ASRock began life as a company that created some rather odd hardware combinations that somehow worked well and allowed users to make use of some older hardware. The company’s new motherboard, the ASRock AOD790GX/128M, keeps things ordinary with support for…
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So that mini-system you purchased is saving you all sorts of desktop space and its sleek design gives your desk that sense of high-tech heaven. Unfortunately that slim machine’s graphics performance may be lagging behind the curve and your choices…
We aren’t all blessed with immense amounts of disposable income but we still like to get our gaming fix just like everybody else. Driver Heaven has a look at a trio of AMD/ATI graphics cards all on the low-end to…
AMD’s Phenom II has gotten the enthusiast crowd excited about the company’s platform again so SilentPCReview thought it’d be a good idea to take a look at the 790GX chipset that are conveniently affixed on a pair of motherboards from…
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With the recent upheaval on the high end pushing every graphics card down a notch you’d expect those previously high-powered mid-range cards to be the perfect choice in all situations, the low-power/HTPC market would like to disagree. Sapphire’s Radeon HD…
Read more Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 Ultimate, Beefing Up The Low-End
The general purpose behind a HTPC is a computer for playback of multimedia files on a home theater setup, in comes AMD’s Maui platform that could, one day, replace everything aside from your TV and speaker setup. SilentPCReview has a…
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There comes a time for most products to get the old heave from the regular driver update schedule, today AMD/ATI’s Radeon lineup gets a bit of pruning. The Radeon X1000 lineup and earlier aren’t going to be seeing much in…
Dell’s XPS lineup has largely focused on bringing some measure of gaming performance to a market that’s probably wary of scarily named boutique PC builders. Their systems were mostly based around Intel’s latest and greatest but their new XPS 625…
Read more Dell XPS 625, Phenom II Goes Gaming
Going for the budget brand side of the PC hardware market is a tough proposal given the “bad vibes” associated with inexpensive hardware. The ECS A780GM-A Ultra Black appears to buck that trend competently handling any AMD AM2+ CPU you…
Read more ECS A780GM-A Ultra Black Motherboard, Performance On The Cheap
Some new mobile GPUs aren’t all that they appear to be but AMD’s new ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4830 and 4860 are based off the same architecture found on the company’s current desktop chips. The Tech Report has all of…
Read more Mobility Radeon HD 4830/4860, Powerful Mobile Graphics
The forward march of progress has finally reached AMD’s Phenom II CPU. The AM3 socket allows for a new lineup of chips that take advantage of DDR3’s massive memory bandwidth and lower power usage. The Tech Report has a look…
Read more AMD Socket AM3 Phenom II Chips, Don't Get Confused Now
