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The winner of our giveaway of two Radeon HD 7770 graphics cards and an accompanying game bundle is Anirban Roychowdhury. He was chosen...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics The Tech Report

A few years ago, Nvidia's future looked uncertain. Both AMD and Intel were combining graphics with x86 processors, while Nvidia was the only one stuck...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics

Well, this should be fun. In celebration of the Never Settle game bundle deal, the folks at AMD offered us some Radeon video...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Gaming The Tech Report

Although tablets with Clover Trail Atom CPUs have yet to hit the market, we're already getting hints about Clover Trail's next-generation replacement. A collection...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Mobile computing

IO Interactive's Hitman: Absolution is out today, and Nvidia has a fresh set of beta graphics drivers ready for the occasion. You can grab this...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics

We're only a week from Black Friday, but by the look of things, retailers aren't saving their best deals for next week. Today's highlights include:

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Storage Gaming

For those obsessed with silencing their PCs, passive cooling is the holy grail. A cooler can't make any noise if it has no fans...

Type: News story Tags: Cooling

In spite of this morning's e-mail hijinks, we collected a handful of release announcements in our inbox this week. Biostar, MSI, Spire, and Zotac...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Cooling Mobile computing

Last week, a Microsoft developer stated that DirectX 11.1 would remain a Windows 8-only feature. That remark was true—but, as it turns out, only...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Software

Looks like AMD might be putting itself up on the auction block. Quoting...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics

The supercomputing-related announcements are coming fast and thick today, and we have one truly novel entry in the bunch, as Intel formally unveils its first...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Servers

When Microsoft released DirectX 11 as part of Windows 7, it back-ported the API to the previous version of the OS. That may not...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Gaming Operating systems

These next few days are going to be busy for us PC gamers. Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 comes out tomorrow, and then a...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics

Nvidia's big Kepler chip is finally an official product. We first got a peek at the GK110's architecture way back in May, but products...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Servers

Remember that dual-GPU monster Mark Papermaster teased at the AMD Fusion Developer Summit in June? Well, it's now official. Say hello to the FirePro...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics

Maybe it's the sheer popularity of the firm's Tegra 3 chips. Maybe it's...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics

Might we see another mid-range Radeon debut in the not-too-distant future? German website HT4U.net seems to think so. The site claims to have it...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics

Looks like Corsair wasn't finished updating its self-enclosed Hydro Series liquid coolers. After announcing replacements for the H50 and H60 a couple of weeks...

Type: News story Tags: Cooling