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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...

The humorous thing is that it's really odd to use the word "only", because really, 600MB/s is an incredible jump. It's not as mind-bogglingly huge of a jump as say, USB 2.0 to USB 3.0, but it's far from being ho-hum. Truth is still though, we're hardly even scratching the surface of S-ATA 2.0...

Doomsday, the Thermalright cooler there looks to be a great choice. If it's $55 USD in that paste, then it's not going to be a horrible deal either. Those fans are going to be a little loud, but if you plan to use one on the CPU cooler, it should do a fantastic job at keeping the CPU stable. I...

I'll link to the article you're referring to: http://techreport.com/articles.x/15905 AMD's latest chips do excel in certain tests, but there's no such thing as an all-around performance boost, sadly. I do think they're making great strides with power consumption though. I'd say judging by...

Like Doomsday said, I would refer to our article last week for help: http://techgage.com/article/ati_hd_4870_1gb_vs_nvidia_gtx_260216_896mb/ Currently, the NVIDIA GTX 260/216 looks to be the best deal overall for that price-range (it's the $349 eVGA model in your screenshots). It also depends...

There's the problem... what we're told is far too vague. Does the timedemo take advantage of all threads? This is something I should test out later today... because if so, it would essentially mean that it took two Core i7 GPUs to match the performance from Intel's IGP. Unless of course they are...

That PSU is more than capable, no question. Take a look at a power consumption graph from our recent comparison: During game use, the PC didn't even manage to hit 300W. You might go a little bit over depending on what you're doing, but you're safe overall. With that resolution, the 9600 GT...

An anti-virus comparison is an idea I've been tossing around for a while, but I haven't been able to settle on the perfect methodology for testing. Ideally, it'd be interesting to test a slew of such applications and see which one is the most efficient, has the smallest footprint, is the...

Are you using the absolute latest drivers (8.11)? There was an issue a few months ago similar to this that was stomped out, as far as I know, so you might want to upgrade to the latest drivers and see if the problem goes away.

It's true, and makes sense since the company wants to spend as little as possible. If it is sealed and stll has that "new board smell", then it might very-well be new. I'm really not sure how Intel handles things like that.

That's a good overall look, but I'm curious at improvements for games not shown on the "improvement" list. If the optimizations weren't game-specific, then many new games should see a nice boost in performance. I don't think even 10% will sell anybody, but like we said in the article, there's...

What kind of overclock is placed on his processor? For the most part, one reason I can't hit great clocks like some is that I'm in a rather small room that locks the heat in, and when you have another machine running 24/7 in addition to a few other things, the ambient temperature is usually...

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...

Travelling Without Moving from Jamiroquai would be my pick.

Linux support for the Xonar has been around for a little while, and I believe it was officially included in the 2.6.26 kernel, if memory serves. So, any distro that has a release with at least that kernel version should support the Xonar. Of course, nothing would ever stop someone from manually...

I agree, and I'm impressed. I live in Canada, and rarely have to buy hardware anyway, so I wouldn't be able to take much advantage of this, but given the majority of our forum visitors are from the US, I can see this being useful knowledge. I'm surprised by how it works, actually. It takes some...