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Nvidia Quadro Plex 1000: Graphics card for Beckham's budget
Crave Here we were, basking in the glory of our £2,000 twin-graphics card Alienware laptop when Nvidia announced a graphics 'card' that retails for a whopping $17,000 (£8,900). Model I has two Quadro FX 5500 graphics processing units (GPUs) and one...
Tags: nvidia, processing, boards, graphics card
7 August 2006, 10:50
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3800: Laptops get graphics hotness
Crave Several new developments in the laptops graphics department from ATI and parent company AMD were announced at this year's Computex show in Taiwan. The company says, "The new ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3800 series offers notebook manufacturers the...
Tags: hd, laptop, dedicated, battery
5 June 2008, 9:08
Asus EN7600GT: HDMI/HDCP graphics card
Crave Our friends at Asus popped by the CNET.co.uk offices last Friday to show us its latest graphics card. The EN7600GT comes with 256MB of memory running at 1,400MHz and a graphics processor running at 560MHz.
Tags: asus, cable, definition, windows vista
31 July 2006, 11:13
Toshiba Qosmio X305: Triple threat graphics
Crave We've seen laptops with dual SLI graphics, such as the recent Alienware M17. We've seen laptops with switchable discrete and integrated graphics, such as the new MacBook Pro. Like other laptops with hybrid graphics, the Qosmio X305 can switch from...
Tags: core, graphics, laptops, hard drive
7 November 2008, 10:32
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3: unlucky for some
Crave Corel has announced a new version of its do-it-all graphics package, CorelDRAW X3. The Bevel effect docker helps you create 3D text and the new Crop tool works on both bitmaps and vector graphics. CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 goes on sale on 8...
Tags: suite, zoo, chameleon, upgrade
19 January 2006, 9:27
ATI X1900 XTX graphics card delivers teraflop performance
Crave Today ATI lifted the lid on its flagship graphics card, the Radeon X1900 XTX. Reading from the accompanying technical document (which inevitably self-destructed after ten seconds), it becomes clear why the X1900 XTX is set to be the new reigning...
Tags: power, computing, graphics, ati
24 January 2006, 13:00
Nvidia GeForce 9M Series: Laptops get graphics boost
Crave Laptop gamers usually have a pretty serious case of desktop envy when it comes to their graphics cards, especially since even mid-price desktops can sport water-cooled SLI dual-card setups these days.
Tags: cards, category, gamers, nvidia
4 June 2008, 9:00
rockdirect Xtreme SL: Dual graphics card monster
Crave It's also one of the very first laptops to use not one, but two Nvidia Geforce Go 7800 GTX graphics cards in a Serial Link Interface (SLI ) configuration. A laptop is a PC you can use while it's perched on your lap, right?
Tags: rockdirect, laptops, xtreme, love
3 April 2006, 10:16
Alienware M17: First laptop with ATI CrossFireX graphics
Crave The M17 -- not to be confused with the M17x -- is the first gaming laptop to use ATI CrossFireX dual graphics card technology. For an extra £182, Alienware will install a second HD 3870, which it believes will boost your graphics performance by as...
4 November 2008, 11:54
Asus XG Station: External graphics card
Crave Behold the XG Station, an external graphics card that transforms your weak, non-games-playing laptop into a polygon-munching monster that can eat an Alienware laptop for breakfast. The XG Station incorporates a proper desktop graphics card, in this...
Tags: station, laptop, slot, headphone
8 January 2007, 4:08
Crave Talk: AMD and ATI merge -- rivals quiver in fear
Crave Okay, so it's official: AMD has just earmarked a shed-load of cash to buy graphics card maker ATI. Graphics cards and chipsets (the chip or chips on a motherboard that provide functions to support the CPU) also play a major role.
Tags: amd, intel, role, laptops
25 July 2006, 12:34
ATI Radeon HD 2000 series: Rumour-tastic
Crave According to unconfirmed Internet chatter, AMD is about to release a new series of graphics cards to topple Nvidia's high-end GeForce 8800 series. We've already seen a leaked YouTube tech demo of ATI's Ruby character -- who only ever pops up when a...
24 April 2007, 11:13
Amputees' phantom limbs return in virtual reality
Crave Using 3D computer graphics and a virtual reality headset, the lost limb can be 'restored'. Dr Stephen Pettifer, of the School of Computer Science said: "Most people know about 3D graphics and virtual reality from their use in the entertainment...
Tags: virtual, person, movement, reality
14 November 2006, 14:45
Hands-on with the Asus EN9800 GX2: Faster than death
Crave Want twin graphics cards, but your motherboard only has one PCI Express slot? We've just been playing with the Asus EN9800 GX2, a graphics adaptor that combines two separate graphics processing units in a single.box thingy.
Tags: core, anti, frames, graphics
4 April 2008, 11:36
Nvidia Triple SLI: 50 per cent more pointless?
Crave It used four graphics cards, which prompted many to think quad-SLI was the future of gaming. More graphics cards just means more fans, more heat, more noise and more electricity being squeezed out of your power supply, for relatively little...
Tags: resolution, cards, pixels, quad
7 November 2007, 10:38
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