Kotaku: Graphics Cards

The Best PC Hardware Has The Worst Box Art

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:20:00 MST

A lot of PC hardware these days - graphics cards in particular - is impressive technology. Know what's not impressive? Their box art. Poorly-rendered boobs, fairies and monster trucks do not a respectable product image maketh. Anyway, Kotaku special guest and Boing-Boing Gadget's own Joel Johnson has done us all a great service and collected a gallery of the worst. And by worst, I mean best.

A must-see. More at the link below. Some—But Not All—of the Horrible Motherboard Box Art We Found [Boing-Boing Gadgets]

Meet the New GeForce Graphics Card

Brian Crecente — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:00:54 MST

Hardocp have gotten their hands on specs and pictures of NVIDIA's not-yet-released GeForce 9800 GX2. The new card will launch in late February or early march and replace the 8800 Ultra single GPU card. The card is supposed to be 30 percent faster than the 8800 Ultra, has a 65nm GPU and will support Quad SLI, yes Quad.

Other technical tidbits from Hardocp:

1GB Frame Buffer
Two PCBs
Two 65nm GPUs Total
256 Stream Processors Total

The memory isn't exactly clear, but Hardocp is wishing it would be two 766MB framer buffers per a GPU, but guessing it's something closer to 512MB. All I know is that my graphics card is now officially out-dated. Boo!

GeForce 9800 GX2 Exclusive Pics & Specs [Hardocp]

ASUS XG Station Laptop Graphics Dock

Mike Fahey — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:40:34 MST

While I love me some laptop computers, I've generally avoided them after my first purchase several years ago left me with a machine not graphically powerful enough to run the games I wanted to play. Unless you purchase a high-end gaming laptop you'll get stuck with a low-end graphics chip that generally isn't very upgradeable, if at all.

ASUS is looking to end all of that with the XG Station, the world's first external graphics card docking station for laptops. The device connects to your laptop through use of a PC card, and provides a PCI-E slot as well as USB ports and Dolby headphone technology. It even has a very Star Trek LCD readout that monitors GPU speed, temperature, fan speed, and even FPS.

With a release scheduled sometimes at the beginning of Q2 this year, the XG Station looks to be the answer for gamers seeking a truly viable desktop replacement laptop without sacrificing performance. Michael Fahey

ASUS XG Station world's first external graphics card station for notebook computers [Fareastgizmos.com - Thanks Steve!]

NVIDIA Accused of Viral Marketing

lsmith — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 08:40:00 MST

Our ornery shopaholic and consumer watchdog, The Consumerist did a piece looking into whether or not NVIDIA employed people to make accounts on various forums and promote NVIDIA products after building rep at said forums. The Consumerist contacted NVIDIA and were met with silence. Keep your eyes on this one, it's getting hot.

Did NVIDIA Hire Online Actors to Promote Their Products? [The Consumerist]