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It has not been a good time for makers of custom PCs, as the economy makes all but the most mundane of purchases look extravagant. Also, there hasn’t been lots of talk about the cottage industry of high performance computers since the purchase of Alienware by Dell. Though Alienware still survives (barely), Dell seems to [...]

Yes, Matrox, the name no one remembers when asked about graphics card manufacturers, because they don’t do 3D, used to be, before the days of Voodoo, a pretty decent card maker.
I have fond memories of a Matrox Mystique, and it was spectacular for the time. I never understood why they chose not to compete in [...]

Intel doesn’t like to be talked about in a disparaging way. After a long time of no delivery on a product, effectively making it vaporware, a new amount of work is going into the Larrabee project, and the actual product may be materializing.
This morning, which is odd enough, as not much news in the computer [...]

An as yet unannounced video card,  featuring a prodigious amount of fast onboard memory, also shows the reason for the port that some (including me a while ago) thought was a solution looking for a problem.
An AMD/ATi 5870 with 2 GB of GDDR5 is shown in a blurb on Tech Connect, and also shows that, [...]

Opinions are like noses, and sometimes they all blow, so you may regard this as just another if you wish. I do think, however, that some people have an over-bloated sense of universal knowledge, i.e. knowledge of the universe.
I am referring to the blogger who started the current flap, by stating that Vista was a [...]

Larrabee, as most power users know, is the ‘answer’ to the question “Why does Intel always make graphics that suck?” It is to be the Core to AMD’s Barcelona, in the war of the big guns in computing.
Anyone who has used onboard Intel graphics, or was unlucky enough to purchase one of the older i740 [...]

Yesterday, in a column on ZDNet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes put forth the idea that nVidia might be on its last legs, as the market is not what it once was.
While I don’t think that is the case, it might be a good thing for the folks at nVidia to get a scare, as they have been [...]

Last week the news of a couple of Intel long-term employees leaving the company was being played off as a simple, change of routine thing, but now, from a story on Bright Side of News, we find that it’s a problem where the parties in question were screwing up, not providing the results needed.
The screw [...]

AMD seems to be trying to really please the troops these days with the releases of drivers for their video card lines. The latest Catalyst drivers are available early, in honor of QuakeCon, instead of making the faithful wait until Monday.
from Tech Connect
As promised, AMD has brought the Catalyst 9.8 drivers at QuakeCon and delivered [...]

All this talk about the RTM of Windows 7 has many people whipped up into a frenzy about upgrades; none are more excited than Microsoft, and the hardware manufacturers. They are busily getting things ready for the anticipated onslaught of customers, busily grabbing up new machines or upgrade hardware pieces to make the transition to [...]

After a few days of seemingly coming to his senses, a popular ZDNet writer is back to praising Windows 7 yet again. I find this very disturbing, as I think you just can’t have it both ways. Either something is good, bad, or mediocre. You don’t get to choose any two of the above.
This is [...]

AMD has just revisited the older naming conventions in its lineup, and with a partially new, partially old name, released a new chip, soon to be a complete line of dual core chips, from the start.
Right now, the only new dual cores are actually failed or crippled quad-core chips from the original Phenom line, which [...]

Not the most specific title, I know. It is however, a title that gives what the post is about – general changes in graphics that are on the way to the consumer market.
I just got through reading a very good article on Tech Radar, that first, gives a brief history of how graphics processors have [...]

The incredible success of the new ATi 4770 video card has been great for the business of video cards. The 40 nm process gives power with much less heat, and nearly everyone wants one, or two.
Unfortunately, the fabs at TSMC can’t keep up with demand, so…to keep up the volume in the retail channel AMD [...]

After downloading the Release Candidate for Windows 7, I realized that there are some of my machines that have more than adequate processors, but the graphics card have been relegated to never being updated again.
It seems that nVidia and ATi have conspired to make sure that though Windows XP machines can run Windows 7, it [...]