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AMD HAS FOUR socket types coming in the next two years, and that is before the variants for each market segment are taken into account. Things could get interesting, and AMD may well attract the same criticisms as Intel did in the early Pentium 4 (423/478/603/604) days. Pin counts only change once, ...

Sapphire today announced the latest addition to its Ultimate Edition product lineup—the Sapphire Ultimate X1950 Pro. The Sapphire Ultimate X1950 Pro features cooling by Zalman and higher clock rates than regular X1950 Pro cards. Keeping the X1950 Pro silent is a customized Zalman VF900-Cu with Sapph...

While Verizon has been busy deploying its FiOS fiber-to-the-premises network, the rest of us with slower Internet connections have been wondering when our speed boosts will come. For cable customers, help is on the way in the form of DOCSIS 3.0, which will bump speeds to 160Mbps down and 120Mbps up....

We continue our series of indepth PSU roundups. This time we would like to offer you two articles. Our today’s roundup goes into details about the new technologies implemented in the latest PSU models and introduces to you six solutions from Antec, CoolerMaster, Corsair and High Power....

Logitech's MX Revolution is their newest flagship model featuring wireless connectivity and a swooping new design. A meek remodeling this is not. Bold lines carve sharp curves into this input device while a new technology promises to deliver “The World’s Most Advanced Mouse,” but we’ll see about tha...

Their CPU coolers offer some of the lowest temperatures that air cooling can provide, but there are two things that Thermalright has not provided for their coolers until now... fans and some high quality thermal paste. The Chill Factor Thermal Paste is Thermalright's first venture into the premium ...

A solid audio system can make a tremendous difference- it can turn gaming from just another boring shoot-em-up to a spine-rumbling, surround sound action fest. If you are not a gamer then you might enjoy improved sound quality for your digital music, surround sound movies, or the added bass of a sub...

The Apack Zerotherm CF800 heatsink is a compact aluminum finned socket 775 cooler. It has been designed to operate quietly, with the ability to scale the speed of its translucent fan automatically and tackle heat loads as high as 130W. That makes this 357 gram lightweight heatsink an ideal candidate...

ATI's reference design specs the Radeon X1650 Pro's GPU speed at 600MHz, a full 100MHz faster than the X1600 Pro which runs at 500MHz. However, HIS took things a step further, and raised the GPU clock an additional 25MHz, to a default speed of 625MHz...

The XFX 7900 GT is a mid range card with a mid range price there are no down real sides to speak of. The card performs exceptionally well for its price range and it has outstanding overclocking abilities....

In a bid to create a case that is chock full of cooling potential, Antec has forgotten to do anything else. There are far too many screws and fiddly bits to the case, with the bog-standard PCI expansion slots almost unforgivable in this day and age. Having to remove eight thumbscrews just to get a d...

nVidia have released the G80, their DirectX 10 compatible hardware. Being the first to release meant all eyes have been on nVidia. Asus sent us their 8800GTX for us to put through it's paces...

In the past NZXT had pride itself upon its attractive and well-designed cases, but with the Zero chassis NZXT has added another selling point -- its cooling abilities. The NZXT Zero is a full tower aluminum chassis that comes equipped with seven 120mm fans and one 80mm fan. What is surprising ho...

HIS has worked its IceQ magic and released an overclocked version that increases both core and memory speeds by around 8% over and above the default's. IceQ cooling has the twin benefit of better-than reference cooling and lower noise output, thanks to its larger, slower-spinning fan....

OCZ places for some time memory latch plates to the side, which are optically provided with a special Heatspreader to the user, Gamer and Modder. The Technic3D editorship reached the OCZ GDR 2 PC-6400 Special Ops edition Urban elite 2 GB kits. Into as far the latch plates in the Limited edition not ...

If not, we have changed our test system motherboard over rendering our 6.10 benchmarks useless which meant we had to test our cards twice instead of once. We thought we would take the chance though to change it up. We have completely swapped the cards over - low and mid range is represented with the...

For some strange reason, as soon as the PlayStation 3 was publicly unveiled, many of you associated the console’s design to George Foreman’s Grilling Machine. [attachment] The guys over at The Real PS3 Grill, who were among the first to do some funny fake images, have taken the Photoshop mock-...

Dolby headphone technology is a way of getting pseudo surround sound out of standard headphones. By using encoding algorithms to vary the waveform of the music, the ear can be tricked into thinking the sound is coming from somewhere different, in spacial terms, than it actually is. How so? Well, ...

Fujitsu Siemens Computers, a leading notebook supplier in the European Union, has quietly started to ship ATI Mobility Radeon X1900, the not-yet-announced graphics product from ATI, which is likely to deliver the world’s highest performance in pixel shader intensive 3D applications. The laptop ve...

After playing the second fiddle to AMD, at least from an enthusiast’s point of view, for a long time Intel finally has come up with CPU’s that, to put it mildly, kick some serious AMD butt. The new Core 2 Duo’s has an excellent performance to price ration and are bound to be the new favorites among ...

THERE IS ONE aspect of AMD's acquisition that has been overlooked by many. AMD needs graphics expertise, even the sparrows know that by now, but ATI actually needs a strong hand to keep the products coming on time....

Look out! It works pretty well, but the steel firing mechanism wasn't hardened yet so the triggers and the bolt began to wear down and have to be retooled and hardened before the next test....

Taipei, Taiwan -November 20 2006- SPARKLE Computer Co., Ltd., a professional VGA card manufacturer and supplier, today announced the new SPARKLE AGP cards to mainstream market, SPARKLE GeForce 7600 GS AGP "PASSIVE" version. Based on NVIDIA award-winning GeForce 7600 architecture, SPARKLE GeForce 760...

The GIGABYTE 7900GS is an excellent card for the money in terms of today's performance and features, outperforming the 7900GT in many instances and outperforming ATI's X1950 Pro in many instances on the performance spectrum. This makes the card an excellent choice, especially if you don't have the $...

To put it into a little story I could just say abit got turned out from the hardcore enthusiasts party and did not like it one bit, so they sent the AW9D Max round to sort the problem out, the bouncer (security) looked out the flap on door an was about to say your not coming in when he was met with ...

Hauppauge included an antenna that will allow you to pick up ATSC HD over-the-air HD TV signals on your PC. The antenna is small at about six inches high and has a magnetic base to secure to metal surfaces. The HD receiver portion allows you receive HD signals in up to 1080i format. You can also con...

The sound that came out of my headphones with Dolby Headphone enabled was awe inspiring. I have never heard anything like it. From ratty old mp3s to high definition audio, this card delivers amazing quality of sound. My wife even agrees. I made her listen to some mp3s normally, then with Dolby Headp...

So many CPU coolers are the same in design. It is hard to create a good performing CPU cooler whose design sets itself apart from the rest. Well today we will be looking at the Cooler Master Eclipse CPU cooler and its design is something that I have never seen before. We will see if its design hinde...

Looking for a great video card but don't want to open your wallet -that- wide? Been there. We are taking a look at the ASUS 7950GT with 512MB of GDDR3. It proves to have a pricetag that's easy to stomach and also a lot of overclocking headroom....