Introduction: Who in the gaming and enthusiast worlds (increasingly becoming the same community) has not heard of, and used, FutureMark’s 3DMark? Used as a benchmark for system evaluations and for bragging rights amongst the growing number of gamers and PC enthusiasts, 3DMark has become the standard for measuring the performance level of both systems as […]

Lake Tahoe, NV – AMD invited a select group of technical journalists up to the Hyatt Regency Hotel and Spa located on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe. There we were introduced to the “Spider” Platform: AMD’s codename for their new gaming/enthusiast platform. Intended to be an HD “Swiss Army Knife”, AMD’s latest offering offers […]

Recently I’ve managed to install Apple’s OS X Leopard operating system 10.5.4 onto a 10 inch MSI Wind Netbook, and you can too. Let me preface this by saying that I consider myself an Apple fan, and run nothing but authentic Macs in my home studio office. If you’re looking for another Mac vs. PC […]

Regarding recent inquires concerning Xonar soundcards and EAX Support: The Xonar series driver update for DS3D GX 1.0 to DS3D GX 2.0 is our response to feedback/criticism favoring compatibility with games that feature EAX 5.0. DS3D GX 2.0 allows gamers to enable EAX sound options/schemes in games on Vista and legacy Windows XP. The solution […]

OK, as promised, here are the rules for winning the fabulous HP HDX Dragon laptop. First of all, our contest runs from May 23, 2008 to May 30, 2008. Don’t come complaining that we haven’t done anything because the contest won’t start till then. The drawing will be on May 30, 2008 at 3:00 PM EDT (GMT […]

Author: Jose “Kalel” Perez & Carlos “Guru” Echenique Reviewed on: January 20 2006 Product cost: $795 Spelling and Grammatical Editor: Ian King and Sean May Manufacturer: NewTekNewTek has released the 64-bit version of their premier 3D modelling rendering software. Emmy Award winning VFX artist Jose Perez and I put this package through it’s paces and […]