Back in August, Many Asian based rumor sites noted that Nvidia’s ForceWare 180 drivers will introduce several major changes. Read more
Hardware review sites have typically plastered up charts, numbers and flashy pictures with every new graphics card release, but we're going to do something a little different today with our review of the Palit 9600 GT card. We already know that most modern cards have more than enough power to play most games, so we'll concentrate the card's HDMI output capabilities, namely can you connect the card to your HD television set and how does the picture look. Read more
Falling boulders, the ones that usually come crashing down on Indiana Jones, come with effects we expect to see in movies - but we typically cannot enjoy in video games. That is about to change. Physics is about to make its way into enthusiast computers: Nvidia's SLI physics will bring "thousands" of objects to life and realistically simulate how they interact with each other. Read more
The Windows 7 team is still at work putting the finishing touches on the highly anticipated operating system. Read more
The latest 2 TB hard drives are still expensive, but 1.5 TB disks provide low power consumption at a better cost-to-capacity ratio. We look at offerings from Samsung and Western Digital to determine the value of taking a step down from the flagships. Read more
When a new paradigm like cloud computing or a new platform like Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) comes along, it’s smart to ask tough questions. Read more
With 36 lanes of PCIe 2.0, 3-way SLI could be the X58 chipset’s biggest challenge. If that turns out to be true, is Nvidia’s nForce 200 controller hub, which multiplexes the platform's connectivity, a solution? We compare three configurations to find out. Read more
Once we make the jump to Gigabit Ethernet, the expected tenfold increase in network speed doesn't seem to materialize. We'll look at the basics of gigabit networks, what limits their performance, and how we can get the best possible speed out of them. Read more