Mid-range GPU comparison: Gigabyte GTS 250 1GB and 9600GT 512MB Graphics Cards
The massive influx of mid-range GPUs has made for a feeding frenzy by consumers looking for budget graphics solutions. Mid-range offerings from NVIDIA and ATI have completely saturated the market with sub-$100 graphics cards that can almost play Crysis Warhead at decent resolutions. Some video cards priced just over the $100 mark can easily play Crysis and other GPU-intensive games like Far Cry 2 and World in Conflict at higher resolutions too....
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Seasonic S12D Series - The energy-efficient and advanced solution for gamers and PC enthusiasts
To offer computer users a more stable and efficient solution to cope with the latest quad core CPU system and power-consuming and high-end computer components, Seasonic now launches the S12D Series that complies with the latest Intel ATX12V and EPS12V specification and available in 750W and 850W. The S12D Series represents the 'Green PC technolog...
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140W TDP too much for you?
The new Phenom X4 965s are impressive processors but they throw off a lot of heat so not all AM3 motherboards will take them, as well there are certain setups where a CPU tossing off that much heat and consuming that much power just isn't feasible. Thus we have the 65W TDP 2.5 GHz X3 705e and the 2.5GHz Phenom II X4 905e low power CPUs. While bot...
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All's well that Haswell
We have a name for the processor that Larrabee will first make its home on, in about three years we will see Haswell. By 2012 Intel is hoping to have settled down in the 22nm process and hopefully gotten over their GenX chipsets and replaced it with something newer as it will be ready for retirement by then. Drop by SemiAccurate for a hint of wha...
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Video from PC Perspective Hardware Workshop is LIVE
I have had quite a few people asking for it, but it just FINALLY got finished uploading and converting - so here is the full video from the PC Perspective Hardware Workshop 2009 that we hosted at QuakeCon 2009!! Enjoy! ...
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Watch us record the PC Perspective Podcast LIVE @ 10pm ET
Are you ready for the PC Perspective LIVE right here or by visiting http://live.twit.tv/?? Lots of great topics on the agenda for today!!! var flashvars = {}; flashvars.File = "http://bglive-a.bitgravity.com/twit/live/high"; flashvars.Mode = "ondemand"; flashvars.AutoPlay = "false"; flashvars.BufferTime = "1.5"; flashvars...
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The sound of dollars and sense
If you are looking for over the top quality, you should introduce yourself to Naim as they have a certain $20,000 CD player you might covet. That particular CD player shares components with the piece of equipment that Hardware Zone reviewed, but it is not what is being reviewed. Instead it is the $5000 NaimUniti, a small little device that can ha...
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DirectX 11 previewed in DiRT 2 trailer
While we were spending some time at QuakeCon 2009 we got a chance to watch this new trailer for DiRT 2 coming out soon. Why did we care about this particular trailer? Well, the game is being built with DirectX 11 technology so obviously AMD is proud to show it off since they will have the first DX11 hardware available this year. Keep in mind th...
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Quake Live will add subscription options, still free to play
While we didn't get a chance to get the news up during the show, there were a couple of interesting news bits to come out of QuakeCon 2009 - not the least of which was word that the advertising-based business model for Quake Live was not panning out as well as hoped. John Carmack, in his opening day keynote, stated as much: "The in-game adver...
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Zune HD and Tegra come out of the closet
Sure, we told you about the news of the Tegra being the powerhouse behind the upcoming Zune HD from Microsoft, but apparently NVIDIA wanted to make a press release about it anyway. We also have known about the various technologies and processors in the tiny chip since June of 2008 - we posted an overview of the SoC that you should definitely be ch...
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nForce chipsets could return with Intel Lynnfield processors
You will likely recall that a large portion of the tech world in 2008 called for the demise of NVIDIA's chipset division with the approach of the Intel Core i7 processor that FINALLY moved the memory controller from the chipset to the CPU. At the time Intel had decided to NOT allow NVIDIA to get a license for QPI (the new interface for Core i7 Neh...
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Remember this?
Empty it weighs in over 10kg or 22lbs and it stands 2" tall or 609mm for those dedicated metric types, sports 7 fans of which the smallest is 120mm and fit ungodly amounts of storage and expansion cards. It is Corsair's first case and the Obsidian Series 800D is poised to make a huge splash in the market, entering at the $280 mark. What can this ...
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I'm locked in here tighter than a frog's butt in a watermelon seed fight.
If you haven't heard by now, you are probably burrowed and forgotten about because the net is flush with news about StarCraft 2. The biggest news is that it is still coming and set for release next year, unlike some other StarCraft games who have become less that ghosts. It is not going to be your average RTS base building game with a thin story ...
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The good, the bad and the smugly
There is news from three of the biggest tech companies up on DigiTimes, in a mix of good, bad and pretty much as expected. To get the bad news out of the way; all those new Intel P55 motherboards that you have seen previewed will not have the fancy new Braidwood memory technology that the existence of the NVRAM slot implied. It would have been n...
