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Nvidia to End Both Kepler & Windows 7-8.1 Driver Support
Back in May, Nvidia confirmed that they were effectively putting their ‘Kepler’ based graphics cards (such as the GeForce GTX 700-series) out to pasture with the end of ‘official’ driver support set to happen before the end of this year. In many respects, the decision did make a lot of…
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Kepler Space Telescope Recovered from Emergency Mode
It was recently reported that the deep space telescope, Kepler had run into trouble and had forced itself to enter its emergency mode. Thankfully the planet-hunting spacecraft has since returned to a stable state. NASA’s Kepler team engineers were able to direct the communications array aboard the craft towards Earth and…
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Planet Hunting Spacecraft Kepler Enters Emergency Mode
NASA engineers have raised a mission emergency in regards to the exoplanet-hunting spacecraft Kepler, which has unexpectedly entered its emergency mode 75 million miles from Earth. This mode is the lowest level of operation for the craft and worryingly, also consumes the most fuel while in it. The last time…
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Take a Look at the New Nvidia Pascal Architecture
With the reveal of the Tesla P100, Nvidia has taken the wraps off of their new Pascal architecture. Originally set to debut last year, delays with 16nm kept Pascal from being a reality, leading to Maxwell on 28nm. Now that Pascal is finally here, we are getting an architecture that…
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Astronomers Observe Exploding Star for the First Time
For the first time ever, astronomers have recorded the moment at which a star started to explode – known as the “shock breakout” – within the optical wavelength of NASA’s Kepler space telescope. The astronomy team, led by Peter Garnavich, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Notre Dame in…
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Nvidia May Launch Confusing GT 930 in Early 2016
For the longest time, both AMD and Nvidia have taken to rebranding their low-end cards in order to present something “new” at low cost. While rebranding has become the norm, Nvidia’s GT 930 may be setting a new standard when it comes to that. Set to launch in Q1 2016,…
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NASA’s Kepler Telescope Finds New Earth-Like Planet
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope (above) has discovered an Earth-like planet within our galaxy. The planet, given the designation Kepler-452b, is thought to be older and larger than the Earth, but with a similar atmosphere and gravity that could be capable of sustaining life. The Kepler Space Telescope was launched in…
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Nvidia Driver’s Since Launch : GTX 780 Ti & GTX 680
Introduction Just over a month ago we published our AMD driver analysis article looking at the progress two generations of AMD flagship GPUs, the HD 7970 and R9 290X, had made with driver updates. We compared each flagship card’s launch drivers to the latest drivers and calculated the improvements in…
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Nvidia’s Tegra K1 Coming To HP’s Chromebook 14
Nvidia’s Tegra K1 processor has already hit the market with Nvidia’s Shield Tablet and Xiaomi’s MiPad and according to the latest reports it will now start arriving with Chromebooks. HP’s Chromebook 14 is set to be the second Chromebook to get Nvidia’s Tegra K1 chip after Acer recently unveiled a Tegra…
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Nvidia Maxwell GM204 GPU Gets Detailed
More details have emerged on Nvidia’s upcoming 20nm Maxwell GPUs which will form the new GTX 800 series, however, as always these are very premature and somewhat vague details. As a result we encourage readers to remember they could be untrue, inaccurate or subject to change. The GM204 is the…
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Maxwell Graphics Cards Rumored to Feature New Turbofan Cooling Solution
After successfully announcing the entry-level GeForce 740 and the grand (and expensive) GeForce Titan Z, NVIDIA seems to be ready to announce the long-awaited Maxwell-powered graphics cards later this year. However, with great power also comes great temperatures. This is where the GeForce 700 series, which was the first lineup…
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First Images of NVIDIA’s GeForce GT 740 Revealed, Confirmed to be Entry-Level GPUs
NVIDIA has announced the GeForce GT 740 since Q2 2013, but now word about the latter has been heard so far. That is until now, having the first pic of two model GeForce 740 released by EXPReview.com (via WCCFTech). From the image at hand, it is clearly visible that the…
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Palit GeForce GTX 780 JetStream 6GB OC Graphics Card Released
Palit are kings of design in my opinion, their graphics cards look absolutely stunning and this is especially true of their JetStream cooler design. Of course the black and gold look isn’t to everyone’s taste, but style will always remain a subjective quality. Now Palit Microsystems Ltd have rolled out…
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NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti Rumored To Be Based On Maxwell GPU Chipset
Rumors are that NVIDIA plans on releasing the GeForce GTX 750 Ti in February, but what is more interesting is that it is said to be based in Maxwell GPU architecture, rather than previously reported Kepler architecture. It is really interesting that NVIDIA is using the 700 series for the…
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Nvidia ShadowPlay Gameplay Recording Software Review
Introduction, Overview and Features We don’t often take a look at software when it comes to graphics cards but Nvidia latest (beta) software is something quite unique. They’ve attempted to integrate functionality that gamers use a lot, that of recording their in-game footage, and make it not only free for…
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