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OCZ Releases Extreme and Ultra Low-Voltage Memory Modules
When building an HTPC, SFF PC or something similar, a goal that many people share is to build it as power-efficient as possible. With both AMD and Intel constantly developing more efficient processors, and even selling special energy-efficient models, it’s become easier to do that. Even hard drive makers have gotten into the efficiency…
VMware Offers Special Deal for Users to “Upgrade” from Parallels Desktop
In any market, technology-related or not, there’s going to be some form of strong competition. At the same time, it’s a given that one company is going to boast about being better than another, even if it’s a matter of opinion and something that can’t be concluded as fact. But what’s not so common, though, is when a company is so confident…
Where are the USB 3.0 Notebooks?
Although we’ve had the capability of adding USB 3.0 support to our PCs for almost a year, the number of capable devices coming to market isn’t that great. But as we’ve seen with previous looks at such devices, such as OCZ’s Enyo, the benefits are clear, as the transfer speed abilities are much improved, on par with eSATA.
AMD and Valve Provide Drivers to Gamers Over Steam
AMD announced a collaborative effort with Valve to provide ATI Catalyst Drivers to Steam client users. Steam will detect which AMD branded GPU you have and provide the relevant updates for it. This is a very important move as Drivers are quite often the number one external factor for games not working. Gamers already know the importance of…
How Did Big Tech Companies Get Their Names?
If fifteen years ago you were to say to someone, “I’ll just Google it.”, they might have that you were starting to lose it. The same could be said about many other companies, like Yahoo!, where people might actually think you are a “yahoo”. Despite the unusual names, it’s clear that neither Google nor Yahoo! have been hurting, but still… where…
Intel Shows Off Server-Driven Game Ray Tracing
For many years, some companies – namely Intel – have been promoting the idea of using ray tracing techniques in our games. At the same time, there are few gamers opposed to the idea, since the effect could result in increased graphical detail, thanks in part to more realistic shadows, reflections, refractions, ambient occlusion and even…
Internet Explorer 9 to Use GPU to Speed up Browsing
When you think of GPGPU, what first comes to mind? Video encoding? Image restoration? Password cracking? How about Internet browsing? It might seem silly at first, but Intel and Microsoft have teamed up to make sure that Web browsing with Internet Explorer 9 will be made a lot snappier thanks to its ability of tapping into the power of…
NVIDIA Releases its Budget GeForce GTS 450
It might have taken a little bit longer than most gamers would have preferred, but NVIDIA today has unveiled its GTS 450 mainstream offering, based on the Fermi architecture. Up until now, the only options NVIDIA fans had was the choice of ~$200 offerings, but this release, priced at around ~$130, blows the doors open for those looking for…
Regarding Site and Forums Downtime
Early this morning, our webhost (Steadfast Networks) performed some major upgrades to its hardware, and as so often is the case, things didn’t exactly go according to plan. I’m not quite sure what happened, or where the problem originated, but whatever the cause, it resulted in over 10 hours worth of downtime for both our site and forums.
Sapphire Select Club Launches $100,000 Contest
Sapphire has launched what it calls its biggest contest ever, and given that the prizes total $100,000, that seems fair to say. Unlike most contests from GPU companies, there’s no computer hardware here being awarded as prizes, but rather iPads, iPod touch’s, and get this… Honda and Yamaha scooters. I guess it’s obvious that many…
Nikon Unveils its P7000 – A Point-and-Shoot with the Heart of a D-SLR
Nikon unveiled a few releases earlier this week, including the S80 and S8100 advanced point-and-shoots, with an emphasis on style and performance. It was the P7000 (P for performance) that really caught my eye, though, because as Nikon states, it’s a model that helps bridge the gap between D-SLR and point-and-shoot, and from its…
Google Gives Us Our Search Results Even Faster
A couple of weeks ago, we linked to an Intel-sponsored survey that declared that most people do strange things when waiting for their technology to finish whatever it’s doing, from loading up an e-mail to loading up a movie to generally anything that would cause you to sit there and twiddle your thumbs. We live in an instant world, and when…
ORIGIN PC’s “The Big O” is About as High-End as a PC Can Get
Every so often, a high-end gaming PC gets announced that impresses me enough to talk about it, and today’s announcement of ORIGIN PC’s “The Big O” is one to catch my attention. In the high-end PC game, there seems to be little that can be done to differ from the competition, but ORIGIN PC has certainly pulled out all the stops to…
AMD and NVIDIA to Launch New GPU Models Soon
When AMD launched its Radeon HD 5800 series of graphics cards last fall, it beat NVIDIA to the DirectX 11 punch by over half a year, and though NVIDIA struck back with cards that out-performed AMD’s best this past spring, AMD sure doesn’t want that fact to remain for much longer. Though it’s still considered a rumor, since nothing official…
Gearbox is Officially Taking Over Duke Nukem Forever Development
A couple of weeks ago, a rumor sprung up that claimed that Gearbox Software, the developer behind such hits as Borderlands, had taken over the Duke Nukem Forever project to make sure that we’d, you know, actually see a release. Well, rumor no more, as the developer announced the fact during PAX 2010 last week.
