Posted on February 7, 2018 10:03 AM by Rob Williams
It’s only Wednesday, but it’s already been an interesting week for power supplies. Yesterday, we wrote of voice capabilities Thermaltake’s added to its iRGB line, and today, we see something a little… well, even more grandiose. Not everything needs RGBs or to be liquid-cooled, but if you’re looking for any excuse to…..
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Posted on February 6, 2018 10:10 PM by Rob Williams
Products like Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant have helped prove that artificial intelligence can enhance our lives when used in the right way. Today, we can use our voices to set alarms, fetch the latest news and sports scores, order some food, get back to someone on a dinner date, and now,…..
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Posted on February 6, 2018 1:04 PM by Rob Williams
AMD has enjoyed good momentum in the server market since it began its EPYC journey last summer, but today, the company’s enterprise clout has been given a sweet boost with news that Dell EMC is releasing three PowerEdge servers sporting the best tech AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) has to offer. The three SKUs…..
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Posted on February 6, 2018 11:53 AM by Rob Williams
It’s still not clear when the first GDDR6-equipped graphics cards will hit the market, but we at least now know that they’re kind of en route at this point. SK Hynix, a company that was one of the first out the door with HBM2, has just updated its catalog to reflect the fact that GDDR6…..
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Posted on February 5, 2018 4:50 PM by Rob Williams
Since it made its original offer in December, Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) hasn’t taken its sights off of Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM). In fact, the company has only become more aggressive, tackling the acquisition from every angle to convince audiences that it’d work out. The offer in December was valued at $70 per share,…..
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Posted on February 4, 2018 10:07 AM by Rob Williams
Late last week, Square Enix released a Final Fantasy XV benchmarking tool, and for many reasons, fans had reason to be excited. FFXV isn’t just going to be the best-looking FF game on PC, it could become one of the most visually stunning games, ever. HDR can help with that, along with…..
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Posted on January 24, 2018 1:00 PM by Robert Tanner
Samsung has just hard launched a long-awaited update to its venerable 850 PRO and 850 EVO solid-state drives. Although the 850 series received several changes in its 3.5 year span on the market, the 860 family introduces an updated Samsung MJX controller, 64-layer V-NAND, and LPDDR4 DRAM. Thanks to the adoption of…..
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Posted on January 18, 2018 1:20 PM by Greg King
Synology, a company well-known for its NAS devices and the DSM operating system that runs on top of them, announced the official release of three major packages on its Package Center marketplace. The three, Drive, Office, and Moments, look to help customers change the way they store, organize, share and secure their…..
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Posted on January 10, 2018 7:41 PM by Jamie Fletcher
The new Vive Pro from HTC is quite the refinement of the top-tier VR solution. It fixes some of the issues that were brought up by many people, as well as enhances existing functions, and even adding a few more features. The Vive Pro still looks like the familiar Vive, but there…..
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Posted on January 10, 2018 6:32 PM by Jamie Fletcher
The Cloud headsets from Kingston’s gaming division, HyperX, have revitalized the gaming audio industry. Instead of going with style over substance with big plastic enclosures and BassBoostMegaExtreme 8.0 technology, HyperX went with a more sane solution of ‘make it sound good’. The end result worked so well, plenty of other manufacturers ended…..
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Posted on January 9, 2018 10:32 PM by Jamie Fletcher
NZXT makes everything around a computer. It has a diverse range of chassis designs, fans, liquid coolers, even smart fan controllers – they’ve even got power supplies. What was completely unexpected was treading into new territory, not with peripherals like keyboards and mice, but with a motherboard. Specifics around the board are…..
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Posted on January 9, 2018 8:00 PM by Jamie Fletcher
More storage solutions at CES 2018, this time from WD and by extension, SanDisk. The two flash-based products are being geared towards mobility and for use with drones, which means durability and speed are the main factors to consider. With Internet access being common too, private clouds are also a focus with…..
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Posted on January 9, 2018 2:20 PM by Jamie Fletcher
In keeping with the Lenovo and Qualcomm partnership, a standalone headset is coming, called the Mirage Solo. This headset is one of a new generation of Google Daydream powered standalone devices, built around Qualcomm’s reference design using the Snapdragon 835 VR platform. This follows on from previous announcements about reference designs and…..
