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Asus 6870 DirectCU
This is my new graphics card. An AMD Radeon HD 6870 based Asus with custom heat-pipe air cooling. More info: http://www.asus.com/Graphics_Cards/AMD_Series/EAH6870_DC2DI2S1GD5/. Before buying it I read...
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AMD and the Smurf-Rage story
First of all I want to mention that I’m a huge AMD fan! My last Intel CPU was a Pentium 120Mhz. Later I had Athlons of various generations and now a Phenom II 920 running @ 3,2 GHz. My last Nvidia...
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Batman Arkham City with hybrid PhysX on AMD
Batman Arkham City is just like Mafia II a Nvidia-sponsored game with exclusive CUDA-based-PhysX support: AMD users don’t get full particles, debris, fog and smoke effects. I bought this game but the...
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Deus Ex: Stuttering Revolution
A few weeks back I bought a Deus Ex Human Revolution Steam activation key on http://www.gamecard.mobi/ (they sell them cheaper as the codes probably “fell off” from promotional packages). The game is...
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Kinect
Last year on Christmas I bought the Kinect & Xbox 360 for my three year old daughter. OK, I play on it too sometimes (although I’m mainly a PC gamer) so it was for us both Now after about three...
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HP Veer
“Smallest, most powerful smartphone on the market”. This is how Jon Rubinstein, former SVP & GM of Palm Global Business, HP described it when it came out mid 2011. That was before Leo Apotheker,...
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Stereoscopic 3D with AMD HD3D and an Acer GR235Hbmii
This hot piece of Taiwanese hardware is my new monitor. It’s a 23” gaming monitor with stereoscopic 3D using polarization technology. My verdict after a few months of using it? It’s for sure worth the...
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Another amazingly bad console game PC port
The Amazing Spider-Man game is absoutely great … but someone didn’t spend enough time on the quality assurance after the game has been released it seems. It stutters on AMD graphic cards with recent...
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The future of the PC
The machine on the photo above is my current PC. An AMD FX-6300@4,5GHz with 16GB RAM, Radeon HD 6870, Samsung 128GB 840 SSD, 1TB HDD and a case with 5x 120mm fans… but this desktop computer running...
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TVPeCee HDMI-Stick MMS-874 Android Mini-Computer
Downloading Xvid movies via Torrent or some other P2P network is out. Not even Peerblockers with blacklists of honeypots can protect users anymore (more:...
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Ubuntu Edge – It’s the future, today.
A mobile device as powerful as a PC connected to a screen, keyboard and mouse for office work and touch input for the usage on the go is a concept I would have rather expected from Microsoft but...
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Medion Lifetab E7316
Most reviews I read about the Medion Lifetab E7316 indicate the reviewers haven’t had the real device for testing and just tried to assess the specifications. I bought it on day-1 when it became...
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The tale of my AMD FX-9590 Easter-PC
I usually never participate in sweepstakes. Last easter I decided to participate in a sweepstake promoted on the AMD Facebook page for a change. The chellange was to find hidden easter eggs on an...
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Amazon Fire HD 7 2014 review
After my Medion (Lenovo) Lifetab E7316 7″ Android tablet broke because it felt down from the bedside table I started looking for a replacement. That said I found it astonishing how thin the glass on...
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VR Shinecon & mini gamepad review
Last week a colleague brought his Samsung Gear VR to work. I tried VR for the first time and really liked it so I considered buying one. Unfortunately it turned out that my Samsung Note 4 doesn’t fit...
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Batman Arkham City with hybrid PhysX on AMD
Batman Arkham City is just like Mafia II a Nvidia-sponsored game with exclusive CUDA-based-PhysX support: AMD users don’t get full particles, debris, fog and smoke effects. I bought this game but the...
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Kinect
Last year on Christmas I bought the Kinect & Xbox 360 for my three year old daughter. OK, I play on it too sometimes (although I’m mainly a PC gamer) so it was for us both Now after about three...
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