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Ever since DirectX 10 came out with Windows Vista, most gamers have upgraded (changed, rather) their OS to vista to experience games with DX10. Games look better on DX10 no doubt, but it is equally true that switching to DX10 sacrifices a lot of FPS (Frames Per Second). Now this difference may be little while playing on lower settings with highly capable graphic cards but as you increase the details [...]

You must be aware that contrast ratio and dynamic contrast ratio are two properties considered very important while buying a HDTV or a monitor. This article will tell you how important these properties really are and how much weightage they should be given while purchasing a HDTV or monitor. Meaning: To start with, let us define the two terms we are dealing with. When we say just contrast ratio, it [...]

Nokia’s Q2 result  brought further sad news regarding the company’s performance in the highly competitive mobile phone market. It’s profits fell 40% to 227 million euros. Sales rose by 0.9% to 10 billion euros but the huge drop in profit as compared to Q2 2009 clearly shows that Nokia’s grip on the market, both smartphone and feature phone is loosening. Companies like Samsung, [...]

I had been using Mozilla Firefox for the past 3 or 4 years, and i loved it. It incomparably customizable with so many addons and plugins. It had weather forecast, news, music manager, an IE rendering engine as an alternative to IE, a .pdf opener, ad-blocker, and a whole lot more of addons which were soon replacing my other third party softwares. But a few weeks ago, i was finding the browser becoming [...]

If you have visited NVIDIA’s website recently from certain countries, you would have seen a countdown timer counting down to some big event. We are expecting the launch of the new Geforce GTX 460(fermi) or maybe even a 495. The countdown ends at a time of around 4 PM on 11th july 2010 GMT. It may even indicate the release of the 285 family of drivers but NVIDIA certainly has its users and other [...]

Introduction: Mario is arguably the most popular and legendary video game character ever. If you owned have PC since many years, you will still smile on the mention of the name “Mario”, the old game which was so simple,graphically and gameplay-wise, yet it had an undeniable charm to it. Owners of all Nintendo consoles would have had an earlier taste of Mario games and would agree that they [...]

(Image : news.com.au) Microsoft’s brief run as a phone manufacturer was put to a shameful end as the company decided to stop selling its phone Kin One and Kin Two, which were just two months old. The phones hit the US streets a couple of months ago and got a dismal response. This prompted Microsoft, which was about to introduce them in Europe this fall to scrap its plan and end the phones’ [...]

Are you the kind of person who gets excited on seeing ’1 GB graphic card’ or ‘ 1 GB dedicated premium graphics’ on a laptop with a relatively low cost? Do you even ask the model number of the graphic card or just blindly consider it a good deal? In this article i will tell you how much graphic card memory really matters and that it is not the deciding factor when it comes to [...]

Introduction: Pokemon games have broken most video game records in the past decade or so and have made Nintendo’s handheld console sales rocket up and way above the rest. If you glance up the sales charts of Nintendo consoles like Gameboy and Gameboy Advance, you will find most of the top spots occupied by Pokemon games. Even the Nintendo DS series of consoles has got its share of Pokemon games, [...]

You must have heard of overclocking components such as processor, graphic card, and RAM(not recommended) but maybe not of underclocking. First about Overclocking: Overclocking a component involves increase the clock speed of the component. Overclocking improves the performance but also increases power consumption and heat dissipation of the component, thus increasing its temperature too. The performance [...]