RAID storage setups have been, in the past, a good way to bump up your system’s storage performance. Given that platter based drives were the slowest component in a computer any added speed was always welcome when doing any sort…
Processor launches are a funny thing. There’s a whole lot of hoopla over the high end chips with all manner of benchmarks and quotes on how their latest product will make things run faster, cooler, and improve your Crysis…
Read more AMD's "Suzuka" Opterons Demand Attention
Integrated network chips have eased the cost of networking your computers…so why would you want to buy an addon card for your gaming rig? Well your favorite operating system, namely Windows, usually has the system’s CPU take care of the…
Read more EVGA's Killer Xeno Pro, Network Stack Offloading Fun
Despite all of the enthusiasm over netbooks and the amount of lightweight and long life computing freedom they offer the chips powering them are certainly up to the task of providing a decent experience on the desktop as well.The Acer…
Read more Acer's Aspire Revo R3600, Nettop Nvidia ION Action
Solid state drives offer a very attractive performance increase over the old platter based hard drives of the past, unfortunately getting the most out of them isn’t as simple as plugging in the drive. Given the technology’s early state you’ll…
Read more Windows Vista and SSDs, A Case Study
Nvidia is on a bit of a roll after securing themselves a nice design win with their Tegra system-on-a-chip processor made its way into Microsoft’s Zune HD and now TheStreet.com has word on at least one major cellphone/smartphone vendor…
Read more Nvidia Tegra to Appear In Smartphones
There aren’t many brands that attempt the premium quality notebook approach aside from Apple and many of the gaming laptop manufacturers, leave it to Dell to make a grand entrance.The Dell Adamo sports an extremely slim and aluminum chassis…
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
In case you missed the veritable flood of news concerning the topic Mozilla’s Firefox version 3.5 final has been released. The latest version boasts improved performance and standards compliance which is always nice.As far as the performance claim there is…
Read more Firefox 3.5 Released
When it comes to processors getting all of the specifications for the chip rarely tells you how it performs in the real world, so while that shiny new chip may share the same pedigree as higher priced models you…
Read more AMD's Athlon II X2 250 CPU, Sort of Phenom Yet Not
The netbook arms race is heating up once again and this time Samsung is busy preparing their salvo into the market. The company is preparing an 11.6″ netbook computer which is pushing dangerously close into the notebook size department which…
Read more Samsung Ups the Ante, Develops 11.6" Nvidia ION Powered Netbook…Notebook…Thing
