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OnePlus Announces June 14 Launch Date For New Flagship Smartphone

Posted on June 1, 2016 3:17 PM by Rob Williams

Rumors hit the Web this week that OnePlus would be unveiling its latest flagship in just a couple of weeks, and as it happens: it’s true. Before the rumor mill got out of hand, company co-founder Carl Pei took to the official forums to give us a couple juicy bits of information.…..

ASUS Disrupts Our Zen With New ZenBook 3 & ZenFone 3 Series

Posted on June 1, 2016 2:28 PM by Rob Williams

We covered a number of gaming and component products from ASUS the other day, but on the mobile side, the company has announced even more. Those include a couple of products I am really excited about: ZenBook 3, and ZenFone 3. After taking a look at the ZenBook UX305 last summer, I…..

Computex 2016 – AMD Announces RX 480 Polaris GPU & Upcoming ZEN Processor Series

Posted on June 1, 2016 1:20 AM by Jamie Fletcher

Computex has been delivering wave after wave of announcements from various companies, but all eyes were on one today: AMD. For what has seemed an eternity, we were finally given confirmation of three new product ranges – The latest generation of mobile APUs, the first Polaris GPU, and AMD’s biggest update in…..

Computex 2016 – Corsair Updates Chassis Designs, Introduces New Fans, Water Cooled GTX 1080

Posted on May 31, 2016 5:01 PM by Jamie Fletcher

As Computex continues to roll forward, so do the press releases. Corsair’s up next with some interesting updates, as well as new products. From new chassis designs, a new range of fans to keep systems cool, some impressive clocks on a new batch of memory, oh – and a graphics card. OK, so the…..

G.SKILL’s Latest RIPJAWS Mechanical Keyboards Offer Lots Of Color & Functionality

Posted on May 31, 2016 4:01 PM by Rob Williams

Let’s be honest about something: keyboards are a dime a dozen. Mechanical keyboards are a dime a dozen. LED mechanical keyboards are a dime a dozen!! Given this, it’s really becoming hard to get excited about a new keyboard release whenever one hits our inbox, but where G.SKILL’s new planks are concerned,…..

Thermaltake Unveils New Water Cooling Kits, Gaming Mouse & Fan At Computex

Posted on May 31, 2016 3:14 PM by Rob Williams

Computex just wouldn’t feel like Computex without Thermaltake gracing the Nangang exhibition center with a huge booth, so fortunately, the company showed up to this one, and with a number of sweet products for us to check out. The product I have to start with might not even be a product, per…..

BitFenix Shows Off Four Gorgeous New Chassis At Computex

Posted on May 31, 2016 2:28 PM by Rob Williams

This year’s Computex event is proving to be one of the busiest to date, with a countless number of companies unveiling a countless number of products. Where BitFenix is concerned, the company has just unveiled four new chassis, and some of them are quite interesting, to say the least. Inspired by the…..

Computex 2016 – ASUS Announces ROG Avalon DIY PC, New Motherboards, Desktops & Laptops

Posted on May 31, 2016 11:30 AM by Jamie Fletcher

At the annual Taiwan event, Computex opens up its doors for a world of new products. To begin with, we take a look through ASUS’ latest creations that will find their way into the market over the next year – and there are quite a few cool new concept pieces, too. While…..

Intel Introduces New Enthusiast Broadwell-E Processors, Including 10-core i7-6950X

Posted on May 31, 2016 2:00 AM by Jamie Fletcher

As is customary now for a CPU refresh, Intel is releasing a new set of high-performance, enthusiast grade CPUs. Like previous generations, these new CPUs are based on the previous architecture, but are fine-tuned for performance. The new Core i7-6950X and its siblings are Broadwell-based CPUs, rather than the newer Skylake – but…..

A Quick Preview Of NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1070

Posted on May 29, 2016 7:45 PM by Jamie Fletcher

Only a couple of weeks ago, NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1080 specifications and benchmark results were released by reviewers, and just a couple of days ago, the cards went on sale – kind of, since everyone sold out very quickly. Well, it’s time for the 1080’s younger sibling to get the spotlight as…..

AMD’s New FirePro S7100X Targets Blade Servers, Caters To Virtualized Workstation Users

Posted on May 26, 2016 3:40 PM by Rob Williams

For some workstation users, there’s no option other than having exclusive access to a PC, one that’s finely tuned for their specific needs. But for many companies, dedicating a single PC to each user might put them on a path to poor ROI. It’s for that reason why virtualized workstations are beginning to take…..

Toshiba Launches OCZ RD400/RD400A NVMe M.2/PCIe Solid-state Drive

Posted on May 25, 2016 5:15 PM by Robert Tanner

OCZ pioneered the introduction of PCI Express SSDs to the consumer market, so one could say it was only a matter of time after its acquisition by Toshiba before a new PCIe SSD was launched. The OCZ RD400 looks to tick all the right boxes; it ranges in 128GB through 1TB capacities in…..

