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EVGA and nVidia to launch a new Dual GPU card on Halloween
EVGA and nVidia to launch a new Dual GPU card on Halloween
Thanks to two members from SLIZone Forum, F34R and Obi-Wan Kenobi, we learned that nVidia is going to launch a new product on Halloweeen. Back on GPU Technology Conference, we were told that the company will launch a GeForce-based product "end of October" and "early November", but that seemed ...
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EVGA and nVidia to launch a new Dual GPU card on Halloween
DriverHeaven.net — ... organized a launch party for 300 lucky participants who will come to nVidia's campus over at Santa Clara, CA and witness the launch of a new GeForce product. This kicked out interest into high gear, but being geographically dislocated [there are 'only' 6131 miles as the crow flies between my building and nVidia's Santa Clara campus] meant that we'll have to skip on the event. We turned to our sources and after few hours discovered the reason behind the event. Read the story Here ...

EVGA and NVIDIA Design Unique Multi-GPU Graphics Accelerator
techPowerUp! — ... G200b, and a G92b. That's right, a GeForce GTX 200 series GPU, with a GeForce GTS 250 GPU. This is perhaps the first graphics accelerator to pack two entirely different GPUs. How it works, however, is interesting: the G200b GPU handles graphics, while the G92b is dedicated to PhysX processing. The accelerator could have 896 MB of graphics memory, with 512 MB of dedicated memory for the PhysX GPU. You can sign up for the event here. Source: Bright Side of News

eVGA to bring hybrid PhysX/graphics card on Halloween
TweakTown News RSS Feed — ... which is said to combine graphics and PhysX in a way not seen before. The BrightSideofNews website learns that this card will boast two GPUs comprising a GT200b and a G92b; a combination of the GTX 275 and GTS 250. The GTX 275 part takes care of all the video calculations whilst the GTS 250 is there purely for the PhysX work. We're not yet sure of pricing/availability just yet but that information should come to light by this time next week when the card is officially unveiled. NEWS SOURCE

eVGA planning Dual mixed GPU video card?
Madshrimps News RSS Feed — ... card? After talking to several people in the know, we managed to get to the bottom of this quite exciting announcement. While we don't have a final name for the card, it turns out that EVGA created a dual GPU card by combining GeForce GTS 250 with GeForce GTX 275. That's right, a dedicated PhysX GPU in the form of trusty G92 [debuted as 8800, rebranded as 9800, GTS 250 and GTX 260M/280M] and GT206/GT200b GPU for graphics. This is quite an interesting combination, to say the least. http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news...halloween.aspx

EVGA expected to launch GT200b card with G92b for PhysX
DV Hardware — ... Bright Side of News reports EVGA and NVIDIA are planning to release a Frankenstein card on Halloween. The rumor is that the companies will unveil a GeForce GTX 275 graphics card with a dedicated G92b GPU for PhysX. The card will use the single-PCB GeForce GTX 295 design and is expected to feature 896MB GDDR3 for the GeForce GTX 275 and another 512MB GDDR3 memory for the G92 chip. ...

Thursday Shortbread
The Tech Report: News — Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 5:24 PM on October 22, 2009 Thursday Ars Technica reports FCC proposes network neutrality rules (and big exemptions) DailyTech reports Intel delays USB 3.0 support until 2011 Bright Side of News reports EVGA and Nvidia to launch a new dual GPU card on Halloween Fudzilla reports ATI didn't order enough 40nm wafers The Register reports Seagate pushes SSDs as part of recovery drive DigiTimes reports Toshiba increases market share on Fujitsu hard drive takeover Exclusive: Microsoft cuts deal with Twitter and Facebook to integrate feeds with Bing Gizmodo reports Microsoft's first retail store ...

Nvidia / EVGA Halloween Launch Party was a success
Fudzilla — ... regarding which GPUs they were most looking forward to purchasing on Black Friday. The answer predictably resulted with a preference for the Geforce GTX 275, which is expected by many to face a significant price drop as the Geforce GTX 260 216-core models faced last shopping season. The price of EVGA s new combination card poses an interesting debate around its market niche, which will remain uncertain until the first week of sale. Before the card was announced last Friday, several journalists speculated that its estimated price could be between Geforce GTX 285 1GB and 2GB ...