Being a long time Battlefield fan and a former PC geek and overclocker, I decided to go ahead and build a new PC once I heard Battlefield 3 was about to release. Besides, it is almost winter and I’m approaching my hibernation for the coming cold months. My goal was to keep the build under $1000, and in the end I stuck to it.
Nvidia has finally announced their competition for the ATI HD 5000 series video cards. The GeForce GTX 480 and 470 boast performance that outpaces the HD 5000′s. The chart below may be speculative, we will have to wait for third party benchmarks.
I should have probably held out a little bit longer amidst rumors of a relaunch on the PSP Go, but I couldn’t hold out any longer on a price drop. I’ve been too bored on my train rides for the past year. I needed something else besides books and the newspaper to keep me entertained.
I recently decided to upgrade my Playstation 3 hard drive just for the fun of it. I had an original 40GB model and bought a 250GB replacement on Newegg. If I had known it was so easy to upgrade the hard drive, I would have probably done it a while ago since I like messing with computers and hardware.
It seems Sony’s recent incarnation of the PS3 is a big hit in America. Combined with the $100 price drop and 120GB hard drive upgrade, the PS3 slim is a bargain compared to previous PS3 versions.
Check out this video showing off the new PS3 slim releasing September 1st in North America. The PS3 slim is 33% smaller, 36% lighter, and comes with a 120GB hard drive.
EA’s chief creative officer, Rich Hilleman, is predicting that Sony and Microsoft will most like concentrate on updated to their current video consoles before re-engineering their current technologies.
“I expected we’ll see a PlayStation 3.5 before we see a PlayStation 4 and an Xbox 560 before we see an Xbox 720,” he said.