What lies in store for the remainder of 2008? In a word, plenty! We put together a list of sixteen titles...
May 8, 2008
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Antec just launched their new Signature series of power supplies, designed to provide a top-quality...
May 7, 2008
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We provide our first look at NVIDIA’s latest chipset that provides integrated graphics functionality...
May 6, 2008
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blog post by Anand Lal Shimpi
Oh we're getting close.
With doors hung and all of the drywall work done in the rest of the basement (and thus no chance for even more dust to get in the theater), we put in the call for the carpeting people to bring the theater carpet by. Ryan Kramer (the designer of the theater) suggested 'Wavelength' from Masland Carpet and he updated the render to include...
May 9, 2008, 9 comments
digitalcameras
Are 12MP, two flavors of Live View, and an Image Stabilized kit lens enough to keep Canon in front in the fiercely competitive entry DSLR market?...
May 5, 2008, 54 comments
storage
We provide a quick update on the WD VR150 series after receiving a new drive from Western Digital that proves this dinosaur is serious about ruling the storage world....
May 2, 2008, 28 comments
displays
We have five new 24" LCDs plus results from previous LCDs. We also have some new tests to unveil. Can we crown a clear victor for the WUXGA throne?...
May 1, 2008, 73 comments
gadgets
I've been building a theater now for several months, but more recently I've been focusing on building a HTPC to drive the whole thing. Follow me on my journey for the perfect HTPC......
May 1, 2008, 49 comments
mb
Our 780G boards from Jetway, ASRock, and Gigabyte all survived unharmed after coming face to face with the 9850BE (disclaimer - read fine print on cooling requirements). ...
April 30, 2008, 15 comments
other
2007 proved to be an amazing year for gaming and 2008 is shaping up to be no different with an early start thanks to Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto IV. You've undoubtedly read about the game by now, but here are our thoughts on what makes it great, and how it falls short. A critical look at GTA4....
April 30, 2008, 56 comments
casecoolingpsus
It took longer than expected, but Corsair now joins the crowd of companies offering kilowatt power supplies. We put their latest offering through our tests to see if it brings anything new to market....
April 29, 2008, 17 comments
blog post by Rajinder Gill
Cellshock recently sent us 4GB of their latest high-end performance DDR3 memory kit that we will be reviewing shortly. In the meantime, the press release is listed below along with some of our initial comments.
"This is the top of
the line CellShock memory and is targeted at enthusiasts and high end gamers.
These memory Kits are based on very best...
April 29, 2008, 0 comments
other
Futuremark's 3DMark graphics test suite returns after a one year hiatus. What's new and what can we look forward to for the coming ORB competitions?...
April 29, 2008, 19 comments
mb
We put the latest DFI offering to the test. What does their X48 offering bring to the competitive enthusiast market?...
April 28, 2008, 23 comments
blog post by Anand Lal Shimpi
The theater has been progressing well, especially over the past couple of weeks. First off we had to put up all of the treatments on the walls:
The theater also finally has power. Some of the lighting fixtures have already been installed, although I'm waiting on getting the cloth panels up on the walls before putting the sconces on the walls.
Lighting...
April 28, 2008, 21 comments
blog post by Johan De Gelas
IBM has launched a very interesting product lately: the JS22 blade. The IBM JS22 blade server has two dual-core Power6 CPUs, clocked at an impressive 4 GHz. Even more interesting is the honesty of the IBM marketing team about the Sun x4450 server. IBM took the Peak SpecInt2006 of several servers published on spec.org and made a...
April 28, 2008, 6 comments
blog post by Gary Key
Western Digital is finally launching a successor to the
Raptor EL150 family of drives that has been around since 2003. This
enterprise designed drive series is one that quickly made its home on just
about every enthusiast desktop. Capacities started at 36GB, soon grew to
76GB, and then topped out at 150GB for what seemed like an...
April 21, 2008, 25 comments
blog post by Jarred Walton
Dell's top-end LCD recently made headlines
when it disappeared from the Dell website. There has been no official recall of
3008 LCDs already shipped, which leaves some users wondering if they might get
stuck owning a $2000 v1.0 lemon. We first heard about the 3008WFP in late 2007,
and quite a few were on display at the Dell CES 2008 booth. We've had...
April 16, 2008, 27 comments
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