Leadtek WinFast Killer Xeno Pro network gaming card introduced

Here's a cool product for those of you who are very much into online gaming. Leadtek today revealed the latest WinFast Killer Xeno Pro, designed to provide smoother, more responsive online game play. The firm reports that its newest card delivers superior online performance by putting intelligent networking technology inside gamers' PCs. Its dedicated Network Processing Unit (NPU) and innovative architecture offload network traffic, bypassing the Microsoft Windows networking stack and prioritizing competing bandwidth demands from applications such as Web browsing, music streaming, software downloads and voice chat.


Its Game Detect technology identifies, prioritizes and accelerates game traffic, giving players a competitive edge in the latest online games, from shooters to MMOs. Intelligent Bandwidth Control keeps the game running smoothly and lets you allocate bandwidth to other applications so you can do more while you game.

Leadtek will distribute the WinFast Killer Xeno Pro through online and retail channels in Taiwan, Korea and Japan.
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Cheaper NVIDIA GeForce DirectX 11 GPUs coming this summer!

Till now AMD was the sole graphics card manufacturer who had launched DirectX 11 GPUs. But today NVIDIA entered the field with two DX11 GPUs. But sad thing about this launch is that most of you wouldn't be able to afford such an expensive cards. But worry not. Word on street has it NVIDIA will soon roll out cheap DirectX 11 GPUs.


Even these new expected cards are based on Fermi architecture and should be coming this summer, most likely June.

But if one has to go by the delays that happened during the launch of GeForce GTX480 and GTX470 then you can expect these cheap DX11 GPUs only by Q3 2010.
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nVidia GeForce GTX 480 GPU

nVidia has recently rolled out the high-end GeForce GTX 480 (codenamed Fermi) graphics card that supports DirectX 11. This GPU is approx. 10%-20% faster than the AMD 5870. Priced at $499, the nVidia GeForce GTX 480 GPU brings a main 700MHz core clock speed, a 1.5GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.85GHz and a high 250W power draw. nVidia will release the GeForce GTX 480 GPU on April 12th, 2010.



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NVIDIA GeForce GTX480 and GeForce GTX470 DirectX 11 Graphics Cards Goes Official!

As expected today NVIDIA announced its first DirectX 11 graphics cards. Based on the much-hyped Fermi architecture, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX480 and GeForce GTX470 video cards are targeted towards hard-core gamers who want nothing but the top-end graphics solution for their computing machines. NVIDIA further reports that its first DirectX 11 solutions support up to 3-way NVIDIA SLI technology, CUDA architecture, PhysX technology, and NVIDIA's PolyMorph Engine, a geometry processing engine built from the ground up for DirectX 11 tessellation.


The GeForce GTX480 is the star product with 480 CUDA cores, 700MHz core clock, 1401MHz processor clock, and 1536MB GDDR5 memory.

On the other hand the GeForce GTX470 features 448 CUDA cores, 607MHz core clock, 1215MHz processor clock, and 1280MB GDDR5 memory.
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