PC Perspective Live Review Recap: GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Today has been a busy day for the PC Perspective crew. Not only have we published like 100 graphics card reviews in the last three days but we also held a live event at the offices to host NVIDIA's Tom Petersen to discuss and debate the release of the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti. If you need to catch up, you should check out our GeForce GTX 660 Ti review posted earlier today to learn all about this $299 GPU that offers very compelling performance that competes with the HD 7950 and leaves the HD 7870 a fairly distant second.

Based on the same GK104 chip as the GTX 680 and the GTX 670, the GeForce GTX 660 Ti should find a lot of new homes this week. For this event we not only gave a short presentation with some demos and review discussion, we also featured questions from the hardware subreddit and gave away an EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti to a lucky viewer!

PC Perspective Podcast #214

Join PC Perspective this week as they talk about two GTX 670 Cards, AMD's HD 7950 with Boost, Microsoft Surface rumors and more!

Annoyed Gamer Episode 4

Marcus gives Nintendo the business over its coy approach in launching its new console, plus consoles killing PC games and much more!

GIGABYTE Announces Hidden Gems Competition Winners

GIGABYTE, a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, today announced the winners of the GIGABYTE Hidden Gems Competition. In celebration of our illustrious history, with 26 years at the heart of the DIY PC industry, GIGABYTE invited all their Facebook fans to share videos and photos of their old GIGABYTE-based DIY PC builds. The older the better!

"The Hidden Gems competition proved to be an excellent showcase for GIGABYTE’s Ultra Durable philosophy, with 74% of submissions featuring boards that are older than 5 years, almost 25% of submissions with boards of more than 10 years old and 8% from the 1990’s," commented Tim Handley, Deputy Director of Motherboard Marketing at GIGABYTE. "Remarkably, the oldest motherboard submitted originates from 1991, and still runs after more than twenty years!"

MIT Develops Autonomous Robotic Earthworm

If you have a lake full of robotic fish, their number could be up soon. big grin MIT researchers have developed a robotic worm capable of autonomous movement, goes over almost any terrain and is virtually indestructible. The prototype robot will aid researchers in developing more sophisticated bots for a variety of uses.

Shadowrun Online Kickstarter Successfully Funded

It looks like Shadowrun Online has met its $500k goal with only 5 hours to spare. Talk about cutting it close.

Viral Video of the Week

Red Giant Software specializes in visual effects plugins and it shows in this three minute video that is making the rounds on the Internet. A thinly disguised ad for the company’s work, but what the hey, it’s clever and entertaining.

Disney's Physical Face Cloning Is Creepy

Hey, maybe Disney can license its face cloning technology to those guys that make *ahem* realistic dolls for men.