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Consoles are USA’s Most Popular Streaming Device

by Super User

The games console is the primary method of streaming in US homes, according to Parks Associates. 46% of broadband households in the country have a console connected to the internet, and 28% use it …

Tags:Consoles| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Streaming Video| Vol 21 - Issue 38| Volume 21

Maxwell Extends to Laptops

by Super User

Last month (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 37), Nvidia introduced the GTX 970 and GTX 980 desktop GPUs, based on the new Maxwell architecture (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 8). Now, the company has …

Tags:Game Playing| GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

Access Essential Gaming Functions on Asus’ G751

by Super User

Asus’ new gaming laptop, the 17.3″ ROG G751, is part of the Republic of Gamers line. Programmable macro and quick-launch (for Steam, games and other commonly-used features) keys on the (backlit) keyboard help gamers …

Tags:Asus| Game Playing| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

Dell Boosts Laptop Speeds for Gamers

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Dell’s Alienware brand targets gamers: an audience emphasised by the new Alienware 18 laptop. Overclocked to 4.4GHz (Intel Core i7 Haswell processor), the product runs very quickly. A new thermal solution (copper heatsinks and …

Tags:Dell| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| PCs| Vol 21 - Issue 41| Volume 21

Headless Ghost Scares Up GPU

by Super User

An interesting peripheral is seeking funding on Kickstarter (http://tinyurl.com/ojljme3). The Headless Ghost is a display emulator, which can ‘trick’ a PC into thinking that a monitor is attached. Because many PCs disable their GPU …

Tags:Game Playing| HDMI| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 43| Volume 21

Dell Boosts Laptop Graphics Performance

by Super User

A new product, designed to increase laptop framerates, is accompanying Dell’s Alienware 13 laptop on its European launch. Announced for the North America market in August, the Alienware 13 is a 13.3″ gaming device …

Tags:Dell| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 21 - Issue 43| Volume 21

LDM Product Roundup Vol 21 Issue 43

by Super User

The first monitors with AMD’s Freesync technology will be launched next month, sources have told Fudzilla. In September, we heard that Freesync partners were aiming to ship the monitors in Q1’15 (Display Monitor Vol …

Tags:AMD| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 43| Volume 21

Microsoft ‘Solves’ Cloud Latency for Gaming

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A white paper by Microsoft Research details a way to lower latency in cloud gaming, using a project called Delorean. In cloud gaming, very little processing is done on the user’s device. Instead, a …

Tags:Cloud Computing| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Vol 21 - Issue 34| Volume 21