This Week in Computer Hardware 58

This Week in Computer Hardware Episode 58

Topics

• NVIDIA Optimus Technology
• AMD Radeon HD 5570 and 5450 (need to finish my review)
• Steam Hardware Survey for January 2010
• Awesome games being released on the PC

1. Mass Effect 2
2. Bioshock 2
3. Bad Company 2
4. Dragon Age: Origins
5. Aliens vs Predator
6. Star Trek Online
7. Assassin's Creed 2 (March)

• Twitter Questions

1. alexhackney@ryanshrout Building a video editing machine, I use Adobe CS4, what proc should I go with? I don't want to spend a housepayment for it tho.
2. vsavoldi@ryanshrout General ?? I have seen around, Why does it show on my Atom 1.6 Netbook, 2 processors when looking at task manager?
3. EnzoAmata@ryanshrout - What's the difference between a PC I build with the same components as a Mac other than Macs price tag. Is the Mac faster?
4. siromega@ryanshrout Q: What do you think about comparing Nvidia's Optimus to Lucid's Hydra? They do similar stuff, does Optimus evolve into Hydra?
5. androslee@ryanshrout is i7/i5 turboboost just a marketing term? is a 2.6ghz chip just a 2.9ghz chip that scales down nicely?
6. millgroup@ryanshrout Hi. I have an Intel X25M 160gb SSD. Why does Windows 7 64bit allow defrags of this drive? Do I have a setting wrong? (OS not created on the drive, moved to it? -Ryan)

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