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From our front-page news: AMD has decided to lead the pack where GPU memory is concerned, and Qimonda is the company to deliver. The Radeon 4000 series, which will launch next month, will be the first to feature GDDR5, an evolutionary upgrade to GDDR4, which will feature faster speeds, improved...

From our front-page news: While NVIDIA's 9-series launch seemed a bit lackluster, given that they were primarily an over-glorified 8-series (though I can't say enough good about the 9600 GT), the companies' upcoming GTX 200 cards are looking to wipe the disgruntled looks off all our faces...

From our front-page news: According to Chinese hardware site HKEPC, Intel will be discontinuing the current high-end QX9650 Extreme processor in Q3, with an identically-specced mid-range offering, appropriately named, Q9650. The new CPU will be identical all-around to the QX9650, including the...

From our front-page news: When I reviewed Gateway's XHD3000 a few months ago, I complained that Linux would not work with it at the native resolution. To me, that was a big problem, since I occasionally benchmark under Linux on our test rigs. Other than that though, the monitor was fantastic...

Building a new machine and want DDR3 support? Then the X48T-DQ6 should be up for consideration. It offers great performance, very stable high overclocks (500MHz) and lots of connectivity, including a full eight USB ports at the back. The layout is not ideal, but the board still proves good...

From our front-page news: It's time again to peruse the results of the latest hardware survey on Steam. There are a few interesting and not-so-interesting results this time around. First up is network speed, which shows less than 5% are still on dial-up, while another 30% are on a 1Mbit or...

From our front-page news: The latest version of Adobe's Flash is coming soon, but for those antsy, there is a public beta now available. "Public" might be the wrong word, since it's designed for developers, but there will no doubt be far more public testers than developers. The latest version...

From our front-page news:You might have thought that the entire Microhoo! deal was long over, but that might not be the case. Microsoft withdrew their bid two weekends ago, but we found out only a day later that Yahoo! would be up for more negotiation. What that proved to us was that Yahoo! only...

From our front-page news: We posted the other day about a Wall Street Journal article that claimed Dell was pulling their XPS gaming line-up in order to focus primarily on Alienware. As it was quoted, the XPS line was "cutting into" Alienware's profits... which did seem like an odd claim to...

From our front-page news: In case you happened to miss it yesterday, I posted a brief article taking a look at the latest iteration of DeviceVM's Splashtop, as seen on ASUS' upcoming P5Q Deluxe. Numerous sites posted about this yesterday, but not a single one posted much info in any real depth...

From our front-page news: It's rare to see an open-source application split up into two parts of a "fork", but Pidgin is one such victim. Late last month, arguments between the development staff over a controversial feature forced one side to split off and develop a version that should be...

DeviceVM's Splashtop embedded Linux environment looks to be sticking around a while, thanks to ASUS' decision to make the technology available on all of their upcoming motherboards. To find out what's new, we are taking a look at the latest version, as seen on the upcoming P5Q Deluxe. You can...

From our front-page news: OCZ has long been known as a company to offer products for the enthusiast. We have memory of course, CPU coolers (even thermal paste), power supplies, flash memory and even a mouse. So what's next? How about a do-it-yourself gaming notebook? Yea, I didn't see this one...

From our front-page news: UMPC Portal has the scoop on what could become the first MID on the market to feature Intel's new Atom mobile processor. It comes courtesy of Gigabyte, and is called the M528 3G, the 3G representing the upcoming mobile standard. The device packs in a speedy 800MHz Atom...

From our front-page news: Google Earth is an amazing application for spending hours scouring our beautiful globe, but it's not that great for surfing through space. The options there, but it's clunky as best. Microsoft hopes to one or two-up Google Earth's attempt with WorldWide Telescope, a...

When the budget is tight and you have to have a quality free flowing case for that next gaming PC you are building, who are you going to give your money to? Once again, Cooler Master has a new release for under $70 that looks to be jam packed with the features you are looking for. You can read...

From our front-page news:It almost feels like Intel just launched their P35 chipset, but it's been close to a year. Since that release, we saw both the X38 and X48 chipsets come to fruition, so the next step is of course the P45 (and G45). We are in the process of working on a review for the...

From our front-page news: Dell's XPS machines have long been statures in their product line-up, but according to the Wall Street Journal, it might not remain that way for much longer. In an attempt to either have a slimmer line-up or push more people towards their recent acquisition, Alienware...

Hypersonic's known for building performance PCs, so where did this sub-notebook come from? Don't worry, it packs a punch, with its 2.5GHz Intel CPU, 4GB of RAM and 200GB 7200RPM hard drive. After taking pricing and feature set into consideration, we have good reason to be impressed. You can...

From our front-page news:Last week, I posted somewhat of a <strike>small</strike> large rant to do with BioWare and EA's adding of some asinine copy protection to Mass Effect and Spore, respectively. Well, I was clearly not the only person annoyed, as not one, but both companies came forth on...