Popular online retailer Newegg accidentally shipped what were thought to be counterfeit Intel Core i7 CPU’s to some unsuspecting customers. People began complaining of the obviously fake units yesterday, eventually piling up to a total of 5 incidents involving 9 fake CPU’s around the web.

At first, Newegg responded by stating they had received “incorrect inventory”, but later discovered that t..

Reports have been flooding in from all over the web. The newest NVIDIA WHQL drivers, 196.75, have been pulled from the NVIDIA downloads page, after reports surfaced of fried GPUs. There have been many posts on the NVIDIA forums already with little response. Their initial suspicion of this issue is that of fan speed controls, possibly some sort of malfunction that is still being rooted out.

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Roccat have just announced their newest addition to their gaming peripheral selection, the Pyra. This mouse is a tiny little mobile orientated mouse which will be available with a fixed wire or as a wireless option (which will have wire connectivity for use when charging). What we know of the tech specs is that it has a 1600 DPI Blue-Optic sensor, 1000HZ wireless with lag free polling, recharga..

JkkMobile is reporting that an Archos PR has given them information that leads to believe the Archos 9 Tablet will be receiving some upgrades. The Archos 9 is quite possibly the best available tablet so far, and unlike the iPad, has been out for some time.

Currently the Archos 9 features:

Windows 7 Starter Edition Intel Atom 1.1GHz Z510 CPU 1GB DDR2 60GB HDD 8.9” LED resistive ..

Now the wait is over, NVIDIA published the “major announcement” that they were so excited about last Friday. On Friday, March 26th, PAX East 2010 will be taking place in Boston, Massachusetts. NVIDIA has announced an open invitation for anyone wanted to see the next generation of PC gaming. NVIDIA’s dubbing the unveiling a “Special Must See Presentation”. The unveiling will take place Friday, Ma..

Nvidia seems to have partially fallen behind the technology curve this time. Many have been awaiting the GF100 series, or GeForce Fermi, to bring (mostly) DirectX 11 and GDDR5 to NVIDIA rigs. Earlier this month we reported that the first NVIDIA GF100 cards would be the GTX 480 and GTX 470.

Thanks to a tweet by NVIDIA, Monday, February 22nd at 9:00 AM PST (Pacific Standard Time), NVIDIA will be..