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In what can only be categorized as a response to NVIDIA's successful launch of the GeForce GTX 680, AMD has dropped prices across much of the Radeon HD 7000 product stack. Additionally, it is bundling three free games with Radeon HD 7900 series cards. The Radeon HD 7970 gets $70 cut from its MSRP, and will now be available for $479. The Radeon HD7950 drops by $50, and now slots in at $399 (what AMD considers an "impulse buy").

Tom's Hardware has published their latest iteration of Best Graphics Cards For The Money, so if you're in the market for an upgrade, and have a fair idea of what your budget is, you should check this article out.

Best Graphics Cards For The Money: April 2012

Tom's Hardware has published their latest iteration of Best Gaming CPUs For The Money, so if you're in the market for an upgrade, and have a fair idea of what your budget is, you should check this article out.

Best Gaming CPUs For The Money: April 2012

NVIDIA's new GeForce GTX680 (codenamed "Kepler") was launched today. A number of reviews are up, including one here at HardOCP. The GTX680 looks like it blows past the Radeon HD 7970 at 1080p widescreen, and holds even with the AMD offering at 2560x1600 and multi-monitor.

The new NVIDIA offering also offers much improved efficiency over the GTX580, and betters the AMD Radeon HD 7970 in power consumption. Additionally, it is $50 cheaper than the AMD flagship, so I would expect price drops from AMD soon.

The best new feature on the NVIDIA card is that it can now run NV Surround from a single GPU. The previous requirement of a dual-GPU configuration was a serious roadblock to users embracing the NVIDIA multi-monitor technology. The reference card ships with 1xDP, 1xHDMI and 2xDVI connections. I'm assuming that a single-link DP>DVI adapter would allow you to run with three DVI screens.

We don't have a card here to test, but I did get a call from NVIDIA today and will be talking with them about Kepler tomorrow. So, here's hoping we'll have something to share soon.

We've got a new revision of AMD drivers, bringing Eyefinity 2.0 features, and stability!

Highlights of the AMD Catalyst 12.2 Windows release includes:

NEW FEATURES

Windows 7 and Windows Vista support for the AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
Enables support for Windows 7 64-bit/32-bit and Windows Vista 64-bit/32-bit.
Windows XP support will be made available in AMD Catalyst 12.4.

Gearbox Software announced today that upcoming shooter Borderlands 2 will feature a FOV slider and "PC specific UI", and will support "higher resolutions". WSGF community has helped lobbying Gearbox for these features, as they have solicited suggestions for the PC interface / options.

Sorry doesn't even begin to cover the boo-boo I've inflicted upon WSGF today. Getting the site ready for a drupal mutli-site setup for a cool rewards/bounty system and moving the store out to a subdomain, I accidentlied a majority of the images uploaded. How might you ask? Why was I so careless? Well, I'm actually super careful because moments like this aren't battle scares you show people. These moments are the ones you regret forever.

For those of you patently waiting for the release (or at least public beta) of Guild Wars 2 there is some good news for you.

The pre-purchase date for the game has been set. There are three different versions you an buy, and the more coin your willing to part with the more goodies you bring home.

All versions of the game will give you access to the weekend beta's between now and release and also give you a early start on the game when it is released.