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CES 2017: FOVE To Start Shipping Eye-Tracking VR Headset

Posted on January 4, 2017 7:40 PM by Greg King
FOVE-product-white

Each CES for the past 50 years has had an underlining theme.  With CES 2017 only one day away, my money is on this year’s theme being VR.  Already we’ve seen multiple hardware companies offering a VR experience, either within their own ecosystem or within an established one like Vive or Rift. …..

Logitech’s New G533 Wireless Headset Features Company’s Own Pro-G Drivers, Can Last Up To 15 Hours On Single Charge

Posted on January 4, 2017 7:29 PM by Rob Williams
Logitech G533 Wireless Gaming Headset

If you’re in the market for a new gaming headset, there is certainly no shortage of them available to choose from. However, if you add wireless to the mix, then that becomes an entirely different story. On one hand, there are a good collection of wireless cans out there, but many of…..

CES 2017 ASUS Zennovation – ZenFone Updates, ZenBooks, Monitors & Pre-Built Systems

Posted on January 4, 2017 7:00 PM by Jamie Fletcher
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ASUS has certainly been busy. At its latest presentation as part of the CES event, a new generation of products were announced, covering a wide gamut of display technologies, mobile phones, new laptops, motherboards, mice, keyboards, routers and even a microphone. Note: Press packs were not complete at time of publish, so…..

CES 2017: Day Zero Roundup – The Pre-Show Coverage

Posted on January 4, 2017 1:50 PM by Jamie Fletcher
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It’s that special time of year where journalists and tech enthusiasts descend on Vegas for a non-stop week of everything new and shiny that’s to come out over the next year. It’s a big event, hosted over several hotels and show floors, and pretty much impossible to cover everything – but we’ll…..

NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1050 And GTX 1050 Ti Arrive For Notebooks

Posted on January 4, 2017 9:00 AM by Rob Williams
Dell Inspiron 14 7000 GTX 1050-equipped Notebook

Hot on the heels of us posting a review of an excellent GTX 1060-equipped notebook from Eurocom comes an announcement from NVIDIA for its new GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti for notebooks. Considering the GTX 1060 offered excellent gameplay at 1440p, the 1050 Ti should offer an “excellent” 1080p experience. As we’re…..

CES 2017: Acer Announces Predator 21 X Ultrawide Curved Screen Gaming Laptop

Posted on January 4, 2017 8:30 AM by Jamie Fletcher
Acer Predator 21 X GX21-71 right facing eye tracking lights keyboard image touchpad

Ready for some seriously advanced hardware with every kind of feature you can think of? Acer has a monster Laptop coming out soon, and it’s a doozy. Curved screen, eye tracking, SLI graphics, Kaby Lake processor, and it’s all overclockable. Oh, and it’s ultrawide too. We had to do a double take…..

Logitech Unveils New ‘Prodigy’ Gaming Mouse Series At CES, Kicks Off With $50 G203

Posted on January 4, 2017 8:00 AM by Rob Williams
Logitech G203 Prodigy Gaming Mouse

Logitech wasted no time at CES 2017 to unveil a brand-new gaming mouse series called ‘Prodigy’. The goal with this series isn’t to be the best of the best, but to be the best of the best for its “great value” market segment. In the G203 Prodigy’s case, that great value equates…..

CES 2017: Kingston Announces 2TB DataTraveler USB Flash Drive

Posted on January 3, 2017 2:20 PM by Jamie Fletcher
Kingston 2TB Flash Drive DataTraveller Ultimate GT

We remember a certain time when our website crashed under the breaking news of the previous 1TB flash drive that was announced back in 2013. We doubt that’ll happen again (fingers crossed) but Kingston have packed in even more data into a tiny USB 3.0 Flash drive. The Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate GT…..

CES 2017: Patriot Viper RGB Mice, Keyboards & Headset

Posted on January 3, 2017 2:00 PM by Greg King
Patriot V570 RGB Gaming Mouse

With CES 2017 only days away, if feels like we’re square in the middle of the commotion.  With a flurry of announcements already, it’s a good day for those looking forward to the new products we’ll get to see in 2017.  Patriot, not wanting to be left out, has a long list…..

ASUS Brings STRIX To Mainstream Motherboards With New Series

Posted on January 3, 2017 8:00 AM by Rob Williams
ASUS ROG STRIX Z270E Gaming Motherboard

As someone who’s been a fan of ASUS’ STRIX graphics cards ever since their original unveiling, I was rather delighted to open a box a couple of weeks ago and see ASUS’ brand-new Z270E Gaming motherboard. Knowing what ASUS has accomplished with its GPUs, I knew that the board could be a…..

Valve Launches Steam Sale To Celebrate Service’s Highest Grossing Titles In 2016

Posted on January 2, 2017 9:40 AM by Rob Williams
Steam 2016 Best Sellers - Platinum

We might have just survived another holiday season, but it looks as though Valve can’t shake its giving mood, as it’s just launched another sale. This one has an interesting angle, and it might be the first time it was used: highest-grossing. While this has to be one of the easiest sales…..

Synology Announces Its Second Consumer Router, The High Performance RT2600ac

Posted on December 22, 2016 4:14 PM by Greg King
Synology RT2600ac Wireless Router (Front)

It’s an exciting time of year.  As the industry looks to close out the current year, it shifts into over drive in preparation for the next, and with the new year comes CES.  While it’s easy to get lost in the press releases, one that captured our attention and made us listen…..

