According to a very recent article by The Inquirer, graphics card maker BFG Tech is going out of business. While that may not be a big deal (it has been known for some time), what matters is that BFG has stopped honoring any product they labeled as having a “lifetime” warranty on it. What really makes this crappy is that there are tons of BFG video...

Pictured right, NVIDIA’s Quadro FX 5800, a video card that has more video RAM than most people have for system RAM. Well I suppose if NVIDIA didn’t do it I’m sure someone else would have. Did you just build the most awesomest superest kick-assing-est computer ever (most likely for gaming)? Well, guess what – it’s obsolete. Darn that...

I need to preface this tip with the fact that I am not a gamer. My computer uses an integrated Intel graphics engine and this is fine for my needs. If you ever go through the PCMech forums here and read about the newest gaming machines people are putting together, usually there is a (and in some cases 2) pretty powerful and, of course, expensive graphics card...

I can guarantee that most long-time computer users that read PCMech have a lightning story or two (or more). If you’ve used computers long enough you will inevitably get something zapped. For example, years ago dial-up modems would commonly get zapped – thru the phone cable. Enough of a charge would travel across the wire after a strike and the modem...

With the 9 series of graphics cards coming out from Nvidia, many are wondering what this new kid on the block series has. Here we will look at the new technologies, improved specifications, rumors vs. truth, and the bottom line. The 9 series of NVIDIA graphics was speculated since at least October of 2007, when it became evident that NVIDIA would not release a...