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Building a top-of-the-line PC? By the time Intel's Sandy Bridge-E chips roll out, you may have to think twice about getting a fancy aftermarket cooler....

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Cooling

Type: Blog post Tags: Gaming

Memory is cheap these days. Case in point: Newegg is currently selling an 8GB kit of Corsair's Vengeance DDR3-1600 DIMMs for less than...

Type: News story Tags: Memory Software Operating systems

When speaking to Kotaku last week about the issues afflicting Rage on the PC, id's Tim Willits and John Carmack laid much of the...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

Well, I guess it's official: Acer's first ultrabook is going to sell for $899. Acer announced the system's North American debut earlier this morning,...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing

Steve Jobs will likely be remembered for bringing us the next big thing time and again. From the sound of it, his creative flame may...

Type: News story Tags: Mac Personal tech

Eight is Enough ZDNet: Free software founder, Richard M. Stallman, is glad Steve Jobs is gone ElectronicsWeekly reports hp to replace flash...

Type: News story Tags: Shortbread

The Pick 6 C|Net: Apple's Steve Jobs still shapes PC laptop future ATi-Forum: AMD FX-8120 Bulldozer gets listed and liquid cooling for...

Type: News story Tags: Shortbread

Eight is Enough Engadget reports Apple iPhone 4S now shipping in 'one to two' weeks, over 200,000 AT&T pre-orders in first 12 hours PC...

Type: News story Tags: Shortbread

Now that AMD has gotten around to releasing a unified driver with Battlefield 3 and Rage support, there's no shame in snapping up a Radeon...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics

Finally. Radeon users can now enjoy both Rage and Battlefield 3 on their PCs without having to juggle driver releases. Isn't progress grand? The "unified"...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics

Memristors are pretty neat. By adjusting the direction of current flow through them, these electrical components can be made to change their resistance. ...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Memory

We all need custom hardware occasionally. Some go to great lengths to build sophisticated testing rigs (ahem), but there's nothing wrong with a quick-and-dirty...

Type: News story Tags: Storage

GPU coolers have gotten much quieter in the years since Nvidia strapped a Dustbuster to the GeForce FX 5800. If you want true silence,...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Cooling

Those who've been playing the Battlefield 3 beta probably know about that huge, 64-player Caspian Border multiplayer map—and the fact that, except for an occasional...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

Eight is Enough Chicago Tribune reports Rambus asked about shredded records in Nvidia case VR-Zone's AMD TFE 2011 report Engadget (via Notebook Italia):...

Type: News story Tags: Shortbread

The first wave of ultrabooks is due this fall, and that's exciting enough. I'm much more giddy about the second-gen models, though; we've heard that...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing

It would have been impossible for me to sit down and play Rage without having lofty expectations for id Software's latest opus. I started...

Type: Blog post Tags: Gaming