The enthusiast PC market tends to go all out when it comes to cooling their components no matter what they might be. Cooling blocks exist for just about anything as long as there are mounting holes around it and if there aren’t there’s always epoxy. Kingston wants to ease your mind about your memory’s thermal […]
Read more Kingston HyperX H20 cools off with the mighty power of liquids
AMD’s CPU performance has lagged Intel for a number of years now. That’s not to say that their chips don’t perform well but when you look at the other camp’s offerings it’s hard to pass up. The one saving grace for AMD is that their system chipsets have been top notch as of late so […]
Read more AMD 890FX motherboards rounded up, the budget gamer’s choice
I’m as big a fan as any of the high end computing setups and the cooling products that go along with them and sure rolling your own water cooling system will undoubtedly lead to great system temperatures but, sometimes, there are those shortcuts that are “good enough” that are extremely enticing. In this instance it’s […]
Read more CoolIT ECO C240 A.L.C. takes the guess work out of water cooling
Microsoft may be missing a few key targets in the computing realm, yes tablets and smartphones are what I’m alluding to, but their research division seems to come up with amazing techniques which could improve our daily lives…if they ever get put into use. Microsoft Research will be presenting a software technique at SIGGRAPH 2010 […]
Read more Microsoft Research technique removes image blur using components found in smartphones
Microsoft’s Windows 7 has had a grand time pulling in all manner of people looking to upgrade their operating system or already preloaded on new PCs and all of that market growth may just lead to an eco-friendlier planet, or at least a bit of savings on the old energy bill. It would seem the […]
Most people don’t realize just how much processing power is contained in modern GPUs and the fact that they can be programmed to do things other than pump out vivid graphics. It’s a massively parrallelized processor which can speed up time consuming tasks like video conversion, image manipulation, and even some database tasks. A pair […]
Read more CUDA taken into book form, for your learning needs
AMD’s way of segmenting their processor market and pricing structure has lead to a lot of choices for consumers but it gets downright confusing when you’re choosing between fewer cores and more cache or more cores and fewer cache. Of course more intrepid individuals have taken the time to document the performance differences between processors, […]
Read more AMD processor feature performance tested, dizzying array of mixing and matching
It’s disingenuous to say that your next gaming notebook purchase will be used for anything but destroying stuff in a virtual world but going for something a little understated means you can pretend you’re at least doing something a little more productive with your time. ASUS’ G73JH gaming laptop isn’t a fan of brash colors […]
Read more ASUS G73JH takes no guff from nobody
The Mini-ITX form factor promised all manner of space saving and energy friendly designs for scientific and industrial applications when it was launched but, as time went on, process refinements has turned it into a platform which can easily play host to some of the fastest processors and graphics cards on the market today. GIGABYTE’s […]
Read more GIGABYTE H55N-USB3 is comfortable in cramped spaces
With the amount of technology that goes into today’s modern components it’s difficult to keep track of what you need to license in order to make sure you won’t get sued into oblivion later on down the road. It would seem one company forgot to square certain things away. The International Trade Commission has found […]
