Ati has released their Catalyst 6.3 drivers that include many bug fixes and a video encoder that can cut video conversion times by up to 80%. Weighing in at almost 60 megaBytes the new drivers will solves rendering problems on popular games like Farcry, Call of Duty 2 and World of Warcraft. In fact, owners of Ati Radeon X1800 and X1900 videos cards should expect to see a 5% to 10% increase in frame-rates from the new drivers. Read more
Toshiba demonstrated that its Cell microprocessor, jointly developed with the Sony Group and IBM Corp., can simultaneously decode 48 SDTV format MPEG-2 streams. Read more
We have rendered and uploaded several new videos to our the Computex microsite. The new videos cover the gamut from executive interviews to the Tom's Hardware Guide's very own boothbabe using the Zalman heatsink as a makeup mirror. All videos come in streaming WMV format and some are available as a downloadable, high-quality H.264 video file. Read more
A site called Delutube has taken advantage of the fact that "deleted" videos on YouTube apparently remain available for viewing up to an hour or so after they can no longer be accessed on YouTube.com itself Read more
Our international Overdrive overclocking competition finals are underway in Paris. But before we start streaming the goings-on in France, we want to present the results of our Italian trials. Read more
Synology really impressed us with the performance of its Disk Station DS408. Can the same company do it again with its Disk Station DS207+? Read more
AMD recently launched its Radeon 4830 to take on Nvidia's GeForce 9800 GT. With PowerColor and Sapphire flavors in single- and CrossFire-configurations, we pitch the card against factory-overclocked 8800 GTs and see who is left standing. Read more
Most modern drives can be set to deliver maximum performance or to operate quietly. We looked at how performance, acoustics, and power requirements change when switching from fast to quiet using Hitachi’s Deskstar 7K1000.B. Read more
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