Windows Experience rating for this unit is 3.0 as shown in the following figure. Graphics are the limiting issue (gaming gets 3.0 and Aero gets 3.3), while the processor earns a respectable 4.8, the memory a fast 5.8 and the hard disk a 4.8. The GeForce Go...

Life. We then used FRAPS to capture frame rates for similar, easily repeated scenes in Crysis, and ran FRAPS against a set of identical scenes from the Second Life demo. The results of our testing are reported in Table 4, based on 30 runs for each game; there,...

desktop SLI cards, we would expect that SLI will add 30% to gaming performance and 60% higher resolutions, but that remains to be seen. The good news is that our rant about gaming notebook vendors resulted in a great reaction from a few vendors. We'll soon...

spending more than on a single card of the next graphics processor generation. Even more importantly, consider that only 30 percent of current games support SLI operation, by our best guesstimate. If SLI is supported, frame rates climb by up to 80 percent,...

7800 GTs. Doubling up on graphics cards always means spending more than on a single card of the next graphics processor generation. Even more importantly, consider that only 30 percent of current games support SLI operation, by our best guesstimate. If SLI...

game downloads to movie rentals, there is little that isn’t on Sony’s PSP store. That’s not to say it’s the best online store we’ve seen, but because of Sony’s largesse, there is a very large amount of content. For gaming, besides the full games...