Taking Apple’s Ping Social Music Service for a Spin
With its launch of iTunes 10 last week, Apple also launched a new social music service, “Ping”. Does that sound like a generic name? Well, it is, and believe it or not, the company prevented future legal hassles by clearing the usage of the name from PING Golf, which retains the rights to it when used for social networking and other online…
Edison to Control Movie Industry, Fails – History Repeating?
“Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.” Edmund Burke, 1729-1797. It’s amusing to think how often we use that quote in one form or another and never take heed of the advice it tries to imbue upon us. Back in 1908, Thomas Edison tried to take control of the movie industry through litigation, patents and controlling film distribution. In 1915…
Apple Updates its Apple TV, Releases it for $99
A couple of weeks ago, I took a look at ASUS’ O!Play media player, and it’s going to be the first of many such products that pass through our labs. Though they’re simple in overall design, they serve an important purpose, by helping to make our media-viewing lives even easier. While it’s tough to find one that’s “perfect”, there are certainly…
Want to Stick Tweezers into a Power Strip… and Live to Tell About It?
Are you like me and enjoy sticking your fingers where they don’t belong? Ever been “zapped” by a socket for getting too brave? Well, it looks like there’s a product that was made just for us… or you know, those who generally want to lessen their chance of a mishap with electricity, especially if there are children around.
Lucid Puts its HydraLogix Chip on Graphics Cards
It’s been a little while since we’ve last heard much out of Lucid Logix, although at Computex this past June, MSI told us that it was committed to the technology and would continue integrating it into some of its motherboards. But what about those who aren’t using MSI motherboards? A new announcement takes care of that, which states…
Have Game Development Costs Peaked?
When StarCraft II saw its release late last month, it might have became the most expensive game ever produced – costing over $100 million from start to finish. That’s on par with some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters, andStarCraft II sure isn’t alone in this category. Grand Theft Auto IV also cost about $100 million to develop. The…
Don’t Miss our Mafia II Review and Contest!
In case it’s not so obvious at the top of the page, we published our full review of Mafia II last Wednesday, and then followed up with a look at the game’s performance across eight different graphics cards on Friday. Though we’re done with our game coverage, the fun is not quite over, since we’re running a contest where you can win a digital…
Coding a Game from Start to Finish in 48 Hours
Are you an aspiring game developer, or simply want to see what developing a game is like? Well, thanks to a competition called Ludum Dare, you can see many such examples. You see, the primary rule for the competition is that you build a game from scratch in 48 hours, and for an entry to be valid, the developer must record the entire…
AMD is Doing Away with “ATI” Branding
See that ATI logo at the bottom of this post? Well, get your fill now, because pretty soon, those bubbly three letters are going to be replaced with “AMD” or perhaps even nothing at all. That’s right, after more than four years since its acquisition of one of the last Canadian companies I could brag about, ATI, AMD is planning to rid the name, and…
More Game Developers at Large Companies Going Indie
More now than ever, it’s becoming evident that indie gaming is big business. It’s for good reason, too. One thing I’ve come to realize over the past couple of years is that while $100 million games have their place, they are in no way required to have a lot of fun. There are many, many $20 and under titles that are a total blast to play.