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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

Intel has taken a bit of a hard-line in order to protect their intellectual property recently hoping to either muscle out the competition, corner the market for all manner of chips, or bring some added drama to enthusiast forums…

Read more NVIDIA Files Countersuit, Intel Probably Not Shaking In Their Boots

by Rafael Hernandez on March 26, 2009 · 0 comments

General purpose GPU (GPGPU) computing has shown promise over the past year popping up in a number of applications, most notably popping up in Adobe’s Creative Suite 4, and now being used by MotionDSP’s vRevealin order to clean up your…

Read more MotionDSP's vReveal, Using Your Nvidia GPU For Things Other Than Games

by Rafael Hernandez on March 25, 2009 · 0 comments

Nvidia’s GeForce GTS 250 has caught a bit of flak as it is a simple rebadged graphics chip from a generation (if you want to get technical, two generations) ago but that doesn’t mean board makers can’t go all out…

Read more TwinTech Geforce GTS 250 XT OC Edition, In A Word: Overkill

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 23, 2009 · 0 comments

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…

Read more eMachines G520/G620 Notebooks, The Inexpensive Choice

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 19, 2009 · 0 comments

Adobe’s Creative Suite 4 is one of the tools of choice artists rely on getting what’s in their head into some form of digital medium, their wacky ideas also happen to take a whole heck of a lot of processing…

Read more NVIDIA Quadro CX, Accelerating Your Adobe CS4 Experience

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