http://coldviper.com Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:25:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The PSP 3000: Just a few tiny changes from last year's version. (Credit: Sony via Joystiq) Sony officially unveiled the PSP 3000 Wednesday at the Leipzig Games Convention in Germany, confirming rumors that had popped up online in recent weeks. But before you get excited (or--if you just bought a PSP--exasperated), note ... http://coldviper.com/2008/08/20/psp-3000-another-minor-psp-upgrade/ Posted on Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr NVIDIA Corporation released beta drivers for the new OpenGL 3.0 cross-platform, 3D graphics standard. The new drivers implement the OpenGL 3.0 API and the GLSL 1.30 shading language for both Windows XP and Windows Vista on selected GeForce and ... http://coldviper.com/2008/08/15/nvidia-ships-opengl-30-drivers/ by Matthew posted on August 13, 2008 12:02 pm Nvidia has released a range of new software it is classifying under the name of “Power Pack“. The applications contained within this pack show off the use of GeForce 8 series cards for tasks other than gaming as well as introducing ... http://coldviper.com/2008/08/13/nvidia-releases-power-pack-and-physx-drivers/ It's not a direct response to AMD unveiling the HD Radeon 4850 X2 and 4870 X2 yesterday, but NVIDIA also came to play at SIGGRAPH, and it's got lots of new GPU-as-CPU toys for us this morning -- and what's more, they're free. Like we'd been hearing, GeForce 8, 9, ... http://coldviper.com/2008/08/12/nvidia-enables-physx-and-cuda-support-for-geforce-8-and-higher-gpus-with-free-downloads/ It's arriving a month later than anticipated, but at least it's arriving (we hope). According to a first look at PhysX on NVIDIA's GeForce cards, The Tech Report is reporting (ahem) that the graphical outfit will dish out new drivers that add PhysX support on August 12th. The new software ... http://coldviper.com/2008/08/08/nvidia-uncorking-physx-support-for-geforce-cards-on-august-12th/ Even after Nvidia downplayed their original report that GeForce 8400-8700 cards were failing in large numbers due to overheating, Dell has issued a BIOS update for all of its machines running the affected GPUs anyway. The update tweaks the fan settings to "regulate temperature fluctuations" to keep the maybe-faulty-maybe-not chips ... http://coldviper.com/2008/07/28/dell-issues-bios-update-to-keep-nvidia-geforce-cards-from-frying/ Intel’s Larrabee architecture for visual computing is slated for 2009 release; The Radeon HD 4800 series graphic card, the world’s first fuelled by a teraflop processor, was launched in India recently, by AMD (Anand Parthasarathy); The GeForce graphical unit powered by nVidia’s GTX280 chips. In the pecking order of personal computer ... http://coldviper.com/2008/07/27/more-to-graphics-than-gaming/ While Sony did not unveil any new hardware at the company's E3 press conference, new photos are beginning to show up around the Net that lead us to believe they're hard at work on an updated version of the PSP. Kotaku reports that forums members from PSPChina BBS have captured the ... http://coldviper.com/2008/07/26/photos-of-rumored-psp-3000-surface/ BFG Technologies, a supplier of advanced nVidia-based 3D graphics cards, power supplies and other PC enthusiast products, has announced the nVidia GeForce 9800 GTX+ OC 512MB PCI Express 2.0 graphics card. Backed by free 24/7/365 tech support and lifetime warranty, the graphics card is overclocked out of the box and pushes ... http://coldviper.com/2008/07/25/bfg-delivers-overclocked-geforce-9800-gtx/ httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZoqmEdPCk4 http://coldviper.com/2008/07/24/invisibleshield-hides-scratches/