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QNAP Unveils TBS-453A – A Compact And Portable NAS
Network Area Storage units are not always the most sleek of designs, having to cater for the rather boxy 3.5-inch mechanical drives they are often packed with. QNAP wants to change that, and bring with it some interesting technology – swapping out the boxy hard drives for sleek M.2 slots. Bring on…..
Patriot Announces Blazing Hellfire M.2 and PCIe AIC Solid State Drives
Patriot has taken the lid off its first pair of NVMe equipped PCIe-based SSD drives, this year at CES 2016; the Hellfire M.2, and the Hellfire PCIe AIC. SATA-based SSDs hit a bit of a wall almost as soon as they were released, capable of maxing out the bandwidth over the interface.…..
ASUS Announces New ROG Line At CES 2016
If the onslaught of CES press releases isn’t enough to get you excited over cool new gear coming over the next year, well, there’s still plenty more. ASUS announced a flurry of new products that will be gracing us over the coming year, and there’s bound to be something to appease everyone.…..
ASUS Adds Photography-focused ‘Zoom’ To ZenFone Lineup
With its ZenFone 2, released earlier this year (check out our review), ASUS seemed to hit the nail on the head. It produced a $200 phone with large 5.5-inch 1080p screen that offered a solid design, and a fantastic featureset (even including dual-SIM). Even our own JD Kane decided what it offered…..
MAINGEAR Unveils ALPHA 34 – A 34-Inch Curved AIO With Monstrous Specs
Desktops are so passé, that giant tower on the floor or hidden away in a cupboard can take up a lot of space, leaving less room for things that matter – like a giant 34-inch ultra-wide 4K curved display. So MAINGER took said display, and bolted every imaginable high-end desktop component inside…..
Corsair Unveils Exciting New Chassis for CES 2016
Corsair is putting its best foot forward this year at CES with an impressive offering of new cases that are sure to please the eye of even the most discriminating PC enthusiast. Firstly, we take a glimpse of the Corsair Carbide SPEC-ALPHA Mid-Tower. In an ever changing gaming market, these cases offer styling…..
NVIDIA Announces VR-Ready Program For PC Builders And Add-In Cards
It looks as if 2016 will be the year of VR, with a number of vendors releasing headsets in the coming months (Oculus Rift, HTC Vive). As a result, NVIDIA will be starting an initiative to help consumers spot systems that are ready for VR with a new badge bundled with select…..
Thecus Releases Beta For Next Major NAS OS Release: ThecusOS 7.0
With our inboxes inundated with CES related content, sometimes a news story gets overlooked. Case in point: on Christmas Eve, Thecus announced the availability of its latest NAS operating system, ThecusOS 7.0. While still in beta, 7.0 is designed for a 64-bit architecture and is fully compliant with HTML 5. These two details combine to offer…..
Valve Details Steam-crippling Christmas Day Issue
On Christmas Day, one where many people would have been on Steam to cash in gift cards, the service experienced one heck of a screw-up. Between 11:50AM PST and 13:20PM PST, a huge number of users experienced an odd phenomenon where on a page refresh, a page destined for someone else was…..
Comcast To Offer 1Gbps Without Needing A Fiber Connection
Just three years ago, Google Fiber debuted in Kansas City, and it’s been the envy of anyone that covets serious bandwidth ever since. Not to be left behind, Comcast has decided to offer 1Gbps speed as well, but it is doing things a little differently. Comcast already offers an insane 2Gbps tier, but its availability…..
Samsung Delivers ‘I Will Survive’ Parody, Celebrating Success In The Tech Report’s SSD Endurance Experiment
It’s that jovial time of year as the festive season dawns upon us, and Samsung spreads some light-hearted joy in the form of a parody song about its success in an SSD endurance experiment. At the end of a tortuous 18 months, a single surviving SSD breathed its last digital breath, reaching…..
ASUS’ E3 Pro Gaming V5 Motherboard Opts For Xeon Over Core i5/i7
Well, here’s an interesting specimen. ASUS’ brand-new E3 Pro Gaming V5 motherboard looks similar to many others in its Republic of Gamers lineup, but in actuality, it’s quite different. The “E3” in its name refers to Intel Xeon E3 processors, which are designated as “workstation” or “server” models. With this board, ASUS…..
