Intel’s infamous Pentium processor got its start 20 years ago today with the release of the Pentium 60 CPU. That chip utilized Intel’s 5-vol...
AMD Radeon HD 7790 Review
AMD spent the better part of 2012 releasing an entire line of 28nm GPUs, starting with the Radeon HD 7970 in January and followed by over ha...
What is false disk failure, and why is it a problem?
I’ve spent a lot of time with mega datacenters (MDCs) around the world trying to understand their problems – and I really don’t care what ar...
Origin vulnerability lets attackers hijack gaming machines
Upwards of 40 million users of EA's Origin game platform could be open to a vulnerability that allows an attacker to remotely execute ...
SimCity Performance, Benchmarked
Going down the memory lane, I can remember two computer games being responsible for getting me so interested in PCs. The original Command &a...
Intel's Core i7-4770K 'Haswell' CPU gets benchmarked
If you’re considering upgrading to a Haswell CPU or building an entirely new system built around the chip but have been holding out to see w...
Tomb Raider Performance Test: Graphics & CPU
Although this year's Tomb Raider reboot made our latest list of most anticipated PC games , I must admit that it was one of the games I...
Android set to overtake iOS on tablets this year
The dominance of iOS will be challenged later this year as Android hurdles toward becoming the most-used mobile operating system on tablets,...
The business of gaming: nickels, dimes, and quarters
The video game industry is just that. An industry. Which means that it exists in a capitalistic world. You know, a free market. A place wher...
Gigabyte GeForce GTX Titan Review
Nvidia's Kepler architecture debuted a year ago with the GeForce GTX 680 , which has sat somewhat comfortably as the market's top s...
Windows 8 adoption at 2.79%, not growing as fast as Windows 7
Windows 8 continued its slow but steady growth in February grabbing 2.26 percent of the operating system market share, up from 1.72 perce...