As much as we like the high end products floating around out there with all of their fancy bells and whistles the low end of the market has some very impressive offerings for those tempted to upgrade but lacking the massive budget to even attempt one…
Read more Budget AMD Motherboards, pushing those AM2s on the cheap
The Intel GMA 500 integrated graphics core is popping up in many Intel Atom powered netbook designs due to its low power draw and improved standards support which is perfect for a long battery life mobile environment.The company maintains driver…
Read more Intel GMA 500 Windows Graphics Drivers
AMD has had a bit of a problem rolling out a CPU to match up with Intel’s top of the line processors, and at the rate things are going they might not catch the performance crown again any time soon….
Read more Gigabyte GA-MA785G-UD3H Motherboard, nondescript name but plenty going for it
The Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M and 4500MHD make up a large portion of the integrated graphics chipsets found on many notebook computers. The company’s latest drivers support a large range of Windows operating systems.The drivers support:GL40 Express, GS40…
Read more Intel GMA 4500M / 4500MHD Windows Graphics Drivers
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
AMD and Intel each have their strengths and weaknesses when it comes to the overall system platforms they create. Those weaknesses can usually be shored up with added peripherals on a desktop computer but that’s not exactly possible in the…
Read more AMD and Intel Laptop Platforms Compared
AMD’s Phenom II has the right price/performance ratio which is getting it quite a bit of attention now, of course finding the right motherboard to drop one into without spending a mint is a difficult task given the options.Jetway’s Hummer…
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
AMD’s AM3 platform might seem like nothing more than a push into the DDR3 realm….well that’s because that’s pretty much the case. Still they pony up the rather impressive 790GX chipset, which the MSI 790GX-G65 just so happens to feature,…
AMD’s Phenom II has gotten the enthusiast crowd excited about the company’s platform again so SilentPCReview thought it’d be a good idea to take a look at the 790GX chipset that are conveniently affixed on a pair of motherboards from…
Read more Gigabyte/MSI 790GX Showdown