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Opa! Time to toss out the platters.
Apart from the form factor and the use of a much faster transfer bus, flash drives are becoming the defacto standard for data storage. The 120GB+ tend to prefer a SATA or eSATA interface, while the smaller drives tend to use USB for transfer and lack sophisticated controllers. The A-DATA 32GB XPG is one of the smaller drives, both in storage cap...
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Mobile mice should be cute
Verbatim is a fairly well known name, but not for computer peripherals which is what is up for review at Overclockers HQ. The Verbatim Nano Wireless Notebook Optical Mouse is a tiny mouse, available in a multitude of colours, for taking with you in your laptop bag. The receiver is barely bigger than the USB slot that it uses and the mouse should...
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The fresh smell of ASUS
The ASUS N50Vn is a 15.4" notebook with a native 1280 x 800 resolution and comes with a "Air Ionizer" button. Push the button and the notebook will purify the air around you, though it won't clean up what you choose to display on the screen. Inside the model that InsideHW reviewed you will find a C2D T5850 @ 2.16GHz, 4GB of DDR2 and a nVIDIA GeFo...
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'Little people' GPU wrestling
In one corner you have AMD's fast card, the $200 Radeon HD 4890 1GB and in the other corner a pair of HD 4770s that together add up to $220. The pair of cards have access to more shaders, while the single card has better memory bandwidth making the contest look interesting before any tests were started. Drop by [H]ard|OCP to see their final rec...
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Come see our travel slide show
The pictures are up from PC Perspective at Quakecon and you can see them all here. There are shots of just about everything you could imagine, starting with a quick look at the BYOC event and a new game from id that had a lot of people excited. Two different breeds of modders showed up, one who excel at designing modifications to cases or simply ...
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A great addition to any HTPC
The ASUS My Cinema EHD3-100 Dual Hybrid TV Card is a PCIe card, giving it that extra bandwidth necessary for HD video. It can handle both digital and analog signals, in case you have elderly appliances that are not up to handling digital input. Its dual nature comes from the ability to let you watch one program while recording another to your PC ...
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The ASUS Superhighway
The ASUS P6T7 WS SuperComputer motherboard sports an incredible seven PCIe 16x slots along with a $450 price tag, making it attractive to only a few of the most driven enthusiasts. In order to manage that feat ASUS placed two NF200 chipsets on the board to provide the extra PCIe lanes. The gaming performance of those NF200s did not impress [H]ar...
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FS/FT: My randomness
heatware: meinzorn ebay: jbrutch Processors Socket 478 Intel Celeron D 2.93GHZ/256/533 SL7Q9 $12 shipped Intel Celeron 2.50GHZ/128/400 SL6ZY $10...
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Let 's welcome another new Froggie today !
*A Froggy Welcome To* *the_aph* *to the* *PC Perspective Folding Frogs* *Team 734*
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Let 's welcome another new Froggie to the Pond ...
*A Froggy Welcome To* *malcore* *to the* *PC Perspective Folding Frogs* *Team 734*
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Final O/C
Just finished with my new overclock: CPU: Phenom II 940 @ 3.63Ghz 1.45v (227x16) CPU-NB: 2.27ghz 1.175v NB: 1600mhz default v Memory: DDR900...
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ATX 12V 2X4 connection - and unlocking Phenom II 550
Hello - I put this machine together last night and I have a few questions. I'm using a GIGABYTE GA-MA770T-UD3P - 8 gigs of GSkill 1600 DDR3 and a...
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Birthday Boy
Happy Birthday BWM Have a good one Brad :D
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Which is more durable, 2.5 or 3.5 inch drives?
This of course is excluding SSD's, but generally speaking... are 2.5" notebook drives more or less durable than 3.5" desktops? I Googled but didn't...
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Mixed Adhoc Network
I have a cable modem, a Linksys BEFSR41 Router, and two notebooks which I'm trying to hook up via Wireless Ad Hoc. Notebook #1 is connected to the...
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Official [sort of] 2009 NFL season.
Ok I'm going out of the limb again and taking the Az Cards. Who ya picking and why ? Will Farve signing with the Vikes make a diff ? I'll not go on...
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HDD question: WD1001FALS works on BlacX eSATA but NOT on motherboard.
My setup: Windows XP Pro SP3, ASROCK 939DUAL SATA motherboard, 150GB Raptor HD running XP OS, WD1001FALS attached to motherboard using SATA II...
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Fic Vc37gv
Does anyone have an actual pdf for the motherboard manual for an FIC VC37GV, which was also installed aftermarket in eMachine series WS. All links...
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SSD Firmware - How to update
I'm working up a high end Photoshop system and plan on putting two 64GB or 80GB SSDs in RAID-0 for my boot drive and Pshop's scratch disk. My first...
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