A few days ago, a certain Dutch e-tailer caused something of a stir by including amongst its offerings what will doubtless soon become old Giant Green Eyes’ weapon of choice in the eternal battle for GPU domination.  Only a few days later, several further listings, this time from American suppliers, had made footprints in Google’s cache, […]

In March of last year, AMD/ ATI introduced us to the last and most powerful of its “Cayman” based family of video cards, the dual GPU HD 6990. Though significant refinements to the companies 40nm chip design led to a healthy increase in performance, it was one that came at the price of efficiency. Just […]

On November 14th we witnessed the release of Intel’s fervently anticipated x79 platform, which finally succeeds the long reigning  x58 as the company’s flagship chipset. Despite the enormous popularity of the initial generation of Sandy Bridge based technology and the readiness of most enthusiasts to adopt it over the older, more expensive Nehalem platform, neither […]

The week of May the 9th saw the release of Intel’s z68 chipset. Its mission? To combine the benefits offered by its two Sandy-bridge friendly elders. In addition to boasting the over clocking potential of the P67 and the integrated display found on the H67, this new chipset also includes a feature called Smart Response Technology, […]

Rumors prompted by the temporary lock-down of Apples online store on the 3rd of May were promptly justified, with the company now flaunting several new recruits in its IMac product range.  Swiftly following the March refresh of the Macbook line, four “Sandy Bridge” based IMacs now feature variants of Intel’s highly praised, energy effecient CPU.  These include two models with […]

At the end of last month, Crytek released the latest patch for its already massively popular and yet hotly debated cross-platform alien zap-fest, Crysis 2. Though an instant hit with the vast majority of console devotees, large numbers of PC enthusiasts roundly criticised the company for failing to implement DirectX 11 support at the time […]

At last year’s CeBit exhibition in Australia, Silverstone finally gave the world a glimpse of its “hugely” anticipated full tower ATX case, the TJ11.  Over the last half decade, Silverstone has implemented several revolutionary and practically beneficial design features within its high end computer chassis.  In 2005, their TJ07 boasted an innovative “unibody” exterior and has since […]

In what many deemed to be a cynical attempt at April Fool’s humor, as dawn broke on the dreaded day this year, Nvidia published the following article on it’s website, complete with complementary artwork : NVIDIA Resurrects 3Dfx Brand Name – Announces 3dfx Voodoo 590 Graphics Card. “For the past ten years, a group of […]