According to Charlie Wiederhold, one of the developers who worked for 3D Realms between 1998 and 2006, Duke Nukem Forever was a project concocted by industry leaders that would span decades... on purpose. Read more
Originally scheduled to launch in November or December this year, Intel's Nehalem-based Bloomfield processors will now launch in September along with X58 chipsets, sources at motherboard makers revealed. Read more
Will the digital age bring an end to squabbles over which TV channel to watch? Sharp Corp. Read more
Corsair will be launching their newest and fastest RAM at the upcoming Cebit show in Germany. Intel users can purchase the Twin2x1024-8500 DDR2 RAM which runs at 1066 Mhz, while AMD fans can buy the Twinx2048-4400Pro which clocks in at 550 Mhz. 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
Do you want a quick Core i7 system, but don’t feel confident sticking to Intel's spec and using the DDR3-1066 memory supported by the processor? We benchmark the most relevant memory speed and timing combinations to check the benefit of going faster. Read more