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NVIDIA Announces New Line of Fermi-Based Mobile Chips 54

Posted by Soulskill on Friday September 03, 2010 @03:39PM from the double-your-solitaire-fps dept.

MojoKid writes "NVIDIA has announced an entire line-up of Fermi-based GeForce GT and GTX 400M mobile GPUs, seven in total, and revealed a number of notebook design wins from major OEMs. Like their desktop-targeted counterparts, the mobile GeForce GT and GTX 400M series GPUs make use of technology from NVIDIA's desktop architecture, which debuted in the GF100 GPU at the heart of the company's flagship GeForce GTX 480. GeForce GT and GTX 400M series GPUs are DirectX 11 compatible and support all of NVIDIA's 'Graphics Plus' features, including PhysX, 3D Vision, CUDA, Verde drivers, 3DTV Play and Optimus dynamic switching technology. The GeForce GTX 470M and GTX 460M are the most powerful of the group and target enthusiasts and gamers, while the GeForce GT 445M, GT 435M, GT 425M, GT 420M and GT 415M target performance-conscious, but more mainstream consumers."

An Early Look At Civilization V 286

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday March 11, 2010 @07:02AM from the new-and-shiny dept.

c0mpliant writes "IGN and Gamespot have each released a preview of the recently announced and eagerly awaited Civilization V. Apart from the obvious new hexagon shape of tiles and improved graphics, the articles go on to outline some of the major changes in the game, such as updated AI, new 'flavors' to world leaders, and a potentially game-changing, one-unit-per-tile system. No more will the stack of doom come to your city's doorsteps. Some features which will not be returning are religion and espionage. The removal of these two have sparked a frenzy of discussion on fan-related forums."

Comment Re:Are most programmes multi-processor? (Score 1) 219

by nanostuff on Thursday February 04, 2010 @11:39PM (#31030688) Attached to: Intel Details Upcoming Gulftown Six-Core Processor

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2009-desktop-cpu-charts-update-1/GTA-IV-1.0.3,1402.html

One frame more for a quad core processor over the closest dual core.

Not exactly a "requirement"

Comment Inspirational monkey (Score 1) 42

by nanostuff on Friday October 23, 2009 @11:37PM (#29854031) Attached to: Neural Implant To Give Control of Paralyzed Arms

Kudos to the monkey. If I found myself in a tiny box and without feeling in my arm, the last thing on my mind would be earning rewards.

Achievement points, maybe.

Comment Re:Indefinitely (Score 1) 575

by nanostuff on Saturday April 25, 2009 @03:54PM (#27715537) Attached to: To What Age Do You Expect To Live?

This is pretty much my end-of-biological-life target. There is no apparent reason why it is not possible so evidently it's a matter of sufficient technology. Unless technological progress stops and stops quite soon (unlikely), it seems that meat capsules will eventually become a relic of the dark past. It's partly why I took an interest in particle systems, natural interfaces and neural networks. I want to keep an eye on the progression of such things.

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