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by Rafael Hernandez on April 5, 2009 · 0 comments

So you’ve got yourself your brand new $250 somewhat monster of a graphics card and playing your games at insane resolutions isn’t enough, you’d bettter get on to overclocking that puppy. Guru3D has taken the recently released Radeon HD 4890…

Read more Radeon HD 4890 Overclocking, Tweaking The Beast

by Rafael Hernandez on April 2, 2009 · 0 comments

There was a time when you could count the number of GPU releases from companies on one hand, but nowadays you need a roadmap to make sense of it all. If you don’t feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of…

Read more Nvidia GeForce GTX 275, Another Mid-Range Gaming Option

by Rafael Hernandez on March 31, 2009 · 0 comments

AMD/ATI’s CrossFire technology allows you to pair up two identical graphics cards for, theoretically, a sizable performance boost. It all works pretty well for the gamers out there that strive for the highest frame rates at insane resolutions using today’s…

Read more AMD Radeon HD 4670 CrossFire Viability

by Rafael Hernandez on March 30, 2009 · 0 comments

Nintendo’s Wii gaming console has had an amazing amount of success built on some rather low-powered computing hardware. Sure the games are fun and the controller adds quite a bit of interactivity and some ingenious new ways to frustrate players…

Read more Nintendo Wii Games Played At High Res, No It's Not A New Console

by Rafael Hernandez on March 28, 2009 · 0 comments

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…

Read more High-end Gaming, Windows 7 Versus Vista

by Rafael Hernandez on March 27, 2009 · 0 comments

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

by Rafael Hernandez on March 26, 2009 · 0 comments

Electronics Arts has had a rough go of it over the past year and making one of their largest customer bases happy seems to be on their mind. The company is taking it easy on the Digital Rights Management…

Read more Sims 3 Eschews Invasive DRM, Potty Breaks In Game Still Mandatory

by Rafael Hernandez on March 24, 2009 · 0 comments

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

by Rafael Hernandez on March 24, 2009 · 0 comments

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…

Read more Windows 7 Gaming Graphics Performance Tested

by Rafael Hernandez on March 23, 2009 · 0 comments

The latest graphics cards offer insane amounts of performance potential but that all depends on the system you’re backing it up with, pairing it with even last generation’s fastest quad core might not be enough. TweakTown has a look at…

Read more Unleashing NVIDIA's GTX 295, A Test In CPU Scaling

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