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Gaming laptops are the mobile equivalent of gaming PCs and are usually more expensive than their PC counterparts. Currently, some feature inbuilt graphics processors, which tend to use a lot of battery power and create heat, so one concern among GPU manufacturers is to reduce power usage (and therefore heat). These GPUs are roughly equivalent to the desktop graphics cards that share similar names. One recent development by NVIDIA is SLI for laptops.
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., July 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Commodore Gaming, a leader in high-performance PC gaming solutions, announced today that it is launching a new breed of gaming PCs for the US market in Q3 online and following with retail. Already a huge hit in Europe this will mark the triumphant return of the famous brand to America on Commodore 64's 25th Anniversary. There are four different models for enthusiasts to choose between -- from an entry level gaming PC to a powerhouse optimized for the most extreme gamers.
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Gaming PCs are usually equipped with dedicated sound cards and more recently, surround sound speakers. Speakers can include 5.1 to 7.1 surround sound configuration and/or headphones. A surround sound speaker setup is a required to enjoy the full audio experience found in most modern computer games.[14] Sound cards have hardware accelerated technologies, such as EAX, so that adding sound effects and streaming audio across the bus does not place additional loads on the CPU. An example is Sound Blaster X-Fi, which have 64 MiB (unprecedented for a sound card) of onboard RAM and has gaming PCs as part of its main target demographic with a dedicated "gaming mode".[15]
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Gaming computers are built to process huge amounts of information while playing online role–playing games or first–person shooters. These power PCs come with high–end graphics cards, lighting fast CPUs and even liquid cooling.
Santa Clara, CA — NVIDIA on Monday, Feb 04, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire AGEIA Technologies, the industry leader in gaming physics technology. AGEIA’s PhysX software is widely adopted with more than 140 PhysX-based games shipping or in development on Sony Playstation3, Microsoft XBOX 360, Nintendo Wii and Gaming PCs. AGEIA physics software is pervasive with over 10,000 registered and active users of the PhysX SDK.
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