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Most of you have either seen or heard about Bitcoins and other digital currencies. Today we are going to cover how you can start mining with your Nvidia graphics card.     First of all directly mining Bitcoin is not profitable due to the increasing difficulty and the number of people mining it. The Bitcoin algorithm is called SHA-256 and needs a huge initial investment...

Today we benchmark the fourth iteration of Thief from Eidos Montreal. Although the fourth title, today’s Thief does not have a 4 in its name, presumably because Eidos Montreal decided to create a new Thief, the Thief that will set standards as its predecessors did before.       Months ago it was announced by Eidos Montreal and MAD, that the new Thief will...

Jon Peddie Research has published a case study where they evaluate sales of GPU chips in the last quarter of 2013. According to their research there has been an increase in sales of around 1.6% compared to the Q3 of 2013 and 2% up compared to the same quarter period from 2012.   The survey included discrete and integrated graphics  (CPU and chipset) for Desktops, Notebooks...

Rumors that Sony has been developing a “virtual reality headset controller” for the PlayStation 4 have been circling around the internet since last year. A new source has reported that Sony has spent some time behind closed doors with the device, which is presumably something between glasses and a helmet, stating that this product is ready to be shown to the public.     A...

Since Microsoft announced that it will stop supporting Windows XP in April 2014, this has inspired TechPro Research, a market research website, to conduct a survey in order to find out what the next step for current Windows XP users are after official support ends.     80% of the plan on staying in Microsoft’s ecosystem, since 38% of them stated that they will...

The Nvidia Tegra Note 7 is an Android tablet featuring a Tegra quad-core processor carrying a standard price tag of $199, with a focus on graphics and gaming. The tablet is now available with 4G LTE and HSPA+ mobile connection.         The Nvidia Tegra Note 7 LTE will be available in the second quarter of this year, at a price of $299. Nvidia...

In Sunnyvale-California, AMD in association with Raptr, have announced a new program called the AMD Rewards Program. This new program will enable gamers who have AMD Radeon graphics card and AMD APU based PC’s to gather points with the “AMD Gaming Evolved” application and convert them into valuable prizes.     The “AMD Gaming Evolved”...

Bitcoin is the most popular crypto currency out there, but although its the most valuable and recognized it still has issues when it comes to general acceptance.  Bitcoin was first introduced in 2008, existing within a global computer network. This coin is not supported nor controlled by any institution or a bank and has no backup when it comes to assets. However Bitcoins...

As technology progresses, the Internet is becoming a utility, an everyday life tool that is starting to get accessible to everyone just like electricity or a telephone. In the matter of fact, a well known physicist Michio Kaku, when speaking about types of alien civilizations that we will certainly meat in the near future (we are currently at Type 0 stage) he said that we have...

Those of you who are expecting to see one of those generic Battlefield 4 Mantle benchmarks tested in a single player environment saying how Mantle brings a 45% increase in frames per second and where everything works smoothly, should be aware that you won’t find something like that here.          As we have been saying since the first...