“ ONE MORE BIT ABOUT AMD and memory to expand on yesterday’s DDR2 story. One of the biggest updates to the E0 step Athlon64s that will be announced soon is the memory controller. The new Continue reading “AMD to upgrade memory controller”.…more
“ Intel’s upcoming dual-core processors once again will test the limits of power consumption. According to documents seen by Tom’s Hardware Guide, the Smithfield CPUs are rated at a thermal design power of 130 watts, Continue reading “Intel’s dual-core CPUs to set new record”.…more
“ EVEN THOUGH RIALTO should be ready in the next few days, ATI decided to make one more AGP high end chip. We were surprised when we saw a R481 chip listed but it hasn’t Continue reading “ATI to launch R481 soon”.…more
Panopsys has released a new version of Throttle Watch. The utility now monitor’s AMD64 CPU’s as well as Pentium-4, Pentium-M, and Xeon. Download the free version here. “ThrottleWatch? is a Windows utility for detecting and Continue reading “Throttle Watch 2.0 released”.…more
I’m actually in the process of finishing up an article on the MX1000 Laser Mouse for gaming. Look for that toward the end of next week. “LOGITECH IS ABOUT TO CHANGE gaming peripherals once again Continue reading “Logitech readies top gaming mouse”.…more
“AMD HAS BEEN RUMOURED to be coming out with DDR2 in Q2, and documents floating around the i915/925 launch said as much. AMD basically said ‘we could do it now, but why’, and followed it Continue reading “AMD holds off on DDR-2 support”.…more
Are you ready for winter-een-mas? … No! Well show your spirit with winter-een-mas wallpaper. “Thanks to the magnificent Texan splendor that is my good friend Xero, the first Winter-een-mas wallpaper is up in the downloads Continue reading “Get your desktop ready for Winter-een-mas”.…more
Dual-Layered (DL) DVD writers may be affordable, but the question of concern is the media prices. The price per DL media averages out to $10.00, which is shockingly high. We talked to manufacturers at this Continue reading “Dual-Layer Standard May Disappear Soon”.…more
“A US p2p monitoring group reckons that it has come up with software that can identify and trace file-traders. BayTSP uses a technique called software “spidering” to determine which user first uploaded a particular file Continue reading “Anti P2P software developed”.…more
“SOFTWARE FIRM Microsoft is gazing at its navel pondering how to release its long awaited next generation of operating system codenamed Longhorn. According to Information Week, here, the ever expanding Vole hill at Redmond is Continue reading “Microsoft ponders multiple Longhorns”.…more
Today’s Must Read Reviews: I say review”s” because the topic of the day seems to be the 6600GT PCI-E video card. check out multiple reviews around the web if you are in the market for Continue reading “Weekend Reviews”.…more
Now that things have calmed down from CES, Rich posts his thoughts on his meetings with several hardware companies. He got a sneak peak at some upcoming products from Antec, Corsair and DFI. Read on to figure out what Rich saw and what he thinks about some upcoming products.