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by Rafael Hernandez on March 22, 2009 · 0 comments

All of the marketing and SKU renaming shenanigans aside Nvidia’s GeForce GTS 250 is able to hold its own in most modern gaming titles. HardwareZone has a look at Gigabyte’s version of the card and tries to see if anything…

Read more Gigabyte GeForce GTS 250 Reviewed, Yes The Newer Is Just As Good As The Original

by Rafael Hernandez on March 21, 2009 · 0 comments

Pairing a rather low power, low-cost CPU with a low-end chipset is bound to get everyone really excited. Nvidia’s Ion platform takes Intel’s Atom processor and pairs it with their GeForce 9400M chipset giving it enough power to do some…

Read more Nvidia Ion, A Deeper Look

by Rafael Hernandez on 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

by Rafael Hernandez on 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…

Read more Asus EN9400GT Silent Edition, Quieter Than The Rest

by Pedro Hernandez on March 13, 2009 · 0 comments

On paper, there’s already plenty to like about the Palm Pre: Linux-based operating system, Web inspired application development platform, gesture-based interface, built-in GPS and Wi-Fi, 3 megapixel camera with LED flash… The list goes on. Below are 10 features…

Read more 10 Reasons to Love the Palm Pre

by Rafael Hernandez on March 11, 2009 · 0 comments

Nvidia is attempting to clean up its product naming scheme so they don’t have so many different generations of names on the market at once, of course it all means that you’ll be even more confused by the glut of…

Read more Nvidia's Naming Scheme Madness Continues

by Rafael Hernandez on March 10, 2009 · 0 comments

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…

Read more ASUS EAH4550 Radeon HD 4550, Half Height Fun

by Rafael Hernandez on March 9, 2009 · 0 comments

The high end of the graphics card market is filled with all manner of multi-GPU setups which pair up two beastly high-end GPUs for improved performance. Sapphire’s Radeon HD 4850X2 1GB is going to show everyone what happens when you…

Read more Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB, Mid-Range Goes Double-Team

by Rafael Hernandez on March 8, 2009 · 0 comments

The usual method for expanding on your available desktop area is to attach a monitor to your graphics card’s secondary display port. In some instances it’s not possible or you’ve already taken up that port so you’ll need something like…

Read more HIS Multi-View DVI, Expand Your Desktop Real Estate

by Rafael Hernandez on March 6, 2009 · 0 comments

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…

Read more Gigabyte/MSI 790GX Showdown

by Rafael Hernandez on March 6, 2009 · 0 comments

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