Release roundup: High-end gear and a neat SATA dock This week in the roundup, we bring tidings of fresh product launches from ASRock, PowerColor, Thermaltake, and Spire: ASRock and Fatal1ty... Type: News story Tags: Graphics Motherboards Cooling Storage |
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Via QuadCore CPU rides in on new Mini-ITX boards Remember the QuadCore CPU Via introduced last spring? We've been waiting for the chip to pop up in actual products, and now it... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Motherboards |
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SanDisk ramps 19-nm, 128 Gb flash chips And the next stepping stone on the way to uber-cheap solid-state drives has been laid. SanDisk says it has begun shipping 128Gb multi-level-cell NAND... Type: News story Tags: Storage |
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Gabe Newell talks DRM, open to developing gaming hardware 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 |
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Borderlands 2 due on September 18 Today's shooters are nice, but they lack a certain je ne sais quoi—like, say, thousands of procedurally generated weapons, which the player is compulsively driven... Type: News story Tags: Gaming |
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Alan Wake PC port pays for itself in 48 hours The PC gets a bad rap as a gaming platform. Developers neglect it, console aficionados deride it, and publishers characterize it as an unprofitable pirate's... Type: News story Tags: Gaming |
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Hitachi's 7-mm Travelstar Z7K500 eyes Ivy Bridge ultrabooks Although most 2.5" hard drives measure 9.5 mm thick, ultraportables are increasingly using slimmer 7-mm models. Hitachi says it's shipped 25 million of the slender... Type: News story Tags: Storage Mobile computing |
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Deal of the week: Oldies but goodies and new SSDs Let's start our weekly deal post with a game sale—because there's no better way to kick off a long weekend than to get caught up... Type: News story Tags: Storage Memory Gaming |
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Release roundup: Efficient power and a Z77 sneak peak 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 |
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Tactical Intervention teaser will remind you of Counter-Strike More than a decade has passed since Minh Le and Jess Cliffe forever changed the world of online multiplayer shooters by releasing Counter-Strike, then a... Type: News story Tags: Gaming |
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Via's cooking up its own SSD controller Remember when Via used to make hardware for PC enthusiasts? Yeah, it's been a while. These days, the only Via chips that end up in... Type: News story Tags: Storage |
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Far Cry 3 trailer sets mature tone Although I really enjoyed the most of the original Far Cry, the sequel really didn't do it for me—all the driving made the game feel... Type: News story Tags: Gaming |
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Skyrim nets two million mod downloads Barely a week has passed since Bethesda released the Skyrim Creation Kit. This suite of mod tools allows regular folks to craft their... Type: News story Tags: Gaming |
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The Mass Effect 3 demo is up for grabs If that 40-minute gameplay video wasn't enough to get you psyched for the next chapter in the Mass Effect series, EA and BioWare have... Type: News story Tags: Gaming |
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IHS: Hard drive supply won't recover 'til third quarter To say the floods in Thailand have wreaked havoc on hard drive supply would be an understatement. Drive makers have quoted various time frames for... Type: News story Tags: Storage |
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Video shows 40 minutes of Mass Effect 3 gameplay In less than a month, Mass Effect 3 is due to hit the PC. If you can't wait that long for a taste of Shepard's... Type: News story Tags: Gaming |
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Epic to show Unreal Engine 4 this year Last September, Epic Games Technical Director Tim Sweeney said Unreal Engine 4 wouldn't "see the light of day until probably around 2014." That may... Type: News story Tags: Gaming |
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Deal of the week: SSDs, PSUs, and motherboards Valentine's Day approaches. As you lavish your significant other with flowers, chocolates, and hand-written coupons for various, ahem, favors, be sure not to forget... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Power Storage Displays |
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PSA: Satellite Reign is free today at the Humble Store | 11 |
I got up this morning and retested the Intel system with DDR4-2666 memory. I'm not going to type up all the results here, but I will note that there i... | +17 |