NVIDIA Releases Iray Plugin For Autodesk’s Maya
In our in-depth look at NVIDIA’s latest Iray solutions earlier this month, we noted that a plugin for Maya would launch soon. Well, that “soon” is now, so if you’re interested in purchasing a license, you can do so right here. Like Iray Server and Iray for 3ds Max, Iray for Maya…..
castAR Kickstarter Backers To Get Refund & Free Consumer Unit On Release
With some disappointment, backers of the successful castAR Kickstarter campaign will have received an email today about getting a refund for any hardware tiers they may have sponsored. However, it’s not all bad news; the same people will also be getting a free castAR unit when it’s released in 2017. castAR initially…..
AMD’s Big Push For Open Source With GPUOpen & CUDA/C++ Compilers
There are big changes coming to and from AMD these last couple months. The release of the Fury GPUs introducing HBM for the first time in the consumer market, the corporate reshuffle and creation of the Radeon Technologies Group, and now we have AMD going open source on a number of projects.…..
AMD Announces FreeSync Support Over HDMI & GPU Support For Future HDR Displays
AMD has just made a couple of interesting announcements revolving around near-future and future display technologies. For starters, FreeSync is getting a lot of love, with a major addition coming to the tech in the form of HDMI support. It appears that this will not be a backwards-compatible feature, but instead will…..
Verizon Creates Minecraft Mod To Let Players Video Chat On An In-game Smartphone
When I first wrote about Minecraft back in 2009, I claimed that with it, “The Blocky Sky’s the Limit”. Little did I realize at the time just how true that would turn out to be. It took barely another year before someone managed to build the Starship Enterprise from Star Trek, a…..
Western Digital Announces 10TB Helium-Filled Hard Drive Utilizing PMR
The high density storage market has become a rather bizarre mix of technologies and sizes over the last couple years. Desktop hard drives have remained at the 6TB level for a while, with servers making use of 8TB, and in some cases 10TB densities. WD today announced a new enterprise drive that…..
Black Friday Deals 2015 For New PC Builds And Upgrades
It’s that time of year again, Black Friday hits and sales go through the roof. If you are on the lookout for some new hardware for your PC, we’re trawling the Internet to find some of the best deals we can. Rebates may crop up in places, so we’ve included non-rebate items…..
First Impressions: Acer’s Predator X34 Ultra-wide Curved G-SYNC Gaming Monitor
It didn’t take long after NVIDIA released its G-SYNC tech to the market for nice monitors using it to pop up. A great example would be ASUS’ RoG SWIFT, a 27-inch offering we took a look at last fall. Since then, ASUS has released a handful of follow-up models, while Acer, AOC, BenQ, and even…..
A Quick Look At AMD’s ‘Crimson’ Radeon Settings Driver
When AMD invited us to join a conference call late last month, we were told that it’d revolve around Radeon drivers. Like Omega last year, I just assumed that it’d be a modest evolution, a mass of bug fixes behind the hood, and not much up front. Well, I was wrong, and…..
The BitFenix Pandora Chassis: Now ATX-Compatible!
Back in the summer, we brought you news about a whole bunch of BitFenix goodies announced at Computex. One of the highlights from this news item was a blurb about the Pandora ATX chassis. The news item mentioned that the Pandora ATX would be available in Q3/Q4 2015. Well, guess what? That…..
Qube Aims To Be World’s Least Expensive Smart Bulb, Now Being Sold For $16 A Pop
Most “smart home” devices won’t appeal to everyone, but I’d think that one solution most people would be able to get behind is smart light bulbs. That doesn’t mean that it’s an idea that’s going to catch on quick, though. Many are not likely going to see the point of being able…..
AMD Targets NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 960 With New Radeon R9 380X Graphics Card
It’s been a solid five months since AMD last released a non-Fury Radeon GPU, and for a number of reasons, its new R9 380X comes at just the right time. A big reason for that is that we’re in the midst of an extremely busy game release season, and at ~$229, this…..
Intel Rumored To Make Next Top-end Enthusiast CPU A 10-core Wonder
When Intel released its Core i7-5960X Extreme Edition processor last fall, it felt like a long overdue release. That’s thanks in part to the fact that the i7-4960X to come before it didn’t feel like much of an upgrade over the i7-3960X, and it had been a solid four years since the…..