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Yesterday, I posted a brief report about Windows 7 usage from our readers, and the results were quite impressive. As it stands today, almost 30% of our Windows readers use Windows 7, and for an OS that's been out for just over two months, that's quite a feat. I also mentioned that that Windows 7...

Intel's blue logo couldn't be more appropriate for the company this year, as it has had one hassle to deal with after another. In the latest case, none other than the FTC is speaking up against the company's anti-competitive tactics, which according to the it has "stifled innovation and harmed...

Of all the current mid-range graphics cards on the market, the Radeon HD 5770 from AMD has proven to be one of the best. For its price, it offers great performance, and has other perks such as DirectX 11 and Eyefinity support. With its Vapor-X model, Sapphire has improved the card in numerous...

I've said this for quite a while, and still stick to it, that where GPGPU (general purpose GPU) is concerned, things seem to be slow to catch on. We've seen real benefits of the technology in the past, as the hugely parallel design of a graphics processor can storm through complex computations...

In our forums last week, I posed a simple question. For your next PC build or upgrade, how much memory will you be installing? If you're taking the Core i7 route, then you're likely to choose either 6GB or 12GB, and for everything else, 4GB seems to be the most common option, with 8GB being the...

About ten or so days ago, I posted some initial statistics regarding our readers Windows 7 usage, and since we're two weeks into December, I feel like I have enough solid data to portray just how popular the latest OS is. If you'll recall, in the first three days of the month, Windows 7...

Since its launch, Windows 7 has received a fair amount of praise and is being enjoyed by a rather significant number of users, and after what Vista brought to the table, it's great to see. But, as refined as the OS may be, there are still a number of issues with the OS that remain, and one of...

Over the past few years, NZXT has become a Techgage favorite, as it has consistently developed some great products, many of which we've reviewed. Although most known for its chassis', NZXT produces much more than that. Of these, power supplies are fairly popular, not to mention some of the...

After waiting for more than a year, Mac OS X and Linux users last week finally had a version of Google's Chrome Web browser to take advantage of. At the same time, Google also unveiled a new "Extensions" feature, which is just as it sounds, and is not much different than what you're likely...

Last week, Time Magazine posted its annual "Top 10" list for fifty different categories, and for gadgets, the top spot was given to Motorola's Droid phone. This was a fairly big surprise, since Apple's products have dominated top lists for the past few years, especially with the iPhone, but it...

A couple of weeks ago, ASUS released its first two under-$200 P55 motherboards that support both S-ATA and USB 3.0. We're taking a look at the higher-end of the two, the P7P55D-E PRO. As you'd expect, this is one packed board, featuring a great design and a number of improvements over the...

The past couple of times I've met with Intel, they were running a neat little widget on their test machines, that showed the processor and level of Turbo being used. It's simple, but cool. The company has just released it (finally) to the public, so if you have a Core i5 or i7 processor, you can...

Earlier this week, I linked to one of the rare news stories that burns me up on the inside. It featured the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, and an asinine comment, where he essentially stated that if you're looking for privacy, you're probably doing something wrong. Hopefully it's not too hard to...

For many tech enthusiasts, the name "CrunchPad" isn't an unknown. It's the name of a product that was set to be launched by Michael Arrington, owner of TechCrunch and related network sites. The CrunchPad could be summed up as being a much larger version of the iPhone, but with a single purpose...

Where virtualization is concerned, "free" certainly doesn't equate with "cheap". Sun's VirtualBox is a perfect example of that. For non-commercial use, it's a cost-free hypervisor that's feature-robust, offers great performance and stability, and supports a wide-variety of guest operating...

Want to install a fresh copy of Windows 7 on a netbook, or another PC with no optical drive? Believe it or not, it's not that difficult to pull off manually, but to take as much hassle out of it as possible, Microsoft released a "Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool" near the OS' launch to aide those...

It's been a while since I've last heard much about Microsoft's "exFAT" file system, but it looks like we may be hearing about it more in the near-future. exFAT is of course the next version of Microsoft's ultra-popular File Allocation Table file system, which used to be commonly used as the file...

Like in previous years, Time has released a "Top 10 Everything of 2009", and it isn't kidding. It has top lists for the obvious, like medical breakthroughs, TV series, movies, video games, gadgets, but even categories for things like top crime stories, new species, oddball news stories...

Are you curious to know what albums, songs, movies and apps topped Apple's iTunes' store during 2009? Well, wonder no more, because Apple takes out all of the guesswork and reveals all (except actual numbers) in a feature on the iTunes store called "Rewind 2009". Split into categories, you can...

When Google released its Chrome Web browser last fall, it came with almost no warning. There were leaks, sure, but even those didn't surface until mere days before the launch of the first "beta". Google's known for a lot of things, and browsers wasn't one of them, but surprisingly enough, Chrome...