Sony PS Move motion controller review

JAPANESE ELECTRONICS GIANT Sony announced the Playstation (PS) Move back in 2009 with much fanfare. The company didn't have any titles to show off - it still doesn't, really - but it was wowing the crowds at games expos with the lag-free and responsive motion controller.Sony had previously made promises it couldn't keep at E3 with games demos that proved to be tweaked engines rather than games running on the fly. So the tech demos it ran for the PS Move looked very impressive but were taken with a healthy lump of salt. Then Sony started demoing titles for its upcoming PS Move and the same lag free responsive motion controller.Those games...

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Crossfiring the AMD HD6870 review

we looked at the plain vanilla AMD Radeon HD6870 graphics card holding its own against the super overclocked Nvidia Geforce GTX460 from Gainward. This time, we'll see how a pair of those HD6870 cards scale up in Crossfire and hold their own against the Green Goblin's GTX580.Nvidia's GTX580 is the new king of the single-GPU block until the HD6970 appears in another month or so, even accounting for its freshly rumoured delays. The comparison is also interesting because a pair of HD6870s sell for quite close in actual retail price to a single high-end GTX580, in particular the $550-class overclocked varieties by Asus, Gainward and others.Since...

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Avermedia Windows 7 TV Starter Kit review

YOU WOULD THINK by now that Freeview certified TV tuners for PCs would be ten a penny, but Freeview’s website relegates the entire topic of DVB-T tuners to a single answer in its FAQ. Of course, there are dozens of digital tuners out there of all shapes and sizes, and from experience we know that most branded models work pretty well with Windows 7 Media Center.But Avermedia has seen fit to go one step further and get one of its USB tuner dongles officially blessed by both Microsoft and Freeview, turning a fairly standard product into the Windows 7 Starter Kit. Obviously, this should mean that it’s an easy sell for those worrying types...

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AMD Radeon HD6970 and HD6950 review

WITH ITS LATEST PARTS, the last major launch of the 40nm GPU generation, AMD has now presented its answer to the recently announced and seemingly quite well performing Nvidia chippery, the GTX580. The Radeon HD6970 and its lower-cost sibling, the HD6950, fare as well as expected in the benchmarks, and provide a nice feature boost too.The twin graphics engines for much faster geometry and rasterisation plus massively sped up tessellation, Powertune real-time performance and power adjustment, as well as higher double precision floating point performance, are just some of the benefits. Image quality wise, there's Enhanced Quality Anti-Aliasing...

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AMD Phenom II X6 1090T CPU Review

Introduction  AMD has had mastery of the budget end of the processor market for some time now for reasons including price/performance, low motherboard prices and platform longevity (they don’t change sockets at the drop of a hat). The only downside has been the sacrificing of the high performance market to Intel (albeit at a much higher price). Recently Intel launched its 6-core processor the i7-980X at the usual "Extreme Edition" price of around a $1000 (or a £1000 if you happen to live in the UK due to sales tax and other historical factors) putting it out of reach of all but a few enthusiasts and professionals in specialized...

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