SteelSeries’ Rival 700 OLED & Tactile Feedback Gaming Mouse Now Available In North America

Posted on May 24, 2016 4:30 PM by Jamie Fletcher

After a short delay, SteelSeries’ latest gaming mouse, the Rival 700, is now available for purchase direct from SteelSeries for people in North America. The Rival 700, which was originally announced back at CES this year, is a new generation of high-tech gaming peripheral. It breaks new ground in rodent technology by…..

Futuremark Adds Comprehensive Storage Test To PCMark For Android

Posted on May 24, 2016 1:18 PM by Rob Williams

Futuremark has just updated its PCMark test suite for Android with a new feature: storage testing. While storage might not sound that important overall, it is. Even if you have one of the fastest SoCs inside of your smartphone, slow storage can make it feel like a low-end device. Futuremark wants to…..

Corsair Hits ASUS’ RoG Z170 Motherboards With Special DOMINATOR Memory Kit

Posted on May 24, 2016 12:41 PM by Rob Williams

If you own one of ASUS’ Republic of Gamers motherboards and enjoy making your PC look as good as it is fast, you might have run into an issue where it’s almost impossible to find “perfect” memory modules to suit the motherboard. Well, thanks to Corsair, that problem is no more, as…..

Tt eSPORTS Levels Up With New Level 10 M Advanced Gaming Mouse

Posted on May 24, 2016 9:00 AM by Brandon Mietzner

With all things, there is a time and place. Right now that thing is eSPORTS, and the time is now – to bring the best gaming peripherals that gamers have ever seen! *Ehem* Got a little excited, mainly because it is a good time to be a PC gamer due to there…..

Fox Uses YouTube Clip In Family Guy Episode, Fires Off DMCA Request To Have It Removed Afterwards

Posted on May 20, 2016 4:40 PM by Rob Williams

Wow. Where to begin with this one? There are few people out there that would disagree that the copyright and trademark system in the US is less-than-ideal. All too often, content from sites like YouTube will be pulled for no reason, or at least for no good reason. One of the most…..

Netflix Launches Fast.com To Cut To The Chase About Your Bandwidth

Posted on May 19, 2016 3:29 PM by Rob Williams

One of the biggest reasons most households want a good Internet connection is so that streaming services, like Netflix, will work without issue. In the past, I’ve had to deal with Internet connections that would barely allow a single person to watch Netflix in HD, but today, there are regularly multiple people in…..

Microsoft Eases The Pain Of Fresh Windows 7 Installs With Mammoth Patch Package

Posted on May 18, 2016 6:17 PM by Rob Williams

Installing any operating system from scratch can be a tedious endeavor, but at this point in time, installing Windows 7 can be downright frustrating due to one little problem: there have been a ton of updates rolled-out since Service Pack 1 was released in 2011. Fortunately, Microsoft realizes this and has now…..

NVIDIA Reveals The Specs Of Its Upcoming GeForce GTX 1070

Posted on May 18, 2016 4:21 PM by Rob Williams

Following what most would agree was a successful launch of its GeForce GTX 1080, NVIDIA has decided to waste no time in making the specs for its next big card, the GTX 1070, available for all to see. This morning, the company added the card’s profile to its GeForce.com website, allowing us…..

NVIDIA Launches Tesla M10 Enterprise GPU For VDI & Updates To GRID Virtualization

Posted on May 18, 2016 3:30 PM by Jamie Fletcher

Enterprises that deploy large-scale virtual desktops and environments that require some graphics compute on the side will soon find a new compute card available: NVIDIA’s Tesla M10. While server-side workstation graphics deployments to virtual environments is covered by the Tesla M6 and M60, the new M10 is about user density, rather than…..

Valve Releases Dota 2’s Manila Major And TI6 Battle Pass

Posted on May 17, 2016 6:27 PM by Robert Tanner

Dota 2 players will be weeping this week, whether for joy at winning flashy red digital gear, or despair at what’s left of their available Steam wallet funds. The annual The International 6 compendium has been released a bit earlier than usual this year in the form of the 2016 The International…..

Google Plans To Block Most Adobe Flash Content In Chrome By Year End

Posted on May 16, 2016 1:50 PM by Rob Williams

It’s no secret that for a bunch of reasons, the world doesn’t much care for Adobe’s Flash plugin. Even Adobe itself has begun moving away from it by promoting HTML5 content creation with its Animate CC development suite (which replaces Flash Professional). Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen a number…..

What You Need To Know About The GeForce GTX 1080 Launch

Posted on May 12, 2016 8:00 AM by Rob Williams

NVIDIA’s Jen-Hsun Huang covered a lot of ground at his company’s event to launch its newest GeForce cards, but when all was said and done, some questions lingered. One of the most common? “What in the heck is a ‘Founders Edition’ card???” Fortunately, that question was raised to NVIDIA during a private briefing, so…..

Your Domination Awaits: Sid Meier’s Civilization VI Due In October

Posted on May 11, 2016 12:45 PM by Jamie Fletcher

After nearly six years, the latest Civilization game is announced and will be available this autumn. Originally, we were tipped off in an email last year about a possible summer release for the latest Firaxis title, and while not completely accurate, the timeline matches up (we should have said announced instead of…..

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