News Flash: Current-gen video games are most often NOT in Full HD

It all started innocently enough, in the gaming forum section of a non-gaming related website I visit. The fanboys were going at it, spitting venom and vitriol back and forth as they tried to declare their favorite console as being the best choice for everyone. Someone said that the PS3 simply had “more power” [...]

AMD Admits it Overpaid for ATI

Guess we can file this one in the “Well Duh!” pile.
AMD has officially admitted that it overpaid for it’s purchase of ATI. Though the 3.2 Billion dollar allocation for “goodwill” (e.g. the value of the ATI brand - almost three times the value of ATI’s product technology) paid as part of the purchase was questioned [...]

New Intel Mobile G965 video driver is here

Almost 3 weeks ago, Intel released a driver for their G965 integrated graphics that, well, made it something other than a worthless piece of crap in gaming. Unfortunately though, it was only for the desktop part.
Today though, Intel has a driver for the Mobile 965 Express chipset that will do the same for the [...]

Intel G965 graphics finally grows a pair

Here’s something that hits home for me. I am currently on a 1 month visit back home (I moved to Hong Kong a little over a year ago), and I have been on my laptop the entire time (a beautiful Fujitsu purchased in Japan). The thing is, see, that Intel’s integrated graphics adapter.. sucks [...]

Nvidia Releases Mainstream DX10 Video Cards

Today Nvidia announced it new lineup of mid to low range DX10 video cards. The three main releases are the 8500GT along with the 8600GT and 8600GTS. Most major manufactures including ECS, Foxconn and Gigabyte are onboard and ready to ship.
The 8600 units come with DDR3 and are based on the 80nm G84 core. [...]

Why Doesn’t Anyone Care About Overclocking Anymore?

Though overclocking community is far from dead, it would seem that it has dropped from its mainstream status of a couple years ago. Checking the Hardcoreware Forums, we see that the overclocking section only has a total of four threads in the past two months. Now admittedly there are still communities such as Exteme Overclocking [...]

Video Card Naming Schemes

I am of the opinion that video card naming and numbering schemes are now created to purposely confuse and mislead the consumer. I’m all for having selection, but things are starting to get ridiculous.
Without googling, put the following GPUs in order from fastest to slowest: the x1950 pro, x1950XT the x1900XT, the x1900XL, the [...]