SLI vs. Crossfire: Hi-Res Slapdown
If you want the absolute best PC gaming experience possible and have the money to pay for it, which dual graphics technology setup do you go with: Nvidia's SLI or ATI's Crossfire?
Intel Releases Eight New Xeon Processors
Intel today unveiled eight new Dual-Core Intel Xeon 7100 series processors designed for multi-processor servers. Previously codenamed ?Tulsa,? the Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 7100 series delivers on key requirements to support the demands of enterprise applications: top performance and reliability. The processor family also includes lower-power, 95 watt options that reduce associated energy costs.
Intel's Mobile Core 2 Duo: Performance at a Cost
Today, Intel released a Core 2 Duo processor for laptops, code-named Merom. It's safe to say that with the new mobile Core 2 Duo CPUs, we are seeing some of the performance gains promised. The mobile Core 2 Duo T7600 processor clocks at 2.33GHz and sports 4MB of shared L2 cache. When the mobile processors were put in actual systems--the Alienware Aurora m5550 and Dell XPS M1710--unfortunately battery life suffered a little, lasting just 2 hours and 23 minutes.
Read more Merom coverage
Read more Merom coverage
FCC Documents Show Microsoft Zune Nudies, Specs
New documents on the FCC's website reveal a substantial amount of information about Microsoft's upcoming "iPod killer," the Zune. Microsoft itself has been fairly tight-lipped about the player, but the FCC documents show some pictures of both the inside and outside of the device, as well as a manual with some specifications.
Multi GPU Running in Vista
Sometimes we?re quite cynical of what we see and hear when at these shows because of course everyone is going to be telling us that whatever they?re doing is the best, the first the biggest etc etc. So it was with a rather large pinch of salt that we took the news that ATI have Crossfire running in Vista as we watched 3DMark running across three monitors on ATI?s stand.
HEXUS
HEXUS
Creative Labs blames nVidia for the X-Fi issues
A few months ago we reported about the X-Fi and nForce-4 compatibility issues. This story still develops and Creative is giving us some more headlines. A Creative fan site has published an update from Creative Labs regarding the issues. It seems that Creative is blaming nVidia?s nForce-4 for these issues; here are the technical details they provided!
Apple Recalls 1.8 Million Laptop Batteries
First Dell pulls back 4.1 million laptop batteries, now Apple has announced a voluntary recall of 1.8 million lithium-ion batteries. The affected 1.1 million notebooks include certain models of the iBook G4 series as well as the PowerBook G4 series. The laptops containing the recalled batteries were sold in October 2003 through August 2006. Apple said it had received nine reports of batteries overheating, including two reports of minor burns from handling overheated computers.
VapoChill LS with Conroe X6800 & FX60
Asetek sent us a new Vapochill LS for review, so we decided to test it with Intel's baddest Conroe, the Extreme Edition x6800 and AMD's FX60 to see just how far we could get the processors to over clock. Could we push the 2.93ghz conroe to over 4ghz and get it stable? read on to find out.
DriverHeaven
DriverHeaven
Intel readies 'Tulsa' Xeon Debut
High-end Xeon counterpunch will mean a 70 percent performance boost over Intel's current server chips.
ATI Radeon X1950 XTX Performance Preview
With 48 pixel shaders, 512MB of GDDR4 memory operating at 1GHz (2GHz effective), HDCP support, and an all-new redesigned cooling unit that runs much quieter than the X1900 XTX, ATI's Radeon X1950 XTX is certainly designed to impress. But does the new card live up to the hype? Find out in today's article!
Pimp Your Home Theater PC
So you've spent a small fortune on a flat-panel HDTV, a killer audio system, and monthly tithes to the cable or satellite gods. Now you're ready to build a sleek HTPC. Why spoil the view with a cheesy chassis?
AMD's Next Generation Microarchitecture Preview: from K8 to K8L
New Intel Core 2 Duo processors took the lead in the processor market these days and AMD has nothing to respond with at this time. However, next year AMD promises to release a Conroe-killer, the CPU based on new K8L microarchitecture. Our newest article is devoted to the details of AMD K8L microarchitecture and how it compares with Core and K8 from the theoretical prospective.
X-Bit Labs
X-Bit Labs
3D Wireless Mouse for $550
This is something I would totally get for gaming?I think. As the title states, a group of University of California students have designed a 3D wireless mouse that somewhat works. The idea is to use the mouse without placing it on the surface. In this particular scenario, the students could move the device left, right, up, down, front and back for corresponding movements.
ATi to Discontinue Intel Chipset Development
Although ATi has promised the acquisition from AMD would not affect the shipment of Intel platform based chipset, manufacturers are making careful decision on the product development, to lesser or to terminate.
AMD Next Generation Processor Technology Slides
We have some official AMD slides to share with you that outline AMD's upcoming Quad-Core technology that has recently taped out. This tech will be the heart of next-gen Opteron and Athlon 64 FX processors.
[H]ardOCP
[H]ardOCP
Quad-core Kentsfield be supported in P965?
Good news to consumers. Intel has changed its mind to give P965 to support the upcoming quad-core Kentsfield processors. Kentsfield is Intel?s first quad-core desktop processor for extreme users in which Intel pushed to appear no after than this year. In the original plan, 975X chipset is the only one supporting the new processors. But two weeks ago, manufacturers have received surprising news that Intel had changed its mind to give P965 a new pose.
AMD DUal Core Optimiser Might Hang System
Lately, a number of users are having issues after installing the AMD optimizer. Apparently, MS hotfix.
Hunt for the Golden X6800
It wasn't easy.. Days went by without news.
My Agent finally contacted.
My Agent finally contacted.
AMD AM2 4200+ vs. AMD 939 4200+
It's that time again folks. That's right, AMD has finally, after many setbacks, released their new socket type. Titled AM2, which uses 940 pins, AMD has used this as the opportunity to move up to newer, and cheaper, DDR2 memory.
VIA vs. Intel - Core 2 Duo chipset shoot
Remember VIA Technologies, the Taiwanese chipset manufacturer. Although I once found myself reviewing VIA based motherboards on a weekly basis, it has been over a year now since I last touched a retail motherboard that used a VIA chipset. This being the case I was literally stunned when I came across the ASUS P5VD2-MX which is designed for the new Core 2 Duo processors.
