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Howdy, all. Just an update on several things. First, there is a lot going on around here in the next several weeks—busiest I have ever...

Type: News story Tags: The Tech Report

As you may have heard, there's a major CPU launch coming up soon. I've been meeting with folks, gathering new parts, and prepping my...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs The Tech Report

Zotac has beefed up its Zbox lineup with two new models based on Ivy Bridge processors. Until now, the company's most powerful mini PC...

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Traditional hard drive makers have been slow to get into the SSD business,...

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For years, cable TV subscribers have asked for a-la-carte service that would allow channels to be purchased individually. Cable providers have resisted, but it...

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Earlier this morning, Fortune posted a story saying Corsair was about to...

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Remember when Amazon was just an online bookstore? Today, the e-tail giant...

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Hey, guys. This post is almost too painful to write, but yes, I am indeed working on a Radeon HD 7990 review. And...

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Folks on Wall Street were awaiting Apple's latest quarterly results with bated breath. By the looks of it, they were pleasantly surprised when Apple

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With the demand for traditional towers dwindling, a lot of the action in the desktop PC industry seems to be focused on all-in-one systems similar...

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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...

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Asus' lineup of Xonar audio products has been confined predominantly to PCI and PCI Express sound cards. The firm is slowly expanding its selection of...

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As PC platforms consolidate more features in fewer chips, small-form-factor systems are becoming a lot more appealing—and a lot smaller. Gigabyte appears to be...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Systems

Here comes more doom and gloom from PC market watchers. This time, the folks at CNet News have compiled Q1 2013 PC shipment figures...

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I think game developers are happy with Sony's choice of hardware for the PlayStation 4. At least, Epic Games' Mark Rein seems to be. In...

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There has been some doubt about whether consumer processors based on AMD's upcoming Steamroller CPU architecture will be released this year. In November, the...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Servers Workstations

Haswell isn't the only new desktop processor Intel is set to release this year. Ivy Bridge-E is also on the way, and an official-looking slide...

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The biggest hardware launches of the past week or so were undoubtedly AMD's Radeon HD 7790 and Nvidia's GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost....

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