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Posted on January 8, 2018 9:00 PM by Jamie Fletcher
How would you like a 65-inch, 4K display with G-Sync, HDR and 120Hz refresh rate? That’s what NVIDIA calls a Big F***** Gaming Display… sorry, excuse me, that’s Big Format Gaming Display, or BFGD. No, we’re not kidding… Leveraging partners with monitor experience already, NVIDIA is creating yet another new format/standard of…..
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Posted on January 8, 2018 8:20 PM by Jamie Fletcher
Just recently, before the holidays kicked off, Qualcomm, the creator of the venerable Snapdragon SoC found in nearly all flagship smartphones, officially announced its bright future inside Windows 10 notebooks and mobile devices. At the time, Lenovo had no product on hand, but was a listed partner. Here at CES 2018, we…..
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Posted on January 8, 2018 5:10 PM by Jamie Fletcher
Storage is one thing we seem to never have enough of. With higher resolution video going from 720p, to 1080p, to 4K, 3D VR and 360 degree, 24, to 30 to 60 to 120 frames per second, more and more storage is needed. But quantity is only half the problem, it’s also…..
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Posted on January 8, 2018 5:00 PM by Greg King
With one day to go until the official start of CES 2018, companies have wasted little time in getting in their early-year announcements. We saw NVIDIA continue their push into the autonomous driving market last night and today, Corsair had a collection of impressive wireless gaming peripherals. Powered by what Corsair is…..
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Posted on January 8, 2018 4:38 PM by Rob Williams
Whether you’re looking to upgrade or build a new PC, or simply happen to be a peripheral freak, Corsair pretty much has you covered this CES. We’re tackling peripherals in another post, so for this one, I am going to focus on the components that Corsair announced outside of its press briefing.…..
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Posted on January 8, 2018 1:15 AM by Jamie Fletcher
Over the last couple of years, NVIDIA’s push for automotive AI has been, to put it politely, extreme. At pretty much every single press event, it’s making headlines with its DRIVE systems, super power efficient SoCs, and a huge emphasis on AI. At the beginning of CES 2018, today is no different.…..
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Posted on January 8, 2018 12:00 AM by Jamie Fletcher
At a pre-CES 2018 keynote, AMD briefed members of the press and media about how far its come over the last year with the successful launch of the Zen and Vega architectures, and what it plans to do over the next year, including a number of earlier-than-anticipated surprises. To call Ryzen a…..
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Posted on January 4, 2018 10:00 AM by Greg King
With only five days to go until the start of CES 2018, Dell is wasting no time in making its own announcements. Using CES 2012 to unveil its original XPS 13, Dell is using this CES to usher in a reimagining of the notebook. Taking a cue from the fashion industry, where…..
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Posted on December 27, 2017 1:30 PM by Nate Williams
A couple of weeks ago, PUBG‘s 1.0 version was released, to some huge fanfare. That fanfare died down a bit after launch, due to a number of bugs that remained in the game (and some that seemed to be added in). PUBG is still a really young game, and it shows. Its…..
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Posted on December 22, 2017 1:02 PM by Rob Williams
A couple of weeks ago, Qualcomm gathered a few hundred press and analysts from around the globe and put them in the same room to talk about the company’s future. A huge part of that future involves 5G, and many at Qualcomm were excited to talk about the potential. It sure didn’t…..
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Posted on December 22, 2017 11:02 AM by Rob Williams
A little over a week ago, we wrote about AMD’s plans to deliver an open source Vulkan driver for Linux. Today, that driver has risen to the surface as AMDVLK, allowing any distro maintainer the ability to grab and compile the code for inclusion. If you’re a regular end-user wanting to test…..
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Posted on December 18, 2017 12:52 PM by Rob Williams
Rewards programs in the PC hardware world are far from uncommon, so it’s a little surprising that ASUS hasn’t had one on offer by this point already. Nonetheless, if you’re a Republic of Gamers fan, and either regularly purchase RoG components or at least lust over them, ASUS’ new “Elite Rewards” (available…..
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