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With music services such as iTunes selling an unbelievable number of digital music tracks, and Amazon's Kindle platform resulting in a ton of eBooks being sold, one thing's clear: people love digital content. While I'm still pro audio CD, I can understand the allure of digital music, and other...

When Fallout: New Vegas came out last Tuesday, it was met with great reception. The average rating for the PC version at Game Rankings is 85%, which as far as I am concerned, almost puts it in the "must buy" category. You could say that the game lived up to the hype, as its predecessor, Fallout...

It's argued that "desktop Linux" just isn't going to happen, but a fair amount of credit has to go to Ubuntu for pushing that prospect quite a bit ahead. Other consumer-oriented distros have existed for quite a while, such as SuSE, but Ubuntu has a couple of things going for it. It's had a good...

We took a hard look last week at AMD's Radeon HD 6870 and HD 6850, and in the end, were left impressed. The FPS/$ ratio was superb, as was the feature-set. How do things look when the same cards are tossed into a CrossFireX setup? Well, AMD claims an up to 1.99x gain in certain games, so let's...

Last night, I installed both an AMD Radeon HD 6870 and that new Intel NIC into my rig, boot into Windows and gasped at what I saw... reset settings. No more quick launch icons, default wallpaper, et cetera. It's a good thing I had a recent system restore point to recover to, else it would have...

In some of our recent HTPC-esque content, one thing I keep harping on about is that it's easier to build a kick-ass HTPC or home server than ever - one that's replete with lots of storage, runs quiet, and can handle any type of media you toss at it. But even so, no PC should be built in haste...

Compared to the ultra-long release period between Windows XP and Windows Vista, the launch of Windows 7 - which came out a mere 2.5 years after Vista - took many by surprise. It also left many of us wondering when Windows 8 would see the light of day, and if Microsoft's release cycle was going...

Being as hyped as it was, AMD's Radeon HD 6800 series launch last week didn't need to be made more exciting, but NVIDIA decided to make it so anyway by dropping the prices of its hugely popular GeForce GTX 460 and GTX 470 graphics cards. It appears now that things didn't quite end there, as...

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In case it isn't too obvious, we posted our in-depth look at AMD's Radeon HD 6800 series today, and we highly recommend you read through if you want to see where things stand with today's graphics cards. With this launch, many people are wondering how NVIDIA is going to counter-act, but in all...

It's been a little while since we last did an "In the TG Lab", so let's fix that, alright? In most of these posts, we talk about products we just received and plan to take an in-depth look at, but this one is a little different, since it's one we won't be reviewing. Rather, it's a hardware...

It's been a long time coming, but gamers can finally relax... AMD's Radeon HD 6800 graphics cards are finally here. They may still be built upon a 40nm process, but AMD has brought a lot to the table here. We set out to see how the HD 6850 and HD 6870 compare to their closest competition...

We're sure this will come as a surprise to no one, but with AMD's Radeon HD 6800 series debuting on Friday, NVIDIA has taken its stance by lowering the prices on both its GeForce GTX 460 and GTX 470 graphics cards. On the GTX 460 side of things, the cost of the 1GB models will now match the...

Futuremark's latest 3DMark iteration, 11, is right around the corner, and to help salivate fans, the company has just released a brand-new trailer called "High Temple". As you'd expect, there's heavy use of DirectX 11 techniques here, including tessellation. Though the trailer consists of a...

For gamers who like to be competitive or look for different ways to "spice" things up, there's certainly no shortage of peripherals available. Most often, mice and keyboards are the first place gamers look for an increase to their performance, but there are other things that can vastly change...

About a month ago, I decided to check out the Lavalys website to see if there were any newer versions of EVEREST available to what we were using, and was a bit surprised to see an overall lack of updates. I didn't think too much of it, but apparently there was a good reason for it. Lavalys, the...

Regardless of the game, game type, genre, online or off, cheating has a real presence in gaming today. And if there's one company that wants it done away with more than any other, it's Blizzard. The company has a long history of banning players en masse from its World of Warcraft MMO game - well...

The market may be filled to the brim with war-based games, but few come from a series as reputable as Medal of Honor. After a bit of a break, the latest iteration has finally been released, and it prefaces some hyped competition, Call of Duty: Black Ops. Did EA do enough to make you forget all...

AMD invited both media and vendors down to Los Angeles last week to learn about the company's upcoming products and technologies, such as the Fusion-based Llano CPU (err, APU) and Radeon HD 6800 series. We were there, and have some preliminary information on both, as well as some light...