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Author Archives: Thomas Ryan

Thomas Ryan
Apr 17, 2013

HiAlgoBoost For Far Cry 3

A real-time dynamic resolution and texture quality scaling app…

About this time last year we looked at an app called DynamiX from LucidLogix.
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Thomas Ryan
Apr 15, 2013
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Putting Intel’s New HD 4000 Driver to the Test

Can it live up to our expectations?

Back at GDC Intel spent a considerable amount of time talking up their latest driver release.
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Thomas Ryan
Mar 21, 2013

Reinvigorating the Midrange: AMD’s HD 7790

The Sea Islands (C.I.) have arrived on the Desktop…

There’s a gust of Bonaire blowing into the Southern Islands today with the launch of AMD’s HD 7790.
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Thomas Ryan
Mar 12, 2013
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AMD Goes Mobile First With Richland

Desktops are so old hat…

Today AMD launches their new Richland APU.
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Thomas Ryan
Feb 21, 2013

Build Your Own All-in-One

With an Intel CPU and a Gigabyte motherboard of course…

Today Taiwanese motherboard maker Gigabyte launched two new Thin Mini-ITX motherboards.
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Thomas Ryan
Feb 21, 2013

Comparing Crysis to Crysis

This one’s a whole lot prettier than the last…

The original Crysis is a game that has stood the test of time.
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Thomas Ryan
Feb 6, 2013

AMD Moves AFDS13

From Washington to California…

Through a blog post on its website, AMD has revealed that it’s moving its yearly Developer Summit from Bellevue, Washington to San Jose, California.
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Thomas Ryan
Feb 4, 2013

A Little Known Documentary on Xeon Phi

Ah, the wonders of Youtube…

Back in November Intel published a surprisingly good documentary on the development of its Xeon Phi chip.
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Thomas Ryan
Jan 18, 2013

Gaming on Intel’s Atom Z2670

Err… At least we tried to game on it.

After hearing about the variety of “gaming” tablets on hand at CES this year, like the Razor Edge and Vizio’s Z-60 based tablet, we decided to dust off the Clovertrail based Iconia W510 that we looked at back in December.
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Thomas Ryan
Jan 8, 2013

AMD’s CES 2013 Press Conference

Richland, Kabini, and Temash…

The keynotes that we’ve seen so far at CES have been pretty lame. Our own Leo Yim characterized last nights Nvidia press conference as a, “heynote”.
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Thomas Ryan
Dec 28, 2012

Living with Microsoft’s Surface RT

A Tale of Mixed Impressions

At the end of last week Nvidia released a blog by Brian Burke that chronicled his use of the Nvidia powered Surface RT on a business trip.
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Thomas Ryan
Dec 21, 2012

AMD Publicly Releases CodeXL 1.0

No more betas…

On December 4th, AMD released CodeXL to the general public after a public beta period.
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Thomas Ryan
Dec 18, 2012

Acer’s Iconia W510: Taking a Look

An overbuilt netbook…

With the launch of Windows 8 a slew of new tablets hit the market and the W510 was no exception.
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Thomas Ryan
Dec 17, 2012

Atom Versus Tegra 3 In Windows 8 Tablets

x86 Versus ARM in a Battleroyal…

One of the questions we’ve been dying to answer the past few years is who will win in the matchup between x86 and ARM.
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Thomas Ryan
Nov 20, 2012

Overclocking AMD’s FX-8350

Stock versus aftermarket…

When we reviewed AMD’s FX-8350 we weren’t able to find the time to really explore it’s overclocking capabilities.
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