When it comes to the high-end graphics segment and today’s latest games you’re left to going for Microsoft’s Vista operating system due to its DirectX 10 support and fine tuned 64-bit support. Windows 7 is looking to one up Vista’s…
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The usual laptop purchasing process is straightforward for the majority of people, see something you like you buy it. The mobile gaming crowd on the other hand holds on to their hard-earned cash and pours over spec sheets with a…
Read more ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4000 Series, Gaming On The Go Gets Faster
There is no doubt that today’s latest and greatest graphics cards can churn out some impressive visuals at high resolutions and equally insane framerates. Despite how powerful the GPUs are nowadays there could still be extra performance to eek of…
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,…
HIS has a reputation for taking the latest and greatest graphics cards and slapping their own highly efficient cooler on it with some nice results. techPowerUp has a look at the company’s Radeon HD 4870 IceQ4+ Turbo card which takes…
Read more HIS Radeon HD 4870 IceQ4+ Turbo Reviewed, Keeping The Beast Cool
Microsoft’s Windows 7 has gained a sizeable fan base just from the beta previews the company has released. The one question most gamers will be asking is how it’ll affect their system hardware’s performance so PC Perspective has taken the…
eMachines is well known for their inexpensive desktop machines, infamously so, but their line of notebooks comes with decent spec sheets and some rather tempting price tags. InsideHW has a look at the eMachines G520 and G620 notebooks and what…
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When in doubt throw more ****** at it. It works in many situations; syrup to pancakes, money to troubled banks, the list goes on. Sapphire has taken the same approach and loaded their Vapor-X 4870 with 2GB of GDDR5 memory…
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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
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…
Read more AMD Phenom II X4 995 OC'ed to 4GHz
A major switch from one memory technology to another has, often times, been a very painful experience for the PC industry and consumers. Confusion over performance benefits and the obvious cost difference has most people putting off the switch for…
