AnandTech: It’s that time of year again. A time I always dread, when familiar hardware and disk images are replaced with the frightening introduction of a completely new beast. New motherboards, new CPUs, new hard drives, and new and scary drivers. I never know what’s going to happen. Earlier this year we butted ...

PC Perspective: AVADirect is a relatively unknown system builder in the boutique world and is a small company that has a lot to offer. For a much lower price than you can get comparatively fast Alienware or Voodoo systems, AVADirect can build you a top-of-the-line gaming PC for a reasonable cost while also offering ...

AnandTech: The 24.6 Megapixel Sony A900 is the highest resolution sensor in the full-frame DSLR class. Does high ISO noise mar the picture?...

AnandTech: We are rapidly approaching the i7 Core and X58 launch date.  With that in mind, we are starting to receive final production motherboards from a variety of manufacturers.  The latest board in the labs is the MSI Eclipse featuring the X58 and ICH10R chipsets.  Let’s take a quick look at it. MSI has ...

AnandTech: Welcome back, after quite a bit of an absence to what will now be a weekly feature in my blog section: the AnandTech Community Update. We tried this once back in March, but this has been quite a busy year for our forums, so this project got pushed into the background a bit. Things are going a little ...

AnandTech: Welcome back, after quite a bit of an absence to what will now be a weekly feature in my blog section: the AnandTech Community Update. We tried this once back in March, but this has been quite a busy year for our forums, so this project got pushed into the background a bit. Things are going a little ...

AnandTech: Some review samples of the Radeon HD 4830 were sent out with one too many SIMDs disabled. This resulted in lowered performance in our (and other) reviews of the part as reported on launch day. Here are the details....

PC Perspective: Alienware is the most well known name in the world of boutique system builders and they have a wide following of users consider the size of pre-built enthusiast PCs. Today we are looking a new Area-51 system configuration that sports some impressively fast components including a QX9770, VelociRaptor ...

AnandTech: So far, there has yet to be a confirmed Jasper sighting, despite a lot of false information. I don’t have a lot of new info myself, but I did want to clarify a number of things that seem to still be confusing. Some of my own suggestions from my previous article may not be as useful as I’d hoped. ... ...

bittech: Pro-modder Butterkneter delivers a simply stunning slice of African savannah with his Far Cry 2 themed PS3, featuring everything from giant ants, to a human skull! With fantastic attention to detail and brilliant craftsmanship, you’ve got to see this mod to believe it!