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Here Come the 8-Core AMD Bulldozer-Powered Gaming PCs

Mike Fahey — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:40:00 EDT

AMD launched its new FX line of processors today, and two gaming hardware builders have already jumped at the chance to provide the world's first gaming rig powered by a native 8-core desktop processor. More »

How To Get Rage To Run On Your PC, An id Software Guide

Brian Crecente — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:00:00 EDT

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The computer version of Rage hasn't exactly been trouble free for some folks trying to play id Software's latest creation. I haven't run into any over issues, but I've got a high-end tower that I just ran through a massive driver update. That's not the norm. More »

AMD Sets a World Record with a 8.429 GHz Processor

Joel Johnson — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:30:00 EDT

And according to the pictures in Venturebeat's write-up of AMD's Guinness Success, they did it in a nightclub. Oonsk! More »

Whoops, 3 Million Copies of Dirt 3 Just Went Missing [Update]

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 02:30:00 EDT

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Publishers Codemasters and graphics card manufacturer AMD have been running a promotion lately whereby purchasers of a card got a free copy of excellent racer Dirt 3. That offer has now been, uh, slightly expanded. More »

Yes, But Can a Ten-Core PC Run Crysis?

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 02:30:00 EDT

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According to reports from China, AMD will next year be releasing a new CPU called Piledriver. Appropriately, given its name, it may well go Zangief all over your games (or at least the games of the future that are actually coded for it), because it's got ten cores. More »

Report: The Next Xbox Can Render Avatar Graphics

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:00:00 EDT

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No, it won't be wall-to-wall digital blue people. Well, I hope it won't, because, man, I did not like Avatar. More »

AMD is Making the GPU Under the Wii U's Hood

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:18:00 EDT

Like IBM, hardware company AMD has also issued a release boasting of its support for Nintendo's new Wii U console. More »

AMD’s New Under-$100 Video Cards Are Pretty Decent

Kyle Wagner — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 23:00:00 EDT

A hundred bucks isn't what it used to be. It won't get you a new pair of Jordans or take you halfway to buying your way out of a Union army conscription. But it'll buy you a half-decent video card. More »

AMD Calls Out NVIDIA on "Fastest Graphics Card" Claim

Brian Crecente — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:38:08 EDT

AMD says they want NVIDIA to put their money where their mouth is and prove that the NVIDIA GTX 590 really is the world's fastest graphics card. Of course AMD believes their recently released Radeon HD 6990 is the world's fastest graphics card. I hope this throw down involves sharks or something else bitey. [AMD blog, via Ironhammers thanks Bobby] More »

AMD Radeon HD 6870 Review

Steven Walton — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:00:00 EDT

AMD has enjoyed a terrific run with the Radeon HD 5000 series as it took Nvidia no less than six months to counter with its initial Fermi products. More »

Goodbye, "ATI"

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:30:00 EDT

Nvidia vs ATI. To PC gamers who are big on their hardware races, it's like Ford vs GM, Packers vs Bears or Sony vs Microsoft. Sadly, it's a fight that's about to get a name change. More »

Hello, World's Fastest Graphics Card

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:30:00 EST

This is the Sapphire Radeon HD 5970, and it's apparently the world's fastest production video card. Which it had want to be, with a price tag hovering around the $700 mark. More »

Hey, It's The World's Fastest Graphics Card

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:30:00 EST

Meet the ATI Radeon HD 5970. Why are we bothering to introduce you? Because the ATI Radeon HD 5970 is now the world's fastest graphics card, that's why. More »

Get Ready For The Next Generation Of PC Graphics

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:30:00 EDT

PC gamers may want to have some extra cash on-hand in a few month's time, because both AMD and Nvidia are expected to release the "next generation" of graphics chips later this year. More »

AMD Breaks 1 GHz Video Card Speed Barrier, Pleases AMD

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 13 May 2009 21:20:00 EDT

How pleased is AMD? So pleased. Pleased enough with its video card accomplishments to issue a press release—and pretty product shots!—about its 1 gigahertz ATI Radeon HD 4890. There's just a slight catch. More »

AMD Gettin' Rich Off The Wii Too

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:40:14 EDT

Nintendo isn't the only one stuffing its coffers with cash, thanks to the Wii's continued success. Chip maker AMD is also pleased as punch to be selling gobs of chips—50 million of 'em! More »

AMD Cutting Jobs, Slashing Survivors' Pay

Owen Good — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:00:00 EST

Processor and graphics-card manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices is cutting 1,000 jobs and reducing pay for everyone else to get through terrible times for computer sales. More »

AMD Say PC Market AOK

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:20:00 EST

A hot topic this year aongst nay-sayers has been the impending "death" of the PC gaming market. Let's hear what AMD's senior vice president Rick Bergman has to say on the subject. More »

AMD Works With EA, SEGA and NHN Games For Hot DirectX 10.1 Action

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:00:00 EDT

Computer processing solutions company Advanced Micro Devices is working with three leading developer to bring AMD graphics and DirectX 10.1 support to their titles: Electronic Arts Phenomic Studio and its upcoming real-time online fantasy RTS Battleforge, SEGA and its real-time futuristic military strategy title Stormrise, and NHN Games and its 3D RPG Cloud 9. Says Microsoft Games for Windows Global Director Kevin Unangst: More »

