Posted on May 11, 2016 8:00 AM by Rob Williams
To help celebrate the launch of its first Pascal-based graphics cards, the GeForce GTX 1080 and 1070, NVIDIA’s kicked-off a competition that’s well worth checking out. This isn’t one of those typical contests with just one or a few prizes: in total, there are at least 1,000. And who doesn’t want an…..
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Posted on May 10, 2016 4:26 PM by Rob Williams
It’s widely expected that Intel will be unveiling its next series of enthusiast processors at Taipei’s Computex at the start of June, and furthering that rumor is ASUS. Why? Well, why else would it choose to unveil a line of brand-new X99 motherboards right now? Exactly. In total, there are four X99…..
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Posted on May 10, 2016 4:00 PM by Jamie Fletcher
It’s been a while, but Cooler Master is finally launching its highly anticipated modular PC chassis design, the MasterCase Maker 5. We saw it showcased back at CES 2016, and even further back at Computex, so the design has been gaining attention for some time. In what CM calls its FreeForm Modular…..
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Posted on May 3, 2016 6:28 PM by Rob Williams
From a convenience and security standpoint, fingerprint readers are an awesome addition to any computing device – whether it be a phone or a computer. It’s long been a worry, though, that if someone was determined enough to gain access to a fingerprint-locked device, it might be easier to replicate that fingerprint rather than…..
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Posted on May 2, 2016 4:11 PM by Rob Williams
If you’re an NVIDIA user who’s planning to pick up Battleborn or delve into the betas for Forza Motorsport 6: APEX, Overwatch, or Paragon, the new 365.10 ‘Game Ready’ driver is meant for you. While three of the four new games covered in this release are in beta, the driver is not:…..
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Posted on May 2, 2016 3:16 PM by Rob Williams
If you were one of the first to preorder an Oculus Rift and have yet to receive it, there’s some good news: you might be able to go to a store and purchase it there instead. That’s a recommendation that comes straight out of the mouth of Oculus. In a new release,…..
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Posted on April 28, 2016 2:20 PM by Jamie Fletcher
It’s not often a unique product shows up in our email and news feeds, but we became curious over something a little different today: a USB compute module for neural networks and machine learning. Movidius’ new Fathom Neural Compute Stick is an ultra-low power processor featuring a Myriad 2 VPU (vision processing…..
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Posted on April 27, 2016 2:44 PM by Rob Williams
When it first leaked that Apple was keen on removing the 3.5mm audio jack from future iPhones, even the most devout Apple fans thought the company had finally lost its marbles. While the traditional 3.5mm jack is about as old-school a technology could get on a modern device, it hasn’t really “needed”…..
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Posted on April 26, 2016 10:50 AM by Jamie Fletcher
Following up from yesterday’s news story, AMD has officially launched its latest card, a dual-GPU solution based on the Fiji architecture found in the Fury cards. The Radeon Pro Duo – its official name – has a rather unique twist in its launch, the fact that it’s not explicitly a gaming card,…..
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Posted on April 25, 2016 2:50 PM by Rob Williams
When AMD introduced its latest-gen graphics cards last summer, it left little to the imagination. Right from the get-go, we knew that the 300-series would include at least four models, and that the Fury line would include a Fury, Fury X, Fury Nano, and a dual-GPU option. At that time, that dual-GPU…..
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Posted on April 25, 2016 11:07 AM by Rob Williams
While many vendors are taking advantage of the ongoing VR revolution to offer “VR Ready” products, ASUS is having none of it. Instead, the Taiwanese company wants to take things a step further, and offer “Beyond VR Ready” products. Touché, ASUS. With its Beyond VR Ready program, ASUS is certifying a huge…..
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Posted on April 21, 2016 1:50 PM by Jamie Fletcher
Are mechanical keyboards with CHERRY MX Red switches still too slow for your twitch reflex actions? Corsair will soon be rolling out a new branch of some of its iconic peripherals in the new RAPIDFIRE range. The three keyboards, the K70, K70 RGB, and K65 RGB, will soon start to get a…..
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Posted on April 20, 2016 8:00 AM by Jamie Fletcher
Soon to replace the current generation of WD Re drives, the new WD Gold series aims to better tune itself to the requirements of datacenters with an assortment of features and lower power. The launch brings three new capacities of 4, 6 and 8TB, each geared for slightly different workloads rather than…..
