Deal of the week: a Radeon HD 4870 for $165 shipped
Nvidia's new GeForce GTS 250 1GB looked like a pretty decent deal for the $150 suggested retail price. That said, the card doesn't come out until March 10, and AMD seems to have made some pretty aggressive price cuts over the past few days. In late January, we were surprised...
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Retail Core i7-920, i7-940 have unlocked RAM multipliers
In our Core i7 review, we pointed out that the cheaper two i7 modelsآ—the 920 and 940آ—both had lower QuickPath Interface and L3 cache clock speeds than the i7-965. We also said the cheaper CPUs only supported DDR3 memory speeds up to 1066MHz. However, Intel apparently neglected to tell...
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All U.S. Circuit City stores closing on March 8
By now, you probably know Circuit City went bankrupt, failed to find a buyer, and eventually decided to just call it quits and shutter its 567 U.S. retail stores. Well, now we know when the last stores are finally closing down: March 8. According to a press release up on...
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New Thermaltake enclosure looks like lunch tray
We recently reviewed a Lian Li enclosure with sideways optical drive bays, but this latest specimen is clearly much further up on the weirdness scale. As TR gerbils recently noted in our forums, Thermaltake has been displaying a strange compartmentalized case at CeBit this week. Both Expreview...
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IDC: PC shipments will fall, rebound this year
Last November, we saw iSuppli revise its growth forecast to say PC shipments would only grow by 4.3% this year, down from the previously predicted 11.9%. As CNet News reports, rival market research firm IDC has now published a much more pessimistic forecast. IDC's number looks nearly the same......
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Schedule set for new Fallout 3, Left 4 Dead content
Who needs new games when you can just download new content for your old ones? We'd already heard about the incoming wave of downloadable content for Fallout 3 and Left 4 Dead, but now, we know when it's coming out. Well, mostly. According to Eurogamer, Bethesda has officially announced that...
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A-Data unleashes half-terabyte SSD
Consumer solid-state drives are quickly climbing in capacity. A-Data has announced a new 2.5" SSD that can store up to 512GB, putting it right up there with the latest and greatest mobile hard disk drives. Of course (and...
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Windows 7 may let users uninstall Internet Explorer
Don't like Internet Explorer? Well, it looks like Windows 7 will actually let you remove it—and not just close off access to it like in prior Windows releases. ComputerWorld cites a couple of blogs that show how, in the latest non-public Windows 7 build, users can eliminate IE8 for...
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Radeon X1000 series and earlier move to legacy support status
AMD has decided to switch some of its older Radeons, from the 9000 series through the X1000 series, into what is calls "legacy" support status. The move means those GPUs will no longer be included in the monthly Catalyst graphics driver drops. Instead, for the time being, they'll receive driver...
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MSI proto-nettop combines Celeron, GeForce, Blu-ray
Despite their uncertain future, Nvidia's integrated graphics chipsets are definitely still alive and kicking. Engadget reports that MSI has unveiled an interesting little machine called the Wind Box DE200. While it looks a whole lot like Asus' Eee Box nettops, the systems includes a Celeron M processor, an Nvidia...
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JPR foresees the end of integrated graphics chipsets by 2013
The days of integrated graphics chipsets are numbered, according to Jon Peddie Research. The firm expects motherboard-based IGPs will have all but vanished by 2013, passing the torch of barely adequate graphics capabilities to processors with graphics cores built in. JPR forecasts that IGPs will only account for 20% of...
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