Tag: pc gaming
First Football Manager 2012: Details, videos and screenshots revealed
With the Premier League back in full swing, it's time to welcome this years entry into the veritable Football Manager series onto the pitch. Football Manager 2012 has over 800 new features as well as reams of updated team…
Euclideon Unlimited Detail vs. Atomontage: The photo-real future of gaming graphics?
The PC gaming community has always been one step ahead of their console counterparts in terms of graphics thanks to the quicker turnover of top-spec hardware components hitting the market. But a video popping up online this week has…
Valve's Steam gaming store now ready for super-fast downloads
Steam, the digital distribution gaming store that's been keeping PC gamers loaded with top quality titles since 2003, is to get a major backend overhaul that will drastically improve download times. Though Steam is hardly a slow service as it…
Mega-powerful Alienware M18x and M14x gaming laptops revealed
Alienware have just revealed two new gaming laptops, the M18x and M14x. Easily capable replacements for desktop machines, they're two of the most powerful portable gaming rigs we've ever seen. Starting with the flagship M18x, it's an 18 inch…
PC gaming dead? PCGA report proves otherwise
If there's one comment the PC-gaming faithful have had to endure more than any other over the last decade or so, it's that PC gaming (in the wake of the rise of the console) is suffering a slow and painful…
Rock adds Intel's Q9000 quad-core chip to its Xtreme 780 gaming laptop
There are very few true PC gamers that’ll willingly buy a laptop over a desktop, primarily because the performance-price difference is so great. Rock’s just added an Intel Q9000 chip to its flagship gaming laptop – the Xtreme 780, but I suspect the majority of gamers out there simply won’t care.
It’s not even that great a machine. Quad-core aside, the 512MB Nvidia GeForce 9800M GTS is merely adequate, the 2GB of memory will look very meagre before the end of 2009, and a 250GB hard drive is considerably less than most gamers will need. For £1700, which is what the Xtreme 780 costs, you could make two desktop PCs that outspec this laptop.
NVIDIA slyly reveals the new 9600 GSO: low end graphics card for the masses
NVIDIA normally likes to make a big fan fare of its new graphics card announcements, using words like ‘ultimate visual computing experience’ and ‘visual computing revolution’. But this rousing lingo is reserved for its top end models; the ones designed for people who build PCs costing nearly as much a small family hatchback.
The poor old 9600 GSO gets no such honour; NVIDIA just made do by dumping the details on its website and pretending like it had no idea how it all got there. In spite of that though, this could be a pretty important card for the PC gaming market…
