As it stands...

NVIDIA's 500 series GPUs have only seen one release, the GTX 580 in early November.  As noted in my review of the GTX 580 at nV News, I am pleasantly surprised by the increase in efficiency and reduced heat output vs. the GF100-based cards.

Well, more 500 series GPUs are coming, and soon.  There is a ninja editor at Wikipedia who has been pretty darn accurate over the last 9 months or so regarding specs of upcoming GPUs.  Here's the updated 500 series chart as of 11/27/2010:

If this chart is correct, it looks like the Geforce GTX 570 will line up-performance-wise about equal with the GTX 480, and the GTX 560 will perform like a GTX 470.  This kind of performance coupled with the lower TDP of the 500 series should prove to be a very competitive effort on NVIDIA's part in Q4 2010/Q1/2011.  But wht of AMD's upcoming HD 6950/6970/6990?  Time will tell, and I'll report on that later.

To Begin...

I'm a tech geek, a hardware enthusiast, and sometimes a gamer.  However, I only go so deep in my quest for knowledge and understanding in the fields of PC gaming hardware and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs).   To me, the technology feeds and propagates my experience on the hardware, and I'm more interested in that - the experience itself. 

I'd like to report on and write about how the evolution of technology in these fields directly affects people such as myself; man and women who sit at their PC in the morning with their coffee (cigarette is optional) and do a little more than just read the local and world news.  Some of us go to Engadget and Joystiq/Gizmodo and Kotaku.  Others go a little deeper and visit Tom's Hardware.  Still others step into the many PC hardware websites and communities such as [H]ardOCP, Anandtech, nV News and rage3D.  Everyone like industry news, and we often like to read it from a source that reports it first.  What I'd like to do in this blog, however, is report on the news from all of these communities and give my own spin on how it affects all of us boys and girls.

Sure, some of us may work "in the industry", for PC hardware stores such as FrozenCPU, or graphics card companies such as EVGA.  But very many of us are just hobbyists.  We are landscapers, marketing managers, factory workers, restaurant co-owners, toy shop employees and hotel clerks.  Our time with our PCs and various tech gadgets are often a compliment to our respective lifestyles, and how this tech fits into our lives is unique to each person.

So I'll report on my unique experiences and perspectives.

So is this a news site or just a blog?  Well, I think it's a cross between the two, and a viable formula.  In time, I'll develop this concept further in an effort to best serve my readers.