Tag Archive for 'hardware'
Well this is exciting news. Micron has come up with a new SSD that could actually break current records for internal storage and would be incredibly fast. This new storage would actually use two solid-state drives that have 16 data channels. This would make for a transfer speed of up to 1GB/second!
Call me impressed! Performance [...]
S3, the graphics label for VIA, announced their Chrome 500 series graphics chips yesterday, offering up a competitor to the Radeon HD 4350 line as well as other budget cards that provide features at a much lower price.
AMD is really rolling out the processors these days and are set to launch their Phenom II at the upcoming CES in Las Vegas in January 2009. The Phenom II X4 will be a part of the Dragon platform and is also known as the Deneb core. This will be the desktop processor version of [...]
Seagate has just added another drive to their Savvio enterprise HDD line and this time around, it’s faster, greener and smaller. In fact, the Savvio 15K.2 HDD uses less power and has a 115% performance boost when compared to 3.5-inch drives.
OCZ has just announced their latest solid state offerings and they definitely feature high quality on a budget. The OCZ Solid Series SSDs are intended for use in current notebook models and while not recommended for pre-2007 laptops, they do sport a 2.5-inch sizing and use the SATA II interface.
OCZ has announced brand new Core Series V2 SSDs. The new drives follow the release a little over a month ago of OCZ’s original Core Series SSDs. The new drive have increase read and write speeds and are now available in four different sizes instead of three.
The SSDs are going to be available in 30GB, [...]
I generally try to stay on top of things when it comes to the components in my gaming rig. I usually try to buy a new graphics card once, maybe twice a year, and generally don’t go for the top-of-the-line card. Despite generally being up-to-date, I really haven’t considered purchasing a separate physics card, even [...]
I’ve been known to dabble in the art of overclocking from time to time. I wouldn’t describe myself as a “hardcore” overclocker though. You know the types, the ones that are dumping liquid nitrogen on their CPU so they can squeeze out every last drop of speed. Well a group of such people recently managed [...]
Keeping your CPU cool during those long gaming sessions is essential. There are any number of ways to accomplish this, though the most traditional method is with a heatsink/fan combination. While this new V1 cooler sticks to the traditional method, it looks anything but ordinary.
Can your PC run Crysis? If you keep your hardware up to date, then it’s possible that you can run it fairly well at the lowest, or possibly even medium settings. However, when the game first came out, almost no one was able to even able to crank it up to High at a decent [...]
