Posted on November 12, 2015 2:25 PM by Rob Williams
Think it’s impossible for a $30 gaming mouse to be impressive? Mad Catz’s brand-new R.A.T.1 proves the opposite, and in fact, it offers some features not even seen on higher-end mice, including the company’s other R.A.T. mice. Like the rest of the R.A.T. lineup, the R.A.T.1 is modular. It consists of three main parts:…..
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Posted on November 12, 2015 1:25 PM by Rob Williams
We wrote just earlier about ASUS’ Zen AiO Pro all-in-one PC, one that sports some great aesthetics and a lot of performance. While it offers a choice of higher-end CPUs, as well as lots of memory, it doesn’t target the serious gamer. MSI’s Gaming 27T, as its name might imply, does. MSI…..
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Posted on November 12, 2015 12:49 PM by Rob Williams
As a PC hardware enthusiast, I’m content with building my own PCs. I mean, I’m capable – so why not? I’d be able to build it just as I like it, without restrictions. It’s awesome. Well, thoughts like those last about as long as it takes me to catch a glimpse at…..
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Posted on November 12, 2015 11:31 AM by Rob Williams
This past summer, ASUS released one of the most beautiful all-in-one PCs I’ve ever seen. It was almost apt that it was called the Zen AiO. When many think of AIOs, though, one of the first things that can come to mind is lacking performance. After all, there’s only going to be so…..
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Posted on November 11, 2015 12:22 PM by Rob Williams
Basemark, makers of popular mobile benchmarking software, has just announced that it will be releasing a new benchmark in the spring that will put Khronos’ new Vulkan graphics API to a good test. This is great to hear for a number of different reasons; the big one being that as a new…..
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Posted on November 10, 2015 3:00 PM by Rob Williams
NVIDIA is sure on a rampage with flinging announcements out this month, and there’s no sign of it slowing down. Yesterday, the company announced that its GameWorks VR technology has made it into Unreal Engine 4, and while that might sound simple, there’s more to this than immediately meets the eye (see…..
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Posted on November 10, 2015 2:38 PM by Rob Williams
We’re here! Steam Machines, Steam Controller, Steam Link, and of course, SteamOS, are all officially official. We’ve come a long way since the release of the first SteamOS beta a couple of years ago. Today, there are many PC vendors that have produced specialized machines for SteamOS use, and Valve itself has…..
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Posted on November 10, 2015 12:45 PM by Rob Williams
Over the span of just a few years, machine- and deep-learning went from being mere murmurs to major focal-points at some of the world’s biggest companies. A couple of those focusing hard on the software side of things include Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, while on the hardware side, NVIDIA has been instrumental…..
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Posted on November 9, 2015 2:20 PM by Rob Williams
Keeping to its promise of delivering a Game Ready GeForce driver in time for all of the big releases this holiday season, NVIDIA has just dropped a WHQL for Fallout 4. The latest driver is versioned 358.91, and as it’s a WHQL (not a beta), it can be considered safe to upgrade to. If…..
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Posted on November 9, 2015 1:06 PM by Rob Williams
Apple has just announced that it will begin selling its “epic” iPad Pro on its website beginning Wednesday, and in store later this week. The same applies to both the Apple Pencil and Smart Keyboard accessories. Announced in September, the iPad Pro sets out to be a professional’s dream device. It could…..
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Posted on November 9, 2015 11:55 AM by Rob Williams
It’s no secret that at one point in time, Nintendo and Sony were collaborating on a console. Ultimately, Sony’s demands didn’t suit the big N, so both companies parted ways. Nintendo then worked with Philips to produce a CD-ROM based console, but that also fell through. What we ended up getting was…..
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Posted on November 6, 2015 1:00 PM by Jamie Fletcher
With only a few days left until the big reveal, Bethesda is turning up the hype for Fallout 4 with a new feature that is sure to grab the attention of many post-apocalyptic survivors- accessing your Pip-Boy in-game with your mobile phone or tablet. The iconic wrist-mounted peripheral of the retro dystopian…..