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Posted on April 19, 2016 6:56 PM by Rob Williams
One of the most obvious caveats of notebooks is that the performance won’t ever match desktops – but, that doesn’t mean that some vendors won’t put forth their best effort to tighten the gap as much as possible. A good example of how this is being done is with MAINGEAR’s new Pulse…..
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Posted on April 19, 2016 11:57 AM by Rob Williams
NVIDIA’s Quadro team has sure been on a release rampage this past month. First came along the second-generation top-end M6000, which now sports 24GB of GDDR5, and soon after, we were hit with the M5500, a desktop-class card designed for notebooks. On the table now is a bit of a special release,…..
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Posted on April 14, 2016 7:00 PM by Jamie Fletcher
Just when you thought the old 28nm GPUs had nothing left to give, AMD releases an update to one of its workstation cards. The FirePro W9100 will soon come packed with a rather hefty 32GB of GDDR5 memory, up from the original 16GB. With both 4K resolution and Virtual Reality making traction…..
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Posted on April 14, 2016 6:00 PM by Robert Tanner
Micron this week hosted an Enterprise Solutions event in Austin, TX, marking a turning point for the company with it taking a more active role as a software solutions provider for businesses. In addition, Micron announced three new NVMe-capable Enterprise PCIe & SAS solid-state drive families and even let loose some hints…..
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Posted on April 13, 2016 5:17 PM by Rob Williams
NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference is all about showing off cutting-edge technologies and looking to the future (near or far). That being the case, if you appreciate the working side of graphics technology, GTC is some sort of geek heaven, with NVIDIA showing off what it has coming, and its partners doing the…..
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Posted on April 13, 2016 4:07 PM by Rob Williams
Kingston has just announced the release of two brand-new flash drives designed for those who demand bullet-proof (as much as possible, anyways) security for their on-the-go data. Those drives are the DataTraveler 4000G2 with Management (DT4000G2DM) and DataTraveler Vault Privacy 3.0 with Management (DTVP30DM). One of the standout features of these drives…..
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Posted on April 11, 2016 9:30 AM by Jamie Fletcher
Different people are looking for different things when it comes to peripherals. Sometimes it’s lots of extra buttons, other times it’s simplicity; finding that balance between both can be a challenge. SteelSeries attempts to merge the benefits of absolute customization to a simplified keyboard, that’s ready for eSports action with the APEX…..
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Posted on April 7, 2016 11:40 AM by Greg King
There are few chassis companies that move as fast as Lian-Li. The Taiwanese company is known for its quality cases and use of high quality aluminum. Announced today, Lian-Li has an entirely new series of chassis and it’s first offering in that series is the attractive PC-J60. With a tidy interior in…..
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Posted on April 6, 2016 12:59 PM by Greg King
Virtual Reality is upon us. With both the Oculus Rift and Valve/HTC Vive “shipping”, VR for the masses is already starting to gain momentum (outside of a mobile phone strapped to your face). Rob is currently at NVIDIA’s GTC event in California’s Silicon Valley, and a major theme at the event has…..
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Posted on April 6, 2016 10:30 AM by Greg King
Techgage covers a wide gamut of technologies and one of my personal favorites is network attached storage. NAS has played a huge role my own home network, and that in turn has led into a substantial amount of coverage on the site. One company that has continued to impress us over the…..
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Posted on April 5, 2016 2:30 PM by Jamie Fletcher
At GTC 2016, NVIDIA announced details regarding its first HPC-targeted compute GPU that will utilize its upcoming Pascal architecture. The expected performance increases and power savings will allow companies to scale to petaflop levels of computation, using a fraction of the power and real estate. NVIDIA’s Tesla series GPUs are headless cards for…..
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Posted on April 5, 2016 10:00 AM by Jamie Fletcher
AMD launches a new compute card that aims to take on and topple NVIDIA’s Tesla GPU line. The new S9300 x2 is a dual GPU configuration (as hinted by the name), that sports some eye-watering numbers that’ll leave most enthusiasts salivating. We’ll start with the headline, 13.9 TFLOPS of single-precision floating point…..
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