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Logitech’s long-standing flagship wireless gaming mouse is tested to see if wireless can keep up with the demands of serious gamers. {multithumb} Introduction Logitech is at the forefront of gaming mouse technology. Whenever you’re looking for a new mouse to game with, it’s usually Razer, Microsoft and Logitech you look for.

By combining an onboard GPU with an add-in graphics card, Hybrid CrossFire offers 1.5x performance of the add-in graphics card for some AMD customers. Hybrid dual-graphics solutions –those that use an onboard graphics chip in conjunction with discrete add-in boards- are beginning to look like viable options for gamers on

AMD’s monthly driver updates fixes major bugs and touts significant performance increases, among other things. Last week was a relatively quiet one for the AMD camp, but they released a beautiful piece of software that on paper would seem to please everyone running around with an AMD/ATI video card.

According to news out of Japan, the broadcaster NHK is stating that Toshiba is planning to drop their HD format HD DVD. Reuters: I have avoided the Toshiba rumors most of the week though we now have something firm coming out of Toshiba. Japanese broadcasting company NHK is stating that Toshiba

NVIDIA is planning to port the PhysX engine to the 8xxx series of video cards via CUDA. The Tech Report has details on NVIDIA/PhysX that came out today in a conference call. We broke the story of NVIDIA making the purchase a little over a week ago and this

Intel is readying 80 and 160GB SSD drives in the coming months for laptops.– Intel isn’t sitting on their hands while this solid-state drive market begins to take off. They will be launching 1.5 and 2.5 inch drives with 80GB and 160GB capacities in quarter 2 for the laptop and notebook segment.

With the great success of the Eee PC it should almost come as no surprise, ASUS is moving all in on the PC front.– Not ones to sit on their hands after the success that has been the Eee PC; ASUS is readying even more computer systems and branching out from

AMD looks to take some ground from Intel’s popular Centrino platform in the mobile market.– AMD is once again picking a fight with their rivals. With Intel announcing their Atom and revised Centrino platforms, AMD looks to get back into the mix with their mobile “PUMA” platform. This platform takes nearly

Alive and kicking. A new alternative to the everyday Media Center blah blah blah.– While AMD was fighting off a TLB bug, the ever-growing Intel, and an ambitious NVIDIA, something else was brewing in the AMD stew: a media entertainment site, AMD LIVE!, which is geared towards the Media Center platforms.

Excellence is the sum of all parts, and with performance and design intertwined in the DKTBoard you really get the feeling that less truly is more. Introduction Everglide has been catering to gamers for more than a decade. Perhaps that’s how long you’ve had your current keyboard. You might even be weary

Foxconn, ASUS, Scythe continue to debut new products @ CeBIT while Intel launches new Atom brand and SK Gaming gets an AMD sponsorship. Systems New BenQ Joybook A53 Fuses Advanced Technology & Cool City Panasonic preps rugged Atomic UMPC Dell Adds Rugged Latitude XFR D630, Refreshed Precision M6300 ECS Guns for Eee PC 900 With

Wow people, you can’t make this stuff up. Well, following my two blog posts ranting about the inadequacies of print magazines in the hardware review realm, it would appear Ziff Davis has filed for bankruptcy. Of course, my blogs had nothing to do with this event, as the announcement was made

A continuation of my rant about problems with the hardware review industry. Please read the first part first, or you will have no idea what is going on in this one. Let me give an example. A manufacturer of expensive computer systems sends a fully-configured machine to a print magazine

To those called out in this rant: don’t take it the wrong way. I’m going after the core of the problem here, not it’s vehicles. This hardware industry thing we deal with day in and day out can get pretty tedious. It has been called boring on more than one occasion

The Razer Salmosa site www.speedofthelight.com went live today. Check out Razers new compact gaming mouse. There is a new gaming mouse on the block from Razer. The Razer Salmosa is an attempt to capture the entry level compact mouse market which really doesn’t see a whole lot of attention.

ATI users can prepare for a new Catalyst driver tomorrow, mix and match your cards in CrossFireX CrossFireX is right around the corner tomorrow. The new Catalyst driver 8.3 features support for 3-4 multi GPU configurations allowing for the mixing and matching of HD3850s, HD3870s, and HD3870×2s.

We proudly announce the winners of the February Gamer Giveaway. February’s giveaway was sponsored by SteelSeries. Well, it seems that February has ended and we have an awesome community from which to randomly select our three winners for the SteelSeries prizes. First, a quick recap: Eligibility: Every registered user

The last few months have seen the launch of several different enthusiast-branded motherboards from ASUS and Foxconn, and a couple of more will be showing up this week at CeBIT. Every time a trade show or press release rolls around, it seems like there is at least one enthusiast-branded motherboard

OCZ finally brings the Neural Impulse Actuator to mass production. Originally debuted at CeBIT 2007. This not a new piece of technology for OCZ as it has been around since early 2007. Both Thomas and I had the chance to check it out at NewEgg Lanfest 2K7 and I have to

AMD’s upcoming products are only evolutionary, but mark major shifts in modus operandi. Two different stories popped up on Fudzilla today regarding AMD. We published a story yesterday about AMD’s work with IBM on future processor lithography techniques, and today’s story only enhances what we have come to learn about AMD

