Gigabyte is shipping its third dual-chip graphics card. The new 3D1-68GT is based on two GeForce 6800 GT chips and will come close to the performance of two GeForce 6800 Ultra cards in SLI mode, according to Gigabyte. Read more
After years of Creative's dominance and players who would occasionally manage to produce a product that was relatively competitive, Taiwan giant ASUS decided to step up to sound card table. Read more
Last week Via showed off a new energy-efficient chipset that’s slick trick is decoding 1080p video. Now the company is cramming that capability into a netbook. Read more
The DRAM is in the midst of its next major shift with DDR2 memory production beginning to outpace DDR1 devices. Samsung is the first manufacturer to announce that it has reached this mark. The company sees "plenty of life left in DDR2" and expects to double module capacity to 4 GByte later this year. Read more
We recently had the chance to play a bit of Cryostasis, the latest title supporting Nvidia's PhysX technology. In fact, we played the game on five different hardware configurations. Want to play this one? We'll tell you what you need in order to enjoy it. Read more
Hard drive capacities have increased in large increments over the last few years, while trends indicate reduced spindle speeds of 5,400 RPM instead of 7,200. We looked at three generations of Samsung hard drives to analyze the performance ramifications. Read more
This month, ATI's new Radeon HD 4770 is missing in action, since online stores are not only unable to keep it in stock, but also de-listing it completely. With violent movements in pricing, though, it'd have been taken off the recommended list anyway. Read more
Nvidia's Ion for the do-it-yourselfer launched last month in the form of Zotac's mini-ITX motherboard. Though sexy in principle, the platform had some teething pains right out of the gate. Chris Angelini revisits those issues and uses Ion as a real HTPC. Read more
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