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MSI Making "Ruggedized" Motherboards, Graphics Cards

September 10, 2010
MSI Making "Ruggedized" Motherboards, Graphics Cards

We’ve been hearing chatter that MSI is getting ready to roll out a line of ruggedized motherboards and videocards, though details beyond that are disappointingly sparse.
We’re not entirely sure how you supe-up a mobo or videocard so that it qualifies a…

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Nvidia Rolls Out GeForce GT 420 with Nary a Peep

September 3, 2010
Nvidia Rolls Out GeForce GT 420 with Nary a Peep

Without any fanfare or press release that we can find, Nvidia launched a new graphics card for OEMs this week, the GeForce GT 420.
The GeForce GT 420 ranks as the first truly low-end Fermi part with support for DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4, and unless somet…

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GPUs: Good for Gaming AND Cracking Passwords

August 17, 2010
GPUs: Good for Gaming AND Cracking Passwords

Don’t expect Nvidia, AMD, or any other graphics card maker to start touting this as a marketing bullet, but apparently GPUs are pretty good at decoding passwords with fewer than 12 characters, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology claim….

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Rumor: AMD 6xxx Series GPUs Slated for November

August 12, 2010
Rumor: AMD 6xxx Series GPUs Slated for November

For the most part, AMD’s 5xxx series of GPUs have stood up well against the competition,and that includes Nvidia’s Fermi architecture. If the Sunnyvale graphics chip maker wanted to, it could probably sit on the sidelines for the rest of the year and s…

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