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ASUS Shows Off Xonar Xense Gaming Audio Card Bundle
One of the worst kept secrets in the audio world over the past couple of months has been with regards to ASUS’ Xonar Xense, a solution that promises to deliver top-rate audio fidelity and performance to gamers and audiophiles alike. Unlike previous Xonar audio cards, part of the rumor around the Xense is true… this card will come bundled with…
EVGA’s Hydro Copper FTW GTX 480 Promises 40C Temp Drops
In our review of NVIDIA’s latest and greatest, the GeForce GTX 480, one of our largest complaints was with regard to the heat. Even during normal gaming, we saw GPU core temps rise to as high as 96°C, which is about ~6°C away from hitting the threshold… also known as the time the card will either throttle itself down, or crash. Up to this point…
OCZ’s Revo Brings Affordable PCI-E SSD’s to Enthusiasts
If you’ve read Robert’s review of OCZ’s Vertex 2, you know that it’s one of the fastest drives ever produced, and unlike Crucial’s C300, it seems to be devoid of game-breaking issues. At 285MB/s read and 275MB/s write, along with a 4K random write performance of 50,000 IOPS, the drive is lacking little. But who isn’t interested in going even faster?
Gigabyte Discusses Market Position, Goals and the Future
During a meeting with some of Gigabyte’s VPs, we learned about the company’s strategies and also delved into its outlook into the future of computing as it sees it. As far as the company is concerned, there’s little reason to believe that the desktop market is dying. In fact, it believes that in the near-future, it will begin to grow, interestingly enough.
EVGA Shows Off Drool-Worthy SR-2 Enthusiast PC
Since CES, EVGA’s SR-2 motherboard has been the focus of much hype, and for good reason. For one, the board is simply huge, and two, it offers a lot of things that normal enthusiast offerings do not. The most important feature of course being the dual-processor support. Unlike any other DP motherboard, the SR-2 redefines…
NZXT Shows Off Upcoming High-End Chassis: Phantom
After leaving a meeting with NZXT at last year’s Computex, I felt a little bit underwhelmed. Not by the product, but rather because after seeing all I had seen, I was unable to share photos of it all, and thus had to resort to explaining some of the products rather than letting the photos mostly speak for themselves. This year was totally different, thankfully.
Corsair Goes Pro with AX Series Power Supplies
When Corsair first launched its HX series of power supplies, they were well received for their high-quality and dependability. In no real regard could that series be considered to be a value proposition, but to prove that things can indeed improve, Corsair has now followed-up with its AX series of power supplies, or simply “Professional Series”. The…
Corsair Unveils Feature-Rich Mainstream 600T Chassis
It was at last year’s Computex that Corsair unveiled its highly-awarded 800D Obsidian chassis and H50 liquid CPU cooler, so I looked forward to meeting with the company again this year to see what products it was going to pull out of its hat. Fortunately, there are many to talk about. For the sake of space, we’ll talk only about one product at a time…
NVIDIA Pushes 3D, Tablets & DirectX 11 at Computex
During NVIDIA’s pre–Computex press conference, the company reiterated both its success with recent technologies, and also stressed the importance of 3D now and in the future. To kick the conference off, the ever charismatic Jen-Hsun Huang touted the company’s recent successes, such as ION and of course Optimus, before heading…
Intel – Knights Corner, 50-core chips for HPC
During the International Supercomputing Conference, Intel announced plans to deliver products based on the Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture, the successor to the Larrabee and Supercomputer Chip (SCC) projects. The first of which, codenamed ‘Knights Corner’, will use Intel’s 22nm manufacturing process and scale chips…
Gamers Better at Lucid Dreaming
Play a lot of Video games? So do we. For those gamers lucky enough to fall asleep at night and inevitably dream, you’re more likely to have a lucid dream – a dream which you can control or interact with, according to research. Jayne Gackenbach, a psychologist at Grant MacEwan University in Canada, became interested in video games back in…
Half-Life 2 for Mac – Think Different
You’ll see why 2010 won’t be like 2010. Valve has been building up to this for some time now and we were all expecting it, but it’s officially here, you can now buy and play Half-Life 2 and episodes 1 and 2 on Mac’s. In addition, a number of patches have been released enabling achievements and a new cross-platform save allowing you to save your…
Powercolor Places Hydra on ATI 5770
