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At this year’s CES there were a few surprise announcements including Corsair’s decision to work with both Asetek and CoolIT Systems on their various all-in-one liquid cooling units. Another announcement in this market segment was Antec’s deal with Asetek that will see the long running chassis manufacturer launch…

Hot on the heels of Intel’s P67 chipset comes some photos of the replacement for the X58 platform. What has been found on an overseas website is a picture of the LGA2011 socket itself and the bare southbridge chip on an unnamed X68 MSI motherboard.The X68 chipset will take the place as Intel’s new enthusiast level platform…

SAPPHIRE Technology, best known as a manufacturer and global supplier of graphics solutions has just announced plans to seriously address the motherboard market with the introduction of high end Intel platforms.Sapphire, one of AMD’s largest GPU partners has decided to step up its game by launching two new motherboards…

In a shocking move that comes out of left field for many but showed tell tale signs for some, OCZ Technology has announced that it will no longer release DRAM modules and will phase out all existing product lines by February 28th, 2011. Instead, the San Jose, California firm is switching gears to concentrate on the much more lucritive solid state…

This year’s CES certainly had its share of innovations and we haven’t even scratched the surface! Earlier last week, Intel officially kicked off their Sandy Bridge line of processors and with them, a new technology called Quick Sync. This hardware based transcoding engine offers twice the performance of current GPU based transcoding…

NVIDIA currently has the fastest, single GPU video card on the market today, the GTX 580. At this year’s CES it looks like its largest North American partner, EVGA, has decided to add to that portfolio with yet another custom card. What was previewed at EVGA’s suite was a monster of a card that features dual GPU’s, 1GB of Samsung DDR5 per GPU…

More and more people are building computers and more and more of them are realizing that $30 generic cases just don’t cut it, unless we are talking about their fingers. Helping out the do it yourselfer is Antec with its One Hundred chassis, which it feels will appeal to budget builders looking for a feature rich chassis at a reasonable price.

Portable gaming is not a new idea and one that Nintendo, Sony and to a lesser extent Sega have all found success with. Razer hopes to cash in on the mobile gaming market but in a different way, and is set to break the mould with a truly innovative product that it unveiled early for this year’s CES festivities.

Samsung, the number 2 sales leader of semiconductors in the world from 2002 to 2009 (excluding foundries), has always been at the forefront of the DRAM market, and it’s starting off 2011 in a big way. In a press release, it announced that it had completed development of its first DDR4 DRAM based Modules, utilizing 30nm process…

Not one to shy away from combining the best of both worlds, ASRock is at it again striking a blow for budget conscious users everywhere! Some of you may remember its earlier LGA775 offerings which combined AGP and PCI-E slots, along with the ability to use DDR2 or DDR3 memory on the same motherboard. These two solutions…

Computers are found in more homes and businesses than ever before and have become such a large part of daily life that they are often forgotten about until they become unavailable. I personally like to refer to this as the golden age of computing, simply because of the level of accessibility, low cost and high performance we…

We all know it happens and some of us are even guilty of it, but have you ever wondered just how many times a game is illegally downloaded? 2010 wraps up with Black Ops (PC) leading the way followed by Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) and Dante’s Inferno (XBox 360) as the front runners for each platform, according to information gathered…

Bugs and glitches in video games are nothing new, but lately it seems as if more and more games are being released without the proper amount of quality assurance. Whether the developer is rushing the game to market to cash in on a prime shopping season or if they are under another type of deadline is of no concern to the…

As more and more companies look to expand their product line-ups, we’ve been seeing audio tackled quite a bit. Arctic is one of the companies to dive in there, and the products we’ve seen so far have been noteworthy. In this article, we’re taking a look at the company’s latest gaming headset, the 5.1 P531, a USB-based solution.