ASUS Mars II: Mars attacks!

ASUS Mars II: Mars attacks!

Just before the end of each current graphics generation, ASUS puts the cherry on top of it and demonstrates its sheer technological power by presenting a limited-edition card to take the throne of t...

Cape Verde: Good enough for Juniper succession?

Cape Verde: Good enough for Juniper succession?

As we predicted in a recent article dealing with AMD’s new graphics cards from the HD 7000 series, after the high-end models were presented, miniature chips would follow, replacing the very popular ...

ASUS O!Play: Gigabit on a TV

ASUS O!Play: Gigabit on a TV

“Smart TV”, or in its popular spelling, SmartTV, is something that the leading LCD and plasma manufacturers seem to be emphasising pretty heavily lately, in parallel with the omnipresent 3D technolo...

AMD A8-3870K: The new APU with the

AMD A8-3870K: The new APU with the "K" suffix

Recently, we have devoted much attention to the APU, which is one of the largest inovations that AMD has introduced to the IT industry. Placing a serious graphics system inside a processor is the gr...

AMD Radeon HD7970 & HD7950: Finally!

AMD Radeon HD7970 & HD7950: Finally!

Although we’re a bit disappointed not to have received the new Radeon graphics up to now, we still didn’t have to wait for too long to get one. As usual, this was taken care of by AMD, but chips are...

Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO and TX3 EVO

Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO and TX3 EVO

  As far as accessible coolers of decent performance go, we’ve been enjoying the company of Cooler Master’s Hyper 212 and Hyper TX3 models for a while now. The first mild redesign of both these model...

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Everything You Should Know About TFT Monitors

ImageYou should be versed with today’s TFT monitor market to be certain that you really know what you want and what you need. Of course that there always be someone who will be satisfied with anything and those who always expect too much. In worst case, we should know where all the money gone. In best scenario, you’ll get almost ideal price /performance ratio in relation to your needs and budget. First we want to remind you on few basic work principles for TFT monitors. That will help you to understand causes of the potential problems and explain to you how you can easier to recognize them.
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4850x2 - MultiGPU Solution for Masses?

ImageATi surprised us with 4870 and 4850 graphics card and after that ATi did it again with 4870X2. This product was available to all users from the day it was officially launched and it reached the goal as number one by performances and by price range, as it was promised by ATi. This sudden success urged us on some thinking about new accepted ATi’s philosophy about multiGPU cards. If we look back in time, we could remember Rage Furry Maxx card as antic example and nVIDIA 9800GTX2 and ATi 3870X2 graphics cards from newer history and all of them were examples of fastest products in their own time.

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Multimedia Streaming

ImageIf you are TV fan and you have wireless network and notebook, than you probably at some point thought how it would be nice to take your notebook and simply move to other room, go on balcony or backyard and with no interruptions from other householders watch your favorite show or some sport event. Still, TV tuner demands antenna and cable and that’s when you realize that even though your notebook is portable, after all, you won’t watch TV as you would like to.

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Intel Montevina - Centrino 2 Portable Platform

ImageAlmost five years ago, Intel promoted its first uniform solution attended for notebooks, under the brand – Centrino. This brand was launched with intention to consolidate a position of Intel on notebook’s market as number one. Many people are making a mistake if they think that Centrino is some Intel processor attended for notebooks and is based on “rocket science” technology. Centrino is constitute of processor, chipset, network subsystem that supports 100Mbit/1Gbit LAN connection and also an optional WiFi adapter.
 

AMD K10 Architecture

ImageA few months ago, the American company Advanced Micro Devices – AMD, as the second biggest manufacturer in the processor market, launched the new K10 microarchitecture onto the market, in the form of a server solution codenamed Barcelona. Barcelona is the new Opteron which brings many novelties in the fields of virtualization, multi-socket scaling, as well as many improvements in multithread software synchronization.
 

CPU vs. GPU

ImageQuestions we ask ourselves quite often when buying a new PC are: “Should I take a cheaper processor and a slightly more expensive graphics card or vice versa?”, or the legendary one, “Will this new processor choke on my graphics card” etc. Variations to these questions are without number and we would need at least a page to write them all down, but we are sure that you found yourselves in such a situation at least once.
 

The truth has two faces

ImageAt the beginning of February, Steve Jobs once again shook electronic and musical industry by an open letter in which he required abatement of protection on music distributed over the Internet, and as main perpetrators for existence of various DRM protections indicated some of the biggest music distributors: Universal, Sony BMG, Warner and EMI.