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NVIDIA's been the target of a couple rumors over the past month, and so far, one of them came true. Of course, I'm referring to the GeForce GTX 580, the new reigning champion where single-GPU performance is concerned. At the same time, a "GTX 460 SE" has also been rumored, but its potential...

When someone considers an SSD purchase, there can be a couple of different reasons for it. The most common comes down to performance, where mechanical drives are just left in the dust. For others, though, an SSD is a perfect complement to a quiet PC. After all, no moving parts means no noise. Or...

Are you an MMO player? Does anyone ever tell you that should... oh, I dunno... get a job? Well, if you are someone known as Jon Jacobs, a devout Entropia Universe player, you could tell those people that your MMO is your job. Best of all, you might just be making a lot more money then they'll...

With a great number of media players available on the market, picking out the right one can be tough. AC Ryan hopes to stand out with its Playon!HD, an option that does a lot more than just play media. It can also act as a NAS, and even handle your torrenting duties. Does it do all of these well...

I've always been a fan of parkour, but this might be more my style: http://weburbanist.com/2010/11/10/parkour-for-lazies-the-bizarre-british-lying-down-game/

In a follow-up to last year's Modern Warfare 2, Treyarch aims to impress with its most ambitious project yet, Call of Duty: Black Ops. The game features a solid storyline, fantastic gameplay, many unique elements, and a ton of content... even a bonus game or two! Did Treyarch deliver on all the...

If you knew that the writer of a game review you just read was treated to some good times by the company during the review process, would you trust them? This is a subject that Ars Technica has been infatuated with the past couple of months, especially with regards to how Activision has treated...

We've talked a fair bit about file-sharing on the site before and the repercussions it can hold, but in all we've discussed, it's usually on the subject of music or movies. As it seems, though, it looks like those who really should be watching their backs are those who download pornography, as...

Here's a good lessen that in some countries, it's apparently illegal to break into a virtual house! “I don’t think it matters that the flat only exists in Facebook, it is real to me and I have suffered a real loss,” said Paola Letizia, the victimized digital homeowner. She claims to have...

NVIDIA launched its first Fermi-based GPU earlier this year in the form of the GeForce GTX 480, and it was met with mixed reception. Until now, it's been the fastest single-GPU offering on the market, but certain downsides kept it from being the first-choice of many. Does NVIDIA's first proper...

Ahh, isn't this just the best time of year? No, it's not because of the weather, or the upcoming holidays, or the fact that we all ate too much candy in recent weeks. No, this is the best time of year because it's when most of the biggest games of the year get released, and gamers are faced with...

So... who's getting it? I'll be diving in as soon as I can, being that I'm a bit of a CoD addict. I'd like to get a review for the game up as soon as possible, since reviews like that tend to write themselves ;-) I also plan to play a good deal on the weekend if any of you guys want to hook...

At this past weekend's PDXLAN 16.5 event, Tom Petersen, NVIDIA's Director of Technical Marketing, decided to give people in attendance a preview of what's to come from the company. This included some slides of features that its upcoming GPU would be offering, and though he couldn't specify which...

As rumor has it, Intel's Sandy Bridge processors are set to be launched this coming January, but aside from that, there are few other specifics known about them, especially with launch specs and pricing. Due to a "mess-up" at one UK e-tailer, though, it does look like we have a baseline to go...

NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 470 is one of the better GPU offerings on the market right now, but it's also one of the hottest. It's for that reason that after-market coolers exist, although few get quite as high-end as CoolIT's Omni A.L.C. - and the ~$200 price tag proves it. Given that price, let's...

Over the years, we've posted a fair number of news items regarding various aspects of piracy, and though there have been different subjects to tackle, there's been a common theme. If it's a single person we're talking about on the opposite side of the RIAA, the outcome is rarely desirable. In...

After we posted our in-depth look at AMD's Radeon HD 6800 graphics cards a couple of weeks ago, we took a look at what NVIDIA's radar may look like, to see what the company might do to steal back some of AMD's thunder. It's not that AMD released the best single-GPU card on the market, but from a...

With the three major console developers having launched their respective motion technologies, the hungry demand for games that get people out of their chairs is being fed. But does that mean that current implementations are perfect? I don't think so, and attempt to explain the reasons why...

After ten long years of providing service to its users, LimeWire succumbed to the brute force of the record industry and closed shop. As the saying goes, though, once one goes down, ten more pop up, and that couldn't be more true. If people pirate, they are not going to suddenly begin not...

A couple of years ago, you'd be limited to the number of tools you could use to overclock your graphics card, but today, that's no longer the case. In the past couple of years, vendors have jumped on board by releasing their own homebrewed overclocking applications, so the choice is far greater...