Alienware has finally released the system, and its performance more than lived up to expectations. Our review system included a host of upgrades that more than doubled the baseline model’s price and we can’t help but wish that a us$3,600-plus laptop would have a slightly more sophisticated look (Alienware’s occasional tweaks to its plastic, alien-head [...]
The GTX 285 shares the same GPU as found in the GTX 295: the GT200b. The GT200b has one fundamental difference over the GT200, which powers the top-end GTX 280 and middle-road scrapper GTX 260. In an effort to improve efficiency, performance and yields, Nvidia has switched from a 65nm manufacturing process to a smaller [...]
There’s alien killin’ to be done on the PC as well, it seems - with another venerable franchise, Quake, bringing the fight back to Earth for a teamplay-focused rumble between the human forces and everyone’s favourite biomechanical horrors, the Strogg. Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is English developer Splash Damage’s follow-up to the popular Enemy Territory [...]
The Witcher hopes to be different. For a start, the Elves are terrorists. Not those whimsical, mincing Elven wimps that skip around the woods strumming a lute. These bad boys carry the fantasy equivalent of the AK-47. The characters, atmosphere and environment are key elements to The Witcher, and the features that stand out the [...]
Before Bioware’s role-playing game arrived, anybody who didn’t sleep in Yoda pajamas was thoroughly sick with all things Star Wars. Between a string of uninspiring-at-best games and a couple of dreadful films, the galaxy that was a long, long way away wasn’t long enough away for most. Then KOTOR appeared with a lot of style [...]
With XFX have already had both the ATI brands and also their own NVIDIA contract but more on the ATI mode the card manufacturer they have started their production of the graphics card and upcoming their 4870X2 flagship. But still the NVIDIA cards are still up to the task of going frame for frame against [...]
So the P45 chipset is all but dead and the mainstream are going to be over taken by the more recent core 7i chipset and in the upcoming 5500 and the 5400 chips, probably having the same spec as the old P45 chipset, with far more room for over-clocking and also more features packed into [...]
It’s worth remembering though that the big bang at the start isn’t the thing that necessarily makes a game great, and if there isn’t any substance or zest to be had when the smoke clears then that big bang can work to the detriment of the final game. The old stuff is fairly simple. The [...]
Akasa, while not the first name to mind in the case market has still been able to forge a reputation for excellent build quality and ease of use within its chassis range. Now it’s turning its eye towards the lucrative inexpensive “gamer case” market with the Infiniti ZOR, a steel chassis packing plenty of cooling [...]
The XFX has some explaining to do with the new ATI and NVIDIA cooperation deal, while still having the baggy green brand and still showed the new GTX 285 and the GTX295 flagships, it will in soon deliver the new type of brand their own GFX branding going with the flagship ATI card the 4870X2 [...]