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NBA Jam On Fire Edition Preview

A trip down nostalgia avenue, NBA Jam is as silly and as fun as we remember.

5-9-11 // 7:39a.m.

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KFA² GTX 560 1GB Anarchy Edition First Look

With the release of the GTX 560 today, we take a quick look at KFA²'s offering.

17-5-11 // 2:07p.m.

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Battlefield 3 Preview

We take an early look at Dice's fantastic new shooter and drool over the new Frostbite 2 engine.

12-4-11 // 7:48a.m.

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Asus GeForce GTX 580 DirectCU II Preview

We attempt to break this triple-slot behemoth to see what's under the new DirectCU II cooler

4-2-11 // 11:34a.m.

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Gigabyte GeForce GTX 480 SOC Preview

We grab a few minutes with Gigabyte's latest Super Overclock pimping of a GeForce GTX 480 1.5GB

5-11-10 // 2:44p.m.

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MSI N480GTX Lightning Preview

MSI has tuned, tweaked and pimped Nvidia's GeForce GTX 480 all the way to 11.

17-9-10 // 12:43p.m.

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Asus Ares and Immensity technology preview

We get deeply techy and quiz Asus PMs about its new Ares graphics card and Immensity motherboard.

25-6-10 // 8:46a.m.

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Crazy New Graphics Cards from PowerColor

One with on-board network controller, a half-height HD 5770 and the first 12-screen card...

7-6-10 // 11:12a.m.

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First Look: Asus Rampage III Gene, Quad SLI, Ares HD 5970

We take a look at a new micro-ATX board, a return to quad-SLI and a £1,000 graphics card.

28-5-10 // 8:34a.m.

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Computex 2010 Preview: MSI

We check out some of MSI's upcoming hardware gizmos, including external noteook graphics.

21-5-10 // 11:20a.m.

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Nvidia's Next Generation Ion Platform

We delve into Nvidia's 'Next Generation Ion Platform', formerly known as Ion-2, to see how Optimus technology and numerous other tweaks hope to give a better graphics experience for Intel's latest Atom 'Pineview' CPUs.

3-3-10 // 9:09a.m.

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First look: MSI’s Westmere H57M-ED65 Mobo

We take a sneak peak at one of the first motherboards we've seen that's ready for Intel's up-coming, 32nm Westmere CPUs. MSI's H57M-ED65 is a micro-ATX board that really looks the part, with chunky heastsinks, stylish design and layout and display outputs for the CPU's integrated GPU.

22-11-09 // 10:59a.m.

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IDF Day 3 - 32nm Westmere Performance

Intel gave us a sneak peek at its upcoming 32nm Westmere CPUs for desktops and laptops. Clarkdale and Arrandale will arrive later this year and are the first processors to integrate the GPU onto the CPU package.

25-9-09 // 1:54a.m.

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First Look: Windows 7 Beta Performance

With Microsoft opening the beta of its next generation Windows 7 OS to the public, we put it up against the current standard of Vista x64 with Service Pack 1 to see what's new and how it compares in an early look at performance.

16-1-09 // 11:39a.m.

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Nvidia GeForce 3DVision & How 3D Works

Gaming is about to burst out into the third dimension and we're there to take a look with the help of Nvidia's latest effort at stereoscopic gaming. Gone are the days of flimsy cardboard glasses and red and blue images though - this is 3D gaming as you've never seen it before!

9-1-09 // 9:05a.m.

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First Look: Nvidia GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB

Over the past few days, we've been playing around with Nvidia's next high-end graphics card, the GeForce GTX 295. We have an early look at how it performs ahead of its launch at CES in January.

18-12-08 // 2:34p.m.

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Windows Vista SP2 beta performance

With Microsoft making the Windows Vista Service Pack 2 beta available on Friday, we check out how the new service pack will likely perform when it's officially released next year.

10-12-08 // 9:20a.m.

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Empire: Total War hands-on preview

The Total War series is very highly regarded at bit-tech and Empire: Total War, the next game in the series, is just a few months away from release. We visited The Creative Assembly earlier this month to see how the game is shaping up. Read on to find out what we thought...

29-11-08 // 9:15a.m.

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First Look: Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 2GB

The Radeon HD 4850 X2 has been strangely absent from AMD's line up ever since it was announced at the same time as the 4870 X2. Sapphire has come to market with a custom Radeon HD 4850 X2 and we take it for a quick test drive.

5-11-08 // 10:13a.m.

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Asus EAH3870 TOP

Today we have a look at one of the first factory overclocked Radeon HD 3870s to land at bit-HQ. At a similar price to a stock-clocked GeForce 8800 GT 512MB, could the Asus EAH3870 TOP make for a more attractive purchase? Let's find out...

7-1-08 // 7:49a.m.

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World in Conflict preview

World in Conflict is based in the middle of the Cold War where the Americans and Russians are at each other's necks. However, this time the battle is on US soil. That's not all that is different about Massive's latest RTS game though, and it's definitely one to look out for later this year when it's released...

10-4-07 // 9:24a.m.

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Rainbow Six: Vegas Preview

The terrorists are now targeting the bright lights of Vegas and only you can stop them! We spent some time with the latest Rainbow Six game, read on for our first impressions.

1-11-06 // 10:35a.m.

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Autumn Games Preview

We take a close look at some of the top titles due to make it onto your PC in the coming months. We preview: Lego Star Wars, Dark Messiah: Might and Magic and Caesar IV.

24-8-06 // 11:11a.m.

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Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter

The latest in the series of tactical FPS games, Ghost Recon: Advanced Fighter is coming to Xbox 360 and PC in March. With proven gameplay and next-generation graphics, this is one to look out for.

28-2-06 // 11:08a.m.

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Civilization IV Preview

Sid Meier is back with the latest in the most famous brand of wargames in the world. Civilization IV offers a whole host of improvements over previous incarnations. As hardened strategists, we step in and take a look, ahead of the title's launch later this week.

25-10-05 // 1:26p.m.

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NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 Preview

NVIDIA have released their latest mid-range notebook GPU today - the GeForceGo 6600. We have a look at its features and what sort of gaming experience can be expected from a notebook with a GeForceGo 6600 graphics module.

8-2-05 // 12:00a.m.

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