Posted 04/29/08 at 03:35:28 PM by Gordon Mah Ung

I’ve been skeptical of multi multi-GPU support since the days of Nvidia’s original Quad SLI. Back then, bad drivers, a lack of game support, and 30-inch panels that cost a month’s pay made the prospect unpalatable.

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Posted 04/22/08 at 11:03:44 PM by Gordon Mah Ung

Is AMD’s new tri-core too little too late? We take a microscope to AMD’s latest and wonder aloud if it even makes sense at all.

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Posted 04/04/08 at 04:32:24 PM by Gordon Mah Ung

RealTek's cheating drivers might finally be fixed, maybe.

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Posted 03/03/08 at 02:44:01 PM by Gordon Mah Ung

Why do we stick with a legacy formfactor and kill the forward-thinking ones?

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Posted 02/26/08 at 01:25:52 PM by Gordon Mah Ung

What's worse than the F-word? The P-word. Dell decides to join the crowd by just saying no to proprietary parts.

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Posted 02/08/08 at 02:35:25 PM by Gordon Mah Ung

We knew something was up when Nvidia officials were light on details concerning its 780i chipset during a recent press briefing. Normally quite happy to toot its hardware horn, Nvidia practically skipped the PowerPoint slide on the chipset.
Why? Like Intel’s x48, the 780i isn’t really that new. In fact, those familiar with the 680i are well acquainted with the 780i, which is pretty much a 680i with an extra chip (interestingly named the Nforce 200) thrown in to add PCI-E 2.0 support and a full x16 tri-SLI mode.

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Posted 11/30/07 at 06:18:12 PM by Gordon Mah Ung

We’ll be the first to admit that we were unimpressed by DDR3 when we first tested it last year, but there’s finally a glimmer of hope.

What changed our minds? Asus’s spanking-fast P5E3 Deluxe WiFi-AP@n mobo, which uses the enthusiast-oriented X38 chipset. The X38’s main highlights are apparently useful DDR3 support and PCI Express 2.0 support. We say “apparently” in reference to DDR3 because we didn’t have a DDR2 version of the board for a direct comparison, but from our tests, the X38 with DDR3 is a winning combination. Also good to have but not a proven performance boost yet is PCI-E 2.0, which doubles the bandwidth of PCI-E 1.0 from 8GB/s to 16GB/s. But does PCI-E 2.0 matter?

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Posted 09/19/07 at 06:03:17 PM by Gordon Mah Ung

Gigabyte cranks up the specsmanship for its GA-N680SLI-DQ6, which offers no fewer than 10 SATA ports and four Gigabit Ethernet ports. Yep. Four. What you’d ever need four Ethernet ports for, we don’t know.

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