Computex 2005 Early Bird Coverage: NVIDIA's G70, Athlon 64 BTX and more
With the show a day away from starting, we've already seen the first AMD BTX motherboard, a number of NVIDIA G70 graphics cards, an Intel motherboard that can be...
80 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/30/2005IGP Rides Again: Chipset Roadmaps from NVIDIA, ATI
NVIDIA ignored their IGP market for the better part of a year while ATI kept trying to develop one. Both companies have some tight lipped IGP projects on...
10 by Kristopher Kubicki on 5/26/2005Intel's Pentium 4 670: Just Another Speed Bump
Intel has launched another Pentium 4 6xx speed grade; this time, hitting 3.8 GHz. We run a few of our standard tests to find out how the latest processor...
33 by Derek Wilson on 5/26/2005Integrated Graphics: Xpress 200 vs. GMA 950
Having already looked at budget discrete solutions, we break out our integrated solutions to see how the latest on-board technology holds up.
30 by Derek Wilson on 5/26/2005Samsung SyncMaster 915N: 8ms Response Times
Have we finally hit the Holy Grail of LCDs? Samsung has an 8ms 19" LCD that is the talk of the town, but is it enough to stand...
43 by Kristopher Kubicki on 5/25/2005Buyer's Guide: Mid-Range to High-End, May 2005
Our latest Buyer's Guide takes a look at the moderate to extreme price and performance segments, starting at around $1500. For those who aren't looking to build a...
60 by Jarred Walton on 5/23/2005Price Guides, May 2005: Processors
Inside this week's edition: dual core AMD chips, second generation 90nm Athlon 64s, 64-bit Intel processors, and some details on Intel's upcoming release schedule.
23 by Kristopher Kubicki on 5/22/2005Xbox 360 - Up Close & Personal with Live, the Console and the Wireless Controller
Although information about the next-gen consoles was limited, we were able to get some time with the new Xbox Live, the actual console itself and the new wireless controller...
33 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/20/2005E3 2005 - Day 2: More Details Emerge on Console GPUs
Details on NVIDIA's RSX and ATI's Xbox 360 GPU are scarce, but we did our best to gather details that have yet to be published.
22 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/19/2005Budget Graphics Strike Back: Revenge of the RAM
We spend some time testing budget graphics cards with slower RAM in order to verify their predicted behavior on cheaper systems.
21 by Derek Wilson on 5/19/2005ATI demos R520 GPU at E3
ATI was demonstrating Remedy's upcoming title Alan Wake on R520 silicon...
32 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/18/2005E3 2005 - Day 1: The Xbox 360 Update
Our first few hours of this year's E3 were spent searching for the Xbox 360...
31 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/18/2005The Quest for More Processing Power, Part Three: "Multi core of Intel and AMD compared"
How do the current dual cores of Intel and AMD compare? What are the architectural differences of the current cores? Can we quantify these differences? What will be the...
28 by Johan De Gelas on 5/18/2005Processor Obfuscation and You: An Update on AMD and Intel CPUs
Both AMD and Intel have quite a few shipping processor models on the market right now. In order to clear up the confusion, we decided that it was...
55 by Kristopher Kubicki & Jarred Walton on 5/17/2005