Smartphone Buying Guide: First Half of 2011

That said, it also lacks a front-facing camera and doesn’t include HDMI output.

February 18, 2011 · 1 min · 13 words · Frank Smith

Asus E35M1-M Pro Review: A Look at AMD's Fusion Platform

Compared to the Atom, we found the E-350 to be much more powerful.

February 16, 2011 · 1 min · 13 words · Laura Navarro

Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti Review

Maximum in-game visuals were used with 4xAA and a 60-second gameplay recording. Call of Duty: Black OpsFraps was used to benchmark CoD: Black Ops in single-player mode. We measured frame rates during a minute of gameplay from the first level (Operation 40). This had the GeForce GTX 560 Ti pulling ahead the Radeon HD 6950 by a 11% margin.

January 25, 2011 · 1 min · 59 words · Dominic Martin

Most Anticipated PC Games of 2011

Guild Wars 2 will allow a player to create a character from five races and eight professions. Despite an increased character level of 80, ArenaNet has placed mechanics to avoid forcing players into grinding. American malls, suburbs and city streets are now battlegrounds as the civilian resistance fights for freedom. The PC version of the game will reportedly feature exclusive content and dedicated servers. The game will focus on the Battle of Stalingrad and the surrounding operations from July 1942 to February 1943....

January 18, 2011 · 1 min · 117 words · Connor Mathews

JetWay MIH67M-HU3 Bios A02_W

Fix clear CMOS is invalid.

January 12, 2011 · 1 min · 5 words · Sabrina Garrett

JetWay NF96FL-510-LF / NF96FL-525-LF Bios A05

Fix 6150 card detect issue.2.

January 12, 2011 · 1 min · 5 words · Gary Thomas

Kingston SSDNow V+180 64GB SSD Review

The 64GB model we have costs $2.56 per gigabyte with atotal price of about $164. This tiny drive packs eight 8GB NAND flash chips for a total capacity of 64GB. Unlike SandForce-based drives however, the SSDNow V+180 can effectively use the full capacity for user storage. The SandForce SF-1200 controller does this because it doesn’t incorporate a cache buffer. The SSDNow V+180 Series is rated for a read throughput of 230MB/s and a write performance of 180MB/s....

January 11, 2011 · 1 min · 152 words · Christine Rogers

Customize the Firefox 4 Interface With a Few Simple Tweaks

Simply relocate those icons next to the awesome bar, for example. To customize your Firefox UI go to Add-ons then in the Options dialog choose the desired options. I hardly ever use this button. You just need to do a little editing in your about:config page. Setting it to ‘0’ will mean only the active tab has a close button. For a few other Firefox-related tweaks you’re able to check out our previous tips:

January 7, 2011 · 1 min · 74 words · Sophia Strong

Silverstone Raven 2 Evolution (RV02-E) ATX Case Review

However, the fan controller is not powered, so each fan must still be plugged into the motherboard. At the front, there are five external 5.25" bays in the typical location. Unlike the RV02, our RV02-E doesn’t feature tool-less bays. These fans are part of the new Silverstone AP (Air Penetrator) Series. All this adds up to an operating volume of 18 ~ 34dBA depending on the operating speed. The non-removable motherboard tray features excellent cable management with three large openings to route wires....

January 6, 2011 · 1 min · 96 words · John Hayes

Intel's Sandy Bridge Microarchitecture Debuts: Core i5 2500K and Core i7 2600K CPUs Reviewed

app performance was also excellent. We saw impressive results when testing with Microsoft Excel 2010, but Adobe Photoshop CS5 truly made them shine. Thegaming performanceresults also painted an encouraging picture. The Core i7 2600K is priced at $317 with the standard version costing slightly less at $294. The Core i5 2500K costs $216, and $205 for the standard version. The best part is consumers will enjoy the 2nd generation of Intel Core processors without paying a price premium....

January 3, 2011 · 1 min · 78 words · Amy Baker

Lian Li PC-V2120 Full Tower Case Review

The motherboard can be installed in a matter of minutes and slid right back into the chassis. This means that I would need to remove the board to change heatsinks / backplates. I’ve actually seen very few access panels line up properly with most boards perhaps they should be larger. Since this is an H55 board, I will be using the integrated Intel HD graphics on the CPU. This unfortunately means I won’t be able to test out the VGA card pillar....

December 29, 2010 · 2 min · 314 words · Garrett Lowe

AMD Radeon HD 6950 Review

The Radeon HD 6950 delivered 64fps at 1920x1200 which made it 3% slower than the HD 5870. Our last gaming test, Splinter Cell Conviction had the Radeon HD 6950 returning average performance.

December 27, 2010 · 1 min · 32 words · Steve Long

OCZ RevoDrive X2 240GB PCI-Express SSD Review

The test is run three times and the average result is recorded. Generally, all three runs are pretty much identical. The above graphs show both transfer time in seconds and throughput in MB/s. The program copy test is comprised of many small non-compressed files. Compared to the OCZ Vertex 2 Pro 100GB, the RevoDrive X2 240GB was 3.1 times quicker. Again we saw a sustained throughput of 232MB/s, while the Vertex 2 Pro 100GB managed just 73....

December 20, 2010 · 1 min · 109 words · John Greer