Paul Otellini, Intel's soon-to-be ex-CEO, looks back at his years at Intel and points to the iPhone: missing out on it was the only thing he regrets and one of the companies biggest mistakes. More...
Intel has detailed a few new graphics options that will be available as part of their 4th-generation Core CPUs ('Haswell'), including new Iris and Iris Pro chips that deliver up to 3x the performance More...
Google Glass headsets have been slowly shipping to developers, which can only mean one thing: more information about the device. We now know that Glass has a dual-core CPU and 1GB of RAM. More...
The Radeon HD 7990 takes a pair of 7970 GPUs with overclocked cores and memory, packing 8.2 TFLOPS computer power, 6GB GDDR5 and an upgraded PEX bridge to connect the two GPUs. More...
Until the advent of DirectX 10, there was no point in adding undue complexity by enlarging the die area, which increased vertex shader functionality in addition to boosting the floating point... More...
Prior to the Voodoo 5's arrival, ATI had announced the Radeon DDR as “the most powerful graphics processor ever designed for desktop PCs.” Previews of the card had already gone public... More...
Launched on November 1996, 3Dfx's Voodoo graphics consisted of a 3D-only card that required a VGA cable pass-through from a separate 2D card to the Voodoo, which then connected to the display... More...
Along with DX11 effects, folks playing on PC can look forward to higher resolution textures and a healthy range of customization. Infinite comes with six graphical presets from "very low" to "ultra".. More...
The evolution of the modern graphics processor begins with the introduction of the first 3D add-in cards in 1995, followed by the widespread adoption of the 32-bit operating systems and the... More...
Intel's Pentium range of processors has celebrated its 20th birthday on Friday, with the original P5 chip coming out on March 22, 1993 in super-fast 60 MHz and 66 MHz variants More...
The latest member of the Southern Islands family, the new Radeon HD 7790 is designed to fill the gap between the Radeon HD 7770 and 7850. Set to precisely target the $150 price tag, the HD 7790... More...
SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info and show hard disk temperatures. More...
Tomb Raider supports DirectX 11, which brings access to rendering technologies such as depth of field, high definition ambient occlusion, hardware tessellation, super-sample anti-aliasing... More...
After wearing the single-GPU performance crown for 12 months, the GTX 680 has been dethroned by the new GTX Titan. The Titan carries a GK110 GPU with a transistor count that has more than doubled... More...
Considering next-gen cards are still months away, we didn't expect to bring any more GPU reviews until the second quarter of 2013. However, we realized there was a gap: triple monitor gaming. More...
The third installment in the Dead Space series was released this month, and considering the game made our list of 2013's most anticipated PC games we thought we would check it out to see how it... More...
The website that leaked what it claimed was the CPU specs of the next Xbox console is at it again, this time with their claim they have the specs for the GPU for Microsoft's next game console. More...
The Tegra 4 chipset codenamed "Wayne" has had it's specs leaked by a Weibo user. Judging from what we can see, we know that it's a substantial improvement to current existing chipsets. More...
A line-up for Intel's upcoming range of Haswell processors has been leaked, revealing 14 different SKUs including a 3.5 GHz flagship quad-core Core i7-4770K with an 84W TDP More...
An Intel spokesperson has now said the PC processor maker will keep making "socketed parts in the LGA package for the foreseeable future", despite recent rumors to the contrary. More...
After a rumor that Intel might abandon the socketed CPU, AMD has now publicly stated is will continue to offer such products for years to come, alleviating the worries of the enthusiast community More...
Like the original game, Far Cry 3 is set on a tropical island, this time found somewhere at the intersection of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. In typical TechSpot fashion, we'll be testing Far Cry... More...
With updated pricing and performance across the board, we figured it would be worth revisiting both company's offerings to see where you should spend your hard-earned cash this holiday season and... More...
AMD has long been subject of polarizing debate among technology enthusiasts. The chapters of its history provide ample ammunition for countless discussions and no small measure of rancour. More...
An overclocker by the name of AndreYang has set a world record in CPU frequency of 8.67GHz using the FX-8350 AMD chip, but only after two previously set records were set just yesterday. More...
