OpenGL SIGGRAPH 2014 Update: OpenGL 4.5, OpenGL ES 3.1, & More
Taking place this week is SIGGRAPH 2014, the graphics industry’s yearly professional event. As the biggest graphics event of the year this show has become the Khronos Group’s favorite...
4 by Ryan Smith on 8/11/2014
Khronos Announces OpenCL SPIR 2.0
The last time we talked to Khronos about the OpenCL Standard Portable Intermediate Representation (SPIR) was back at SIGGRAPH 2013. At the time Khronos was gearing up for the...
2 by Ryan Smith on 8/11/2014
Tegra K1 Lands in Acer's Newest Chromebook
Today Acer announced four new models of a new 13.3" Chromebook design featuring Tegra K1. This is a significant launch for NVIDIA, proving there's industry interest in Tegra K1...
24 by Stephen Barrett on 8/11/2014
NVIDIA FY 2015 Q2 Financial Results
On Thursday August 7th, NVIDIA released their results for the second quarter of their fiscal year 2015. Year-over-year, they had an excellent quarter based on strong growth in the...
16 by Brett Howse on 8/10/2014
QNAP Launches x53 Pro Bay Trail NAS for SMBs
The launch of the QNAP TS-x51 series was covered in great detail. QNAP took the lead over other NAS manufacturers in opting for the 22 nm Atom SoCs. While...
18 by Ganesh T S on 8/10/2014
Best Desktops for Under a Grand
Following up on last week's Best Budget PC Guide, today we have midrange systems with roughly twice the cost. Of all the systems types to configure, the midrange market...
65 by Jarred Walton on 8/8/2014
Revisiting SHIELD Tablet: Gaming Battery Life and Temperatures
While the original SHIELD Tablet review hit most of the critical points in the review, there wasn't enough time to investigate everything. One of the areas where there wasn't...
39 by Joshua Ho & Andrei Frumusanu on 8/8/2014
More X99 Teasers: GIGABYTE’s X99 Gaming G1 WiFi
The summer months are usually some of the quietest in the tech world, however motherboard manufacturers seem to be keen to release preview images of the upcoming X99 platform...
23 by Ian Cutress on 8/8/2014
ADATA Officially Launches XPG Z1 DDR4 Memory
Given that the supposed release date of DDR4, according to a pre-order listing which suggests it is almost three weeks away, DRAM module manufacturers are slowly initiating press releases...
17 by Ian Cutress on 8/7/2014
MSI’s Next Haswell-E Teaser: X99S Gaming 9 AC
The increase in leaks and teasers regarding X99 makes for some compelling reading. Shortly after showing off their X99S SLI PLUS on Facebook, a couple of Gaming 9 AC...
22 by Ian Cutress on 8/7/2014
ROCCAT Integrates Keyboard and Smartphone: The Skeltr
Alongside the Nyth, ROCCAT is also announcing another hybrid technology at Gamescom in the form of a keyboard called the Skeltr. The purpose of the Skeltr is to bring...
8 by Ian Cutress on 8/7/2014
ROCCAT Announces the Nyth Semi-Modular Mouse
The world of gaming peripherals is a tricky one. There are plenty of standard off-the-shelf peripherals that will do the basic job. In order to create a brand away...
3 by Ian Cutress on 8/7/2014
More Fanless Bay-Trail: ASRock Releases Two Pentium J2900 Motherboards
When we looked at AMD’s Kabini platform, AMD in its press materials pitted their high end APU against the Pentium J2900 in terms of price and performance. The only...
24 by Ian Cutress on 8/6/2014
OWC and SoftRAID create ThunderBay 4 RAID 5 Edition
One of the most poignant uses for Thunderbolt has always been Direct Attached Storage (DAS). Alongside supporting high resolution displays, Thunderbolt is all about the daisy chaining of both...
16 by Ian Cutress on 8/6/2014
Pairing with a Game: Thermaltake announces Urban S71 World of Tanks Edition
The concept might come across and something strange. If a hardware manufacturer creates a product with a video game tie-in, then the product might only appeal to those that...
4 by Ian Cutress on 8/6/2014
ASUS Launches Crossblade Ranger for FM2+: ROG Comes Back To AMD at $160
Back during Computex this year, we were at ASUS’ ROG press conference when the Crossblade Ranger was announced. This was ASUS’ ROG brand returning to AMD at the request...
16 by Ian Cutress on 8/6/2014
State of the Part: CPUs
Short Introduction to CPUs and Terminology There are many elements that go into any modern computer: the CPU/APU, motherboard, memory, (optional) GPU, storage, case, and power supply. While some items...
69 by Jarred Walton on 8/5/2014
Pebble Unveils Limited Edition Smartwatch Colors
The Pebble smartwatch has been around for quite a long time compared to the wearables put forth by other manufacturers. It was one of the earliest devices in the...
4 by Brandon Chester on 8/5/2014
Microsoft's Surface Pro 3: Core i3 vs. Core i5 Battery Life
A couple of weeks ago I offered a brief performance preview of the $799 entry level Surface Pro 3 with an Intel Core i3-4020Y. The performance hit in going...
85 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/5/2014
Galaxy S5 LTE-A: Battery Life, Performance
While I was planning on doing a full review for the GS5 LTE-A, it turns out that there’s relatively little that changes between the original Galaxy S5 and this...
32 by Joshua Ho on 8/5/2014
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