Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 1GB Review @ XSReviews
Tuesday, 09 March 2010 16:04
News from the Web
"In recent weeks, ATI has continued to roll out its "Evergreen" Radeon HD 5 series range of DirectX 11 graphics cards. The Nvidia v. ATI rivalry that has existed in previous GPU ranges has been a non-starter with ATI able to set out its performance, mainstream and lower end segment cards without response from Nvidia. Indeed, the Fermi cards are not due to hit the markets until late March, six months on from ATI's headline act - the Radeon HD 5870.
The performance GPUs (5800 series and higher) make use of the Cypress chip architecture with the more mainstream cards using the smaller Juniper core. This mainstream segment of ATI's DirectX 11 range was filled with the joint launch of the HD 5770 and HD 5750. So what's the difference between the two 5700 cards? Effectively, the 5770 is the full-fat version of the Juniper chip making use of all ten of the SIMD cores with the 5750 trimmed down a little.
Today's review takes a look at the Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 to discover whether Juniper is able to deliver to the extent the Cypress chip was able to. Let's delve a little deeper..."
XSReviews
Steelseries Xai Review @ XSReviews
Tuesday, 09 March 2010 10:13
News from the Web
"There's no denying the value of a good gaming mouse. Laser technology has taken the optical sensor one step further, and as games increase in complexity and graphical splendour the demand for increased precision is pushed to the limit.
SteelSeries step into the fray with yet another addition to their gaming mouse line-up. These guys just love stretching peripheral technology to fit the gamer's ever-evolving requirements. They say the bad workman blames his tools. Well, no gamer great or small could blame the recent generations of gaming gear. We're getting closer and closer to the perfect interface of man and machine.
Herein we shall see how the SteelSeries' Xai Laser Mouse tip-toes those few extra feet and discover if this latest instalment can keep out the dreaded chill of consumer disapproval."
XSReviews
Q&A: Codemasters Reveals Bodycount, Studio Refocus
Tuesday, 09 March 2010 10:06
News from the Web
"Codemasters has announced Bodycount, a new game under the creative direction of Stuart Black, best known for the Criterion Studios shooter Black -- and which draws inspiration from J.J. Abrams and Lady Gaga."
Gamasutra
Dell M6500: A Precision Strike on Bling
Tuesday, 09 March 2010 09:52
News from the Web
"The Dell Precision M6500 is what we expect from a mobile workstation: high on quality and low on fluff."
AnandTech
Updated: Tuning Cool'n'Quiet: Maximize Power And Performance
Tuesday, 09 March 2010 09:43
News from the Web
"Think your Athlon or Phenom processor is already tuned to deliver the best balance between performance and power consumption? Think again. We show you how to tweak Cool'n'Quiet for more aggressive power savings at standard speeds using several AMD CPUs."
Tom's Hardware
Ubi's DRM servers vulnerable to attacks
Tuesday, 09 March 2010 09:31
News from the Web
"Ubisoft has spoken out about the server downtime yesterday which crippled the new always-online DRM system the company uses and stopped fans from playing their games, revealing that the servers were bought down by denial of service attacks."
bit-tech.net
ATI: Nvidia Bribes Game Developers to Promote PhysX
Tuesday, 09 March 2010 09:23
News from the Web
"ATI, graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices, accused its arch-rival Nvidia Corp. of making marketing deals with video game designers to promote GPU-accelerated physics effects processing using PhysX application programming interface."
X-bit Labs
Amazon kills affiliate program in Colorado thanks to taxes
Tuesday, 09 March 2010 00:00
News from the Web
"Amazon has pulled the plug on its affiliate program in Colorado thanks to a new state regulation on sales tax collection. The company sent a notice to its Colorado-based affiliates Monday morning to let them know about the decision, urging residents who depend on the affiliate program to contact their lawmakers if they want the program back."
Ars Technica
M-rated video: the ESRB and video game trailers
Monday, 08 March 2010 00:00
News from the Web
"We recently ran a video for the just-released Borderlands content 'The Secret Armory of General Knoxx.' To watch the video, you had to put your birthdate into the window to prove you were old enough to view the M-rated content.
We're sure most of you are familiar with age-gated video content, but we received a few e-mails asking about why some content is age-gated, and that got us thinking... how is video content regulated in the video game industry? We spoke to Eliot Mizrachi of the ESRB to get our questions answered."