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Posted on November 5, 2015 3:32 PM by Rob Williams
NVIDIA sure is on a GameWorks rampage! Just earlier, we talked about how GameWorks would be used in Bethesda’s mega-hyped Fallout 4, and now, we can reveal some details about GW action that’s going to be hitting Triad Wars, RollerCoaster Tycoon World, and War Thunder. Of these games, I can’t wait for Triad…..
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Posted on November 5, 2015 11:20 AM by Jamie Fletcher
To further whet the appetites of an almost ravenous horde of Fallout ‘victims’, Bethesda shows off some of its artistic team’s latest screenshots of Fallout 4, utilizing NVIDIA’s graphics technology suite – GameWorks. With a rather appealing selection of screenshots to drool over, Bethesda made mention of a number of technologies it…..
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Posted on November 4, 2015 4:11 PM by Rob Williams
When NVIDIA rolled-out a new update to GeForce Experience a couple of weeks ago, great fuss was made over the fact that in order to get future Game Ready driver updates, an email address would be required. Ultimately, no account needs to be signed-up for; opting in with an email just lets…..
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Posted on November 4, 2015 9:10 AM by Rob Williams
NVIDIA’s NVS “business graphics” lineup isn’t the most exciting in its overall portfolio, as the cards in the series are simply meant to be very stable and power a couple of displays. Given that, by default you may think that the new NVS 810 itself wouldn’t be that exciting, or interesting. You’d…..
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Posted on November 3, 2015 2:44 PM by Rob Williams
If you’ve ever fed money to the time sink that is Candy Crush, prepare to kick yourself: had you hauled just $5.9 billion more out of your wallet, you could have purchased the entire franchise and its parent company. Oh well – sometimes hindsight is 20/20. The notable purchase of King was…..
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Posted on November 3, 2015 2:01 PM by Rob Williams
At a much-anticipated event held early last month, Microsoft had quite a bit up its sleeve to show us. That included a surprise in the form of the Surface Book, a sleek convertible notebook that’s designed to offer a great computing experience in a seriously slim form-factor. It looks great, has a…..
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Posted on November 3, 2015 1:20 PM by Rob Williams
In the world of technology, rarely does “unlimited” truly mean unlimited. We’ve seen it with mobile data, and heck, even home Internet data. We’re now also seeing it with cloud storage, courtesy of Microsoft. About a year ago, Microsoft unveiled a truly impressive cloud storage package: for $10/mo, users would be granted…..
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Posted on November 2, 2015 1:16 PM by Rob Williams
T-Mobile sure is on a roll right now, both with regards to beefing up its services and giving the competition a good jab. Last week, CEO John Legere poked fun at Verizon with the help of some skywriting above its headquarters, which was followed-up to days later with a series called The…..
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Posted on November 2, 2015 12:12 PM by Rob Williams
Thecus has just updated its small business NAS line with a model derived from the N5810PRO released this past spring. Overall, both NASes are identical, with the new N5810 foregoing the built-in UPS protection. Given that, this particular NAS might not seem that interesting, but we happen to have a PRO model…..
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Posted on November 2, 2015 11:33 AM by Rob Williams
Most of the NAS units we’ve taken a look at here at Techgage have been “pedestal” form-factors; in effect square or rectangular designs. For the goals a NAS sets out to accomplish, the aesthetics don’t matter too much, but for those who’d like to keep their NAS next to their TV, it…..
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Posted on November 2, 2015 8:00 AM by Rob Williams
Last December, AMD pushed out one of its biggest driver updates ever in the form of Catalyst Omega. This mega-patch consisted of a large number of bug fixes, performance boosts, and some feature additions. At the time of its release, AMD made it sound like such mega-patches would become an expected thing…..
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Posted on October 27, 2015 4:04 PM by Rob Williams
Let’s be honest: networking isn’t the easiest thing in the world. That fact is what drove Google to create its OnHub router platform, one that allows “anyone” to get up and running with a new router fast. Up to this point, TP-LINK has been the lone OnHub provider, but now, ASUS has…..
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Posted on October 23, 2015 1:48 PM by Rob Williams
If you missed out on your chance to own an OSVR headset, don’t worry – according to Razer, the initial 10,000 units sold out fast. Whether that was unexpected is unclear, but the company is now rectifying the situation by increasing production, and allowing the public to get in on the action.…..
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