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From our front-page news: It hasn't even been a full month since we saw the release of the Catalyst 9.3 driver, but here we are with 9.4. Given the short time-frame between each release, this one isn't filled to the brim with new features, but there are a few things to point out. First is the...

In case you were wondering if Fusion-io was going to be around for a while... the answer is yes. The company has just scored a new round of funding, and also a new CEO. They plan to use the Series B funding to amp up production and also to focus on upcoming products...

With a title like "AMD hits back at Intel's Nehalem", how could I resist reading? Given that Nehalem has proved not only successful, but faster than AMD's top processors, it's a little strange to see AMD talking down about it, rather than creating a product that does more than force a pricing...

You hear that the Wolverine movie has been leaked to pirate networks... and you go and download it. You write for the popular news site FoxNews.com. What do you do? Well, you review what you downloaded, of course. I mean, what repercussions could there possibly be...

From our front-page news: During Intel's one-day Developer Forum in Beijing, the company celebrated the one-year anniversary of their Atom processor, while also announcing new models and other products. In a keynote given by Anand Chandrasekher, the Senior VP and General Manager of the Ultra...

Cooler Master is well-known for their creation of high-quality products, but things are taken to the next level with their new CM Storm brand. Their first product here is the mid-tower Sniper, and what a chassis this is! In addition to offering features specific to LAN gamers, the overall...

From our front-page news:At January's CES, NVIDIA impressed us so much with their ION platform, that we awarded it one of our Best of awards. Since that time though, the company has been rather quiet with regards to how ION was progressing, and the excitement was beginning to fade as no...

From our front-page news: When Microsoft launched Windows Vista, it became clear fairly quickly that it wasn't going to unseat Windows XP as the dominate OS. Over two years later, that's still the case, and nothing's going to change. Because of how things have played out, Microsoft has extended...

From our front-page news:Last week, we talked about a rumor that said iTunes would be moving over to their variable pricing scheme on April 7, and lo and behold, it has happened. This would be about a week behind their original schedule (they originally said "by the end of March", but you can at...

From our front-page news: If you consider yourself to be a hardcore PC gamer, chances are very good that you've played a fair share of first-person shooters, and there's reason for that. Who doesn't love some fast-paced action where you get (most often) to kill anything that moves? Talk about a...

From our front-page news: One of the coolest things about Linux is the fact that there's a ton of choice. In some regards, "Linux is Linux" is true, in that the backbone tends to be similar from distro to distro, but the truth is, there's so much more choice where Linux is concerned than any...

From our front-page news: Alright, I'm willing to go out on a limb here and take a guess that most people reading this have at one time overclocked something in their computer, whether it be the CPU, GPU or anything else. There's just something about taking a stock-clocked product and making it...

The majority of the high-end PC audio cards targeted at enthusiasts typically focus on multi-channel performance, with a variety of decoding modes, DSP enhancements, and other features tossed in. The Xonar Essence STX from ASUS has an entirely different focus - delivering audiophile-quality...

It's not often we get to take two brand-new GPUs and pit them against each other in one launch article, but that's what we're doing with ATI's HD 4890 and NVIDIA's GTX 275. Both cards are priced at $249, and both also happen to offer great performance and insane overclocking-ability. So coupled...

From our front-page news: Too good to be true" is a term being thrown around quite rampantly regarding the video game service OnLive, which was first unveiled at the Game Developers Conference last week. For the uninitiated, OnLive is to be a service available for both the PC/MAC platforms, and...

From our front-page news: There are few feelings quite like the experience when the time comes to build a new machine. Ahh, the sense of something brand-new, and not to mention the fresh circuit board smell! But while our machines may be faster than ever, and their capabilities mind-blowing, the...

From our front-page news: As we touched on in our news post for OCZ's DIY Neutrino netbook the other day, this is one product-type that has really taken the world by storm. These full-featured computers are small and light, fast enough for most needs, normally include better-than-average...

From our front-page news:You may recall last October when when we first found out about Fusion-io and their PCI-Express-based SSD. At the time, it was hard to gauge the true worth of such a product, but it's becoming a lot easier to do so now. Months later, the same company followed-up with...

From our front-page news: Once in a while, we're hear news of something that should affect how much spam we receive, but by now, we've learned that that's never the case. Whether is a huge spam dealer being murdered, or an entire ISP being shut down, spam will usually decrease for a while, but...

From our front-page news: When Intel launched their Core i7 processors last fall, we, like the rest of the editorial press, we were blown away. Hit with the right workload, the Nehalem architecture blew past not only the competition, but Intel's own Yorkfield as well. As we'd expect, things...