Happy birthday: Intel's Pentium processor turns 20 years old todayIntel’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-volt Socket 4, was build on an 800-nanometer process and carrie…
AMD Radeon HD 7790 ReviewAMD 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 half a dozen more cards throughout the next 8 months.Late in t…
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 area those problems are as long as they’re important to the da…
Origin vulnerability lets attackers hijack gaming machinesUpwards of 40 million users of EA's Origin game platform could be open to a vulnerability that allows an attacker to remotely execute malicious code. Demonstrated by ReVuln on Friday at the Black Hat …
SimCity Performance, BenchmarkedGoing down the memory lane, I can remember two computer games being responsible for getting me so interested in PCs. The original Command & Conquer was the first around 1995. Running on the venerable …
Intel's Core i7-4770K 'Haswell' CPU gets benchmarkedIf 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 what performance is like compared to existing processors, tod…
Tomb Raider Performance Test: Graphics & CPUAlthough 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 was least looking forward to from a performance perspective. Prev…
Android set to overtake iOS on tablets this yearThe dominance of iOS will be challenged later this year as Android hurdles toward becoming the most-used mobile operating system on tablets, according to IDC. The researcher has updated its forecast t…
The business of gaming: nickels, dimes, and quartersThe video game industry is just that. An industry.Which means that it exists in a capitalistic world. You know, a free market. A place where you’re welcome to spend your money on whatever you please… …
Gigabyte GeForce GTX Titan ReviewNvidia's Kepler architecture debuted a year ago with the GeForce GTX 680, which has sat somewhat comfortably as the market's top single-GPU graphics card, forcing AMD to reduce prices and launch a spe…
Windows 8 adoption at 2.79%, not growing as fast as Windows 7Windows 8 continued its slow but steady growth in February grabbing 2.26 percent of the operating system market share, up from 1.72 percent in December and 1.09 percent in November according to Net…
