AMD Radeon HD 6970 Review

Article Index Benchmarks: Far Cry 2, Aliens vs. We ran this DirectX 10 title at maximum in-game quality tweaks with 8xAA. Aliens vs. PredatorWe used the highly demanding DX11 benchmark from Alien vs. Predator playing through a test scene in the same sequence every time for accurate results. The maximum possible visuals were enabled along with 4xAA/16xAF. The Radeon HD 6970 bounced back in a big way when testing with Aliens vs....

December 15, 2010 · 1 min · 88 words · Joshua Johnson

AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition CPU Review

However, it does help improve the value of these high-end desktop processors by making the1090T BEmodeleven cheaper. The Intel CPU dominated all of ourapplicationandgaming benchmarks. Games such as Company of Heroes and Resident Evil 5 heavily favored the Core i7 930. It has great power consumption levels, overclocking abilities, and platform compatibility.

December 7, 2010 · 1 min · 52 words · David Heath

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 570 (1280MB) Review

We also saw a 9% margin favoring the GeForce GTX 570 over the Radeon HD 5870.

December 7, 2010 · 1 min · 16 words · Martin Wong

Asrock Vision 3D HTPC Review

Both the Asrock Core 100HT-BD and Vision 3D were considerably faster than our system in this app. Both the large single file and multiple smaller file tests favored the AMD Phenom II X2 560 system. The Asrock Vision 3D did however show considerable improvements over the Core 100HT-BD.

December 6, 2010 · 1 min · 48 words · Stephen Fields

Windows Live Mail 2011

Windows Live Mail will allow you organize your life all in one place on your PC. Add and see multiple email accounts in Mail, like Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo! Even see your email, calendars, and contacts when you don’t have an Internet connection. Note: This program has been discontinued by Microsoft and is no longer available for download. yo try one of the alternatives listed here. Add multiple email accounts to MailSee all of your email in one place....

December 2, 2010 · 1 min · 169 words · Dustin Harper

Asus Crosshair IV Extreme Motherboard Review: Lucid HydraLogix Inside

When you compare both motherboards on paper, it becomes clear how little they differ. It’s a bit of a messy scenario and it’s already caused us a number of headaches. Furthermore, we weren’t able to use any Radeon HD 6800 series graphics cards. We ultimately showed you very little testing with the HydraLogix engine as it was a bust. While some games such as Crysis showed small gains, most did not....

November 30, 2010 · 1 min · 113 words · Alan Barr

Samsung 470 Series 256GB SSD Review

Article Index Final Thoughts The Samsung 470 Series 256GB has certainly surprised us. This quiet achiever came from nowhere to dominate our performance charts with stellar performance. The extraordinary write throughput we saw in synthetic benchmarks became apparent in the all-important real-life tests. The Samsung 470 Series 256GB set new records in the file transfer ISO, program and game tests. Then when measuring tool load times the Samsung 470 Series 256GB continued to impress....

November 22, 2010 · 1 min · 89 words · Desiree Barnes

Asus ENGTX580 GeForce GTX 580 Review

With such a premium, we are expecting big things from the new arrival. Nvidia has also increased the shader frequency by 10% to a more aggressive 1544MHz. The GeForce GTX 580 is paired with 1536MB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1002MHz (4008MHz DDR). By monitoring power consumption, the card determines if it is drawing too much power and throttles down. The GTX 580 requires a 6-pin and an 8-pin connector, just like GTX 480....

November 18, 2010 · 1 min · 147 words · Jonathan Walker

Call of Duty: Black Ops GPU & CPU Performance In-depth

Surprisingly, the old Radeon HD 4890 performed poorly. Looking beyond the Radeon HD 5770 it was all smooth sailing.

November 16, 2010 · 1 min · 19 words · Katherine Wolf

Hottest PC Games for the 2010 Holiday Season

The expansion pack requires that you have the base game installed on your system, of course. That’s quite the statement. The fan favorite Zombie mode is also back providing endless hours of Zombie-slaying entertainment, solo or Co-Op. The game will challenge you to become Seacrest County’s top cop or most wanted racer.

November 12, 2010 · 1 min · 52 words · Debra Carlson

Maingear Shift Gaming PC with Super Stock Options Review

triple monitor support for games) is a very rewarding experience if you have gone this far already. In Medal of Honor Multiplayer, the game topped out at 200 FPS in some areas according toFraps. Left 4 Dead 2 occasionally topped out at 300 FPS both games running at max graphics options. One SSD is enough to notice an improvement over a traditional hard drive. There should be no worries about power requirements thanks to the SilverStone 1....

November 10, 2010 · 2 min · 311 words · Mrs. Laura Hernandez

Cooler Master HAF X Case Review

Article Index Installation Impressions The HAF X is a pleasure to work with. It’s equally spacious and well-rounded as the original HAF 932. That said, it does do some things exceptionally well especially cooling. When installing our gaming hardware, we saw no need to alter the cooling setup in anyway. To be perfectly honest, we found no problems with the HAF X’s layout. The case comes with standard mounting screws that you must install for your motherboard....

November 4, 2010 · 1 min · 145 words · Kayla Wallace

Enhance your browsing experience using bookmarklets

One of the reasons behindFirefox’ssustained popularity is the availability of a vastlibrary of extensions. Eventually new competitors arrived to reinvigorate the scene and today most of them offer their own extensions platform. But expanding functionality through these add-ons can have some downsides of their own. They are JavaScript-enabled links you could pull into your bookmarks to interact with whatever page you find yourself on. There is no installation involved and they’ll work with any modern web client....

November 2, 2010 · 1 min · 130 words · Barbara Mendoza