Game BlogWhen fast just isn’t fast enough! What do you get when you cross extreme engineering with extreme overclockability? You get an AMD TWKR CPU. **WARNING: Extreme overclocking is an activity that should be carried out only by experts, using expert tools in a safe and secure environment. Use of extreme cooling methods and materials, including [...]
Will we soon game from the Cloud? While social media has been the “new shiny toy” for some time, attracting the headlines and the VC dollars as companies and individuals try to monetize this phenomenon, another, related subject may be about to thunder and lightning. Yes, I’m talking about the “Cloud”. For this hardcore audience, [...]
Look carefully at these 2 processors before buying anything else! The mainstream CPU market is awfully crowded these days, a full line-up of model numbers from AMD and a further full line-up of confusing model numbers from Intel. Is the C2D E8600 better than a C2Q 8200, what about an i7920, is a 920 better [...]
Does the CoolIT Domino make the grade? When the guys from CoolIT approached me for a quote for their Domino press release, my immediate reaction was, “Let’s get it in the lab and send me a review unit to test”… Here at AMD we have a full scientific test lab for thermal devices. We all [...]
Breaking it down with Pete Hardman in our secret lab Does your PC have overclock potential? Our new AMD PhenomTM II processors certainly do, and to showcase this I ventured over to our super secret lab buried deep inside the bowels of our Austin campus to prove the point! Picture long hallways of unmarked doors, [...]
For anyone who hasn’t figured it out yet, I officially have the best job in the IT world. For those of you still unconvinced, just read this post. Walked the floor with none other than Charlie from The Inq… After I spent 4 solid days locked in a 10x10ft white room briefing journalists and analysts [...]
Have you ever wondered just how much performance you can get from your current PC? Or, how much do you need to spend on a CPU vs. GPU? Or, do large containers of Liquid Nitrogen spewing vapour make your neighbours nervous? At AMD HQ in Austin, TX in November we invited some of the top [...]
“Plug ‘n’ Pulverize” gaming graphics upgrade for notebook PCs For millions of notebook PC users, it’s been nothing more than a frustrated wish. A portable performance possibility never realized. A mobile multi-monitor dream unfulfilled. An unreachable itch that laptop-toting PC gamers could never scratch -until now. Thanks to AMD, notebook buyers will finally get what [...]
The females of the species are more fraggish than the male. It starts with “smack-talk.” Think of it as belittling and goading your opponent hip-hop-style, complete with undulating arms and pointing fingers. Originating on sports playing fields, smack-talk moved to online MMOG (massively multiplayer online game) arenas. Today, smack-talk is actively practiced by corporate types. [...]
I was perusing the blogosphere the other day and came across a blog from EA’s Peter Moore. In the blog, Moore confirms reports that EA will not be shipping Madden 2009 for the PC platform. Faster than a Fatal1ty mouse click, some news outlets operating with a generate-traffic-with-hyperventilating-headlines format instantly glommed onto this comment in [...]
