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Desktop RAM has been spectacularly cheap for quite some time. Now, it's in the process of becoming... somewhat less spectacularly cheap. Quoting "industry sources" and...

Type: News story Tags: Memory

Well, would you look at that. All of the miscellaneous announcements in our inbox this week were cooling-related. We bring tidings of liquid coolers from...

Type: News story Tags: Cooling

Closed-loop liquid coolers are big business these days. Everyone seems to be selling the things, and Corsair has a particularly diverse range of offerings....

Type: News story Tags: Cooling

Some people laughed when enclosure makers first started offering stark white cases. The trend toward arctic-themed PCs hasn't shown any signs of slowing, though....

Type: News story Tags: Cooling

Enermax subsidiary Lepa is showing PSUs and fans at CES this year. New on the PSU front is the P1375, which boasts modular cables,...

Type: News story Tags: Power Cooling

While touring Enermax's suite at the Consumer Electronics Show, Scott came upon an interesting twist on adjustable-speed fans. Most adjustable fans use in-line resistance...

Type: News story Tags: Cooling

One of the biggest problems with using an aftermarket CPU cooler is finding one that won't hang over your motherboard's DIMM slots. Larger coolers...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Cooling

Post-holiday sales are still popping up around the web, and as it happens, Newegg has one running today and through the weekend. Among the...

Type: News story Tags: Power Storage Memory Input devices Gaming

Researchers at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have made a discovery that can dramatically lower the power consumption and increase the...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Memory

Passive cooling is the holy grail for folks looking to build quiet PCs. It's particularly important for home-theater rigs, and MSI has a new motherboard...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Motherboards Cooling

The inconvenient but unavoidable truth about flash memory is the fact that individual cells degrade every time they're written or erased. These cells will burn...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Memory

Yes, there are still deals to go around—even as some retailers (and some unfortunate shoppers) are recovering from the stampedes of Black Friday and Cyber...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Memory Gaming

For those obsessed with silencing their PCs, passive cooling is the holy grail. A cooler can't make any noise if it has no fans...

Type: News story Tags: Cooling

In spite of this morning's e-mail hijinks, we collected a handful of release announcements in our inbox this week. Biostar, MSI, Spire, and Zotac...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Cooling Mobile computing

Samsung has begun producing NAND chips using "10 nanometer-class" process technology. The press release doesn't get more specific about the fabrication process, which...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Memory

Looks like Corsair wasn't finished updating its self-enclosed Hydro Series liquid coolers. After announcing replacements for the H50 and H60 a couple of weeks...

Type: News story Tags: Cooling

Considering the sheer number of releases that made it into our regular coverage this past week, there isn't much left for the roundup. All we...

Type: News story Tags: Cooling Systems Displays

This week in the roundup, we bring tidings from the folks at Corsair and Rosewill: Corsair announces updated Hydro Series H60...

Type: News story Tags: Power Cooling Input devices