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Microsoft Releases AMD Bulldozer Patch by Mistake: Incomplete Update
HARDWARE, SOFTWARE NEWS
On the news of Microsoft pulling the AMD Bulldozer kernel patch, we contacted AMD and Microsoft to get to the bottom of this. The answer was quite surprising.
On 12/16/2011 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more
Windows 8 Couples with ARM - Confusion Reigns
SOFTWARE NEWS
Whether it’s a match made in heaven, or a simply a cover-all-the-bases move, Microsoft has made its new operating system compatible with ARM processors. Windows 8 will also run on x86 from Intel and AMD.
On 9/15/2011 by Darleen Hartley... Comments (0) Read more

Battlefield 3 Alpha Benchmarks Leak Out
HARDWARE, DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
In order to prepare for the launch this fall, EA is running an Alpha test for its successful Battlefield franchise. Russian site released a series of benchmarks made on the alpha code.
On 7/31/2011 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more
Can a 3TB 7,200RPM Drive Beat a 10,000RPM One? Seagate Thinks So
HARDWARE NEWS, REVIEWS
From our experience, the majority of larger capacity drives have been generally slow and this has been one of the biggest reasons why people are still sticking to 2TB rather than moving onto 2.5 and 3TB.
On 5/20/2011 by Anshel Sag... Comments (0) Read more

Google's April Fools Joke Becomes a Reality
DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
Sometimes, making an April Fools joke can come back to bite you. Such is the case of Google’s Gmail Motion ploy and researches at University of Southern California.
On 4/3/2011 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more
The Lion King Leaves Apple
APPLE, SOFTWARE, BUSINESS NEWS
Bertrand Serlet’s, VP in charge of Mac software engineering since 2003 is walking away from Apple. The guy who is credited with giving birth to the Mac OS X is leaving just as the next version, 10.7 Lion, is scheduled for release.
On 3/25/2011 by Darleen Hartley... Comments (0) Read more

Seagate Announces 3TB Barracuda XT Hard Drives
HARDWARE NEWS
Seagate makes available their high-end 3TB drive to consumers, bridging the 2.1TB gap using overlay software.
On 3/1/2011 by Anshel Sag... Comments (0) Read more
nVidia Parallel Nsight Delivers GPU Computing for Microsoft Visual Studio
GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, SOFTWARE NEWS
GTC 2010 At the GPU Technology Conference nVidia announced the release of nVidia Parallel Nsight software. This is the industry's first GPU-accelerated development environment for Microsoft Visual Studio.
On 9/21/2010 by John Oram... Comments (0) Read more

Steam Hardware Survey November 2009: Over a Million new Win7 users!
HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT ANALYSIS
After seeing the level of adoption of Windows 7, we are now starting to wonder how long until market share overtakes not just Windows Vista, but Windows XP as well?
On 12/29/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more
EA announces BF1943 and BFBC2 system requirements
HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
EA finally announced the system requirements for both BattleField 1943 and BattleField: Bad Company 2.
On 12/3/2009 by Anshel Sag... Comments (0) Read more

imVOX enables you to sound like Darth Vader in online games
CLOUD COMPUTING, SOFTWARE NEWS
Ayalogic, the start-up developer behind imVOX has announced that imVOX is currently in public beta and is available for download now.
On 11/26/2009 by Chris Barton... Comments (0) Read more
Steam Hardware Survey October 09: 1080p panels above 10%
HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT ANALYSIS
Continuing our analysis of Steam's monthly hardware survey [July 2009, August 2009, September 2009], October update shows revealed that Back to School 2009 is an unfortunate miss for Windows 7 release date.
On 11/25/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more

INTERVIEW: Chris Morley - MAINGEAR shifts the PC platform
GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, BUSINESS INTERVIEWS
MAINGEAR decided to pull a very hard move and focus itself on redefining the PC experience. Their new SHIFT line-up is offering top performance and support, but is it enough?
On 11/2/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more
DirectX 11 now available for Windows Vista SP2
GRAPHICS, SOFTWARE NEWS
Given the fact that Windows Vista SP2 relies on the same kernel as Windows Server 2008 and just launched Windows 7, we weren't surprised to see DirectX 11 trickling down to older OS...
On 10/28/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more

Game of the Year is here? Shattered Horizon arrives next week
GRAPHICS, SOFTWARE, DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
During 2009, we played a lot of games, but only Shattered Horizon brought true innovation into the genre. This Zero-G shooter hits e-tail on November 4th, 2009.
On 10/28/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more
UPDATED: nVidia SLI cracked - works on all motherboards now?
HARDWARE, GRAPHICS NEWS
We got contacted by a friend of the site that inform us that Chinese xDev site managed to reverse engineer the SLI verification procedure and now SLI works everywhere.
On 9/24/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more

Steam Hardware Survey July '09: Windows XP in strong decline
HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT ANALYSIS
We are closely following the results of Steam's hardware survey, largest PC survey in the world - what hardware is run on more than 20 million computers with Steam accounts?
On 8/18/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more
Universal Audio updates its UAD platform
HARDWARE, SOFTWARE NEWS
Universal Audio just updated its digital audio system with brand new plug-ins, bringing even more of its legendary analog plug-ins to the world of DAWs.
On 8/3/2009 by Tom Petris... Comments (0) Read more

Dual displays are nice… but what about a dual 4K display setup?
GRAPHICS, HARDWARE NEWS

EVGA finally went ahead with theirdual display monitor - yes, the resolution is miserable but let's say it, it's a unique product. But, can we go far further in this?

On 7/16/2009 by Nebojsa Novakovic... Comments (0) Read more
Get cheaper Windows 7 by buying couponed Vista!
SOFTWARE, BUSINESS NEWS

Microsoft may have set prices for the Windows 7 retail and upgrade packs, but there is a way of getting Windows 7 cheaper… and gives you an additional license to play with.

On 6/28/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more

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