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PSU's are one of those components in a PC I never skimp on, I used to when people asked me to build a 'gaming' rig for £400 but I warned them then and there that the first thing to go will be the PSU, if they want to fork over a bit more for a better PSU, I will, but it's their choice, but of...

During the International Supercomputing Conference, Intel announced plans to deliver products based on the Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture, the successor to the Larrabee and Supercomputer Chip (SCC) projects. The first of which, codenamed 'Knights Corner', will use Intel's 22nm...

Sorry if that news post wasn’t written very clearly. Intel’s blog post wasn’t terrible clear either. I believe the short answer is no, it will not negate the need to write multi-threaded apps, it’s just another treatment for a more serious problem, people will have to write multi-threaded code –...

Play a lot of Video games? So do we. For those gamers lucky enough to fall asleep at night and inevitably dream, you're more likely to have a lucid dream - a dream which you can control or interact with, according to research. Jayne Gackenbach, a psychologist at Grant MacEwan University in...

You'll see why 2010 won't be like 2010. Valve has been building up to this for some time now and we were all expecting it, but it's officially here, you can now buy and play Half-Life 2 and episodes 1 and 2 on Mac's. In addition, a number of patches have been released enabling achievements and a...

The LucidLogix Hydra chip has been making its way around the Internet for a while, sporting the feature of being able to combine the processing power of different graphics cards from different manufacturers, creating a Hybrid graphics platform where Nvidia and ATI can share the load. The chip...

Overclocking is like a puzzle to me. It’s about finding the right balance of voltages, frequencies, timings and ratio’s in order to hit the peak of what the hardware is capable of. The analogy of a car is quite accurate in many respects, who hasn’t wanted to take their pride and joy out onto a...

The 257 drivers have been getting a lot of press attention recently, but I think the reason they were not suggested is because of the beta nature of the driver. Beta software + beta drivers on new hardware... bit of a messy concoction to troubleshoot for the developers.

DRM is a tough topic for all involved, consumers hate it, companies seem to love it, pirates... aren't affected by it. So why go to all the trouble of implementing it in the first place when you can spend that time on the game itself? This is Blizzard's mentality with StarCraft 2, concentrate on...

A Japanese team has developed a material derived from a new crystal form of titanium oxide. The material starts off as a metal and then turns into a semiconductor, this also changes the color from black to brown when exposed to light, resulting in an effective on-off function that can be used...

For the folders amongst you that are lucky enough to have a GTX400 series graphics card and are into folding, a new GPU3 Folding client is now available as an open beta. All you need is the 197.45 drivers and the new client, of which there are a variety of versions, so be sure to get the right...

Yes, the card itself is great, AGP did die before it's time, it's only dual GPU and the very top end cards that need more than 8 lanes even today, they wouldn't throttle back PCI-E slots to 8x if the cards didn't work, but of course, AGP didn't provide the same level of power either (and I’m...

And I can confirm this quite easily. I have a very old system, P4 with an ATI 3650 AGP graphics card, there is no point in upgrading it at all, even with a better graphics card. Resident Evil 5 with P4 @ 3.0Ghz - 1440 x 900 = 21 FPS peak - 640 x 480 = 21 FPS peak P4 @ 3.2 Ghz = 21.2 FPS.... If...

Indeed, think I made the comparison a while ago, as have others, GPU integration is just another logical step. First there were CPU’s as integer processors, later came dedicated FPU’s, the FPU’s were then integrated into the CPU. Graphics demanded massive parallel processing, 3D graphics...

That is a little strange, did Intel state why the write speed was capped? Is it a limitation of the controller to prevent some catastrophic failure instigated by writing too fast or a read/write corruption prevention? I've actually been keeping an eye on the Vertex 2, it's a little steep here...

While this isn't the first time this headline has found its way over the Internet, some interesting details have been made available as to why a Larrabee card won't be made, at least in the short term. A blog by Bill Kircos provides some in-site into this decision and future focus of Intel...

Mercury Research will be releasing an article soon detailing some interesting figures regarding the market share of the various GPU developers. While not officially released just yet, X-bit Labs has listed some of the details including the important number of AMD's market share as of the first...

If the option is available, hidden away in the configuration files/settings etc, increase the FOV - Field of View. Sure, things can go fish-eyed if you go too high, but it does provide a wider view angle. Alternatively, if your game is already heavily distorted around the edges, reduce the FOV –...

Deep within Intel Labs Barcelona, a new software/hardware thread acceleration technique has been developed to boost performance of single thread applications on multi-core processors, the catch is we probably won't see it for another couple years. You can read the rest of our post here.

Google purchased the video codec company On2 back in August last year, owners of the VP8 video format. Many believed it to be the first steps from Google to settle the battle of Theora Vs H.264 in the online video codec's for HTML 5. Fast forward to today and Google, Mozilla and Opera announce...