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Modular On The Cheap: Mad Catz’s R.A.T.1 Mouse Priced At $30, Welcomes You To 3D Print Your Own Palm Rest

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:…..

MSI’s Gaming 27T Promises To Be World’s Most Powerful AIO Gaming Desktop

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…..

MAINGEAR’s RUSH Gaming Desktop Bares All With Beautiful Full-side Tempered Glass

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…..

ASUS Blends Style And Performance With Its New Zen AiO Pro All-in-one PC

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…..

Basemark To Release Vulkan-specific GPU Benchmark For Mobile & PC In Q2 2016

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…..

NVIDIA’s GameWorks VR Makes It To Unreal Engine 4, EVEREST VR Demo Gives Us A Preview Of What’s To Come

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…..

The Wait Is Finally Over: Steam Machines, Link & Controller Are Now Available

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…..

NVIDIA Accelerates Hyperscale Machine Learning With New Tesla M4 & M40 GPUs

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…..

Just In Time For Fallout 4, NVIDIA Drops GeForce 358.91 Game Ready Driver

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…..

Apple To Begin Selling iPad Pro Online This Wednesday, In Stores Later This Week

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…..

No Longer An Urban Legend: The Nintendo PlayStation Console Is Real

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…..

Get The Fallout 4 Pip-Boy On Your Mobile Or Tablet

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…..

NVIDIA Continues Its GameWorks Infusion With Triad Wars, RollerCoaster Tycoon World & War Thunder

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…..

Bethesda Shows Off NVIDIA GameWorks Enhancements In Fallout 4

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…..

Register To Receive NVIDIA Game Ready Drivers & Get A Chance At A Prize From A $100,000 Pool

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…..

NVIDIA Hits Digital Signage Market With New NVS 810, Capable Of Powering 8x 4K Displays Per Card

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…..

A Sweet Deal? Activision Acquires Candy Crush Creator King For $5.9 Billion

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…..

iFixit Tears Down Microsoft’s Surface Book, Finds A Complicated Interior

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…..

Thanks To Data Hogs, Microsoft Dramatically Reduces OneDrive Storage Limits

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…..

T-Mobile Releases Free 4G LTE Mini-towers That Customers Can Add To Their Home Or Business

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…..

Thecus Updates SMB NAS Line With Powerful N5810 5-bay Tower

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…..

QNAP’s Silent HS-251+ NAS Begs To Be Placed In Your TV Stand (Updated)

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…..

AMD Unveils Major Overhaul Of Its Radeon Driver With New Crimson Edition

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…..

ASUS Teams Up With Google To Make Networking Easy With New OnHub Router

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…..

Razer Opens Up Pre-orders For OSVR ‘Hacker Development Kit’

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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