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...)
GeForce 9-series: a big disappointment
Clive Webster by Claave
The GeForce 9-series has three flavours so far: GeForce 9600 GT - a mid-range product that performs near-identically to an existing 8-series product and costs roughly the same. GeForce 9800 GX2 – a massive graphics brick that inelegantly combines two underclocked 8-series GPUs for high performance and Sun-like temperatures GeForce 9800 GTX – a minor update to the 512MB GeForce 8800 GTS that performs near-enough the same, but costs..
Another NDA: 2pm once again
Alex Watson by Alex Watson
Nope, it's not an April fool. A company really is launching a new product today... Check back later for the full story :) ..
Skulltrail on its way
James Gorbold by Jamesgorbold
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..
Why the hell are you using SonicStage?
Ben Hardwidge by Ben Hardwidge
It’s easy to get a gag out of Sony these days. You’d think the robotic dog maker would have been humbled by the whole Betamax thing in the 1980s, but a quarter of a century later there’s still a gradually-filling graveyard of proprietary Sony products that have completely failed to take the world by storm. At the last count this included: MemoryStick, SACD, High-density CD-R (anyone else..