When Phenom launched to limited acclaim in November 2007, many questions were raised by analysts concerned with how the processor war would pan out over the next year. When the infamous (and stupid) TLB bug was uncovered, a lot of people became really skeptical of Phenom’s legitimacy as AMD’s return

MSI, Qimonda, NZXT and AMD round out this weeks new hardware debuts while Creative Vice President Phil O’Shaughnessy goes after ASUS Xonar Sound Card supposed EAX support claims. Systems ASUS Launches U2E 11-inch- 2.7lbs. Hand-Crafted Notebook MSI Launches GX-600 Enhanced Gaming Notebook featuring Turbo-Drive One Button Overclocking Video Cards eVGA Unveils e-GeForce

You may have heard by now that NVIDIA will be launching a technology called Hybrid SLI in the near future. This technology has been in the works for the better part of a year, and now it will be developed for a little bit longer, says a report on DailyTech.

Today is the official launch of NVIDIA’s Quad SLI. While one could previously run dual 9800GX2’s before this, the dual card solution wasn’t working appropriately until today’s release of the official QuadSLI driver. Head over to the NVIDIA website to scoop out these new .ini files which are marked 174.53

Today we’re going to go over Tritton Technologies’ two “5.1” headsets, the AXPC and the AX360. Do they really stand up to other “5.1” headphones or are they just another dead corpse along the consumer electronics highway. This past summer it seemed that everyone and their mom had their own take

Last week we brought you a story regarding a piece of software that NVIDIA will be launching in the near future. This software is designed to basically show how a GPU upgrade will produce a more substantial performance increase than a CPU upgrade. To quote our earlier article

The NVIDIA GeForce 9800GX2 makes a splash while ASUS, SteelSeries, and OCZ announce new products. eVGA counters BFG’s 100 Day Trade Up Program with a special 120 Day Step Up extension. Systems Alienware’s desktop Area-51 gets updatedASUS M50 Notebook Hits a High Note with Sound and Style Audio ASUS releases

Engineers from Thorrn Micro Technologies have developed a solid-state fan that exploits corona wind to move more air than a traditional fan 35 times its size. Corona wind is a physical phenomenon that is produced by strong electric fields. Such electric fields are commonly found on sharp conductive points

While nobody was surprised that NVIDIA’s GeForce 9800GX2 launch was delayed several weeks due to the complexity of the design and getting full software support out the door, a few people were surprised when news came that their 9800GTX would be launching in March. The card, which retains the suffix

It is nice to see our government making money on nothing but air. The 700MHz auction has been ongoing since January 24th and it seems it has finally come to close. According to Engadet In 10 days the FCC will announce who has won which parts

SP1 has been “pending” for a few months now since it was first released to developers and early testers. Today is the official roll out for consumers via Windows Update and the Microsoft site. The standalone installer is available here at Microsoft’s site, or you can refresh your Windows Update

OCZ, Cooler Master, NVIDIA dominate the headlines the week after CeBIT while MiBR gets sponsored by SteelSeries and the CPL goes boom.SystemsAcer and the new Aspire Gemstone blue designAudioMadCatz AirDrives(TM) Interactive Earphones to Begin Shipping in the UKCoolingOCZ Technology Group Addresses Ultra Efficient Cooling with the Introduction the Vendetta 2

PLEASE READ FOR IMPORTANT LOGIN INFORMATION Hello everyone!– First and foremost, welcome to the new site. I, with a bit of help from the rest of the gang, have completely revamped absolutely everything and implemented a couple of new features that we think will benefit the community. “The biggest change is obviously layout.

Apparently after NVIDIA launches its GeForce 9800GX2 and 9800GTX video cards and nForce 780a, 790i and Ultra motherboards, it will launch a piece of software designed to show why GPUs are more important than CPUs. Of course this is bound to ruffle feathers with CPU manufacturers like Intel.

Slides illustrating Intel’s plans to transition its enterprise microprocessor shipments in the coming year have shown up on VR-Zone. The slides graphically show the proportions of which microprocessors Intel plans to ship in the future and which they plan to phase out. We reported on Nehalem back in January when

The vogue towards smaller computing solutions of late shouldn’t be a surprise. Since the second half of 2005, during which notebook sales finally surpassed those of desktops, companies have truly become infatuated with the higher profit margins of these smaller machines. The tremendous push to ride the ASUS Eee PC

Aural acuity is paramount when it comes to situational awareness in any game these days. Unfortunately sound isn’t the problem with this latest headset from Razer. Introduction Razer has been catering to gamers with a variety of peripherals for a long time. Such dedication to an obsessively meticulous crowd demands countless

It is no secret that the chip inside the Sony’s Playstation 3 holds enormous potential for gaming applications. Less known is the fact that the architecture of the Cell Broadband Engine - the product of a joint effort by Sony, IBM, and Toshiba- facilitates massive parallel computing power that can

The on going hostile takeover attempt of Yahoo from the guys at Redmond continued to heat up this week. Earlier today Microsoft sent a letter to Yahoo’s board of directors in regards to their buyout offer from two months ago. Microsoft insists their offer is still good today, possibly even

By now you may have heard about a new processor from Intel that is going to be used in all sorts of new notebook PCs. The processor, which was announced on March 2nd, is currently available in five different versions that cater to different specific purposes. Built on Intel’s existing