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Dell Begins Selling Ubuntu Gaming Desktop

Posted 04/08/2013 at 11:59pm | by Pulkit Chandna

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Wants gamers to blow off some “steam” on its Alienware X51 Ubuntu desktop

Dell’s long-standing affair with Ubuntu continues. The PC vendor has now joined the ranks of those backing Linux as a serious gaming platform, having recently announced a new Ubuntu-powered variant of its small-yet-powerful Alienware X51 desktop.

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Nvidia Gives Mobile Graphics a Boost with GeForce 700M GPU Line

Posted 04/01/2013 at 6:30am | by Paul Lilly

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Five new notebook GPUs comprise the GeForce 700M family.

Ron Burgundy once said you have to keep your head on a swivel when you find yourself in a vicious cock fight, but the same is true when wading through tech news on April Fool's Day. That said, everyting (Edit: almost everything) we post today is real, or believed to be real, starting with Nvidia's rollout of five mobile GPUs based on its new GeForce 700M line. We actually spoke with Nvidia last week about these new chips and were told the 700M line runs up to 30 percent faster, on average, than their 600M line.

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AMD: Nvidia is ‘Bitter’ Over PS4 Snub

Posted 03/31/2013 at 2:14am | by Pulkit Chandna

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AMD exec touts PS4’s Jaguar APU as being more than just a run-of-the-mill x86 solution

From insisting that it was the one who dumped Sony to taking a jibe at the Playstation 4’s AMD supplied custom APU, Nvidia has been behaving a lot like a jilted lover ever since the Japanese company unveiled its eighth-generation console last month. But what does archrival AMD, which currently enjoys a near-monopoly in the console market, have to say about why it was chosen ahead of Nvidia for Sony’s next-generation console?

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Nvidia Gives Cost Conscious Gamers a 'GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost'

Posted 03/26/2013 at 11:49am | by Paul Lilly

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Meet the newest sub-$200 graphics card from Nvidia.

Sure, we'd all love to game on multiple top-shelf graphics cards, and while we're making a money-is-no-object wishlist, a toilet made of gold would be pimp as well. Most of us can't afford such luxuries, so we sit our backsides on porcelain and game on less expensive graphics cards. Luckily there are options, and if you have less than $200 to spend on a GPU, Nvidia hopes you'll consider its new GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost.

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Nvidia Calls The PS4 “Low End”

Posted 03/17/2013 at 11:40am | by Justin Kerr

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Nvidia didn’t say much when the PS4 was announced, but today they came out swinging. During an interview with Maximum PC’s sister site Techradar, Nvidia’s Tony Tamasi claimed that, "Compared to gaming PCs, the PS4 specs are in the neighborhood of a low-end CPU, and a low- to mid-range GPU. If the PS4 ships in December as Sony indicated, it will only offer about half the performance of a GTX680 GPU (based on GFLOPS and texture), which launched in March 2012, more than a year and a half ago."

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Nvidia GeForce 314.14 Beta Drivers Now Available to Download

Posted 03/04/2013 at 12:23pm | by Paul Lilly

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GeForce GTX 680 owners will see performance gains in several titles using Nvidia's latest drivers.

Nvidia on Monday made available new beta drivers for GeForce graphics card owners. The GeForce 314.14 drivers, while not yet officially certified, are said to increase performance by up to 23 percent for GeForce 400, 500, and 600 series GPUs in several PC games versus the GeForce 314.07 WHQL-certified drivers. Naturally, results will vary depending on your particular setup.

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No BS Podcast #196: Nvidia Titan, Windows Blue, and Your Questions

Posted 03/01/2013 at 12:48pm | by The Maximum PC Staff

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Two podcasts in one month? We share because we care

What's this? A new podcast already? Well, that's just how much we love you. And it gets us out of the salt mine for about an hour and a half. Not that benchmarking GTX Titans all day is a hard-knock life. In No BS podcast episode 196, we rotated in our trusty intern Chris, giving Online Managing Editor Jimmy Thang and Editor-in-Chief Katherine Stevenson some time to plot writing assignments and other devious shenanigans.

This time around the hot topics include:

- GeForce Titan performance

- Google Glass

...and more!

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Zotac Tweaks GeForce GTX 680 AMP! Edition to Run Cooler and Quieter

Posted 02/28/2013 at 8:20am | by Paul Lilly

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A new "Dual Silencer" cooling system and game bundle have been added to Zotac's GTX 680 AMP! Edition card.

Zotac on Wednesday announced a "refined" version of its GeForce GTX 680 AMP! Edition (ZT-60105-10P) graphics card, which at first we thought that meant it would come dressed in a fancy suit and speak with a British accent -- chip chip cherio and all that jazz. Even better, Zotac was referring to a new and enhanced "Dual Silencer" cooling solution and game bundle that includes Assassin's Creed III.

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Take a Look at Nvidia's New Corporate Home

Posted 02/21/2013 at 8:57am | by Paul Lilly

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Nvidia has grown from a three-person startup to 8,000 staff.

It was 20 years ago this month that three people -- Jen-Hsun Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem -- co-founded Nvidia with venture capital funding from Sequoia Capital. Nvidia's grown by leaps and bounds in the past two decades and now employs over 8,000 individuals situated across more than 40 sites. At Nvidia's headquarters in Santa Clara, a few blocks from where it all started, there's barely a spare desk to be found, the GPU maker says. The solution? Build a new headquarters.

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Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan – The Benchmarks

Posted 02/21/2013 at 7:00am | by Josh Norem

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Not quite the fastest single-card, but definitely the fastest Single GPU

On Tuesday we posted our preview of the GK110-based Geforce GTX Titan from Nvidia, and like all of yall we were eager to stuff the Titan into a test system to see what it could do in both single-card and dual-card configurations. Now that the dust has settled and our initial testing is complete, we have to say we think we misunderstood what Nvidia was said to us when we asked them how the Titan compares to the GTX 690. The Titan is one hellishly fast single GPU, but it's not the fastest single-card solution for gaming. That title still rests comfortably with the dual-GPU GTX 690.

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