Archive for the 'Processors' Category

Toms Hardware has a neat write up on how a CPU is made, from beginning to end.   The details were pulled straight from a Intel walk through that was recently released.   Pretty interesting read in you have ever been curious how the magic happens.   Read about it here.

If you are like me, you most likely have plenty of electronics.   My house is filled, so why would I need a HTPC when I already have 3 computers, DVR’s, DVD players and about every game system except for a PS3. Well about 6 months ago, out of curiosity,  I figured I’d build a HTPC [...]

Anandtech has a review on the MSI X58M – Mighty Mouse.   If you are in the market for a Intel core i7 based computer, you may have realized that well featured x58 motherboards are expensive.  But instead of the typical $250, MSI has a $169 uATX solution that is barely stripped down at all, overclocks [...]

[H]ardOCP has a interesting read on how cpu cores and frequency scaling impacts gaming when using multi card gpu solutions. Pretty good read and informative as always from Kyle and the gang at HardOCP.  Read it here.

Anandtech has one of it’s quarterly article on building a budget PC.   It is worth a look if you are considering a do it yourself build and need some ideas.   Read about it here.
Couple things to note, I personally would steer clear of the $500 build unless you need a barebones PC as going that [...]

Battlefield hero’s is a cartoon style FPS somewhat along the lines of Team Fortress 2 in terms of its graphic appearance.  It is in open Beta stage right now, so run on over here and sign up while you can in order to check it out.   Be sure to post back here once you have [...]

A few days ago Toms Hardware had a nice little article illustrating the performance differences between 2, 3 and 4 core cpu’s.  It offers a good idea what kind of application, gaming, cost and efficiency benefits can be obtained by  migrating from a old single core system to a multi core system.   Slowly more and [...]