Most commented stories
• • Which game is the new champ of PC visuals? [117]
• • Otellini: Intel passed on the original iPhone [85]
• • Friday Shortbread [79]
• • Report: Windows 8.1 expected in late October [55]
• • AMD claims fastest mobile GPU crown with Radeon HD 8970M [53]

Hot forum threads
• • Bing vs. Google
• • My next Canon long zoom?
• • Phenom II x4 975 @ 4ghz vs Ivy Sandy Mid Range Graphics Card
• • Poll: which image to print poster of?
• • miniITX FM2 HTPC Build **2nd system added!**

This week in our look at miscellaneous product releases and announcements, we bring tidings from Biostar, Lian Li, and Scythe: Biostar...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Cases Cooling

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

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...

Type: News story Tags: Multimedia

Intel's next-gen Haswell platforms are just around the corner, and early reports suggest the top Z87 model will have something new in the storage department....

Type: News story Tags: Chipsets Storage

For as long as I can remember, Asus has been the big daddy...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards

Remember those Cherry MX green mechanical switches we tested last month? At the time, they were available only on a special version of...

Type: News story Tags: Input devices

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

Intel unveiled two new generations of Thunderbolt controllers at the National Association of Broadcasters show yesterday. Rumors of the Redwood Ridge and Falcon Ridge chips...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Storage Displays Mobile computing

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...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Workstations

Most high-end keyboards combine mechanical switches with LED backlighting and programmable macro keys. Gigabyte's Aivia Osmium adds a new twist: USB 3.0 connectivity. ...

Type: Feature article Tags: Input devices

Over the past few years, a number of companies have muscled in on Logitech's PC peripheral business. Everyone seems to be making high-end keyboards,...

Type: News story Tags: Input devices

Ever since the Consumer Electronics Show, we've known Corsair is working on an updated version of its Vengeance K90 mechanical keyboard. Dubbed the K95,...

Type: News story Tags: Input devices

How about a giant web server outage in the middle of the day? That's essentially the proposition our hosting firm offered us late last night,...

Type: News story Tags: The Tech Report

Now that touchscreens have begun permeating the landscape, gesture control looks like the next frontier for PC input technology. Systems based on AMD's Richland...

Type: News story Tags: Input devices

It's quite possible flames have burst out of other PC components in Damage Labs over the years. I've smelled the acrid smoke from a...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Power Systems

Earlier this month, rumors started floating around about a USB 3.0 bug in next-gen Haswell systems. Hardware.Info, which broke the story, said the bug...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Chipsets

MSI's Z77-based Mini-ITX board has a unique mix of features, including VGA connectivity, an open Mini PCIe/mSATA slot, and smartphone-based tweaking software. We...

Type: Feature article Tags: Motherboards