Month: August 2002

Real Radeon 9700 benchmarks are coming in. We still intend to buy the card and test it, but some comments are in order now. If you believed the “previews,” and thought you were going to be getting around 100% improvements

Big monitors have usually meant Big Money. Only in the last couple years have prices for the bigger monitors gotten somewhat reasonable. As they have, people have migrated to them. Nowadays, most gamers wont settle for anything less than 19

That is, if this XBit Labs article is correct. Briefly, this is the story: 1) Current TBreds can’t consistently get it up much past 2GHz. 2) AMD has revised the chip, but won’t be able to get it out until

A growing percentage of people are rejecting “official” sources of information about computer products, relying increasingly instead on user opinions to make their buying decisions. It’s not perfect, but for more than a few aspects, seeking user opinion of products

From an article in PC World: “A small group of PC owners has quietly filed a class action lawsuit against Intel, Gateway, and Hewlett-Packard alleging the companies misled them into believing the Pentium 4 was a superior processor to Intel’s

The Optimal Time We have a certain philosophy about buying computer equipment. We believe there are better and worse times to buy computer equipment. We believe the best time to buy is when you can cheaply buy a generation of