For those who fly with team Red (ATI), the arrival of XFX in recent times was seen as a god send. More competition is always good and really, XFX makes some mean ass cards. They’ve already shown their penchant for performance with Nvidia, so adopting ATI cards as well seems like the only logical next step, right? Well, for consumers it’s a partial yes. I say partial because in their move to support and put out ATI cards, someone on the other side of the...
I’ve always wondered exactly how much my custom rig pulls down in heavy sessions. With a dual 5850 setup and oc’d Core i7, it certainly has a reputation for a rampant appetite. But is it really as bad as people claim? The general consensus is that a high end dual graphics card set up will pull in at least 400w by themselves, not including the processor, which itself is a power thirsty piece. Then of course you have hard drives, fans, lights, memory, etc.,...
Count your blessing if you’ve got the cash to drop on Saphire’s latest project being shown off at CeBIT in Germany, the Radeon 5970. Better yet, count your megahertz. This beast of card is physically immense. With the large heat sink and triple fans adorning the card, consider 3 of your PCI slots accounted for. But don’t let the size turn you off. There’s plenty of DirectX11 bragging rights to be had. The stock 700MHz and 4000MHz GPU and clock...
GSM or CDMA? It isn’t a hard decision to make, though it’s one that can often lead to heated debates (at least in the states where consumers aren’t very privy to the huge GSM market around the world). For myself, even though I’m on Verizon at the moment, I much prefer GSM and the freedom that popping SIM cards back and forth allowed. That SIM swapping may come into my life once again with me actually having to switch carriers at all as Verizon has...
To get any background functionality out of your iPhone, you know Jailbreaking is involved. So if the process is too much for you to handle or you’re too paranoid about all of the “What ifs”, go ahead and continue on anyway. The Palm Pre and webOS have one of the most visually pleasing and effective ways of managing running processes with the use of “cards”. It’s fast and easy to keep the clutter down and your phone operating in tip top...
