Thanks to strong demand, plasma display panel (PDP) makers have secured orders through the first quarter of 2006 and the shortage of PDPs is not likely to ease in 2006, according to unspecified PDP makers Read more
Mountain House (CA) - Starting yesterday, American TV viewers will tune in for NCAA's March Madness, college basketball tournament that saw more giant killing feats in its history than any other. Read more
AMD will upgrade its Athlon 64 X2 and 64-FX processor lines early next year - potentially the chips' final Socket 939 incarnations before the company debuts its M2 interconnect in Q2 2006. Read more
LED backlights introduced by various TFT LCD panel and backlight unit (BLU) makers where on display at various flat panel display exhibitions this year, such as Finetech Japan & Display 2006 (April 19-21), Computex 2006 (June 6-10) and FPD Taiwan 2006 (June 14-16), according to research firm WitsView Technology. Read more
All motherboards support overclocking—now it’s time for power-saving. Here we evaluate products from ASRock, Asus, Foxconn, Gigabyte and MSI, weighing both performance and power consumption, to determine which P45 motherboard is most efficient. Read more
We're gearing up to start the international preliminaries of our Overdrive overclocking championship, which will determine who gets to graduate from Core 2 Duo to tweaking Core i7 965 Extreme. Read on for more about the vision behind this event. Read more
AMD’s shift in focus to high-value multi-core processors has disappointed performance fanatics, but overclocking helps. We tested the company's latest enthusiast parts to find out if there are any real performance gains. Read more
How far are PC graphics away from reality? Tom's Hardware takes a second look at the effects and tricks used currently by game developers to achieve more realism than ever before. Read more