For Call of Duty fans, developer Treyarch just delivered an early Christmas present when they released Black Ops II this week. As the ninth game in the Call of Duty franchise and the sequel to the... More...
Rumors are that Apple is looking to remove Intel processors from their Mac lineup and replace them with an architecture that closely resembles that of their mobile devices. More...
Medal of Honor: Warfighter calls for no less than a 3GHz quad-core processor paired with a GeForce GTX 560 or Radeon HD 6950. Given those upper-end requirements, we expect the title to be fairly... More...
A year after introducing Bulldozer FX processors, AMD is refreshing its flagship desktop series with Piledriver, an enhanced version that focuses on improving instructions per clock and frequency. More...
Having attacked the mid-range and upper-end markets, Nvidia has its sights set on the sub-$200 range, unleashing its GTX 650 Ti. At $150, the new arrival is roughly 34% cheaper than the GTX 660. More...
Borderlands 2 builds on the foundation laid three years ago, delivering new characters, more weapons, smarter foes, and the same addictive gameplay. We put it to the test on today's finest hardware. More...
Several weeks after the RTM launch of Windows 8, NVIDIA has finally gotten around to releasing new WHQL-certified non-beta drivers for Windows 8 users, through the 306.23 driver update. More...
Nvidia continues its push into the mid-range market with a Kepler-based card that is expected to retail for about $230 -- right in-between AMD's Radeon HD 7850 and 7870. More...
SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info and show hard disk temperatures. More...
Nvidia's new GeForce GTX 660 Ti has its crosshairs set on the HD 7870. Assuming it's priced competitively, the GTX 660 Ti seems like it could put a real hurting on AMD's offering. More...
Armed with five fans, nine heatpipes and a king-sized vapor chamber, one might consider the Gigabyte Radeon HD 7970 SOC to be overkill, and to that we say "hell yes!" More...
SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info and show hard disk temperatures. More...
A powerful graphics card is likely the most expensive component in your PC if you're a gamer, but with so many GPUs available in the range of $100 to $500, it can be tough to pick the right one. More...
The world largest microchip manufacturers begins its appeal before Europe's General Court in Bruxelles. The European Commission has no substantial evidence to prove our wrong, the corporation stated More...
Fast forward to the present day and it'd appear that AMD is desperate to claim the bragging rights of offering the single fastest GPU money can buy. As the name suggests the Radeon HD 7970 GHz... More...
The chipmaker introduced its new product for the HPC market dubbed “Xeon Phi”, a new “co-processor” that will work in tandem with Xeon CPUs to deliver new levels of performances. More...
Instead of breaking new ground in performance, Ivy Bridge improves efficiency, marking the arrival of Intel's 22nm design process which uses new 3D transistors. This allows the flagship quad-core... More...
It's been hinted that Max Payne 3 will make the most of current high-end PCs, with DirectX 11 tessellation compatibility and "advanced graphics options" available to PC players. More...
Leaked slides show how Chipzilla is already working, or better still researching on technology nodes pretty far in the future. The 5 nm chips will be here soon. More...
RIM says it has no immediate plans to use quad-core CPUs in its BlackBerry 10 devices, stating that they're "just a great spec to write on the spec sheet" for vendors who "can only compete on spec". More...
Continuing Kepler's rollout, Nvidia has unveiled the GTX 670, which is priced against the HD 7950 at $399. Despite being $100 cheaper than the GTX 680, the GTX 670 doesn't appear to be much slower. More...
A famed theoretical physicist predicts the end of the well-known “law” set up by Gordon Moore several decades ago. Quantum computing to further develop CPUs? Still an immature tech, he says. More...
On paper, the GTX 680 has almost 200% more shader performance than the GTX 580, roughly 250% more texture performance, 90% more ROP performance and 100% more memory bandwidth. More...
Considered a successor to Tribes 2, Tribes: Ascend embraces its heritage by incorporating the same fast-paced combat, tons of maps, weapons, vehicles and unique traversal mechanics. More...
Since late last year Ivy Bridge seems to be the architecture everyone is waiting for. Although Intel is only anticipating a 10-15% processing performance bump when compared to Sandy Bridge, the big... More...