Review: Biostar TPower I55 Motherboard
Elite Bastards examine an Intel P55-sporting motherboard in the form of Biostar's TPower I55 offering. This particular part offers up both NVIDIA SLI and AMD CrossFire support as part of its high-end, enthusiast oriented feature set, which of course also reflects on its price - can it prove to be...
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Rumor & Speculation: ATI/NVIDIA Next-Generation Release Dates/Price Updates
The rumor mill keeps on turning. AMD GPG (ATI) and Nvidia are hard at work with their 40nm DX11 products, and consumers can expect a flurry of DX11 products across multiple segments all the way till 2010. Of course, most of these dates are purely based on speculation and rumours. On the ATI side,...
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Rumor: NVIDIA GT300 to Be Faster Than HD 5870
So says Fudzilla. Now that we have a good idea on HD 5870's performance, Fudzilla reports that its sources have great confidence that GT300 will end up faster than the HD 5870. Judging by the "absolute confidence", it might end up quite a bit faster too. The GT300 will also have a dual GPU...
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Rumor: ATI Radeon HD 5700 prices, Release Dates Revealed
Following closely on the heels of the HD 5800 series launch on 22nd September is the Juniper HD 5700 series. The 5700 series consists of two variants (http://vr-zone.com/articles/juniper-xt-is-radeon-hd-5770-and-juniper-le-is-hd-5750/7626.html?doc=7626), HD 5750 "Corvette" and HD 5770 "Countach",...
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Athlon II X4 620 & 630 - Review Roundup
If you spot a review article that I have missed, feel free to speak up, and I will add it to the list! *Reviews listed in alphabetical order:* AMDZone (http://www.amdzone.com/index.php/reviews/cpus/12027-athlon-ii-x4-620) (620) AnandTech (http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3638)...
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Preview: Modern Warfare 2
Enjoy! Traditional indicators like pre-order figures or column inches aren't what tell you how big Modern Warfare 2's going to be this Christmas. It's the way other titles have quietly disappeared from its release window, giving Soap MacTavish and his bristly-chinned friends a clear run for their...
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Preview: Quake Live
Eurogamer previews the web browser version of a deathmatch classic. Quake III - the multiplayer FPS that was arguably Id Software's greatest achievement after Doom - has been reborn. It's been reincarnated as Quake Live, an online shooter from your web-browser. The game has been in a public...
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Preview: Borderlands
Borderlands will be released for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC on October 20th. On a planet past its prime, a few settlers on the wrong side of a failed gold rush are desperately clinging to survival. There is hope, but not much, in the form of a recently discovered alien vault. Of course,...
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Chrome 3 Out, JavaScript Performance Increased 150% since V1
Google has released Chrome 3 to the masses. Google announced on Tuesday the official release of Chrome 3, a new version of its WebKit-based open source Web browser. The new version introduces several noteworthy new features, including a faster JavaScript engine, a theme system, improvements to the...
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Intel Sets Shipment Goal for New Desktop CPUs
Intel has internally set a shipment goal of one million Lynnfield (Core i5 and i7) CPUs for desktops by the end of 2009, according to industry sources. Asustek Computer and Gigabyte Technology are expected to each ship 400,000 P55-based motherboards by year-end 2009, indicated the sources....
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Games Will Leap Towards Photo-Realism With DirectX 11
Pretty much all of this is already know, but a recap could not hurt before ATI's big release of the Radeon HD 5000 series next week. :p Video games have reached a plateau in recent years. Games still look good, but there hasn't been a leap forward towards photo-realism that many have been...
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OEMs pay Microsoft About $50 for Each Copy of Windows
Microsoft has revealed that, for a $1,000 PC, it has always charged the OEM about $50, or five percent, for Windows. At the Jefferies Annual Technology Conference (http://www.jefferies.com/), Charles Songhurst, general manager of Corporate Strategy at Microsoft, answered a rather long onslaught of...
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techPowerUp! - AMD Radeon HD 5800 Series Leak Collection
These are exciting times for computer enthusiasts and hobbyists. Despite the ailing world economy, cut-throat competition between computer hardware industry heavyweights couldn't have come at a better time, ensuring highly competitive prices, and the competition itself accelerating development of...
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Industry’s First Sub-$100 Quad-Core CPU Powers New AMD Mainstream Desktop Platform
*Industry’s First Sub-$100 Quad-Core CPU(1) Powers New AMD Mainstream Desktop Platform* *SUNNYVALE, Calif. --9/16/2009 * * As part of the new desktop platform designed for mainstream consumers, AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the first ever quad-core processor for less than $100 Suggested...
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