Published December 17, 2008 · 0 comments

AMD’s CrossFire multi-GPU technology is featured on quite a few motherboards from both Intel and AMD. It allows you to bridge two of the same GPU for much higher frame rates than a single card would be able to spit…

Read more Diamond HD 4870 1GB CrossFire, Gets Your Frame Rates Up

Published December 16, 2008 · 0 comments

Getting your game on is a difficult, if confusing, process now-a-days. You’ve got your last gen quad cores that offer bang-for-the-buck and the new stuff obviously tempting you with their increased performance. If you haven’t got the time for that…

Read more CyberPower Gamer Xtreme XT, Prepped For Gaming

Published December 15, 2008 · 0 comments

In general low-end CPU launches are nothing to get excited about. Sure they have the same feature sets as their cousins above them in the pricing charts but they don’t contain the same performance. In comes AMD’s Athlon X2 7750…

Read more AMD Athlon X2 7750/7550, Phenom Halved

Published December 14, 2008 · 0 comments

Here’s a collection of articles and reviews making news this past week:Cases, Cooling, and Power SuppliesABS Canyon 695 PC Case – AnandTechAntec Skeleton Case – Bjorn3DEnermax Revolution85+ 1050W – HardOCPIKONIK Vulcan 1200W PSU – techPowerUpLian Li PC-A7010 All Aluminum Full…

Read more Sunday Roundup: December 14th, 2008

Published December 12, 2008 · 0 comments

The multi-GPU route has been very beneficial to the two leading chip makers and their board partners. While it leads to thinner bank accounts on the part of the gamers that own them they’re more than happy with the added…

Read more XFX GeForce GTX260 XXX SLI, Slightly Fast

Published December 11, 2008 · 0 comments

The somewhat thin client is in again with Dell’s new OptiPlex 160. The company is offering up these sleek new machines with the power-efficient Intel Atom CPU, with a dual-core Atom option coming early next year.On the storage front you…

Read more Dell OptiPlex 160, Scaling Down The Desktop

Published December 10, 2008 · 0 comments

VIA’s low-power lineup of CPUs have been a great choice for portable and tight fit applications. While not the speediest of chips they can handle a great number of tasks with ease which is why the company is stepping out…

Read more VIA ARTiGO A2000, For Your Storage Serving Needs

Published December 10, 2008 · 0 comments

New product revisions are usually the area of expertise for the insane fanboys wanting the best possible hardware version available. Microsoft’s “Jasper” revision of the Xbox 360 console is bound to have people flipping over console boxes like raving lunatics….

Read more Xbox 360 Jasper In The Wild, Snag Your Own

Published December 10, 2008 · 0 comments

Microsoft’s Windows Vista hasn’t been the most popular of operating systems ever. Plenty of performance complaints abound which the company has dutifully been attempting to address. In comes Service Pack 2, the beta of which bit-tech has put through the…

Read more Vista SP2 Beta Tested, Gamer Approved?

Published December 9, 2008 · 0 comments

EATX, or Extended ATX, is a motherboard specification designed for all of those massive servers and their components to fit comfortably on, so of course you’d want one as a desktop PC. Phoronix has a look at the Cooler Master…

Read more Cooler Master ATCS 840 EATX, A Simple Case For That Massive Motherboard

Published December 8, 2008 · 0 comments

For all of their convenience netbooks lack performance where it’s sorely needed, video processing. Asus’s N10Jc-A1 shores up that short-coming with a shiny Nvidia GeForce 9300M GS GPU handling graphics duties should you need it. The Tech Report has taken…

Read more Asus N10Jc-A1 Netbook, You'll Likely Forget Its Name