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This is a great question, and it's one I hope to be able to answer next week at some point. I have had an i3-530 for almost two months, and haven't even managed to get it popped into one of the machines around here. That drought ends soon, and I plan on comparing both that, and the X2 555 BE to...

That's a great question. To be honest, I don't think it's designed for anyone, but rather is used as proof that the company delivered something to market that no other has. To me, $1,100 for a thumb drive is just foolish. Suck it up with a 2.5" enclosure, and you could double the capacity, and...

Once again, I have no idea of the true source of this one, but man, does it get the point across.

AMD's Radeon HD 5850 may not be the company's highest-end card, but it still packs a wicked punch. Plus, when overclocked, and overclocked well, it can come close to the peformance of the top-end HD 5870. With the design of Sapphire's Toxic graphics card, hitting heights like this seem to be...

Those following the developments in SSD technology will surely know about OCZ's Vertex drives featuring Indilinx's Barefoot controllers. These drives along with Intel's “G2” SSD's have been a longstanding favorite for their TRIM support and top-notch performance, but as with all technology...

The digital age and lifestyle is a great thing, but now more than ever, storage space is of utmost importance. We mostly have our media to thank, with HD movies taking upwards of 10GB each, or more, our music, and even our images. If you're a photographer using a D-SLR, each image can take...

Notebooks or OEM PC's in general are a bit different, so it's no surprise that no issue is seen there. As for your not having much experience with issue in the past, that impresses me, a lot. For what it's worth, when I purchased the Vista-equipped dv2 notebook last summer, it also screwed with...

That's a great idea. Next week is going to be a busy content-wise, but I'll see what I can do. I'm also curious of the results of that.

AMD last month launched five processor models, three Athlon II's and two Phenom II's, and we're taking a look at one of each. The Phenom II is a 3.20GHz dual-core, and a Black Edition dual-core at that, while the Athlon II is the ultra-affordable 2.9GHz quad-core. Let's see how both stack up to...

It's not all too often that Futuremark updates its line of products, but last week, that rare occurrence happened, and all of its current products are affected. That goes for 3DMark Vantage, 3Dmark 06, 3Dmark 05, 3DMark 03, PCMark Vantage and PCMark 05. Sadly, no 3DMark 2001 love has been...

I'm surprised that Robert didn't follow-up in this thread, but in all coincidence, after he made his post last night, he flashed his BIOS and then rebooted to see Windows 7 tell him that his (legal) key is no good. Nice.

Fixed. I have no idea how I overlooked that during proofing. The third was Sony. Thanks for pointing it out!

With its upcoming 10.2 and 10.3 Catalyst graphics drivers, AMD is making sure it goes well beyond the hardware to deliver the ultimate PC experience, whether or not it includes gaming. We're taking a look at all of the features on the horizon, including game profiles, CrossFireX and Eyefinity...

Ahh, the joys of fiddling to figure out a tech problem... never gets old. Actually, it does. This problem gives me a headache just thinking about it.

Hi ramaniac: At that resolution, all of those games would run fine, especially World of Warcraft. For Crysis, we could run the game at around 30FPS at 1080p, which is 2.07 million pixels. 1280x1024 is 1.31 million. So, I'd suspect you could see around 40 - 45 FPS with that one, which should be...

But with this mouse, you could right-clit the taskbar and go to Task Manager, then set your wife's priority to BelowNormal.

I'd still try different RAM, just to see. If it's not that, then it does indeed seem that the motherboard has been killed off.

Could it be his monitor, then? I have found in the past, that I'd receive a "No Signal" error even if the motherboard was dead, because the port would still be powered. It might be worth trying to hook up another PC to the monitor first, or another device (like a console) to rule out that it...

Alright, if there's a news post I had to write that made me feel old, it's this one. Super Mario Bros. 3, the Nintendo Entertainment System classic, turned 20 last Friday, based on its North American release. The reason I feel old is because I remember so vividly seeing the...

To say that Microsoft has been having quite the good year thus far would be an understatement. Windows 7 is selling well, and without much major complaint from its users, and as mentioned mere weeks ago, Internet Explorer 8 is somehow the Web's most popular browser. Improvements haven't...