Nvidia launches GeForce GTX 460 V2

Nvidia GPUs Geforce GTX 460 launched in July last year, still enjoy great popularity among consumers, although in theory should have been replaced by the current Geforce GTX 560 Series. Nvidia quietly brings a new and curious launch its "new" GPU Geforce GTX 460 V2. The Geforce GTX 460 V2 GPU, although its name suggests, is based on the old Fermi GF104 core which are based the rest of the GPUs of the GeForce GTX 460, but in the current Fermi GF114, used in the Geforce GTX 560 Series (except Ti Geforce GTX 560 448 Cores, which is based on the core GF110). Its specifications are very similar to the recent Geforce GTX 560 SE, but comes a little cut on features. The Nvidia Geforce GTX 460 GPU runs at 778MHz V2, has 336 shader processors running at 1556MHz, 56 texture units, 24 ROPs, 7 motors Polymorph Engine, 1GB of GDDR5 memory with 192-bit bus running at 1002MHz (4008MHz effective), and a 160W TDP. Full specifications here:

By having less specific than the Geforce GTX 560 SE, the TDP is expected that similar or lower, but curiously its TDP is 10W higher than that of her older sister, but their performance should be pretty close to hers.

Stir in the network trigger strange silhouettes detected in China with Google Earth

Strange shapes discovered in the Gobi Desert in China using Google Earth have sparked the imagination of Internet users who think they see from military facilities to any signs of alien culture.

The American media echoed the strange images that you can see clear targets grooves forming an irregular grid or a sharp discontinuity in the form of concentric circles in the middle of nowhere.

It all started, according to the Huffington Post newspaper, when earlier this week a surfer got a comment on Reddit technology page with a link to the first photo.

"There seems to be a military experiment / scientific monumental in a desert of China, visible through Google Earth. Can anyone explain what exactly is going on there?", Calling for the surfer who received more than a hundred responses.

But the photo did not stop there and in addition to the publicity has been given in the media, internet users have striven to find other structures "suspicious" in Chinese territory using the Google tool.

The conspiracy theories have begun to circulate, while the U.S. company has not acted.

Allen Thomson, a former CIA analyst, told Wired.com that since 2004, "someone" has been interested in the Google Earth satellite images taken hundreds of that part of the desert.

"Someone has ordered many, many satellite photos of that" something "could not have been cheap," he quipped.

The place where the marks have been detected, which were calculated as measure approximately 1 km wide by 1.85 miles long, is in Gansu Province, northwest China, a region that includes part of the Gobi Desert.

"Military experiments remains of a culture alien came to Earth? No one is really sure, 'says the media, while sites like Gizmodo and Wired technology invite their users to take a look at the pictures to contribute comments and clarification of all of what it is.

The scientist Jonathon Hill, a research technician at the Mars Space Flight Facility at the University of Arizona, which has operated with different chambers of the missions that NASA sent to Mars, has found a simpler explanation.

As indicated by the television channel MSNBC, is "almost certain" that China will use these grids giants to calibrate their spy satellites.

The spy cameras focus on the grid and serve them for orientation in space, also believes that another of the areas where technology seems to be material, in fact, may be a military zone or evidence "which would explain the great amount of equipment and technology in a remote area. "

To which he added: "Sometimes the truth can be as interesting, if not more, than the plots with people leaving."