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As if the world of high-performance gaming graphics wasn’t already out of control, NVIDIA is rumored to be working a their next-gen “G80″ GeForce 8800 card, which will be liquid cooled, and purportedly chows down on 300 watts of electricity to push its pixels. The news comes our way via [H]ard|OCP, which has spy pics of the monstrosity, and DigiTimes, which pulls on their usually cadre of shady insider sources for dirt on a mid-November launch. The card is designed for DirectX 10, allowing for beefier graphics and the offloading of some CPU duties, but DigiTimes is hearing word that DirectX 10 won’t be ready in time for Vista’s launch (it’ll instead be available for download from Windows Update at a later date), and since the new graphics API won’t be available at all for previous versions of Windows, a November launch seems a pretty risky move for the GPU builder — though we’re sure the DirectX 9.0 speed gains won’t be non-existant. And of course there’s always the pure, unadulterated geek cred of having a liquid-cooled supercomputer dominating that PCI-E x16 slot of yours — not even Vista can take all the fun out of that.

[Via I4U]

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Filed under: Desktops, Gaming

As if the world of high-performance gaming graphics wasn’t already out of control, NVIDIA is rumored to be working a their next-gen “G80″ GeForce 8800 card, which will be liquid cooled, and purportedly chows down on 300 watts of electricity to push its pixels. The news comes our way via [H]ard|OCP, which has spy pics of the monstrosity, and DigiTimes, which pulls on their usually cadre of shady insider sources for dirt on a mid-November launch. The card is designed for DirectX 10, allowing for beefier graphics and the offloading of some CPU duties, but DigiTimes is hearing word that DirectX 10 won’t be ready in time for Vista’s launch (it’ll instead be available for download from Windows Update at a later date), and since the new graphics API won’t be available at all for previous versions of Windows, a November launch seems a pretty risky move for the GPU builder — though we’re sure the DirectX 9.0 speed gains won’t be non-existant. And of course there’s always the pure, unadulterated geek cred of having a liquid-cooled supercomputer dominating that PCI-E x16 slot of yours — not even Vista can take all the fun out of that.

[Via I4U]

Read - NVIDIA launching GeForce 8800 mid-November
Read - G80 spy pics

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The federal prosecutor overseeing an investigation of steroids in baseball said Monday that a newspaper report indicating that five players, including Roger Clemens, had
used illegal performance-enhancing drugs contained “significant inaccuracies.”

· By now you may have already seen this video of David Cross showing his appreciation of Jim Belushi’s “music” by hopping on stage during one of his “concerts.” If so, watch it again. It…

Dennis Green wasn’t chuckling on Monday as he talked about replacing
mistake-prone Kurt Warner with rookie Matt Leinart, a decision he
announced after Sunday’s 32-10 loss to the Falcons in Atlanta.

After two trying months marked by doping allegations, an assault
on his reputation and his father-in-law’s suicide, Floyd Landis
doesn’t wish for a stirring comeback so much as the simpler things
in life.

AP - Venezuela President Hugo Chavez said Sunday he has received warnings from within the White House that the Bush administration is plotting to assassinate him or topple his left-leaning government.

The Seattle Seahawks’ charter plane made
an unscheduled stop late Sunday night to get medical care for Ray
Rhodes, a special defensive assistant and former NFL head coach.

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If you’ve been looking for a hugemongous NES to match with your 8-foot NES controller — and happen to have around 400 pounds of wood just lying around — you’re in luck, since the NES-obsessed operator of the National Game Depot is “97% finished” with a project to build just such a box. Sadly, it doesn’t look like this 8-foot x 3-foot x 3-foot monstrosity is going to be operational. Right now it’s destined as this guy’s entertainment center, since his original plan to use it as a bed was a bit too creep-o. There’s also no word if our ancient methods of blowing inside and bopping the top of the unit will lend any magic to its workability, but it’s always nice to have a place to store a few discarded koopa shells and 1UP ’shrooms all the same, and we suppose a TV or two couldn’t hurt anything.

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Filed under: Gaming

If you’ve been looking for a hugemongous NES to match with your 8-foot NES controller — and happen to have around 400 pounds of wood just lying around — you’re in luck, since the NES-obsessed operator of the National Game Depot is “97% finished” with a project to build just such a box. Sadly, it doesn’t look like this 8-foot x 3-foot x 3-foot monstrosity is going to be operational. Right now it’s destined as this guy’s entertainment center, since his original plan to use it as a bed was a bit too creep-o. There’s also no word if our ancient methods of blowing inside and bopping the top of the unit will lend any magic to its workability, but it’s always nice to have a place to store a few discarded koopa shells and 1UP ’shrooms all the same, and we suppose a TV or two couldn’t hurt anything.

[Via MAKE]

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The suspense is crippling–proceed on to your blind item guessing game answers before you pass out from anticipation. But first, one more lap around One Headline-Hungry Blind Vice:

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