It’s no secret that Intel’s been dragging their feet with USB 3.0. They’re been relatively quiet on the subject, showing very little if any enthusiasm. With that, Intel has pushed back several release dates for USB 3.0 compatible chipsets in the last couple of years, angering many hardware vendors in the process. Without Intel’s help in pushing forward a standard, 3rd party vendors are left to come up with their own. But it’s not getting any...

For me, nothing is more exciting and interesting than watching AMD’s long-in-development Fusion technology come to market. There tactic of marrying CPU + GPU on a single chip may not be a new idea, but how they’re doing is… Instead of merely placing a CPU and some barely capable “GPU” on the same slab of silicon, AMD is looking to actually use powerful GPU’s on their Fusion chips. Mind you, the initial target of Fusion is...

For gamers on the go, nothing is perhaps more exciting and useful as the Alienware M11X — an 11″ mini gaming rig of surprising power. The current proc beating at the heart of Dell’s mini-LAN decimating beast is homely Core 2 Duo. Even with that, it’s still the fastest 11″ laptop on the market. But a new video floating around YouTube has Dell’s head of consumer operations (Pearce Clune) for the Middle East and Africa letting slip a juicy...

School — it’s a time for fall, school supplies, falling leaves, and…processors? Yes, says Intel. In Q4 of this year, a new Core i5 580m processor will debut bringing with it more speed and power. Specifically, the 580m will be clocked at 2.66GHz, up from the old predecessors 2.53GHz. Even better, the super speedy TurboBoost feature that overclocks a single core when multiple aren’t needed will apparently push the 580m up to a rather brisk 3.33GHz...

What’s the most important thing to look for when shopping for a new motherboard? If you’re planning on re-using some of your current hardware, compatibility is a good place to start. But what if none of that matters? What if you simply want the best…? Well then, the doors open up quite a bit. For some, the number and type of SATA ports is the goal. For others, amount and speed of RAM reign supreme. Perhaps more important than the previous two is...