System chipsets aren’t updated as much as you probably want them to be so motherboard manufacturers tend to rely on add-on chips to do most of the work on newer connectivity standards. Thank goodness for updated chipsets. AMD’s upcoming 890GX system chipset sports a speed bumped graphics core and, most importantly, SATA 6G support. AnandTech [...]
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The thought of a computer using two graphics cards from very different graphics chip vendors would seem absurd, or even vaporware in the eyes of many…well it would seem we all have a bit of rethinking to do over the…
The general idea behind the Intel Core i5 was to bring the company’s high-end Core i7 performance down to the mid-range level and cut some costs along the way. Oddly enough the changes they’ve made and improvements they’ve added, most…
AMD has a habit of putting reasonably powerful graphics cores into a number of their chipsets. Their upcoming 785G is another example sporting a custom built Radeon HD 4200 core that might enable your low-power build to do something other…
Read more AMD's 785G Chipset Graphics Performance AKA Your HTPC can Game
It used to be that motherboard manufacturers would release their products and allow for the enthusiasts and tweakers to get the most out of their products, now they’ve started to take all of that fun for themselves before the boards…
Read more Asus Demonstrates P55 Motherboards, Enjoys the Overclock As Well
Nvidia, apparently, isn’t content to leave good enough alone so the company is rumored to be silently working on a newer version of their ION chipset.ION 2 is purportedly set to offer twice as many shader processors which should…
Read more Nvidia Rumored to be Working on ION 2
Intel’s Atom processor and its antiquated chipset combination have made themselves quite popular by offering “good enough” performance for the netbook and nettop markets, of course users want something that’s quite a bit more powerful as time goes on.According to…
Read more Next Generation Atoms Detailed, Pineview/Pine Trail Platform Details
You’d think that the renaming old products as new scheme would get quite a bit old but given the shere number of computer buyers out there and the general level of knowledge needed to keep up with the changes…well you’re…
Integrated Graphics Processors are a great stop-gap measure, perhaps even a competent multimedia handling GPU, but it is by no means a gaming platform. Intel wants to change that and is launching a set of tools and asking developers to…
Read more Intel Pushes Its IGPs For Gaming, Pigs Learn To Aviate
Intel’s Nehalem architecture, commonly found in the company’s Core i7 desktop chips, has been tearing up benchmarks for a few months now completely outclassing the competition, and its own previous generation, by a wide margin.The company has been working to…
Read more Intel Xeon W5580, Nehalem Goes Upmarket
Intel has taken a bit of a hard-line in order to protect their intellectual property recently hoping to either muscle out the competition, corner the market for all manner of chips, or bring some added drama to enthusiast forums…
Read more NVIDIA Files Countersuit, Intel Probably Not Shaking In Their Boots
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