3D is the next big thing on computers, certainly for gaming and it will be interesting to see how it translates to the desktop.  Those clever people at ExoPC will be shipping a 3D version of their Windows 7 tablet later this year with a special UI to take advantage of it. The hardware manufacturers [...]

Categories: Hardware

I recently bought a new shiny NVIDIA 470 GTX for my main computer system. Since this was the first purchase in nearly two years I had to do some research to find the best card for me. And that meant a video card that would be almost silent in 2D mode but powerful enough so [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

AMD has decided to kill off the ATI brand, synonymous with high performance graphics cards, to bring them under it’s own brand instead. AMD acquired ATI four years ago and pledged to preserve the brand at the time.  Now though, market research for the company has suggested its own brand is well known enough to [...]

Categories: Hardware

This is a rant. This is only a rant. If this were a real review you would be notified by your local emergency broadcast station…Now that I have your attention, I want to direct you to what is happening with the latest version of Fedora and X configuration. If you have installed Fedora 10 and [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Hardware, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Advanced, Tutorials Basic

The following article is a guide to create profiles for the installed video card to optimize it for different applications, namely working on the desktop and gaming. The problem with running a video card in Windows is that the video card will always use the same clock and fan speeds no matter if it is [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Folding@Home is a distributed computing project to better understand disease development and currently under supervision of Professor Vijay Pande at Stanford University’s chemistry department. Everyone can join with his computer donating free computer cycles to the project. To make it more competitive users can form groups that race, just like in an online game, for [...]

Categories: Science

Dell has released a Nvidia GPU (Graphics Processing Units) Bios Update for several Dell notebooks on their Dell Direct website. Nvidia confirmed earlier this month that some notebook GPUs were affected caused by a weak die packaging material set. The GPU may fail due to temperature fluctuations and users may experience symptoms like random characters [...]

Categories: Notebooks

Graphic card drivers for notebooks are usually not updated that often by the manufacturer of the Notebook. Nvidia on the other hand does not provide access to many graphic card drivers for Notebook graphic cards on their website and the desktop graphic cards cannot be installed on notebooks. The guys from Laptop Video 2 Go [...]

Categories: Hardware, Tools

Nwiz.exe is a component that gets installed when Nvidia video card drivers are installed on a system. It is automatically started with Windows which can be checked with the msconfig command. It is only beneficial on systems that use multiple monitors or tv out settings and can be easily disabled without causing ill or harm [...]

Categories: Software, Windows