If you can read this text your card has not failed. On a serious note – AMD partner Diamond Multimedia is reporting that it has shipped 15,000 up to potentially 20,000 Radeon 3800 series cards that suffer from an apparent ‘design / manufacture’ defects. Read more
ATI follows Nvidia with the launch of its first commercially available graphics card that is equipped with 512 MByte memory. The company however chose to load the additional memory onto a mainstream card and price it 50 percent less below Nvidia's 512 MByte card. Read more
Following rumors in the past week, Innovative Silicon (ISi) today announced that AMD has licensed its Z-RAM technology that may enable the processor manufacturer not only to increase on-chip memory sizes for its CPUs but also reduce I/O power consumption. ISi claims to have Z-RAM technology currently running on 90 nm SOI silicon. Read more
Infineon takes its dual-die tall memory technology one step further: The company announced it is sampling DDR2-400 modules with a capacity of 8 GByte. Also new are DDR2-800 devices for enthusiast and performance PC. Read more
We compare the latest 500 GB notebook drives from Fujitsu, Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate, Toshiba and WD. Seagate is first manufacturer to reach 500 GB at 7,200 RPM, but which is really the best drive? We loaded up our updated test system to find out. Read more
You don’t always need the fastest graphics card around. For somewhere between $135 and $235, you can game like crazy in DirectX 10 without a problem at 1920x1200. We test and compare five graphics cards from this mid-range price segment. Read more
The new USB 3.0 interface is just about ready. It'll accelerate throughput from the 480 Mbit/s of today's USB 2.0 to 5 Gbit/s, which is important for storage and peripheral devices. But USB 3.0 also introduces power saving options. Read on for more. Read more
Hardware and software support for 64-bit operating systems is available, but the full 64-bit reality may still cause you some distress. We created a short summary of things you need to take into account before installing a 64-bit OS for the first time. Read more
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