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Finding a proper "multi-media" notebook for under $800 can be a little challenging, but Gateway proves with their M-7818u that notebooks can be both affordable and include the most important features you're looking for. In addition to fantastic battery-life, the M-7818u goes as far as to include...

From our front-page news: When we posted our original look at Intel's Core i7 processors in early November, we managed to include performance data for all three of the launch chips in the same article. However, Intel wasn't able to provide us all three, so through a little bit of trickery, we...

From our front-page news: Our school teachers are supposed to be, well, intelligent, right? Well, let's examine a situation that went down in some school. Some students were not only using the HeliOS Linux distribution in class, but they had the nerve (sarcasm) to demonstrate it to other...

From our front-page news: Last month was huge for video game sales, and the data from NPD Group proves it. November is always a good month for sales of any kind, and the reason is obvious. Christmas and other common religious celebrations occur in December, and people attempt to get their...

From our front-page news:This past October, I linked to a story about a brand-new SSD that didn't only raise the bar where performance was concerned, but dropped some jaws along the way. The company is Fusion-io, and their product is an SSD that bypasses the S-ATA bus entirely, and instead...

From our front-page news: Information regarding Intel's upcoming Lynnfield processor has been leaked, with a real processor sample benchmarked. From what we can see so far, Lynnfield is going to be quite different than Core i7, and from the CPU-Z screenshots, it looks like Lynnfield = Core i5...

From our front-page news:I don't dedicate much of our news space to contests or promotions outside of our website, but a recent fundraiser posted by our friends at TheTechLounge is too good to look over. They've teamed up with a countless amount of sponsors in order both raise funds for the Toys...

From our front-page news:When people take a movie and add their own custom subtitles in an attempt to make us laugh, it can be hit or miss. In the case of a new video parodying the movie "Downfall", it's definitely a hit. Downfall is a movie that follows Hitler on the final twelve days of his...

From our front-page news: The open GPGPU computing language, known as OpenCL, hit a huge milestone today, making the release of the 1.0 specification. This is news we've been waiting for, for quite a while, because this might be just what we need to see general purpose GPU computing taken to the...

In the world of gaming mice, there are a few names that we see often, such as Logitech and Razer. But, a new entrant is here, and they're hoping to make a splash with their first-ever gaming peripheral. The Avatar from NZXT has both the style and design we're looking for, so let's see if it...

This is a test I've been meaning to do for a while, and since it's freezing outside (10°F), I figured today was as good a day as any to put the benchmarking machine to good use. The quandary's simple. Which stress-testing tool is more effective in determining a stable overclock: SP 2004 (or...

From our front-page news: Last month, we posted about DICE's agreement with NVIDIA to license PhysX technology for the upcoming PC version of Mirror's Edge. On the same day, NVIDIA released a high-resolution video that showcased just what the game would look like with the technology enabled, and...

From our front-page news: Back in October, I made a post that was half a whine-fest, but carried information about a special tool that saved me more than once from breaking down and crying like a little girl who just dropped her fresh ice cream. TestDisk was the application, and I recommend...

From our front-page news:DRM is a hot topic... there's no denying that. It's a subject that I've tackled in our news section a lot, and in many ways, I might sound like a broken record. But, there's just something about DRM that inspires me to write something. It's more than just inspiration...

Two weeks ago, we published a performance comparison between NVIDIA's GTX 260/216 and ATI's HD 4870 1GB. What we found was that NVIDIA had the upper-hand, both in performance, and efficiency. Today, we're re-testing ATI's card with their new 8.12 driver, to see if it can increase performance...

From our front-page news: For as long as music has been sold, so has "used" music. Who hasn't at least once gone into a music store and looked at the hidden gems in their used section? Doesn't have to be music... could be video games, movies, anything. There's a reason flea markets are still so...

From our front-page news: When USB-based thumb drives first came out, they were an object of envy. But, initial prices were rather ridiculous. The first one I ever had was a "freebie" from Dell with the purchase of an overpriced notebook (at the time). At 64MB, I couldn't really do much with it...

On the test bench today, we have Gigabyte's latest Micro ATX offering, the Intel G45-based EG45M-DS2H. This board carries the typical Gigabyte enthusiast charm, but also caters towards those looking to build a media center. But how does it stack up against the other Intel mATX boards we've...

From our front-page news: Microsoft's Windows might still be the dominate operating system on the market, but as more and more people are learning about alternative OS', their dominance is slowly decreasing, but seems to be doing so at an increasing pace. According to recent reports from Net...

From our front-page news: The wait for Phenom II might be a little rough, but we're now closer than ever to launch, and thanks to AMD's updated roadmaps, we know just how close. According to the roadmap, which covers the entire first-half of 2009, AMD will be releasing a total of fourteen...