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Can either of the SLI and Crossfire technologies be defeated by a company we've never heard of before? Hard to say, but Rory's look into Lucid and their Hydra Engine can definitely give us some insight. One of the more exciting third-party demonstrations we saw at Intel's 2008 Developer Forum...

We're in sunny San Jose where NVIDIA's mega-event, NVISION 08, will soon be in full effect. The event is bringing gamers and developers from all over the world to create what NVIDIA hopes to be the first true visual computing convention. We stepped behind the scenes before the official opening...

From our front-page news: According to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft's ad campaign will feature a number of key celebrities that will pitch Vista, including the popular comedian, Jerry Seinfeld, and Bill Gates. Microsoft has yet to compete with the negative ad campaign that Apple has use...

Wednesday's keynote schedule may not have been as chock-full of new hardware demonstrations as Tuesday's Gelsinger-Perlmutter marathon, but it wasn’t without some excitement of its own. Here's our summary of the day's keynote speeches. You can read the full article here and discuss it here!

From our front-page news:At an Intel briefing today, we learned a lot more about what to expect when benchmarking Nehalem, and much of it answered the exact questions that have been lingering in my mind for some time. If you read our overview on Nehalem already, then you know the benefits of the...

Greetings from the Fall 2008 Intel Developer Forum! Day 1 is done, and we've already heard speeches from some of the biggest names at the company, regarding new products and the company's future direction, as well as the significance of technological progress worldwide. We've got your details...

Intel opened up about their Nehalem architecture at this summer's IDF, and while we are unable to talk about performance data, what we can talk about is of great interest. Read on as we take a brief look at Turbo Mode, HyperThreading, CPU and Memory overclocking, the triple-channel memory...

From IDF:During Pat Gelsinger's keynote this afternoon, he touched on many different areas around computing that Intel is playing a large role in, in the coming years, one of which was Nehalem. Pat touched on some of the workstation aspects of the upcoming processor, but we are more interested...

From our front-page news: For the first time in a while, AMD now dominates both the mid-range and high-end GPU market, and it's good to see. Competition is good, and AMD's offerings up to recently haven't instilled much faith in us, or the investors. As we saw in our coverage of the HD 4870 X2...

From our front-page news: If the reminder I posted the other day wasn't enough, let's try it all again. As you read this, Rory and I will have probably already landed in San Francisco, ready to take in all that Intel's Developer Forum will throw at us. If you didn't read the post I made the...

Hi all: I am looking for a good RSS-reader for Windows that isn't web-based. I've been using Liferea for Linux for a while, and it has been treating me well, but I'll be forced to using Windows on an upcoming business trip, so I'd like to know what alternatives there are. The RSS-reader I...

From our front-page news: I've said it a million times before, but I'll say it again, "Time flies.". Ten years ago, Apple released a new computer that really, really caught people off-guard. It was so different, and many people were undecided on whether to even like it or not. I personally...

Need to build a new rig on the cheap? Need modest Crossfire support, and a decent feature-set? The ECS P45T-A might be worthy of your consideration, as it packs in a good amount of functionality, solid performance, a cool color scheme and of course, a good price tag, of around $110. You can...

From our front-page news: Intel shot out a press release yesterday that I somehow completely overlooked, which details the 0.9 spec for USB 3.0, and it clears up many questions that lingered in the air. The most important one being that the spec is becoming available to all members of the USB...

From our front-page news: There's little worse than needing a file fast, and not being able to find it. The search tool in Vista is almost useless, and overly complicated, but what other options are there? Surprisingly, there are loads of options available and they go far beyond anything the...

From our front-page news: This past Monday, I linked to an Ars Technica article that discussed Cliff Harris, an agitated game developer who's tired of his games being pirated, and rightfully so. He raised the question to the pirates themselves, "Why do you pirate games?" Seems like a...

From our front-page news: It's not all too often that a new notebook comes around that is truly unique, because let's face it, it's hard to do something interesting with such a confined amount of space. Well, Lenovo has gone ahead and released what appears to be the mobile warrior's ultimate...

Our latest recruit, Zach Brown, takes a look at OCZ's first gaming keyboard, the Elixir, which is part of their new Alchemy series. OCZ prepares to take on the world of gaming keyboards with their new Alchemy Elixir, part of the company's Alchemy lineup of gaming peripherals. How does it stack...

From our front-page news: It looks as though AMD is preparing to split in half, and it might happen a lot sooner than we would have expected. TG Daily has the details on the upcoming Asset Light and Asset Smart strategies, which are being lead by current Chairman of the Board, Hector Ruiz...

Rory and I will be heading to San Fran next week for IDF, so I thought we should all refresh our memories of what happened there last year! From our front-page news: It's almost that time of the year again, when we'll be heading down to San Francisco for Intel's Developer Forum, a conference...