GIGABYTE Server to Offer a 1P LGA2011 Motherboard with 10GbE SFP+
While home networking is moving slowly forward in the march towards 10GBase-T, having high speed access in the enterprise arena can be a specific requirement for a mission critical...
19 by Ian Cutress on 3/6/2014
MSI Launches New Keyboard Tools for Upcoming Gaming Laptops
The march on gaming laptops from MSI has been relentless these past couple of years. At most PC component events I attend, there is usually one ultra-powerful model...
6 by Ian Cutress on 3/6/2014
AMD's Radeon R7 265 Now Available
After initially missing their planned availability window of late February, AMD sends word this evening that the first Radeon R7 265 SKUs have finally reached North American retailers. Sapphire’s R7...
19 by Ryan Smith on 3/5/2014
DirectX 12 to Be Unveiled At GDC 2014
Picking up from where we left off with last week’s discussion of GDC presentations, Microsoft has released a short teaser regarding their GDC presentation. The previously mentioned “DirectX: Evolving...
59 by Ryan Smith on 3/5/2014
ASUS’ AMD AM1 Approach: AM1I-A and AM1M-A Announced
Hot on the heels of the AMD announcement regarding socketed Kabini systems, ASUS has released information on two of their main contenders in this segment. While AMD are...
26 by Ian Cutress on 3/5/2014
AMD AM1 Platform Announced: Socketed Kabini
From the Consumer Electronics Show at the turn of the year, images were coming out of motherboards supporting the FS1b socket. This socket was a pin-grid-array, rather than...
38 by Ian Cutress on 3/4/2014
AMD Announces Radeon R9 280: Radeon HD 7950 w/Boost Returns
With the launch of the Radeon R9 series back in October of 2013, AMD began the process of releasing a number of their existing GCN 1.0 7000 cards as...
43 by Ryan Smith on 3/4/2014
Bay Trail-D from ASUS: The J1800I-C
We previously reported on Bay Trail-D motherboards coming from ECS, GIGABYTE and Biostar, but today it is ASUS’ turn to add in a SKU to the mix. The...
28 by Ian Cutress on 3/4/2014
Intel's Haswell 4th Generation Processor Refresh: Prices Leaked
Most processor lines from Intel get an update mid-cadence, usually a few individual processors to fill up the product stack or another one on top for increased clock speeds...
38 by Ian Cutress on 3/4/2014
An Update to Kingston SSDNow V300: A Switch to Slower Micron NAND
If you are a forum active or a recent buyer of Kingston SSDNow V300 SSD, there is a chance that you're aware of its performance issues. In short, users...
75 by Kristian Vättö on 3/3/2014
Color Gamut in Smartphones: Why Bigger isn't Always Better
Post-MWC, with the launch of at least two of the major high-end flagships in the smartphone space, the basics are becoming increasingly easier to get from OEMs like high...
57 by Joshua Ho on 3/3/2014
Apple Announces CarPlay: iOS in the Car Arriving in 2014
Earlier this morning Apple officially branded its iOS in the Car initiative as CarPlay. At a high level CarPlay allows iPhone 5/5c/5s users to access certain apps on their...
35 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/3/2014
AMD updates driver and programming tools roadmap for supporting HSA features in Kaveri
In our Kaveri review, we discussed HSA and that Kaveri brings many exciting hardware features such as true CPU/GPU shared memory (hUMA) and others such as heterogeneous queueing (hQ)...
22 by Rahul Garg on 3/3/2014
Twitch Plays Pokémon beats Pokémon
A departure from the normal tech news, but for those not keeping tabs on the phenomenon Twitch Plays Pokemon, it is an interesting social experiment via the Twitch platform...
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How We Test PSUs - 2014
After a lengthy hiatus, we're back with a new PSU and case reviewer. As we kick off our revised power supply testing and reviews, we wanted to cover the...
49 by E. Fylladitakis on 2/28/2014
Modular Smartphone Project Ara from Google to Start Development Conferences
Joshua talked about Project Ara (from Motorola at the time) back in October as a campaign that focused on attracting OEM interest into a modular smartphone design. The...
28 by Ian Cutress on 2/26/2014
Low Level Graphics API Developments @ GDC 2014?
With the annual Game Developer Conference taking place next month in San Francisco, the session catalogs for the conference are finally being published and it looks like we may...
63 by Ryan Smith on 2/26/2014
Elop to Lead Devices and Studios at Microsoft: This Means Xbox
News spreading online from a leaked memo point former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop to become the new lead at Microsoft’s Devices and Studios division. This appointment puts Elop...
41 by Ian Cutress on 2/26/2014
A3Cube develop Extreme Parallel Storage Fabric, 7x Infiniband
News from EETimes points towards a startup that claims to offer an extreme performance advantage over Infiniband. A3Cube Inc. has developed a variation of the PCIe Express on...
9 by Ian Cutress on 2/26/2014
NVIDIA's Tegra Note 7 LTE and Tegra 4i Devices: Hands On
Yesterday I spent some time with NVIDIA where I played with the newly announced Tegra Note 7 LTE. Internally the $299 Note 7 LTE is identical to the WiFi-only...
28 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/26/2014
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