If you're familiar with the Alienware X51, you know you've only had it available with Windows software out of the box until now - now you'll find Ubuntu leading up the show. This machine brings on a rather small form factor you can use to replace your gaming console - if you dare - a possibility made even more real now that Valve's Steam gaming interface works with Linux natively. You know good and well you've wanted to try it since that bit was announced.
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Falcon Northwest Tiki Review
The Falcon Northwest Tiki is a custom-built pre-constructed gaming PC that emphasizes both a radically small form factor and high performance processing power. We had the opportunity to take a peek at this system thanks to NVIDIA – inside this tiny tower is the newest most fantastic consumer-aimed graphics card on the market: the NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN, the consumer product riding the wave of the impact the TITAN supercomputer. We’ll be continuing to explore the ins and outs of the TITAN over the coming year as products such as Project SHIELD become available – for now, this review of the Tiki should serve as a primer for those of you considering a TITAN of your own – and/or a full Falcon Northwest build, of course.
NVIDIA GeForce 700M brings on five notebook-bound beasts
With the release of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan GPU this year, we knew NVIDIA wasn't going to pull any punches when it came to offering the highest-powered hardware to the public at any cost. Here with the reveal of the GeForce 700M family, the battle continues with notebook warriors galore. You'll be seeing the NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M, 745M, 740M, 735M, and 720M coming your way soon - get pumped up about laptop graphics monstrousness!
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NVIDIA Project SHIELD goes wild with The Conduit HD
If you were waiting for an ultra-sweet shooter made to take away any thoughts you had that Android was a lesser environment than these so-called full-system PC operating systems, NVIDIA has got just the thing for you. Here we're seeing The Conduit HD, revealed here working on NVIDIA's Project SHIELD on Android - that's not even streamed, it's straight from the system! Have a peek at this undeniable action thriller on none other than the NVIDIA Tegra 4 right this minute.
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Razer Edge gaming tablet: What the heck is it?
If you've not heard of it before, the Razer Edge gaming tablet can seem like a bit of an odd unicorn. While we've heard of gaming tablets before, this really does appear to be one of the most grand efforts a company has made thus far - especially considering the rise of the Android tablet and the iPad - both of which could be considered "gaming tablets" in their own right. What have we got here then? We've got Windows 8, a 3rd-gen Intel Core i7 processor, 256GB SSD, and a fabulous 8GB of RAM - and NVIDIA graphics, too!
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BioShock Infinite drivers blast forth for NVIDIA GeForce GPU
Should you happen to be playing the widely applauded BioShock Infinite game this week with a machine with the graphics power of NVIDIA's GeForce under the hood, you'll also find game-optimized drivers available to you for download. These drivers have ben sent out to the public along with notes about how they'll destroy your concept of what looks best graphics-wise. If you thought this game looked great before, you're in for a real trip.
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NVIDIA Jetson Development Platform hits smart cars with CUDA and Kepler power
If you've been following NVIDIA's news blasts this past week, you know that they've revealed their next-generation chipset to be working with CUDA-capable GPUs. What's more, you'll have a bit of an idea what that means for mobile devices, the computing power they'll have extremely soon, and you'll be pumped up about that power coming to smart vehicles through their new developer program. This new developer kit goes by the name NVIDIA Jetson Development Platform - available to you right this minute!
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NVIDIA Tegra 4 Chimera camera technology hands-on
This past week we’ve had the opportunity to have a peek at one of the many new features involved in the NVIDIA Tegra 4 processor technology family: Chimera computational photography. The NVIDIA Tegra 4 (and Tegra 4i) SoC works with what they’re calling the “world’s first mobile computational photography architecture”, and today what you’ll be seeing is one of the several features NVIDIA will be delivering to smartphones that utilize their processor. This first demonstration involves “Always-on HDR” photography.
SlashGear 101: Remote Computing with NVIDIA GRID VCA
This week at NVIDIA’s own GPU Technology Conference 2013, we’ve been introduced to no less than the company’s first end-to-end system: NVIDIA GRID VCA. The VCA part of the name stands for “Visual Computing Appliance”, and it’s part of the greater NVIDIA GRID family we were re-introduced to at CES 2013 earlier this year. This VCA is NVIDIA’s way of addressing those users – and SMBs (small-to-medium businesses) – out there that want a single web-accessible database without a massive rack of servers.
Digital Storm Hailstorm II gaming PC brings torrential TITAN downpour
This week as we roll through NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference and hear of the latest innovations in graphics processing prowess, we've heard a thunder strike - the Digital Storm Hailstorm II, a massive monster of a gaming PC. This beast has four distinct levels of excellence, ranging from a single GeForce GTX 680 all the way up to three - count them - three NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN GPUs for face-blasting graphics processing excellence. This set of builds is bordering on absolutely insane as the home gaming universe ramps up to a place where you'd have to be no less than tattooed with dedication to having the most powerful set of specifications - here you'll go wild!
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NVIDIA Tegra “Parker” blasts forth aside mini ARM computer “Kayla”
This week the folks at NVIDIA have been revealing bits and pieces of their GPU roadmap with Tegra and GeForce GPU action left and right, moving forward with their newest mobile superhero code-named SoC “Parker.” This SoC comes after the still code-named “Logan” and will, if the naming scheme holds true, be Tegra 6 down the road. Along with this reveal came word of a code-named system called “Kayla” – a processing beast that, when it’s ready for action, will be extra-tiny and extra-powerful beyond anything we’re capable of today.
NVIDIA Tegra “Logan” detailed with game-changing CUDA integration
This week NVIDIA’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang spoke up at their GPU Technology Conference on the future of the mobile processor known as Tegra and has teased what will likely be called “Tegra 5″. Running through what we’d already learned about the Tegra 2, Tegra 3, and the upcoming Tegra 4, Huang let us know that the next code-name “Logan” would be breaking boundaries once again. The next Tegra processor will, according to Huang, do “everything a modern computer should do.”
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