With the recent release of ATI’s Radeon 4850, we’re seeing a whole bunch of 4850 cards cropping up all over the place. The cat is barely out of the bag but we’ve already seen boards from Gigabyte, Asus, PowerColour, VisionTek, HIS, MSI, Diamond... Read more
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Exclusive - Taipei (Taiwan) - AMD's graphics team has put the finishing touches at its new GPU generation and actually has begun shipping the new 4850 card to OEM partners and retailers: The new Radeon series will sell for prices between $199 and $499. Read more
AMD's Radeon 4850 briefly made a sales spot on Amazon and other sites, but was eventually taken down. Specs however, were revealed. 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