Weekly Hardware Recap

Written by Oscar Meade in May 16th, 2008  
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ASUS' Eee PC continues to spark new competitors as the MSI Wind seeks to dethrone the current mini-book leader later next month. Both the MSI Wind and upcoming ASUS Eee PC 901 are powered by Intel's Atom processor as detailed by DailyTech and have consumers foaming at the mouth considering

Ironman coming soon to a military near you

Written by Thomas Gribble in May 15th, 2008  
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I know this is pretty strictly a gaming hardware site, but sometimes I read stuff that is just so damn cool that there is no way in hell I can do without sharing. This guy Rex Jameson of Utah-based robotics firm Sarcos Inc. helped develop a 150-lb ‘exoskeleton’ suit that

RV770 end of June, GT200 is GeForce GTX 280

Written by Thomas Gribble in May 15th, 2008  
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For the past month there has been a news story regarding the upcoming video cards from AMD and NVIDIA pretty much every single day. More and more details are pouring in and today we have some truly interesting things to report. AMD’s RV770, in the form of the Radeon HD 4850,

Dell on them dropping XPS: Huh?

Written by Thomas Gribble in May 14th, 2008  
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In response to a major news story yesterday that Dell would be phasing out its XPS line of gaming systems, the company has refuted the claims in the story, which originated at the Wall Street Journal, stating, “Dell XPS and Alienware are both great brands – arguably the greatest brands

Call of Duty 5 coming to six platforms

Written by Thomas Gribble in May 13th, 2008  
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Activision's Call of Duty series is a perennial favorite amongst FPSLabs readers. This is likely because the game incorporates a far more realistic first person shooter experience than Valve juggernauts Counter-Strike and Team Fortress 2. While COD4 might not be the most played game amongst our readers, it was highly

RV770 GDDR5 samples, GT200 $499

Written by Thomas Gribble in May 13th, 2008  
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Today we have some rare news (/sarcasm) regarding the upcoming RV770 and GT200 video cards from AMD and NVIDIA, respectively. Apparently AMD has begun sampling the GDDR3 version of RV770, which has been labeled the RV770PRO. In addition, the company plans to start sampling the RV770XT with 512-bit capable GDDR5

Yay, BlizzCon 2008 gets official

Written by Thomas Gribble in May 13th, 2008  
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Being a resident of Southern California, I have the luxury of being easily able to attend a lot of the large technology/gaming events because they happen here. Of course there are disadvantages to this: terrible air quality, high gas prices, and high cost of living. However, whenever one of these

Dell to nix XPS, go with Alienware for Gaming

Written by Thomas Gribble in May 13th, 2008  
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Ever since Dell bought Alienware in 2006, business for the extra-terrestrial company has declined. Once the posterchild for high-end, expensive gaming systems, Alienware's fall from prominence has provided a nice boost in the business of smaller system integrators offering similar if not higher-quality products for better prices. Analysts supposed that

GPU shrink for Xbox 360 coming soon

Written by Thomas Gribble in May 12th, 2008  
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Although Xbox 360 has been the bane of many gamers' existence thanks to that pesky RROD problem, the console's success in the worldwide market is undeniable. Thanks in no small part to several very good games and a lower price tag than its high-fidelity console competition, the Xbox 360 has

More Nehalem/X58 details slip out

Written by Thomas Gribble in May 12th, 2008  
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It seems like every month we are posting a new story that target="_link"brings to light one more detail about Intel’s upcoming Nehalem processor. We already know that the processor will have an integrated memory controller capable of triple-channel DDR3 operation. We also know that old technologies like HyperThreading (in

GDDR5 to show up in next graphics cards

Written by Thomas Gribble in May 12th, 2008  
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When GDDR2 was released, not many people cared. The new technology offered only a slight increase in clock speeds over the existing GDDR, and typically cost quite a bit more. When GDDR3 came out, both NVIDIA and ATI were quick adopters due to the potentially tremendous clock speed increases it

NVIDIA has an overcomplicated lineup

Written by Thomas Gribble in May 8th, 2008  
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When you have a bunch of products with fairly similar names, fairly similar performance, and nearly identical appearance, you tend to cause a fair amount of confusion. NVIDIA is probably learning this lesson the hard way, and consequently will be looking into simplifying their product lineup. NVIDIA’s VP of Content

Some Updates

Written by Thomas Gribble in May 7th, 2008  
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On the going-on’s at FPSLabs: We’re all still here. We sympathize with those of you who have been missing the daily updates on the site, and we aim to get back in the rhythm here in the very near future. However, in our defense, news has been pretty damn slow

Blu-Ray adoption slows down, Can you tell HD from SD?

Written by slapnuts in May 1st, 2008  
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In the wake of the HD format wars we now have one conclusive victor standing tall a top the hillside. Blu-Ray may have beat out HD DVD but it has a long way to go to overthrow DVD and recent sales are showing just that. The NPD, (those same cats

AMD Quick with Catalyst Hotfix for Vantage

Written by Thomas Gribble in April 28th, 2008  
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As AMD video card users awoke this morning and ran their freshly downloaded copies of Futuremark Vantage, they probably got a little pissed off that their graphics scores were significantly lower than anything from NVIDIA. They also probably got a little angry that the first GPU test, featuring Steve Nash’s
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