In December 2009 we wrote quite a lot about the upcoming new Acer laptops from the famous Aspire 8942G desktop replacement series. Nowadays they are ready for sale and buyers will soon see them in shops worldwide, but we had a chance for a quick sneak peak at one of them and we managed to run a few benchmarks on it. Mostly related to the video card, as it is based on Core i7 820QM processor, which you already heard about a lot. The most interesting about those new notebooks from Acer is that they are the first to use the newest DirectX 11 mobile graphics card from ATI – Mobility Radeon HD5850. …read on

Today is a great day for all those waiting GF100 show offs as some of the first benchmarks leaked in vimeo and were later removed from there, but not before people managed to upload them in youtube and the like. There is only one real benchmark – Far Cry 2, made at the highest possible settings with AA and AI on, and the GF100 averaged over 80 FPS at 1920×1200 resolution. Compared to what we could take for average HD5870 results in the same benchmark (deducted from reading many HD5870 reviews from around the globe), the Radeon does like 60 to 64 FPs with same setting, which makes just over 30% better result for the GF100. …read on

Yeah, we know those two were around for quite a lot of time yet they still sit like lone riders in a desert if you are after budget gaming keyboards as we did. Seems that most companies either don’t think there is room for more gaming illuminated keyboards, or the world is just too full of people who can afford something like Logitech G19 or its rivals, if any. What we have here are two differently shaped, differently spectacular keyboards meant to give you some edge in games where you need speed, programming capabilities and to press lots of keys at once. There are other differences too, though… …read on

There s certain degree of objectivity editors have to keep to retain their stature of trusted source when they start to get more and more readers. There are only a handful of exceptions in the world of IT hardware and right now one of them is much too active to miss him in what we decided to be a simple true/false review of current NVIDIA position. Charlie from semiaccurate started to sound more than angry lately and while he still keeps the politeness in his forum posts, most of his articles started to look like a regular forum troll postings. In fact – an ATI fanboy postings, and one of those that don’t have much technical knowledge and substitute it with pure hate. There is also certain degree of envy in our words – not everyone can sound as deluded as Charlie Demerjian while keeping his readers (he even gets more and more) but we certainly prefer to stay objective instead of taking the one way road. Because you know that once you take that road there is only a couple of times you get to fail before you get lost – even Neo can only dodge a few bullets before he gets hit, right? We won’t run Charlie’s article analysis here, but all in all we think he has someone over TSMC, as most of his accurate postings seems to be either about chip manufacturing, or anti-NVIDIA PR analyzes. The rest… well, the rest of the ATI/NVIDIA stuff  is just too much crap to be analyzed. Most of it is included in one simple form with 10 points below: …read on