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Not much new hardware has come out since we published our last guide in December, but this edition is still choc-full of small, incremental...

Type: Feature article Tags: Systems Workstations

Comic off-shoot The Penny Arcade Report has posted a lengthy interview with Valve's Gabe Newell. While he doesn't reveal the release date for the...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming Game consoles

In this week's look at miscellaneous press releases and product announcements, we have news from Antec, Biostar, NZXT, and Samsung: Antec...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Cases Power Storage

This week in our look at miscellaneous product releases and announcements, we've got news from Antec, Cooler Master, Scythe, and Thermaltake:

Type: News story Tags: Cases Power Cooling

Consumer-grade SSDs started making the transition to 25-nm NAND early last year. We saw enterprise-oriented drives based on MLC flash make the jump, as...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Servers Workstations

With Chinese New Year celebrations at an end, hardware makers in the Far East have started announcing fresh products again. This week, our inbox collected...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Cases Input devices Mobile computing

Hoping to see a new Xbox sooner than the rumored late-2013 time frame? Well, sorry to disappoint. A Microsoft executive seems to have confirmed the...

Type: News story Tags: Game consoles

Either we're looking at an inaccurate rumor here, or the next-generation Xbox won't be the graphics powerhouse some of us expected. The folks at IGN...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Game consoles

Antec's Three Hundred budget mid-tower has made quite a name for itself. We've included the case in our own system guides, and Newegg is...

Type: News story Tags: Cases

Last week's Consumer Electronics Show made the point of a release roundup somewhat moot. This week, though, we've received a handful of press releases unrelated...

Type: News story Tags: Cases Cooling Storage

Cooler Master's latest creation is a follow-up to the revered Cosmos line of enthusiast enclosures. We put this super-sized newbie through its paces...

Type: Feature article Tags: Cases

You might say we're pretty lukewarm toward pre-built gaming desktops. Why pay for a pre-packaged system when you can have fun building it yourself—and end...

Type: News story Tags: Systems

Full-sized home-theater PCs seem to have fallen out of favor in recent years thanks to the popularity of smaller form factors like microATX and Mini-ITX....

Type: News story Tags: Cases

Truly distinctive case designs are surprisingly rare in the PC world, but Thermaltake has one of its own with the Level 10 series. We've...

Type: News story Tags: Cases

Last June, Sapphire showed us the Edge, a slim little nettop powered by Intel's Atom D510 processor and Nvidia's Ion discrete GPU. The firm...

Type: News story Tags: Systems

While we were most excited to see 7-series Mini-ITX boards at Zotac's CES showcase last week, the company also had a number of interesting...

Type: News story Tags: Systems

Corsair has added a couple of new models to its rapidly growing collection of enthusiast-oriented PC enclosures, and we spent some quality time with them...

Type: News story Tags: Cases

While visiting OCZ's suite at the Consumer Electronics Show, we got a first-hand look at the Kilimanjaro platform poised to anchor a range of different...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Servers Workstations