Results from a survey recently fielded by Entertainment for All Expo indicate some surprising trends relating to women and video games. Front and center: many women would rather play video games than catch up on Continue reading “Women Choose Video Games Instead of Sleep”.
With Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s cash reserves dwindling and the chip maker’s overall financial health deteriorating to dangerous levels last year, the company was thrown a lifeline by Lehman Brothers, the investment bank now in Continue reading “Lehman lifeline was critical to chip maker AMD”.
Microsoft has informed some of its partners that it has had to delay Windows Mobile 7, a much anticipated update to its cell phone operating system. Although Microsoft has not publicly said when to expect Continue reading “Microsoft Windows Mobile 7 release delayed”.
Micron’s investigation into acquiring Qimonda has progressed and a deal is likely to happen, according to a note from analyst Doug Freedman of American Technology Research. One of the key drivers for the deal is Continue reading “Micron-Qimonda deal likely to happen, says analyst”.
Asus has pulled out all the stops with the creation of its Rampage Extreme motherboard. Just when you thought all innovation was finished with the LGA775 platform, Asus pulls a fast one on you. The Rampage Extreme is a physical manifestation of an overclockers dream motherboard. Read on to see what makes this board one of the best motherboards of all time!
The world’s largest atom smasher, which was launched with great fanfare earlier this month, is more badly damaged than previously thought and will be out of commission for at least two months, its operators said Continue reading “Large Hadron Collider down for 2 months due to hot magnets”.
Intel released its dual-core Atom 330 processor on September 21 which will mainly target the nettop market. The CPU features a core frequency of 1.6GHz, 533MHz FSB, 1MB L2 cache and has a TDP of Continue reading “Intel launches dual-core Atom processor – Atom 330”.
You can find reviews from around the web by visiting our forums! The following exerpt is from OCC’s Antec Signature 850W Review: “I would highly recommend the Antec Signature 850W to anyone considering high end Continue reading “September 19 News from Around the Web”.
GIGABYTE’s first annual overclocking competition, the GIGABYTE Open Overclocking Championship (GO OC 2008) is set to begin. A total of 50 of the world�s top overclockers will fly to Taiwan to join the competition and Continue reading “GIGABYTE Open Overclocking Championship Ready To Begin”.
The launch of second-phase Intel Nehalem-based CPUs (scheduled for the third quarter of 2009) is expected to have a corresponding impact on substrate demand, according to industry sources. Although the number of IC substrates will Continue reading “Intel Nehalem CPUs expected to boost substrate demand”.
Nvidia said late Thursday afternoon that it will eliminate roughly 360 jobs, or 6.5% of the company’s workforce. In a statement, Nvidia Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang described the cuts as “difficult, but necessary.” The Santa Continue reading “Nvidia To Slash 6.5% of Workforce”.
A couple of days ago the great and powerful forces over at NVIDIA launched a new graphics card called the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216. This new graphics card was launched to fill the gap between the GeForce GTX 260 and GeForce GTX 280. What gap might this be? It would be the gap where the ATI Radeon HD 4870 would be performing. Read on to see how this new graphics card does in the benchmarks and we also overclock it and run F@H on it to top things off!
TV viewers can return to their favorite programs without fear of seeing Bill Gates shaking his tushie now that Microsoft has retired a bizarre 2-week-old ad campaign featuring the software giant’s chairman with comedian Jerry Continue reading “Microsoft ends ads featuring Gates, comedian Seinfeld”.
Just weeks after my 12 month warranty ran out on my 42″ Philips Plasma TV (model number 42PF7321D/37) ran out I had problems with my TV. I’d get blue dots on the screen after the Continue reading “Does Your Philips Plasma TV Have Blue Dots When It Heats Up?”.
ATI has just released Catalyst 8.9 for Windows Vista, Windows XP and Linux platforms on amd.com, so be sure to get them if you need them. The drivers have the usual game patches, but also Continue reading “ATI Releases Catalyst 8.9 Video Card Drivers for Download”.
