Posted by Tech Guy on April - 1 - 2010
We’ve been fortunate enough to spend a bit of time with an Eyefinity setup before, but up until now, it’s been somewhat of a hassle to get a fully functional six-screen setup into a consumer’s home. Today, AMD is taking the legwork out of the equation with the introduction of the Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity [ Read More ]
Posted by Tech Guy on January - 22 - 2010
Tired of waiting for the Eee PC 1201T to ship? Impatient, aren’t we? We’ve been wondering about the status of this here netbook since it came to light last November, and now it looks like the Germans are about to get a real, live taste of AMD’s Congo platform. Boasting a 1.6GHz MV40 CPU, the [ Read More ]
Posted by Tech Guy on January - 14 - 2010
AMD and ATI have got yet another GPU contender under their sleeve, and this one’s got quite a one-two punch. The Radeon HD 5670 can boast DirectX 11 and Eyefinity support are for a suggested price less than one Benjamin Franklin. The usual suspects have weighed in on the card, and while “solid value” that [ Read More ]
Posted by Tech Guy on December - 12 - 2009
It’s been a good while since we’ve seen an unboxing as thorough as this, even if the quality of the recording could be better. The chaps over at Wow Pow have sourced one of them dual-screen Kohjinsha DZ netbooks, which have had us intrigued since we saw them at CEATEC earlier this year. What we [ Read More ]
Posted by Tech Guy on November - 26 - 2009
It’s never too early to start thinking about that desktop that you really, really need under the tree by the third week in December, and rather than waiting until the last moment and getting stuck with some random configuration and a lofty overnight shipping fee, iBuyPower is encouraging you to have a gander at the [ Read More ]
Posted by Tech Guy on November - 26 - 2009
AMD spoiled MSI’s surprise a bit by snagging an X-Slim X430 early for its VISION gala back in September, but now that Windows 7 is out and about, MSI has decided to officialize its latest thin-and-light. Unlike most of its rivals, this one shuns Intel’s CULV lineup and instead relies on a dual-core AMD Athlon [ Read More ]
Posted by Tech Guy on November - 19 - 2009
ATI just announced its latest greatest polygon cruncher on the planet: the previously leaked Radeon HD 5970. The new card card is also one of the first to support Microsoft DirectX 11 and Eyefinity multi-display (driving up to three displays at once for a 7680×1600 maximum resolution) with ripe potential for overclocking thanks to the [ Read More ]
Posted by Tech Guy on November - 3 - 2009
Don’t call it a netbook. MSI‘s latest sits just out of the low-end category with its 12.1-inch, 1,366 x 768 resolution screen, roomy “ergonomic de-stress” keyboard, and 1.6GHz AMD Athlon Neo X2, a chip that should best Intel’s Atom offerings of the same spec — at least slightly. A mere four hours of battery life [ Read More ]
Posted by Tech Guy on November - 2 - 2009
And now… fighting out of the red corner, weighing in with two Evergreen GPUs, and wearing black trunks and red trim, it’s the Radeon HD 5970. ATI’s latest challenger for the title of undisputed graphics champion has been snared in the wild, and its photo shoot reveals a suitably oversized beast. Measuring in at 13.5 [ Read More ]
Posted by Tech Guy on August - 30 - 2009
Who needs press releases? You can snap up an MSI U210 pre-order right this second on Amazon, so why bother waiting MSI to actually confirm the thing for a Stateside release? Morality. That’s why. Kids these days think they can just drop $430 on any old Athlon Neo MV-40-powered (the same chips at the heart [ Read More ]