Published March 18, 2009 · 0 comments

Dell hasn’t been too keen on letting the competition trot out a high-end consumer notebook without a response. In comes their Adamo notebook which sports an aluminum unibody construction and some rather dapper styling. CNET has a hands on with…

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Published March 16, 2009 · 0 comments

AMD’s Phenom II has been getting a bit of attention recently, seeing as how they’ve finally managed to match up with Intel’s Core 2 Quads and come in at a decent price point you can’t blame people for being curious…

Read more AMD Phenom II Performance Scaling, Or Overclocking Til It Breaks

Published March 16, 2009 · 0 comments

There’s not much to a computer case aside from keeping your PC’s components safe from the elements and the prying noses of pets. Cooler Master’s Storm Sniper chassis hopes to impress you with its myriad of ports and fan controller…

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Published March 16, 2009 · 0 comments

Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 280 graphics card is quite a performer in many of today’s most power hungry titles, it’s also a little power hungry itself. Arctic Cooling has a knack for creating aftermarket coolers for things that run extremely hot…

Read more Arctic Cooling Accelero XTREME GTX280 Cooler, The All-Caps Xtreme Makes It Radical

Published March 16, 2009 · 0 comments

Outfitting your new computer or HTPC with some quiet hardware has been getting easier over the years as more companies buy into the idea that silence is, to some, golden. Asus’ EN9400GT Silent Edition graphics card takes the low-end Nvidia…

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Published March 16, 2009 · 0 comments

Does AMD have a winner (for enthusiasts) on its hands? According to this post in the XtremeSystems forums, an engineering sample of the AMD Phenom II X4 995 — a 3.2 GHz part, mind you — was “easy” to…

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Published March 15, 2009 · 0 comments

The netbook has garnered plenty of attention as a great portable computing device giving you just enough processing power to do the normal web surfing/office work but not much more. GameSpot has decided to test out how a pair of…

Read more Netbook Gaming, Folly Or Fact?

Published March 15, 2009 · 0 comments

Adobe’s Reader PDF software has had quite a serious flaw in it for the past few weeks which, if exploited, can cause quite a bit of mayhem should the nefarious types wish it so. According to company blogger David Lenoe…

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Published March 14, 2009 · 0 comments

With all of the hub-bub surrounding Intel and AMD’s high end chips you may be shocked to find out that there are still those that may prefer a dual-core CPU of the Core 2 era, especially on the enthusiast front….

Read more Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 VS E8600, A Tale Of Two Caches

Published March 14, 2009 · 0 comments

Going green has plenty of marketing benefits and that socially responsible streak that make everyone feel great inside but for Microsoft the move may mean quite a bit of savings in the long run. The company’s Software Enabled Earth blog…

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Published March 13, 2009 · 0 comments

The Windows 7 team sure does seem to be taking in customer feedback and making the sorts of changes that people want to see. Microsoft’s Engineering Windows 7 blog has noted around 27 changes and improvements they’ve squeezed into their…

Read more Another Day Another Batch Of Windows 7 Changes