GPU difference, GPU, processor, CPU

Discussion threads 2008-09-19

Mythbusters display colourful insight into CPU and GPU differences

A little off topic today as the world has gone all quiet. You can be an all-knowing computer science boffin and still not grasp the concept of the "GPU" and what it does. Pretty much everyone knows what the CPU is and does, but when it comes to graphics, a...

Tags: CPU, GPU, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-18

AMD introduces ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series graphics cards

Today AMD has announced the ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series of mainstream graphics cards priced at well under $100. These are described as being able to deliver exceptional gaming and HD multimedia performance while consuming less power than a standard light bulb. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Video Card, Performance, ATI Radeon, ATI Technologies Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, GPU, ATI Radeon HD 4670, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-09-10

NVIDIA slapped with securities lawsuit

NVIDIA slapped with securities lawsuitLooks like some lawyers are going to get rich.Looks like some lawyers are going to get rich. man them guys are blood sucking leaches. they are akin to sharks. they smell blood and they go in for the kill. they try and make you think they...

Tags: Notebooks, Investment, NVidia Corp., securities lawsuit, GPU

Discussion threads 2008-09-10