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AMD has the current edge over its main rival Nvidia in the PC graphics card race. AMD's new DirectX11-based cards under their ATI brand are out now while Nvidia's DirectX11 cards are not expected to launch until sometime in early 2010. However, Nvidia is apparently prepping some kind of new graphics card product for a launch this fall.

This week Nvidia sent out invites for people to come to their Santa Clara, California offices on October 30 for a Halloween-themed launch event that will introduce "a rocking new graphics card designed by NVIDIA and EVGA to take PhysX to the next level." That's all we know at this point but if you happen to be in the area on that date there may still be time to send in your RSVP.

A couple of years ago Bigfoot Networks launched their first gaming LAN network card, the Killer NIC. The card was designed to give PC gamers a smoother and better online gameplay experience even with fast broadband connections. While the device was much more expensive than the normal NIC product reviews of the Killer card were very favorable.

Today Bigfoot Networks announced their plans to release their second generation gaming PC network card family, the Killer Xeno. Using a PCIe interface the new card has more memory, an improved network chip and hardware acceleration for improved voice chat in games.

There will be two versions of the Killer Xeno card. The the Pro version will have 128MB of memory and sell for $129.99. It will go on sale in April via third party card maker EVGA. It will also be made available as an option on Alienware PCs. The Ultra version, with 256 MB of memory, will go on sale in May for $179.99.