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James Gorbold
James Gorbold is the Deputy Editor of Custom PC and our resident Labs test and Reviews Guru. He's a big fan of Folding@home, Xeon processors, high-resolution monitors and realistic military simulators (probably far too much to be healthy...)
What happened to cool computer game tunes?
Ben Hardwidge by Ben Hardwidge
I’m really tired this morning, and I’d like to blame something for it. I could blame insomnia, or my dog’s unfortunate habit of sneaking into the bedroom and putting her wet nose in my armpit, but in truth it’s mainly because it usually gets to Midnight and I think ‘hmm, I should really go to bed now,’ but instead, I decide to look up something stupid..
What's in a name, Nvidia?
Clive Webster by Alex Watson
With today's launch of the GeForce GTX 280, Nvidia is releasing not only a new GPU but a new naming system. Nvidia says that its previous naming scheme – such as GeForce 8800 GT, GTS, GTX and Ultra – had become bewildering for consumers. They got confused because it wasn’t clear that 8800-series cards should be faster that 9600-series cards, while it was never clear that the..
In the video studio
Alex Watson by Alex Watson
Clive, Phil and Orestis have spent most of this afternoon in Dennis' new video studio. The company spent the first few months of the year building it (at a cost of about £50,000 when you factor in the cameras and lights), and this was the first time we've had the chance to use it - previous videos such as our GeForce 9800..
Skulltrail on its way
James Gorbold by James Gorbold
I just finished a very productive phone call with Intel's helpful PR chap. After discussing the merits of Christmas pudding he revealed that a Skulltrail demo kit (CPUs, motherboard, RAM, HSFs) is on its way to CPC, ETA this Friday. Hopefully this means we'll be able to start uploading some benchmark results from this monster system sometime next week. For those not aware what Skulltrail is its Intel's attempt to provide..
A world without marketing speak
Chris Lee by Chris
I have to read a fair amount of marketing speak, you know: "This USB sticks shifts the paradigms of your digital life to enable..." I just want to know how much it is and where I can buy it. So, I put forward that henceforth all unnecessary enthusiasm be banned, and to help hardware companies make this transition to plain English, I've helpfully translated a page of AMD's website: Original: The new, all-AMD..
Why is there no Windows Vista Gamer Edition?
Gareth Ogden by Garethogden
Given that Microsoft has made a fairly big deal about Windows Vista’s gaming credentials with talk of DirectX 10, Games for Windows and Games for Windows – LIVE (an extension of the Xbox Live! network to the PC), it’s more than a little disappointing that Vista has so far done fairly little for PC gaming. In fact, if the Windows Vista..
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