Archive for the 'Video Cards' Category

Toms Hardware has a interesting article on how older platforms with AGP graphics fare with a ATI HD 4650.   It is a interesting read, especially for those that really are in denial of the gaming limits of their older computer.   Time to upgrade folks, if you want to do any modern gaming anyway.   Ready about [...]

Toms Hardware has a follow up article on how applications are impacted in terms of performance with 1-4 CPU cores.   There is some decent information provided and it illustrates how having additional cores care greatly improve performance in certain applications.    Read about it here.

PC Pro did a little article on PC repair shop’s and their ability to honestly diagnose hardware and software problems.   The results were a little suprising with all but one engaging in dishonest business practices.  The magazine intentionally caused a hardware fault on their test computer and put on several invisable pieces of monitoring software in [...]

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 [...]

Sony has responded to recent rumors stating that there will be no PS3 price cuts in the near future.   Sounds like a bad businesss decision to me.  With game developers threatening to pull support, Sony clearly in last place in the console race, how can they justify the huge price premium for their console?   The [...]

According to reghardware British researchers have created a hard rectanglular drive. The media is double sided and fits within the confines of  3.5 inch casings used by current HDD’s and SSD’s.   The read-write layer is made up of a grid of millions of read-write heads that are created using the same lithography process that is [...]

MSI Radeon HD 4890 1GB for $165!!!! ATI HD 4890’s are my favorite card on the market at the moment for affordable high performance single card solutions.   NewEgg has a killer deal just for Fathers Day. $199.99 – $20 Rebate -$15 (VGA61915 promo code) and free shipping = $165 of gaming [...]

According to a source quoted by Digitimes, current Blu-Ray production costs are at about $100 per unit. By 2010, these costs should drop to as low as $50, which paves the way for much more affordable Blu-Ray players which typically are still in the $250 range for cheaper players. This should hasten [...]

According to rumors, AMD is going to cut prices on the existing 4800 series graphics cards this next month. This makes sense as they are supposedly getting their next generation gpu ready and should be available by the end of the summer. So the price drop should help them clear out [...]

Last week or so I posted a little about the MotoCzysz electric motorcycle and somewhere in my ramblings I complained about the boring american motorcycle industry.   Well I forgot about a cool little start up motorcycle company right here in the United States by the name of Fischer.   They just finally started shipping their [...]