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Hot on the heels of releasing the GeForce GTX 680, NVIDIA has just announced the imminent release of the dual-GPU GTX 690. The new card will use two full speed GK104 chips. It is being binned with special low-leakage chips to reduce the thermal profile. It also sports a new custom chromium plated aluminum architecture (rather than the usual plastic). The GTX 690 has a lower TDP than the older GTX 590, and is actually 4dB quieter than the recent GTX 680. The back sports 1xMini-DP and 3xDL-DVI connectors.

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Yello, I've made this video because we have an announcement to make. The awesome game in the background is tribes, and yes I have it running on a triple-monitor setup, but I'll get to that later. First off I have something to tell you.

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After much waiting, HaYDeN has released a vastly updated version of his Flawless Widescreen (FW) tool. The tool provides a unified system for implementing Eyefinity and Surround fixes in games. The new tool now features:

• Repository based plugins/modules with autonomous updating and version checking.
• Fast with low memory utilization, C++ classes exposed to LUA for powerful and fast memory manipulation/injection, registry and file manipulation.
• LUA and XML based plugins requiring minimal programming knowledge
• SoftTH, AMD Eyefinity and NVIDIA Surround API's intergrated for accurate display environment detection including bezel compensation, manually configurable fall-back for non-standard solutions.
• Plugins are inherently open-source encouraging contributions and improvements from the community.

You can download the tool from HaYDeN's site, flawlesswidescreen.org. You can also comment and discuss the tool in this thread at the wsgf. This is first release of the new tool, and issues will be addressed as they arise.

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In what can only be categorized as a response to NVIDIA's successful launch of the GeForce GTX 680, AMD has dropped prices across much of the Radeon HD 7000 product stack. Additionally, it is bundling three free games with Radeon HD 7900 series cards. The Radeon HD 7970 gets $70 cut from its MSRP, and will now be available for $479. The Radeon HD7950 drops by $50, and now slots in at $399 (what AMD considers an "impulse buy").

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