AMD Graphics Chip More Powerful Than Every Game Console Combined, Says AMD

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:40:31 EDT

Chip maker AMD has invested heavily into hyperbole research, proudly proclaiming that its new graphics chip, the RV770, is "more powerful than every generation of video game console ever brought to market combined." The RV770, demoed Monday, is capable of processing one trillion floating operations per second on a single chip, a feat that AMD says "punches a sizeable hole in the sensory barrier." More »

AMD Gets Behind Social Issue Gaming

Leigh Alexander — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:20:00 EDT

Chip maker AMD's philanthropic foundation is getting behind games for social change. At the 2008 Games for Change event in New York, chip maker AMD announced its "Changing the Game" program, which aims to teach kids to develop games with social content. More »

AMD Holding Up Their End Of The PC Gaming Bargain

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 19 May 2008 06:30:00 EDT

When the PC industry's big guns high-fived as they broke from a warm, gushy group hug, they high-fived with a pledge: that they'd do what they could to help give traditional PC gaming a kick in the pants. We've seen what Nvidia are doing, so what about AMD? They're...well, they're going to start putting little badges on their PCs. If a computer's got a badge that says "AMD Game", it'll play more than just Freespace. If it says "AMD Game Ultra", it'll even manage something like Crysis. You can see an example of the badges to your left. I don't know. It's not that its necessarily a bad idea, just...we were kinda hoping for a little more than just (likely ineffectual) badges, you know? More »

PC Gaming Alliance Officially Announced, Here To Save The Day

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:00:00 EST

The PC Gaming Alliance is real. It was just announced at GDC, and comprises not only the rumoured Intel, Nvidia, AMD/ATi and Microsoft (along with Alienware, Dell, ACER and Gateway), but publishing giants Epic and Activision as well. Intel's Randy Stude will be heading up the group, which rather than making things like official stickers, box labels and slogans will instead be working to provide the platform with a unified "voice":

One of our main major objectives is to provide one voice on PC gaming market. There's no one source that says 'hey this is where the PC market is going'. Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft are always calling their market share - we're going to call our market through this group.

Sounds like a truly-grass-roots move. And it's got all the big hardware names, and two of the biggest software names (remember, Acti includes Blizzard now), onboard. Seems reports of the death of PC gaming have been greatly exaggerated! More »

New AMD Phenoms Get Benchmarked

Mark Wilson — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:40:19 EST

For those of you looking to build or upgrade a PC rig, Techspot just ran a ton of benchmarks on AMD's newest Phenom processors, alongside Intel Core2Duo and Core2Quad processors. The verdict? The Phenoms did pretty well, shining the most in Crysis and FEAR (though performing less optimally during UT3, Company of Heroes and Prey). It can never be cut and dry, can it? But one important point: go with the Intel Core2Duo over the Intel quad-core because, with many games, the Duo still performs better than the Quad—give software time to catch up with the hardware. More »

New York AG Subpoenas Intel

Brian Crecente — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:00:41 EST

New York's attorney general is investigating whether Intel violated state and federal antitrust laws by penalizing computer makers, cutting off competitors' distribution channels and improperly paying customers for exclusivity. More »

AMD Spider Crawls Into The House

Mike Fahey — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:20:03 EST

This may look like a giant black metal box on top of my dining room table, but inside said box is AMD's answer to the gaming PC. This is Codename: Spider. The system combines the AMD Phenom Quad-core processor, the new ATI Radeon 3800 series of graphics cards, and AMD's 790FX chipset to create what AMD considers not just a computer, but a platform all its own. With the processor, chipset, and graphics all created by AMD and designed specifically to work in conjunction with each other, they are calling it "the ultimate computing experience with amazing scalability and exceptional efficiency." As a testament to their faith in the system, AMD included both Stranglehold and Crysis with the Spider to aid me in testing system performance. Yes, that Crysis. Bold move, AMD. More »

Kotaku Swagu: Microsoft Press Goodies

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 23:20:11 EST

I lugged around this box for a good eight hours yesterday. Combined with a MacBook Pro, snacks, a pair of Nintendo handhelds and my tiny frame, it made for a gruelling nerd challenge. I never really paid much attention to it, but random people would come up and ask me, "Did you get a copy of Vista?" After responding with "I dunno!" too many times, I decided to crack it open. More »

PC Shenanigans

Brian Crecente — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:50:40 EDT

I finally got around to re-ordering the missing CPU for my soon to be built computer. A few months back I ordered a bunch of pieces and parts to build a new PC. I went with NewEgg for everything but the CPU. And wouldn't you know it, WiredZone decided to screw me on my CPU order. I had ordered an AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Dual Core S-AM2 from them because it was listed for so little, but after waiting for a month they emailed me to say that the order had been canceled. When I contacted them they claimed that the chip has been canceled by AMD. More »

My Computer Parts

Brian Crecente — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:00:47 EDT

First a big thanks to everyone who suggested I wait until the end of July to start piecing together my computer. Man, those price drops on the CPU were amazing. More »

How To Rebuild My PC

Brian Crecente — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:00:32 EDT

First, thanks for all of the advice. Thanks also for all of the offers to help me build a PC, but I don't think it would be ethical, and besides, I like putting together computers. More »