Intel’s X58 Express chipset has been a solid partner to the company’s Core i7 processor for a good while now but in the hands of some experience engineers and, lets face it, performance crazed individuals things can be taken to…
Read more EVGA X58 SLI Classified, high-end multi-GPU gaming starts here
While the outright processor performance tests will heavily favor Intel’s latest and greatest CPU when it comes to gaming things aren’t so clear cut. Many of today’s latest titles depend more on the graphics card in order to achieve higher…
Read more AMD Phenom II vs Intel Core i7, Gaming Value Tested
Microsoft’s Windows 7 is shaping up to be the operating system Windows users actually feel compelled to upgrade to. Gone are the early driver headaches and hassles that Vista users encountered but does it equal better performance in graphics intensive…
Facebook, everyone’s favorite social network, have a bit of an issue with Intel and AMD. They aren’t seeing quite the performance benefits that the two companies tout for their products when they use the new platforms in their massive server…
Read more AMD Begs to Differ With Facebook, Thinks Chips Perform Well
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
The piecemeal approach to testing CPUs can be confusing when you have to take into account previous reviews and performance numbers, not to mention newer platforms are always released so while the normal testing platforms that are used may stay…
Foxconn tends to build things for a whole host of other computer manufacturers but their own computing products are overlooked despite the fact that they put out impressive motherboards, such as their FlamingBlade.HardOCP has a look at the Intel…
Read more Foxconn's FlamingBlade, the Red Signifies Performance…I Think
Solid State Drives are based around a collection of somewhat quick flash memory modules corralled by a memory controller into a storage system that can trounce any spindle based hard drive ever made.If you have any doubts to this…
Intel’s Hyper-threading technology was supposed to improve a system’s performance by keeping the CPU fully stocked with work to do.In reality its performance benefits weren’t fully realized by previous operating systems and, in some cases, could cause performance to…
Read more Windows 7 to Leverage Hyper-threading Performance Enhancements
ATI’s Radeon HD 4770 fits into that nice category where it’s faster than the low end and almost as fast as the more expensive mid-range. Given the small performance trade offs and a $99 MSRP they’re a bargain for the…
Read more ATI Radeon HD 4770 CrossFire, A Budget Gamer's Dream
There’s something to be said about a new CPU that can perform faster than its predecessor all within the same thermal envelope and, thankfully, is capable of “socketing” into place so you can keep your old hardware.AMD’s upcoming 6-core “Istanbul”…
Read more AMD Istanbul Peformance Video, 6-Cores Are In Fact Speedy
