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AMD vs. NVIDIA - Are they even playing the same game? Posted on Friday, November 27 2009 8:41 pm by forum member: Mr.Tweak Filed under: Link Removed In the GPU world there are many flavors, despite the perception that you either get AMD or NVIDIA. There is Matrox, WildCat/3D Labs, S3...

To me, hard disk imaging is one of the most important thing to do after I’ve perfectly finished setting up a computer system the way I wanted. It is the best way of restoring the changes back to the way it was and also the best way to clone multiple computers with same hardware...

MaC OS Debate I started off on this website in the "Windows Installation Upgrade" section. I started there because of problems installing Windows 7. I was pretty ticked off at the time because 7 wouldnt install. I dont think I made any friends. I wont bore you with the details. At that time I...

Over the past few days I’ve been thinking quite a bit about the differences between Microsoft’s latest Windows 7 and Canonical’s Ubuntu 9.10. Specifically, I’ve been thinking about the strengths and weaknesses of each of the operating systems. Is a free operating...

Is there anyway to tell whether the PC I am on is using a retail version or the RC? I have been asking around and have been unable to find a definitive answer. I have tried comparing winver, dxdiag, registry keys, and system properties under control panel and from what I can tell all are...

Snow Leopard consistently beats Windows 7 in many general performance areas. (Credit: Dong Ngo/CNET) As someone who uses both platforms for work and personal entertainment, I've been wanting to do a performance comparison between Windows 7 and Mac OS X since I first got my hands on the...

Now that I have win7 which came with explorer 8 and also dl'ed and installed Firefox....and they both seem to be pretty fast...I was using firefox on xp because it was faster....which on of the 2 browser would be preferred on win 7 Kas:razz::razz:

L3 Cache: How Important Is It To AMD? It makes sense to equip multi-core processors with a dedicated memory utilized jointly by all available cores. In this role, fast third-level cache (L3) can accelerate access to frequently needed data. Cores should not revert to accessing the slower main...

i'm not sure about windows vista uses, but every version of windows i used, i can click on the system clock on the lower right hand side of my task bar and the calendar will open up and i can drag it around. i use this to compare dates and to plan ahead by comparing it side by side with open...

For those wondering what this special edition beast got, there now a full review on Guru3d....although to sum it up here's the skinny....it bearly beat the Nvidia 295...on every benchmark tested it was within single digits fps difference to a card nearly a THIRD its price...EPIC FAIL ASUS....lol...

I don't think I've ever deliberately used IE unless I had to so I'm not including it here. I have used Opera, Firefox and Chrome/Chromium on a pretty much equal basis over the past year or so, with Chrome probably taking the lead. What I've found is that published browser speed comparisons...

If you are contemplating a free antivirus and want some help deciding, here is a side by side comparison among several popular Free Anti-virus applications. While my personal preferences would place Microsoft Security Essentials at the top of this list and move each ot the top two down one...

When Windows XP came out and especially after SP2, most people thought it was a great OS Then Vista came out and some thought it a slight improvement and some people did not like it. I thought that its stability improved after its SP1. Now we have been running Windows 7 for a few months what...

Today we'll be looking at two core components; the memory and the CPU. We’ll be using a triple channel memory configuration with our Core i7 920 processor clocked at 4GHz. We'll be running our testbed through our standard memory benchmark line-up which does a good job of testing both the...

I have just got a MSDN subscription and would like to try Windows 7, bit confused by which build I want though. I have access to versions updated on the 7th August which are 65921 Enterprise and 65922 Ultimate (x64) but how do these compare in terms of how new they are vs the RC and RTM that I...

Windows 7 is compared to XP and vista over 80 benchmarks: Windows 7 Review: XP vs Vista vs 7 in 80+ Benchmarks | Maximum PC

The debate on whats the best set-up, either quad or dual core has been looked at again by the people over at Toms Hardware and makes for interesting reading: Link Removed

Does anyone know any products that would compare iTunes playlists under Windows? Only one I found looks like it is for Mac.

32 bit vs 64 bit From what I am lead to understand (from CNET iirc) both 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows 7 will be available to me on the installation disk when Win 7-E arrives sometime at the end of October. I have a fairly low spec (1.7Ghz Athlon 64x2) processor and 3GB RAM (I will buy more...