ATI today said that it will develop a new approach to use system memory rather than more dedicated memory on its graphics card. HyperMemory will use PCI Express to reach higher performance levels than shared memory solutions in the past while maintaining lower price levels. Read more
Stun guns could soon be able to deliver a disabling shock even to recipients wearing insulating clothing. Read more
PCI Express allows Nvidia to tap into system memory to save expensive on-board graphics memory and achieve high performance at the same time. Tom's Hardware Guide and other publications however raised concerns over a possibly misleading naming of the cards and prompted Nvidia to revise the product name. Read more
ATI Technologies plans to introduce a new version of its entry-level Radeon X300 graphics chip, this time with memory sharing technology in early 2005, according to sources at Taiwan graphics card makers. Read more
This month's System Builder Marathon spreads the system prices out even further to $4,500, $1,500, and $500. Is today’s $4,500 system really worth three times as much as an upper-mainstream performance machine? Read more
We'd all love to upgrade every time a new piece of gaming hardware drops, but that's an expensive proposition. You think your Athlon 64 system is fairly quick--any chance a simple graphics upgrade can bring it up speed? We're aiming to find out. Read more
We've been publishing our networked storage stories using Intel's NAS Performance tool kit as our primary benchmark. But before we went any further, we thought we'd introduce the software package and its individual components. Read more
How close do PC graphics and effects get to the real world? Tom's Hardware takes a look and shows you the progress that’s been made so far, along with the tricks of the trade used by game developers. Read more