ArsTechnica
Terabyte Hard Disk Drives Roundup: Round Three
Monday, 08 March 2010 00:00
News from the Web
"We are going to talk about the new 1 TB HDD models that appeared in the market over the past year. And since one of these solutions is Western Digital Caviar Green WD10EARS with 4 KB sectors, we will also discuss this type of HDD internal structure, its pros and cons."
X-bit Labs
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Gigabyte H55M-USB3 - The Ultimate $100 H55 Board? @ Techgage
Tuesday, 09 March 2010 10:16
Affiliate News
"Finding a great H55 board to match up with your Clarkdale CPU isn't hard, as the market currently has a great selection. But Gigabyte's H55M-USB3 stands out, as it has a superb feature-set for its ~$100 price tag, and also proves itself in our tests as being a great all-around board, and one that seems to have no limit in overclocking."
Techgage
Why Modern Video Game Armies Lack Female Troops
Tuesday, 09 March 2010 10:09
News from the Web
"Women have been serving admirably in warzones for the U.S. military for about a decade. But they're absent from the ranks of modern video game armies. A game developer offered Kotaku a justification of why we virtually fight as men."
Kotaku
Is Opera 10.5 the World's Fastest Web Browser?
Tuesday, 09 March 2010 09:54
News from the Web
"Opera 10.5 trounces the competition when it comes to JavaScript rendering. But is that enough?"
ExtremeTech
Microsoft Courier design leaks
Tuesday, 09 March 2010 09:47
News from the Web
"Tablet will be out this year."
The Inquirer
PC Hardware Buyer's Guide - March 2010
Tuesday, 09 March 2010 09:33
News from the Web
"For our March 2010 PC Hardware Buyers Guide we've seen a few subtle changes in among our recommendations, but most notably we've had to accommodate price fluctuations in places. How has this changed our five PCs? Check in to find out."
bit-tech.net
ASUS M4A89GTD (USB 3.0) review
Tuesday, 09 March 2010 09:24
News from the Web
"We'll test an offering from ASUS, namely the M4A89GTD Pro USB3. A motherboard carrying that new SATA6G controller and sure ASUS dropped a USB 3.0 controller onto this model as well."
Guru of 3D
Asus Brings N450 And Broadcom HD Decoder To Eee PC 1005PR
Tuesday, 09 March 2010 09:04
News from the Web
"Just when you think you've got your head around Asus' Eee PC netbook family, another one is born. As the siblings continue to increase in number, it's getting harder and harder to keep track of which machine is which, but one thing is for sure: this new one is one of the most promising Eee PCs yet. The Eee PC 1005PR ships with Windows 7 Starter, a 10.1" HD display (1366x768), a battery that can last up to 11 hours and up to 750GB of storage space (250GB onboard + 500GB of Asus WebStorage)."
HotHardware
Cities Go Crazy In Order To Get Google's Attention For 1Gbps Internet
Monday, 08 March 2010 00:00
News from the Web
"Last month, Google shook up the ISP landscape in a big way, and all with the stroke of the (digital) pen. The company announced that they would soon begin testing a 1Gbps home fiber network, which could provide home Internet speeds that could only be realized in one's imagination before. Needless to say, Americans began to get hopeful, and local politicians saw opportunity. Having Google's name (and 1Gbps Internet access) stamped on your town is probably a surefire way to get you in the news (and maybe even add to the tax base), so it's no surprise to hear that city after city is going out of their way to make an impact and sway Google into making their town the first to get this new breed of high-speed Internet."
HotHardware
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Review
Monday, 08 March 2010 00:00
News from the Web
"EA and DICE are back with another iteration in their wildly popular Battlefield franchise, a series of multiplayer first-person shooters covering combat across land, sea, and air. The first Bad Company introduced a singleplayer campaign, a series first, along with destructible buildings. The story followed four military misfits, more focused on stealing gold than completing objectives, during a fictional war between America and Russia."
Shacknews
ASRock H55M Pro LGA1156 Motherboard Review
Monday, 08 March 2010 00:00
News from the Web
"This ASRock micro-ATX LGA1156 motherboard is one of the cheapest we've seen, and it has some odd but novel features: a Good Night LED? With a loaded BIOS loaded and some interesting overclocking results, we show you what the H55M Pro can do."
bit-tech.net
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