On the eve of the HD 6800-series launch, the GPU battle is heating up to a feverish level with claims, counter claims and price drops.   Over the last 24 hours we have seen claims of everything from underhanded marketing practices to phantom benchmarks coming out of the NVIDIA and AMD camps.  This may be [...]

As reported by Xbit labs, NVIDIA has come to a silent arrangement with many vendors to drop the price of the GTX 460 768MB to $179 USD, or in some cases as low as $169. The discount represents 10% of the cards MSRP, which is substantial in the PC harware market, especially video cards where margins [...]