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...
No holds barred gamers never give a second guess to price. To them, only the biggest, fastest, and coolest running components will work. In the case of PC gaming, the fastest of the fast in GPU terms rests solely on the ATI 5970′s shoulders. This dual-GPU behemoth measures in at nearly 11.5″ by itself. But even the stock dual-GPU, 2GB memory, 725MHz/1,000MHz core/memory clock speeds aren’t enough (apparently) as XFX is developing an even faster, more...
It used to be that you only were rewarded if you actually accomplished something worthwhile. The better you did, the more compensation. Nowadays however, we live in the age of bank bailouts, auto bailouts, tax cuts for those who don’t need it and so on. Failure is the best business as it gets you the most money. Sad really. Along those lines, when we hear the name “Sprint”, failure is generally an accepted word that follows quickly soon after. In...
Whenever you increase a particular computer part (such as a processor) with 50% more processing power, real world gains are sure to be evident. In the case of the i7 980X — the new hotness — do the two extra cores actually add any real benefit for that $1k pricetag? Two more prominent and thorough reviews by Benchmark Reviews and Anandtech reveal that while the 980X is faster, current software just isn’t making the most of those 12 threads of fury,...
If there’s one thing about wireless network tests, it’s that they’re constantly being conducted by various groups looking to disprove claims of their competitors while bolstering claims of their own. The last several months of my AT&T contract were hell. Dropped calls increased by day, signal strength was abysmal, and rounding out the trifecta was a trip to a University of Michigan football game when I couldn’t place a single call, text, or...
