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.…..
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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…..
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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…..
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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…..
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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,…..
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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…..
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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…..
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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…..
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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…..
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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…..
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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…..
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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…..
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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…..
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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…..
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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…..
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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…..
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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…..
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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…..
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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…..
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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…..
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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…..
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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…..
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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…..
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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…..
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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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