While E3 may be getting all of the buzz when it comes to gaming Computex 2009 will soon cast a giant spotlight on the computing world’s newest hardware. The show starts tomorrow and all manner of new gadgets and anything…
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AMD’s processors aren’t the type of performance champs you’ve come to expect, on the workstation and server front things tend to get a bit stranger.People in the market for new servers are looking beyond rendering speeds and are focusing…
AMD has announced their new ATI Radeon E4690 Discrete GPU. What does that mean for you? Well not all that much in the short term but you can be sure that notebook manufacturers will be all over this one.It…
ATI’s Avivo video transcoding software has been around for quite a while now promising all of the grand GPGPU enhancements that go along with using their high powered graphics chip to do some computing work outside of pushing pixels….
Read more ATI GPU Transcoding Receives AMD's Helpful Hotrodding
New ATI Catalyst drivers are out, and this time they bring one oft-requested feature, a biggie for HTPC fans running Vista 64-bit: The comments section of my blog has been filled for 2 months with questions on when we were…
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If there’s something that can ruin your brand new PC build it’s a massive tower heatsink that sticks out way too far stopping your PC’s panel from closing properly. Of course the majority of new coolers sport such a configuration…
Read more Thermaltake ISGC-100 CPU Heatsink, An Alternative to the Tower Style
The European Union has been looking into Intel’s dealings with computer manufacturers over the past few years, checking allegations into whether or not they took anti-competitive measures when dealing with their chief rival AMD. Reuters is claiming that EU regulators…
Read more EU Likely to Find Intel Anti-Competitive, Fines Inbound?
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…
ATI’s Radeon HD 4770 fits into that nice category where it’s faster than the low end and almost as fast as the more expensive mid-range. Given the small performance trade offs and a $99 MSRP they’re a bargain for the…
Read more ATI Radeon HD 4770 CrossFire, A Budget Gamer's Dream
Getting the most out of PC hardware is the computer enthusiast’s pastime. Overclocking gear to make it operate far beyond its stock settings gets quite a bit of glee out of the consummate tweaker, doing the same to a value…
