NVIDIA fan builds 11k piece LEGO replica of GTX 690

This month the folks at NVIDIA’s desktop gaming sector got in contact with a fellow by the name of Xiaosheng Li, a fan who had constructed a replica of a GeForce graphics card out of LEGO. This feat was completed with a massive number of bricks – 11,396 of them to be exact – and […]

NVIDIA GeForce Experience 1.8 update brings customization abilities

If you’ve been working with the NVIDIA GeForce Experience app over the past year or so, you’ve found that a single click of a button can result in full-on optimization of game settings for your gaming rig. What NVIDIA is doing this week is updating the GeForce Experience to version 1.8, this thereby allowing the […]

LEGO Video Card is Bricked out of the Box

Flickr member Nick V aka Brickthing made a scale model of a video card using LEGO. Nick calls his creation the PowerBuild CRLMRM IRON HD, poking fun at the naming scheme of video card manufacturers while at the same time referencing fellow LEGO enthusiast Carl Merriam.

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As with most LEGO creations, the model really deserves a closer inspection. As someone who’s not up to date with LEGO, half of the fun with seeing projects like this is discovering pieces that I never knew existed.

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You can check out the full resolution image on Nick’s Flickr page.

[via Gizmodo]

AMD Radeon R9 270 extends Graphics Core Next to low-end

AMD has pushed out its latest R9 Series video card, the AMD Radeon R9 270, promising gaming performance with a sub-$180 price tag. Hitting shelves today, the new Radeon slots in at the entry-level of AMD’s R9 range, with 1,280 stream processing units and 2GB of GRRD5 memory, for up to 2.69 TFLOPS of compute […]

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti details released in full

This week the folks at NVIDIA have revealed detailed information on their next biggest graphics card, the NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti. This graphics architecture was intially shown off at the NVIDIA The Way It’s Meant to be Played event in Montreal this October, here coming with full details and futher release information. This device is […]

NVIDIA ShadowPlay released for ease in screen recording

This morning NVIDIA sent out the newest version of the GeForce Experience, a software suite allowing users to optimize the settings of their games based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX graphics processor they have running. This suite gained a major addition this week called ShadowPlay. ShadowPlay allows the user to add a high-powered screen video […]

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti release set with market structure details

It would appear that we’ll still be getting the full run-down on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti piecemeal as the company’s push today includes no more than a price and release date. Readied for the 7th of November, this graphics card is set to out-do the current high-performing GeForce GTX 780 in price. This […]

AMD Radeon R9 290X released for real, details and all

Though the AMD Radeon R9 290X was teased last month, details have not been shared in full until this morning. Along with the release of these details comes confirmation in full of the power of the device, along with the fact that AMD aims for this graphics card to be their headline unit, top to […]

NVIDIA Editor’s Day 2013 Wrap-up: G-Sync, 4K, and gaming’s blurred lines

Though the event continues to be called “Editor’s Day”, this week we had an extended stay with NVIDIA in Montreal, learning about the company’s newest in gaming development and hardware innovation. The biggest news of the event was surely the unveiling of G-Sync, a hardware module made by NVIDIA to be planted in the backs […]

Star Citizen hands-on with 4K: rolling in space on pre-release

In what’s essentially a very, very early build of Star Citizen here at NVIDIA’s Montreal 2013 event, we’ve gotten the opportunity to get up-close and hands-on with the likes of 4K output. This game isn’t out on the market yet – it’s still rolling in funding cash, in fact, having just reached a $23 million […]