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Engadget’s summer gear guide 2012: gaming

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In the interest of keeping cool this summer, we've put together a list of the hottest products out right now. From smartphones to e-readers and everything in between, there's no time like the present to re-up that post-spring-cleaning stash. So grab a popsicle or a cold one and dive in -- the water's just right.

Engadget's summer gear guide 2012: gamingThe summer months are home to one of the most bittersweet events in gaming: the Electronic Entertainment Expo. E3 flaunts the year's biggest news in video games, exciting players with peeks at upcoming titles, glimpses of new consoles and soul-crushingly distant release dates. Need something to kill time with? We can help. Sony and Microsoft may not be unveiling next-generation hardware at this year's expo, but there are still a few things you can do to put yourself on the bleeding edge without a console. If you simply can't live without dedicated gaming hardware, however, you still have some options -- though you'll have to wait until the fall or beyond to get your hot little hands on Nintendo's upcoming Wii U. Read on, and we'll see what we can do about subduing your post-E3 anxiety.

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Engadget's summer gear guide 2012: gaming originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 Jun 2012 07:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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CyberPower jumps on the GeForce GTX 690 bandwagon, promises to melt your eyes for $1,700

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CyberPower jumps on the GeForce GTX 690 bandwagon, promises to melt your eyes for $1,700

Dying for NVIDIA's latest, but not so much that you'd bother to learn to build your own PC? No worries, CyberPower's got your back, answering its competitor's GPU offerings with a resounding echo: Get your GeForce GTX 690 here. The customizable PC builder is now letting customers drop NVIDIA's dual GPU Kepler card into its Fang III, Zeus, Gamer Xtreme and Ultra series PCs. CyberPower says they can build a tricked out rig for just under $1,700. Looking for more oomph? More powerful configurations can breach $4,000, if your pockets are deep enough. Read on for the official press release.

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CyberPower jumps on the GeForce GTX 690 bandwagon, promises to melt your eyes for $1,700 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 04 May 2012 07:18:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 review roundup: (usually) worth the one grand

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Now that NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 690 is shipping through some vendors, gamers have been wondering if it's worth the wallet-busting $999 to get those higher frame rates. Surprisingly, the answer is "yes." As AnandTech notes, the GTX 690 is often almost as fast or faster than a pair of GTX 680s working together in SLI mode, only using less power and running at cooler and quieter power levels through those two 28-nanometer Kepler chips. Across multiple reviewers, though, the GTX 690 was sometimes slower than two Radeon HD 7970 boards using CrossFire. HotHardware and others found that it's definitely the graphics card of choice for Batman: Arkham City enthusiasts: problems with AMD's CrossFire mode leave a dual Radeon HD 7970 setup running at just half the frame rate of its NVIDIA-made challenger.

Caveats? There are still some worries beyond the price tag, as the twin Radeon cards are as much as three times faster at general-purpose computing tasks than the latest and greatest GeForce. PC Perspective likewise warns that fans of joining three displays together for some 3D Vision Surround action will still take a big frame rate hit when they put the 3D glasses on. Still, the GTX 690 looks to be tops if you're looking to get the fastest single-card gaming on Earth, and as Legit Reviews adds, that trivalent chromium-plated aluminum makes it one of the "better looking" cards, to boot.

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 review roundup: (usually) worth the one grand originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 May 2012 12:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Maingear and Origin now stocking GeForce GTX 690 cards, will probably run Crysis

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ImageGaming stalwarts Maingear and Origin have casually announced that the duo will now happily sell you a rig packing NVIDIA's beast of a graphics card, the GeForce GTX 690. The $1,000 hardware packs two 28mm Kepler GPUs and is tipped to be the world's fastest graphics card -- unless you work in an NVIDIA testing lab, we suppose.

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NVIDIA unleashes GeForce GTX 690 graphics card, loads it with dual Kepler GPUs, charges $1k

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ImageWould you look at that? NVIDIA hinted it would be coming today, and it looks like the tease is living up to the hype. The company stormed into the weekend at its Shanghai Game Festival by unleashing its latest offering, the GeForce GTX 690 -- and oh yeah, it's packing two 28nm Kepler GPUs! Trumping the recently released GTX 680 as the "worlds fastest graphics card," it's loaded with a whopping 3,072 Cuda cores. The outer frame is made from trivalent chromium-plated aluminum, while you'll find thixomolded magnesium alloy around the fan for vibration reduction and added cooling. Aiding in cooling even further, the unit also sports a dual vapor chamber and center-mounted fan. It'll cost you a spendy $1,000 to pick up one of these puppies come May 3rd, and you'll likely be tempted to double up -- two can run together in SLI as an effective quad-core card. With that said, NVIDIA claims that a single 690 runs 4dB quieter and handles about twice the framerate as a duo of GTX 680s in SLI -- impressive, but we'll reserve judgement until we see it for ourselves. Check out the press release after the break if you'd like more information in the meantime (...and yes, it runs Crysis -- 2 Ultra to be exact -- at 57.8fps, according to NVIDIA).

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NVIDIA unleashes GeForce GTX 690 graphics card, loads it with dual Kepler GPUs

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ImageWould you look at that? NVIDIA hinted it would be coming today and it looks like the tease is living up to the hype. The company stormed into the weekend in Shanghai at its Game Festival by unleashing it's latest offering, the GeForce GTX 690 -- and oh yeah, it's packing two 28-nanometer Kepler GPUs! Trumping the company's GTX 680 as the "worlds fastest graphics card," it's loaded with a whopping 3,072 Cuda cores Among other materials, it's outer-frame is made from trivalent chromium-plated aluminum, while you'll find and thixomolded magnesium alloy around the fan for vibration reduction and added cooling. Aiding in cooling even further the unit also sports a dual vapor chamber and a center-mounted fan. It'll cost you a spendy $1,000 to pick up one these puppies up come May 3rd, and you'll be tempted to double up as two can run together in SLI as an effective quadcore card. According to NVIDIA, a single 690 runs 4dB quieter and handles about twice the framerate as a duo of GTX 680s -- impressive, but we'll reserve judgement until we see it for ourselves. check out the press release after the break if you'd like more information in the meantime. (...and yes, it runs Crysis -- 2 Ultra, to be exact-- at 57.8fps, according to NVIDIA.)

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NVIDIA unleashes GeForce GTX 690 graphics card, loads it with dual Kepler GPUs originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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