In the Radeon HD 4890, AMD's new GPU silicon resets the single-chip performance plateau at about 250 bucks. Nvidia's GeForce GTX 275 has shown up abruptly, as well, determined to crash the party....

While Intel has made headlines with its X25-E Serial ATA solid-state drives, Fusion-io has been tackling the enterprise solid-state storage concept in an altogether different way. In company tradition, the newly announced ioDrive Duo SSDs plug into P...

The GeForce GTS 250 supplants the GeForce 9800 GTX+ with a smaller card, lower power draw, double the video memory, and a markedly lower price. But is it good enough to fend off the Radeon HD...

How does 24 cores in Task Manager sound? We saw it happen when AMD gave us an exclusive first demo of its upcoming six-core Opteron in action. Could this be the answer to Nehalem that AMD needs?

The gaming notebook market is filled with flashy, expensive systems that tend to offer poor value. However, MSI's GX630 rings up at just $799 with a dual-core Athlon X2 and a GeForce 9600M GT....

Got $1,350 burning a hole in your pocket? Does leaving DIMM slots unpopulated in your motherboard make you strangely uncomfortable or keep you up at night? Then Corsair's new 24GB Dominator memory kit might be what you're looking for. The kit unites...

Ah, I love the smell of fresh WorldBench results in the morning. Too bad one of my test rigs decided not to run the Photoshop test properly. Ugh. Now to troubleshoot... On a happier note, I did a quick system build last night for a friend, and I...

Six months ago, we were poking and prodding at MSI's X-Slim X340, one of the very first laptops based on Intel's consumer ultra-low-voltage platform. MSI has now introduced a trendier, faster, and more mobile successor based on a similar formula: the...

Bill of Rights Day Ars Technica reports new Google phone would challenge U.S. carrier model Engadget: HTC Nexus One blessed by the FCC The Google phone: What gives? Will a Google phone spur a Microsoft phone? VR-Zone reports HTC's new Android...

Remember the OpenOffice.org mouse we told you about last month? Well, it's gotten a new name, a black paint job, and an adjustable 5,600-DPI laser sensor—and WarMouse still aims to commercialize it soon. Despite the changes, the WarMouse Meta has kept...