It used to be that first person shooters, flight simulators, and real time strategy games that forced a player’s hand to upgrade their gaming computer. Given the amount of pull MMO titles have now you’re looking at a whole…
Read more The Great MMORPG Graphics Card Conundrum
Getting the smallest computer you could fit into a space used to mean a small form factor barebones that far exceeded the cost of a full-fledged tower desktop computer.Intel’s Atom processor has brought about more options when it comes…
Integrated network chips have eased the cost of networking your computers…so why would you want to buy an addon card for your gaming rig? Well your favorite operating system, namely Windows, usually has the system’s CPU take care of the…
Read more EVGA's Killer Xeno Pro, Network Stack Offloading Fun
The netbook arms race is heating up once again and this time Samsung is busy preparing their salvo into the market. The company is preparing an 11.6″ netbook computer which is pushing dangerously close into the notebook size department which…
Read more Samsung Ups the Ante, Develops 11.6" Nvidia ION Powered Netbook…Notebook…Thing
ATI’s graphics card Windows drivers for its Radeon HD 2400 series cards on up to their latest and greatest Radeon HD 4890 are up to version 9.6 with notable improvements in the following:Company of Heroes – performance gains of up…
AMD is attempting to extend their GPGPU computing reach by creating a plugin that will allow Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 to be accelerated by their ATI Stream technology.The basic premise is your ATI Radeon HD or FirePro graphics card…
Nvidia’s Ion platform combines their low-power, yet powerful, 9400M chipset with Intel’s Atom processor for an extremely compact and power friendly computing solution.ZaReason’s Ion Breeze 3770 adds in a bit of Linux OS flavor in order to keep the…
Read more ZaReason Ion Breeze 3770, Nvidia's Ion and Linux Combined
Despite all of the recent issues Nvidia has gone through the company is forging ahead with their latest in mobile graphics chips by launching their new GeForce 200 GPU lineup.The new chips are all made with the 40nm manufacturing…
AMD and Nvidia’s graphics card lineups have matched each other in performance, image quality, and feature sets. There’s not much more for fanboys to argue over but that doesn’t mean they won’t try.HotHardware has a roundup of Nvidia GeForce GTX…
Read more GeForce GTX 275 and Radeon HD 4890s Rounded Up and Tested
The GPU is set to become one of the most utilized components in your computer, and not just for video games. Nvidia and ATI/AMD have been coming up with graphics chip designs that are extremely parallel in nature and…
Read more ATI AVIVO Video Converter Still Flawed
HP’s Pavilion dv2 had been well received as a gradual step up from a netbook yet not quite as powerful as a notebook sort of solution. Its 12.1″ screen size made it a comfortable sub-notebook but now the company…
Read more HP Brings in The Dual Core Athlon Neo, Intros Pavilion dv2z Notebook
