DirectX 11 - the one sure thing you'll want as soon as Windows Seven ships to shelves a few years from now. Revealed back in Gamefest 2008, DirectX 11 turned heads with its venture into multithreaded computing territory and support for using shader processors as additional processing power. Today, however, Microsoft's Kevin Gee detailed what the software engineers at Redmond had planned for the API, and we've compiled a summary at the full story.

In a string of luck, AMD's best graphics solution for this season comes a good three weeks before Spore and Crysis Warhead has a chance to whisper, "Peek-a-boo!" You can bet that every brand out there who's been sticking with ATI video cards has a special kit for you bleeding edge techies, but just how much moolah are we going to shell out for a Radeon HD 4870 X2? Learn more at the full story.

Dell's been hearing some whinin' and moanin' from its consumers for quite some time now. Users of their notebooks have been experiencing problems with their GPUs and a lot of them are getting frustrated. The company is now offering corrective services and has updates its list of notebook models which have been experiencing trouble. More in the full article.

Naughty Dog has done some great work with their action-adventure PlayStation 3 exclusive Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. The game's co-lead designer Richard Lemarchand, however, told ThreeSpeech that we ain't seen nothing yet because what their game gave us was just 30 to 40 percent of the console's total power. More after the jump.

It's like a geek's dream come true - two ladies you've always wanted for the price (and mass-energy ratio) of one. Or something like that. While Intel's really busy with Larabee, the Germany-based Advanced Micro Devices decided that they could do with their own version of CPU-GPU technology. Everyone expected this from the beginning: the unison of CPU (AMD) and the GPU (ATI) into a mesmerizing package. How it took this long to come to realization, you won't find out at the full story. Read on for more claims, instead.

Sometimes possessing the bleeding edge in consumer graphics isn't enough. Having cards dancing at the knife edge is also a quest for some. Its this fact in a hardware enthusiast's life that news of the official Beta drivers from NVIDIA ring like angels' voices in their ears, and you can be sure that the first few hundred thousand downloads are the guys with rigs to boast. Learn what's cooking with NVIDIA's latest official "test" drivers at the full story.

A poster on the Xbox-Underground forums by the name of Electric Tuner has put up a picture of what he claims is the Opus Xbox 360 motherboard. What is this Opus all about? Find out more information after the jump.

NVIDIA may be sticking to monolithic graphic cards, but AMD sure as hell isn't. In fact you probably were one of hundreds of thousands who guessed that after releasing the sweetly-priced Radeon HD 4870, they'd be back with twins. If you banked money on that, you'd better collect - Guru3D says they've just received the prototype of the top-of-the-line, dual-GPU RV770-spec graphics card that's tied to just one generic name: the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2. Wipe off the drool, and get more details at the full story.

Even though the army at Redmond has just started to layer the icing on DirectX 10.1, plans to revamp Microsoft's popular application programming interface (API) to the next major level hasn't been held back. DirectX 11 appears to be Microsoft's answer to the growing use of multi-core machines, as well as NVIDIA's looming CUDA technology. Got to know more? Read more to find out how DX11 aims to leave Windows XP and Xbox 360 gamers back in the Ice Age.

Bloomfield - or as you would probably have heard from your techy pals: the next CPUs in line for the X58 platform. Somehow, some way, NVIDIA crawled out of its shell and agreed to integrate it's patented SLI technology onto Intel's chipset. It's an alliance that people always anticipated since the merging of AMD and ATI, yet always seemed eluded reality. X48-based motherboards are still CrossFire only, so will the PC enthusiast finally receive optimum CPU performance with state-of-the-art GPU technology in X58? More at the full story.