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Alright, NOW I'm tempted to install the Core i7-980X and beat that score! :D

With all of the talk surrounding solid-state disks today, it's easy to overlook the technological advances made with mechanical storage. One such example is the beefed-up and super-fast VelociRaptor 600GB, which features a SATA 3.0 interface and speeds that are 15% faster over the previous...

If there's one thing AMD cannot be accused of, it's being slow to update its product line-ups. Today, an announcement only reaffirms that fact, as some models are being bumped down in the ranks, and others brought in. Of these, all are Athlon II's, so unfortunately, we're still going to have...

If you think you've seen everything that an SSD has to offer, you may wish to take a look at OCZ's Vertex 2. Like many other SSDs, it features a SandForce SF-1200 controller, but with a careful helping of OCZ's special spices to deliver unbelievable performance. While we're working on the...

I think this is the wrong thread for a question like this, but that would be the case. Though given your performance as it is, I wouldn't recommend upgrading at all, unless you want to go with something like 2 x HD 5850. Your performance is good as it stands, so there's no sense to purchase a...

My mom sent this along to me. YES, it's corny as hell, but it's still a good one: http://www.homeschooloasis.com/storehs_obituary_of_pillsbury.htm

During an interview with Forbes last week, NVIDIA's Chief Scientist, Bill Dally, stated that Moore's Law's time is running out, and now is a good time to start thinking in parallel. Of course, such a statement is bold, but not surprising coming from NVIDIA, as parallel processing is where...

When I was young, I obsessed about anything related to Apple. I read Mac Addict religiously, and couldn't get enough information about Apple's hardware and software. At that time, when I was about 12-years-old, our family didn't even own a Mac, but even so, I was excited about a lot of what...

Last month, I published an article called "10 Things Linux Does Better than Windows" which took a look at just what the title suggests. Number five on the list was "troubleshooting", and I based that choice off of the numerous headaches I've experienced in the past when trying to fix an...

This past February, AMD quietly launched the Radeon HD 5550 alongside the much more touted HD 5570. At about $10 less than that card, the HD 5550 is an unusual breed. To help put all of the pieces together, Sapphire sent us its "Ultimate" edition of the card, which uses reference clock...

I had been hoping that the HDD benchmarking tool included in GNOME would be good enough to benchmark with... but I don't think so. I ran it on a netbook here, which is using an Intel 80GB G1, and the results are even better than the official specs!

The thing is, though... does it just work? There's so little information to go on. I did find traces of it in more than one file from the 2.6.33 source code, though: drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c: case WRITE_SAME_16: drivers/scsi/sd.c: rq->cmd[0] = WRITE_SAME_16...

To be honest, I don't think there will be much of a difference between DDR2-1100 and DDR2-800. I ran 8GB of DDR2-800 4-4-4-12 since right before this upgrade and I loved it. I'd much opt for DDR2-800 and tighter timings if it's an option, rather than DDR2-1100 with say, 5-5-5. GRID is such a...

It's hard to say at this point how it will affect the company. To be honest, the company has been changing quite a bit over the past year or two as it is, well before it joined NASDAQ. Most of that boils down to its insane focus on the SSD market. It's understandable, but it's kind of sad at the...

Sorry for the late response, Senor. If you wanted the best performance possible, I'd go for a CrossFireX configuration of two HD 5770's for sure. You might want to check out an article we wrote a few months ago where we benchmarked the same configuration, and we found that it performed just as...

Yes, I hate the fact that the mobo had issues. I'll be receiving a replacement though, and hope that I'll no longer have such issues. I plan on getting in more than one 890FX board so that I can see what this chip is truly made of from an overclocking standpoint. How does it feel? Even having...

Thanks for the kind words, Pierre! It's been so long since I took a look at this (it's hard to believe it was at Vista's launch... feels like so long ago!), so I'd definitely like to give the newer version a try and see how it fares.

Heh, the problem HAS to be prevelant for the company to actually create a video discussing it. It sounds more like a BIOS issue than anything, because it'd be awful strange for so many people to run into it because they didn't install their CPU or 8-pin power connector properly. Hopefully EVGA...

You've got to be kidding me... I downloaded this game on Steam last week, in hopes that it might be cool enough to introduce into our GPU suite. I have a strict rule that the Internet must be disabled during benchmarking, so this kind of screws things up there. This is getting seriously...

The lesson here is that it's just easier to get rid of the actual storage device, rather than run these tools... if you are THAT worried. Thermite, anyone? I think the best method from both a time/effectiveness perspective is just to do a secure erase, like with the HDD Erase tool. It goes...