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From our front-page news: The up-and-coming open-source music player "Songbird" has just hit a major milestone: Version 1.0. "Up-and-coming" might be a poor choice of words, though, as the developers have stated that usage is now above 160,000 users, which is an incredible show of support for an...

Feeling creative and innovative? Tell us about it by entering the What’s Inside You Contest here. Starting today, innovators, educators, entertainers, communicators, creators, or anyone using an Intel processor to do something amazing can submit an image, audio or video file along with their...

From our front-page news: One thing that Apple users have long been able to brag about is the overall security available on the Mac. For the most part, though, it's not so much that it's secure, it's that OS X has never been the main target of virus and malware writers, or the target of various...

From our front-page news: Adobe surprised the Linux world a few weeks ago with the release of their alpha 64-bit Flash plugin, as we covered here, and I said I'd follow-up with my thoughts, and I 'll do so now. It took me a week after the release to get around to upgrading, and I can honestly...

From our front-page news:Less than two weeks ago, I posted about the tenth anniversary of the original Half-Life, and recalled on just how incredible of a title it was. If you were a PC gamer back in 1998, you knew what Half-Life was, and chances are, you completed the entire game. There might...

From our front-page news: As we found out two weeks ago, AMD is doing a great job in boasting what their Phenom II processors are going to be capable of. That was proven when the company revealed a 4.00GHz overclock on air cooling, and if you've been paying attention at all, it's easy to see why...

From our front-page news: Here's one I didn't quite see coming. Microsoft is working on allowing Direct3D 10 and 10.1 to run off of the processor, rather than require integrated or discrete graphics. The idea is to use the CPU to push out ample graphics performance to allow basic operation of...

From our front-page news: It's become common knowledge that upgrading your PC to "top-of-the-line" status right now will mean little six months from now. Faster components come out all the time, from CPUs to GPUs and even storage. The latter is one area where things are happening really fast...

From our front-page news: One common complaint I hear often with regards to anti-virus applications is that they can suck the fun right out of your gaming. The problem could either be simple, such as a pop-up that boots you to your desktop, or a more complicated one where portions of your online...

From our front-page news:It's been two full weeks since Intel's Core i7 processors have been launched, so I thought I'd take another look at current pricing to see where things stand. At launch, there were only two stores that had the CPUs and other required components in stock, but that has...

ASUS has long supported overclockers with their motherboards, but the Rampage II Extreme takes things to the next level. In addition to an even more robust BIOS than what we're used to, we're given the ability to put our multi-meters to good use with the help of easy-access board contacts. When...

Our X58 motherboard coverage continues with a look at Gigabyte's EX58-UD5, an offering that's competing with all the other $300 launch boards out there. Though still expensive, there's a lot being offered here, including a plethora of USB and S-ATA ports, solid design, support for 3-way GPU...

PC silence means more now than ever before. While we love to have powerful machines, we also want peace and quiet, and understandably so. NZXT recently released their Whisper full-tower that's poised to deliver the best of both worlds. Can this huge chassis deliver the silence we're looking for...

In the $250 - $300 price-range, there exists two graphics cards that want to see your dollar, but which one deserves it the most? To find out, we're taking a thorough look at each. In addition to general performance comparison, we're also taking a look to see which excels where power consumption...

Picking out a new graphics card is easier to do now than ever, as there seems to be a model to cover every single price-range, and not just from one single GPU manufacturer, either. Today's card is one that represents the ~$125 price spot and is designed as a step-up from the 9600 GT, with ASUS...

From our front-page news: It might seem a little odd to some people, but mobile gaming is an extremely hot niche right now, and in some regards, it's much more successful than typical PC/console gaming. Less money is generally made as well, since the games don't sell as high as full-blown...

From our front-page news: With Intel's Core i7 processors now available, and kicking ass through most benchmarks, one has to wonder what's up with AMD. How will they be competing anytime soon? It's true... lately all we've heard from them has been related to their business practises, but there's...

From our front-page news: I posted yesterday about Mirror's Edge becoming the first PC game to fully utilize the PhysX physics engine, but what I somehow forgot about was the new 180 driver that brings some great new functionality to the table. Two major new features include multi-monitor SLI...

I'm no parent, and to tell the truth, I have no interest in having kids anytime soon. But it boggles my mind when I read stories of issues with kids and realize just how much of the problem is the parent's fault. Take this story for example: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,453447,00.html...

Although a "Top 25" list barely touches the surface of bad band names, both Cracked and Spike took their shot at picking out a perfect list. There are a lot here I agree with, and some are just blatantly obvious. It's as though some bands deliberately chose horrible names to represent...