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Next-generation Haswell motherboards are approaching, and Gigabyte has teased a few details about what it has in store for the new platform. The firm has...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Multimedia

Although Intel has a deep lineup of solid-state drives, its selection of mSATA models has been rather limited. Until today, all the firm had...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Mobile computing

Intel is no stranger to the world of enterprise-grade SSDs. Its first offering for that market, the X25-E, was released way back in the...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Servers Workstations

All has been quiet on the Xonar front, but that's set to change early this year. Asus is prepping a couple of new audio...

Type: News story Tags: Multimedia

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

On Tuesday, Microsoft made the Windows 8 Developer Preview available publicly without demanding so much as a Windows Live login name and password in return....

Type: Blog post Tags: Operating systems Windows

As the Intel Developer Forum chugs along in San Francisco, Microsoft is hosting the Build developer conference in Anaheim, a few hundred miles south. The...

Type: News story Tags: Software Operating systems Windows

Computex — Unlike some cooler makers, Noctua isn't dabbling in PSUs, gaming headsets, or iPad accessories. That says a lot about the company's focus,...

Type: News story Tags: Cooling

Computex — While touring Thermaltake's booth on the Computex show floor, we stumbled upon one of the largest CPU coolers I've ever seen. Behold...

Type: News story Tags: Power Cooling

Slowly but surely, flash memory continues to get cheaper and more capacious. Intel and Micron have just taken another step in that direction with the...

Type: News story Tags: Storage

About a year ago, we got our first taste of Psyko Audio's unique 5.1-channel PC gaming headset. Rather than using signal processing to...

Type: News story Tags: Multimedia

Just a few years ago, OCZ's CES showcase was dominated by memory modules. Row upon row of DIMMs were on display, each with a...

Type: News story Tags: Storage

1984 seems so very long ago. That was the year Apple introduced its very first Macintosh computer with an iconic commercial featuring an unnamed...

Type: Blog post Tags: Multimedia

Enthusiasts may associate the Antec name with power supplies, enclosures, fans, and those neat noise-dampening panels on P-series cases. But high-end computer speaker setups? Believe...

Type: News story Tags: Multimedia

COMPUTEX — At a small press conference in a Taipei hotel this morning, Kingston showed us two new storage devices: a 64GB flash card based...

Type: News story Tags: Storage

Last September, Western Digital announced that it had begun shipping the world's highest-capacity 2.5" mobile hard drive with a standard 9.5-mm thickness: the 640GB...

Type: News story Tags: Storage

Just shy of a year ago, Western Digital acquired solid-state drive maker SiliconSystems. The company's SiliconDrive SSDs have been listed on WD's web...

Type: News story Tags: Storage

Tower-style processor heatsinks are all the rage these days, and Corsair, already known for its liquid-cooling kits, has succumbed to that trend. At CeBIT...

Type: News story Tags: Cooling