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AMD To Drop Support for Pre Evergreen Cards

AMD To Drop Support for Pre Evergreen Cards

AMD is rumored to drop support from their Catalyst drivers for all cards prior to HD5000 that includes the HD2000, HD3000 and HD4000 series. The last package that will have support for pre HD5000 cards will be Catalyst 12.6, that’s in July. In other words, …

AIDA64 2.30 March 2012 Update

AIDA64 2.30 March 2012 Update

New features & improvements Enhanced UPS support Revamped Desktop Gadget Preliminary support for Intel “Haswell” APU and Intel “Lynx Point” PCH Preliminary support for Intel “Penwell” SoC Intel 520 and Intel 710 SSD support GPU details for AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series and nVIDIA GeForce …

Mass Effect 3 Ending: What are the Fans saying?

Mass Effect 3 Ending: What are the Fans saying?

The following wall of text doesn’t contain any spoilers. Bioware Forums have been “boiling” for a week now, they are not satisfied with their ending. Notice how I said “their” and not “the”? That’s because they, the fans wrote the story with the pen Bioware …

Windows 8 Consumer Preview Available

Windows 8 Consumer Preview Available

If you don’t already know, Windows 8 Consumer Preview is currently available as a free download straight from Microsoft’s Website. There are two ways to get Windows 8 installed on your PC. 1. Downloading the .iso files for either x32 or x64 architecture. You just …

Mass Effect 3 PC Demo Coming February 14th 2012

Mass Effect 3 PC Demo Coming February 14th 2012

If you’re a Mass Effect fan you already know this: Mass Effect 3 PC Demo will be released tomorrow, February 14th 2012. Mass Effect 3 was voted the most anticipated game of 2012. Mass Effect 3 Demo begins right in the middle of the action: …

Your Input is Needed

Your Input is Needed

I see that many of you display a genuine interest in all AMD drivers, leaked or WHQL, bad or good; I have decided to change the way I test these drivers. For the tests to be 100% genuine they first have to be transparent and …

AMD HD7970 Leaked Performance Charts

AMD HD7970 Leaked Performance Charts

As of today we have quite a lot of performance data on the HD7970 that will convince most of you to upgrade, if they are true of course… Fudzilla.com posted two days ago something that might get you off your seat. When compared to the …

AMD 79xx GPUs Detailed

AMD 79xx GPUs Detailed

Manufacturers are expected to release the new AMD 7000 Series GPUs in January 2012. As we already know AMD will first make available the high end cards: 7950, 7970 and later in 2012 (Q4?) we should expect the mainstream and low end cards like: 78xx, …

DiRT Showdown Announced

DiRT Showdown Announced

Codemasters is working on a new DiRT game called Showdown. Dirt: Showdown is being developed on EGO Game Technology Platform for PC, XBOX 360 and PS3. The game will be released sometime in May 2012. DiRT Showdown Trailer Official Announcement: There are three broad categories …

Spike TV Video Game Awards 2011 Winners

Spike TV Video Game Awards 2011 Winners

Spike TV announced the Video Game Awards (VGA) 2011. I totally agree on GOTY and the majority of choices but I don’t understand this: Why wasn’t Battlefield 3 even nominated for Best Graphics but Rage was, and a PS3 game won? I’ll leave it to …