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From our front-page news: Tilera isn't a name you see on our pages too often (alright, never), because their products almost have nothing to do with what we normally deal with, such as desktop CPUs... or products you'd have in your machine at home. Their processors are interesting, though...

From our front-page news: I've mentioned in the past that ASUS makes some killer notebooks, and I stand by that, since almost every one I've ever touched has pleased me. What I never saw on any of the notebooks, though, were software cracks, employee résumés or internal company documents. No, I...

From our front-page news: With Intel's upcoming Core i7 launch happening within the next few months, it's little surprise to hear about the discontinuation of multiple products currently on the market. According to industry-tracking site DigiTimes, Intel has plans to discontinue all of the...

From our front-page news: Early last week, I posted about how Spore's asinine DRM protection wasn't paying off. After all, despite the fact that Will Wright's game has become a relative masterpiece, for the past two weeks it's been best-known for being the "game with DRM", which isn't good at...

When the time came to design the Rampage Extreme, ASUS' R&D went right to town. The X48-based board proves to be the most feature-packed one we've ever come across, and also one of the most overclockable. Aside from the robust design, water-cooled Northbridge and LCD Poster, the board even...

From our front-page news: External audio solutions for notebooks is nothing new, but as we've found out in the past, it's rarely that impressive. The new Sound Blaster X-Fi Notebook audio card might change some minds though, as it's equipped with the proven X-Fi chip and plugs into virtually any...

From our front-page news: So... AMD almost gave me a heart attack this morning. In my inbox laid an e-mail from the greenest company in Sunnvale, boasting the "Power of Fusion". Considering that up to now, Fusion has been the term thrown around about for their CPU/GPU hybrid chip, it definitely...

From our front-page news: When Apple first announced that Intel processors would be used in their machines going forward, it became obvious to many that hacking OS X to run on your PC would have to be made much easier. Although projects existed before that announcement to run OS X on your...

From our front-page news: Leaked Intel roadmaps are as about rare as finding a Starbucks, but this one is a bit interesting. The folks at Expreview stumbled over a new roadmap that reaffirms what we already knew about the upcoming launches, except this time, model names are attached. The...

From our front-page news: It's rare for a week to pass without seeing an SSD product launch, and this week it comes courtesy of Super Talent. This is one company who really, really wants to make an impression, because they were one of the first out the door with their own SSDs, and they've...

From our front-page news:Rumors have been going crazy lately with regards to both the "Xbox 720" and "Playstation 4", and everyone has an opinion. One rampant rumor in particular is that the Playstation 4 will lack the Blu-ray player that came with the PS3, and for the most part, it's a good...

From our front-page news:Every so often, we like to take a look at both our regular testing machine and also our methodologies and see where improvements can be made. The latter is really a never-ending process, but I believe we're at the point now where we have an ideal setup in place that...

If you are a regular player of racing games on the Playstation 3, then you owe it to yourself to consider an upgrade to that inefficient gamepad! Logitech's Driving Force GT was designed for Gran Turismo 5, but works well with most other racers out there, and after we put many hours of driving...

From our front-page news: The term '3D Chip' might sound a bit misleading, and it might very-well be. When I first heard the term, I thought it was another GPU processor, but '3D' is meant to be taken literally. All current processors out there now are 2D... flat, with components found to the...

From our front-page news: When Apple acquired P.A. Semi, a Power processor manufacturer, we couldn't quite figure out what their plans were. After all, Intel has been at the forefront of the Cupertino company's hardware side of things for a few years, but it was clear either Intel or Apple...

From our front-page news: Times are not good in the financial world, with large investment firms closing shop and even one of the world's largest insurers also scrambling to come up with some $75 billion just to stay afloat. Hewlett-Packard might be feeling the effects of the economy too, but...

From our front-page news:I somehow missed the announcement yesterday regarding the launch of Intel's latest high-end server CPUs, so I'll talk a bit about them now. We've been waiting to see a launch for Dunnington for some time, but the time was right, and there are now seven different models...

From our front-page news: It's not too often that a new version of VLC gets released, so when one does break through the grasps of the developers, people celebrate. The previous version of this ultra-popular media player was 0.8.6, which to date has had over one-hundred million downloads...

From our front-page news: Did you know that there are many cool tricks you can do with your Xbox 360 that Microsoft doesn't boast about? Sure, I knew of a few, but Tech Radar lists ten different things that can be done, and some of them are quite interesting. Everything from connecting two...

From our front-page news: In case you haven't noticed, Apple has been enjoying some incredible growth over the past few years. Whether it's due to OS X's simplicity or Windows Vista's major issues, I'm unsure, but Apple has become more than just a serious contender in the PC market, and it's...