No, it won’t help you take down giants or snow trolls more easily, but a new Skyrim patch does purport to increase the frame rate PC setups that rely heavily on the CPU. Bethesda forum user Arisu has created the [...]
Amazon Addresses Performance Concerns With Kindle Fire v6.2.1 Update
Amazon's Kindle Fire will undoubtedly be one of the hottest sellers this holiday season. Even if it had a few issues and slowdowns in use, for $ 200 it's impossible to match. And Amazon's working hard to make sure that [...]
The Ultimate Performance PC: EVGA & Intel Infused
We first laid our hands on the Classified SR-2 at CES 2010 and were recently given the opportunity to take one for a spin around the lab. While preparing to test the board, however, a couple of important points led [...]
AMD Radeon HD 7970 – New 3D Graphics Performance King Takes Throne
We have been hearing about AMD’s “Southern Island” family of graphics processors for quite some time. Even during briefings for the Northern Island series of products which ultimately became the Radeon HD 6000 series, news about Southern Islands was already [...]
Windows Hotfix Improves AMD Bulldozer Performance
Attention AMD fans, if you're running one of those newfangled Bulldozer processors in your system, how would you like a free performance boost? You can have one, so long as you're rocking a copy of Windows 7 or Windows Server [...]
Hitachi GST Ships High Performance 10K Hard Drive
Hitachi GST introduced its new Ultrastar C10K900 enterprise drive family. The Ultrastar C10K900 features a high-performance SAS 6Gb/s interface and a 64MB cache buffer to optimize the read/write response time. The new Ultrastar drives feature average seek times as low [...]
Batman: Arkham City PC performance issues linked to DX11, patch incoming
Having waited over a month for Warner Bros. and Rocksteady to tidy up the PC code for Batman: Arkham City, players have expressed frustration with severe performance issues encountered in the game. Warner has confirmed that a stuttering framerate is [...]
Intel Highlights Xeon E5 Performance, Talks Up Knights Corner MIC Products
At the supercomputing conference SC2011 today, Intel offered up performance details of its upcoming Xeon E5 processors and demoed their Knights Corner many integrated core (MIC) solution. The new Xeons won't be broadly available until the first half of 2012, [...]
Nvidia GeForce 285.79 Beta Driver Boosts Performance in Skyrim, Battlefield 3
If you're reading this, it's only because you're stuck at work. Otherwise, you'd be home in your man cave slaying dragons in Skyrim or shooting up your buddies in Battlefield 3. It's a good thing we caught you too, because [...]
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