The LucidLogix Hydra chip has been making its way around the Internet for a while, sporting the feature of being able to combine the processing power of different graphics cards from different manufacturers, creating a Hybrid graphics platform where Nvidia and ATI can share the load. The chip was first introduced commercially with the MSI Big…
Blizzard – Focus on Content, Not Piracy
DRM is a tough topic for all involved, consumers hate it, companies seem to love it, pirates… aren’t affected by it. So why go to all the trouble of implementing it in the first place when you can spend that time on the game itself? This is Blizzard’s mentality with StarCraft 2, concentrate on the game, not the DRM…
Titanium Oxide Super Disc Developed
A Japanese team has developed a material derived from a new crystal form of titanium oxide. The material starts off as a metal and then turns into a semiconductor, this also changes the color from black to brown when exposed to light, resulting in an effective on-off function that can be used for data storage since colours reflect light…
New Folding GPU3 Beta for Nvidia Cards
For the folders amongst you that are lucky enough to have a GTX400 series graphics card and are into folding, a new GPU3 Folding client is now available as an open beta. All you need is the 197.45 drivers and the new client, of which there are a variety of versions, so be sure to get the right one. Currently, some problems have been found with 8800…
No Intel Discrete Graphics in the Short Term
While this isn’t the first time this headline has found its way over the Internet, some interesting details have been made available as to why a Larrabee card won’t be made, at least in the short term. A blog by Bill Kircos provides some in-site into this decision and future focus of Intel regarding their graphics based technologies.
ATI Expected to Take Half of Graphics Market Share
Mercury Research will be releasing an article soon detailing some interesting figures regarding the market share of the various GPU developers. While not officially released just yet, X-bit Labs has listed some of the details including the important number of AMD’s market share as of the first quarter 2010…
Futuremark Previews 3DMark 11
During all of my time spent working on Techgage, there’s one fact that I’ve come to realize. That fact is that at just about the time Futuremark’s current 3DMark benchmarking tool begins to become dominated by today’s hardware, and especially today’s overclockers, the company comes out of nowhere with an announcement of the next version, which…
LifeLock CEO Has ID Stolen 13 Times
In order to effectively market and sell your company’s product, it would greatly help if everyone in the company truly stood behind it. After all, if actual employees have little interest, then why should a consumer? Well in the case of LifeLock, CEO Todd Davis was so confident in his product, that he went above and beyond to help prove it.
Mac Sees More Games on Steam; Portal Downloaded 1.5 Million Times
Welp, Valve’s Mac-based Steam client has been out for just over a week, and so far, things seem to have been going well. There have been reports of a couple issues related to SteamPlay for those who already own a particular title (Civilization IV in particular), and others seem to be experiencing UI issues, but aside from that, the first week…
Pac-Man Turns 30
Pac-Man, the lovable character that looks like a yellow pizza with a slice or two missing, turns 30 tomorrow. In the early 1980’s, the original Pac-Man game hit the arcades and caught on fast, and became one of the most played games at the time and for years to follow. Not bad for a game that simply has you eat countless dots and avoid a group of…
Intel Anaphase – Single Thread Acceleration on Multiple Cores
Deep within Intel Labs Barcelona, a new software/hardware thread acceleration technique has been developed to boost performance of single thread applications on multi-core processors, the catch is we probably won’t see it for another couple years. Anaphase is a hybrid system of software and hardware to increase the efficiency…
H.264, Theora – Move Aside for WebM
Google purchased the video codec company On2 back in August last year, owners of the VP8 video format. Many believed it to be the first steps from Google to settle the battle of Theora Vs H.264 in the online video codec’s for HTML 5. Fast forward to today and Google, Mozilla and Opera announce the launch of the new, open-source, royalty…
ASUS’ ROG Xpander Upgrades Rampage III Extreme to Quad-SLI
Today’s desktop motherboards are more robust than ever, but have you ever purchased one and later regretted you didn’t opt for one with a greater feature-set? Yeah, probably not. But if you have, and that extra feature-set includes Quad-SLI, then ASUS’ ROG “Xpander” might be just for you. Well, as long as you own a Rampage III Extreme…