South Korea Passes Law To Punish Online Cheaters With Potential Jail Time Or Fines

Posted on December 16, 2016 1:09 PM by Rob Williams
StarCraft II

It’s no secret that South Korea is packed with gamers, even serious gamers, as many eSports competitions reveal. However, did you know that SK is so serious about gaming, that its own government will step in to improve it? That’s just what’s happening with any and all online games that operate in…..

NVIDIA Adds Achievements To VR Funhouse, Releases Holiday Themed Mod

Posted on December 15, 2016 11:23 AM by Rob Williams
NVIDIA VR Funhouse Winter Wonderland!

Given the season, it’s just about guaranteed that there are going to be a lot of new VR owners soon, so to that end, NVIDIA has continued to update its tech demo / game VR Funhouse to keep it relevant, and enticing. The latest update might be its biggest yet – or,…..

“Nearly 50%” Of Xbox One Owners Play Backwards Compatible Content

Posted on December 14, 2016 2:35 PM by Rob Williams
Xbox One S

We don’t post a lot of console-related news and content at Techgage, but there have been some exceptions over the years. Most recently, I purchased a PlayStation 4 Pro, and in addition to the full review, I talked about the 60 FPS vs. 4K angle and performed some in-depth performance testing –…..

Corsair Cooks Up Crazy Fast MP500 Force Series NVMe M.2 SSDs

Posted on December 14, 2016 11:23 AM by Robert Tanner
Corsair Force Series MP500 M2 SSD

SATA-based SSDs are certainly good enough for most users, but for anyone that wants or needs a high-performance SSD, the future will be M.2 solid-state drives. Toward this end Corsair is serving up its fastest SSDs ever for enthusiasts to gobble up just in time for the holidays, the MP500 Force Series…..

Rise And Shine: AMD’s Ryzen Set To Take On Intel’s Biggest Chips

Posted on December 13, 2016 4:00 PM by Rob Williams
AMD Zen Processor

It’s no secret that AMD’s CPU business has struggled in recent years, with Intel having firmly planted itself at the top of the performance pile, in effect becoming a de facto choice for those building a new PC. This is not to say that AMD’s chips have been lackluster, because that’s far…..

AMD Introduces Radeon Instinct Machine-learning Accelerator Series

Posted on December 12, 2016 3:27 PM by Rob Williams
AMD Radeon Instinct Lineup

AMD has long offered graphics cards that have been suitable for machine- (or deep-) learning, but as with other changes that have been made since the introduction of the Radeon Technologies Group, the company has decided to launch future cards with such complex focuses in its own lineup, not attach them to its preexisting…..

Bluetooth 5 Announced: Offers 2x Bandwidth & 4x Range Over Bluetooth 4

Posted on December 8, 2016 2:27 PM by Rob Williams
Bluetooth 5

It feels like we’ve been talking about Bluetooth 4 devices forever, so it’s a little exciting that we can share news today that Bluetooth 5 is finally on its way. It might be a couple of years before it’s the de facto BT solution in place, but if you typically buy higher-end…..

Antlion Audio Introduces ModMic 5 Detachable Microphone

Posted on December 7, 2016 1:15 PM by Jamie Fletcher
ModMic 5 White Mannequin

Gaming headsets often don’t live up to the expectations of a decent pair of headphones, often in the same price range. Antlion Audio has carved out a niche for itself by providing a quality microphone mod for people that enjoy premium headphones, who don’t want to resort to a headset when gaming.…..

Qualcomm Samples Its First 10nm FinFET Server Processors To Customers

Posted on December 7, 2016 12:07 PM by Rob Williams
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Much to Intel’s chagrin, Qualcomm has dominated the mobile processor market for quite some time, but that’s not enough to satisfy the intense hunger of the company. Today, it proves that, as it’s just announced that it’s begun shipping the first samples of its upcoming server processor series, Centriq 2400. Qualcomm’s Centriq 2400…..

Intel Rumored To Be Working With AMD On A Future iGPU

Posted on December 7, 2016 11:14 AM by Rob Williams

A decade ago, it would have sounded outlandish to suggest that Intel should go to AMD for its graphics needs, but over the past couple of years, many rumors have floated around the Web suggesting that it could in fact happen. Those rumors are not settling down; [H]ard|OCP‘s Kyle Bennett has just saw to…..

The Future Is Here? Amazon Opens A Supermarket Without Checkouts

Posted on December 5, 2016 2:51 PM by Rob Williams
Amazon Go Not Shoplifting

It appears that the future of supermarket shopping has just arrived – at least in Seattle. Amazon has just taken the veil off of Amazon Go, a supermarket shopping experience that will make you feel like you’re committing a crime before you even leave the building. And who doesn’t want that? Amazon…..

MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries Announced, Set To Launch In 2018

Posted on December 4, 2016 1:51 PM by Rob Williams
Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries Your First Mech

MechWarrior fans: rejoice! After a staggering sixteen years, the mainline MechWarrior series is getting another entry. MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries will see fans take on the role of a noobie in a war-torn 3015, but fortunately, it won’t take some 1,000 years to play it: Mercenaries should hit us in 2018. MechWarrior 5…..

Synology’s FlashStation FS3017 NAS Designed For Business With Big Storage Speed Demands

Posted on December 2, 2016 5:33 PM by Rob Williams
Synology Flashstation Fs3017 Ssd Nas

If you’re in charge of a small or medium business that relies on super-fast storage, then Synology’s latest NAS should be of interest. The first in its series, the FlashStation FS3017 is designed to offer absurd I/O speeds thanks to its focus on flash storage – we’re talking 200,000 IOPS kind of…..

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