When Windows Vista was nearing launch, Microsoft offered an Upgrade Advisor program. Wanting to be sure to repeat the past (except, of course, for Windows Vista’s poor adoption rate), Microsoft has released a beta version of a Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor. It doesn’t go into the same amount of detail that the Windows Vista Advisor does, which would recommend a specific version of Windows Vista. It’s not like there’s going to be a dearth of Windows 7 versions, though. Here’s how Microsoft describes the program:

CyberPower Inc, today announced a powerful and portable Intel Core i7-based LAN Party system, which features the CM Storm Scout case, the second case in the revolutionary Storm line from Cooler Master. With several big BYOC LAN events taking place upcoming months the marketing team at CyberPower thinks this system will be a bit hit this summer as the price starts at $1129.

CyberPower offers a true LAN party solution that combines gaming performance quality and Style. This all-around LAN Party case embodies CMs Storm Tactics approach to extreme gaming systems that gives you Strength, Security, and Control. Strength is achieved by its rugged solid black steel body design. Security is accomplished with an innovative way to secure your peripherals. Control is giving you absolute power over the operation of your hardware with an advanced airflow and cooling system. The LAN Party Commander is the perfect solution for gamers who like to play hard.

Do you remember Panasonic’s new Lumix DMC-GH1 that can record HD video? Panasonic has finally announced recommended pricing and availability for the camera. Expect the Lumix DMC-GH1 to be available for purchase in June for a suggested retail price of $1,499.95. The camera will come as a kit with the LUMIX G VARIO 14-140mm/F4.0-5.8 ASPH/MEGA O.I.S. lens. This lens features a silent motor and continuous auto focusing capabilities to assist with HD movie recording. As you’ll recall, the Lumix DMC-GH1 is Panasonic’s

Sparkle definitely isn’t the most prominent video card maker out there, but that’s not to say it doesn’t push out some rather interesting products. Take, for example, the new GeForce GTX 260 1792MB, which obviously has more RAM than some entire gaming rigs. Unlike lots of competitors, Sparkle uses a custom PCB which provides enhanced power circuitry with more phases of vGPU power circuits and vMem circuits, which supposedly makes the graphics card more stable and powerful than NVIDIA’s reference design. There’s

A-DATA recently introduced its newly speed of XPG Gaming Series DRAM module in DDR2-1066, as dual channel 2GBx2/1GBx2 and single channel kits up to 2GB. Designed for consumers who want to enhance their gaming ability, the XPG Gaming Series DDR2-1066G DRAM module provide CL6-6-6-18 timing at 2.0V0.1V to delivering outstanding performance, speed, and gamer experience.

Optimized for the latest gaming platform, the XPG Gaming Series DDR2-1066G DRAM module delivers the perfect blend of performance, durability, and stability with low power consumption. It is an affordable midrange offering for gamer of all levels and the professionals demanding the latest DDR2 technology. The XPG Gaming Series DRAM module line is customized to fulfill gamers need of performance, speed, and stability.

Today, NVIDIA released version 2.2 of the CUDA Toolkit and SDK for accessing the massively parallel CUDA compute architecture of NVIDIA GPUs. This latest release supports several significant new features that deliver a major leap forward in getting the most performance out of NVIDIA's massively parallel CUDA-enabled GPUs. In addition, version 2.2 of the CUDA Toolkit includes support for Windows 7, the upcoming OS from Microsoft that embraces GPU Computing.

The most common step in tuning application performance is profiling the application and then modifying the code. The CUDA Visual Profiler is a graphical tool that enables the profiling of C applications running on the GPU. This latest release of the CUDA Visual Profiler includes metrics for memory transactions, giving developers visibility into one of the most important areas they can tune to get better performance.

As instantaneous as the Web can be, most search engines–Google included–suffer from a bit of a time lag. The search engines can only link to pages and sites that the search engines have scraped with their Web crawlers or spiders and other indexing tools. This means that the latest entries on the quick-changing-content sites like Twitter or Digg won’t be searchable via Google or other similar search engines until well after the content has already been replaced with even newer entries. Where Google leaves off,

If you’re in the market for a new ultraportable, you should definitely take a glance at Asus’ newest offerings. Branching out from its basic Eee PCs and monsterous gaming rigs, the company has followed up its stylish U Series with the Eee PC Seashell 1008HA, a computer that’s barely worthy of the Eee PC name. In fact, we’d say it could be sold on its own — it’s just a different breed of Eee entirely. The miniature notebook weighs in at 1.1kg (2.42 pounds) and includes a 10″ display, ergonomically designed keyboard,

Obviously Samsung has a thing for unique looking camcorders, and that’s absolutely on display with the company’s latest two devices. The SMX-C14 and SMX-C10 were both ergonomically designed and shoved inside of rather small enclosures in order to make ’em perfect for family getaways and the occasional backyard barbecue. The new SMX-C14 and SMX-C10 also feature Samsung’s Touch of Color (ToC) finish, which was originally introduced with its HDTV family. With ToC design, a hint of color is “naturally blended into

Sapphire Radeon HD 4770 CrossFireX Performance @ Benchmark Reviews and other reviews from around the web can be found by visiting our forums!

The Sapphire Radeon HD 4770 introduces the 40nm RV740 GPU paired to 512MB of DDR5 video frame buffer memory, and a double-height cooler allows the 100277L model video card to operate at 750MHz. As of May 2009, the Sapphire HD4770 sells for as low as $99, which allows gamers to create a very affordable CrossFireX array using this mainstream graphics accelerator. Benchmark Reviews compares two Sapphire Radeon HD4770's assembled into a CrossFireX set against a large collection of high-performance GPU's for the tests in this article.