MacNN | Ageia News http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us Ageia, Latest News, Headlines, Stories; http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ Dell intros XPS 630 mid-range game desktop http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/02/26/dell.xps.630/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0802/dellxps630.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Dell today took the wraps from the XPS 630 (site live soon), its bridge between the mainstream XPS 420 desktop and the higher-end XPS 720. The tower computer is designed to run affordable components but is also made for headroom as gamers look to improve their systems; every model has a mainboard capable of dual video cards (either AMD's CrossFire or NVIDIA's SLI) as well as a 750-watt power supp... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/02/26/dell.xps.630/ Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:00:00 GMT Nvidia to acquire Ageia, PhysX software, hardware http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/02/04/nvidia.to.acquire.ageia/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0802/4-ageia-esta.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Nvidia today announced an official acquisition of Ageia Technologies, the company behind the PhysX software and hardware components. The acquisition will give Nvidia a physics element for its Cuda parallel processing systems. The PhysX technology is currently in use in many Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii games, as well as many gaming PCs worldwide. Nvidia will be hosting a quarterly conf... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/02/04/nvidia.to.acquire.ageia/ Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:25:00 GMT HP unveils 3GHz, quad-core Blackbird Alpha http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/01/21/hp.blackbird.alpha/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0801/hpblackbird002.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />HP today hoped to lead the crowd of gaming PCs with a new top-end version of its Blackbird 002 gaming PC. Called just the Blackbird Alpha, the tower is based around Intel's newer Core 2 Extreme QX9650 quad-core processor running at 3GHz, offering both the faster speed and a cooler 45 nanometer design in the process. The system also brings the faster components of the Blackbird series with an Age... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/01/21/hp.blackbird.alpha/ Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:25:00 GMT