Like rules and windows on an abandoned house, records are meant to be broken, and that's exactly what the rebels from G.Skill did at the Computex trade show in Taiwan. [......]
Cases and cooling go together like peanut butter and jelly, ham and eggs, movies and popcorn, rum and Coke, and everything else that's better with the other. It shouldn't come as a shock to the system, then, that NZXT is releasing its first ever CPU cooler, the Havik 140. With funky looking fins and plenty of heatpipes, NZXT thinks it has a "true game changer" on its hands[......]
Corsair has come up with a solution for anyone having trouble trying to squeeze a monstrous CPU cooling solution into their rig only to find that the RAM is getting in the way. It's the company's new Vengeance LP DDR3 memory series. [......]
And off we go! Now that Intel has officially outed its Z68 Express chipset, the announcements from hardware vendors pitching new products are rolling in. One of those is from MSI who just unveiled a couple of Z68 motherboards (socket 1155), one of which features support for both CrossFireX and SLI. [......]
We can't help but look forward to Intel's enthusiast-level Sandy Bridge-E processors that have been spotted on leaked roadmaps, but in the meantime, the chip maker isn't finished pumping out regular Sandy Bridge silicon. In less than a month, Intel plans to launch another Core i3 processor, the Core i3 2015, claims news and rumor site Fudzilla. [......]
One of the most frequently asked questions would-be builders ask is whether to buy parts now or wait for what's just around the corner. Generally speaking, you're usually better off building something new when your current gear is no longer able to get the job done, but it never hurts to at least take a peek at what products are in the pipeline. To help you do that, a leaked Intel roadmap is making the rounds[......]
You've probably fashioned a makeshift keychain made out of an old processor by drilling a hole through one of the corners, and if you're handy with a dremel, maybe you turned some old hardware into a decorative piece. [......]
AMD today quietly launched a trio of new graphics cards specifically intended for OEM builders, including an entry-level card that you could save up for with nothing more than a paper route. It's the Radeon HD 6450, a budget card priced at about $55 and built around AMD's lower-end Caicos chip with 160 stream processors, a 64-bit memory interface, and support for both GDDR5 and DDR3 memory[......]
One of the things XBMC setups could truly benefit from is a solid remote control, and coming soon, it'll have one. It's called the Motorola Nyxboard Hybrid, and according to Motorola, it's the first remote in the world designed specifically for XBMC[......]
Nobody wants to pay for something that doesn't work, and the same holds true for big corporations, like AMD. No longer willing to accept non-working parts, AMD hammered out a new deal with GlobalFoundries in which it will only pay for chips that that work as advertised. Prior to this revised agreement, AMD was paying for all chips produced at cost plus a markup for GlobalFoundries, and it didn't matter whether the chips worked or not[......]
James Gosling, father of the Java programming language, has finally found a job, nearly a year after he quit Oracle-owned Sun. Gosling’s latest employer happens to be Internet giant Google, which, very interestingly, has been accused of “knowingly, directly and repeatedly” copying Java code by Oracle. “Through some odd twists in the road over the past year, and a tardis encountered along the way, I find myself starting employment at Google today,” the Java patriarch announced in a blog post Monday[......]
The intelligent folks over at Samsung announced today that they're the first to start producing four gigabit (Gb), lower power double-data-rate 2 (LPDDR2) DRAM using a 30nm manufacturing process. [......]
Our condolences to anyone who purchased a first generation iPad shortly before Apple launched the iPad 2. [......]
Every tech should have a wireless dongle in his/her emergency kit, and if you don't have one already, D-Link hopes you'll consider one of its new fun-sized models. D-Link's Wireless N 150 Pico Adapter (DWA-121) and Wireless N USB Adapter (DWA-131) both sport a compact design that makes for easy storage and can be plugged into a laptop or desktop without sticking out like a, well, typical dongle. "With extremely compact designs – the Pico is about the size of a dime – these new adapters are ideal for setting up a high-performance wireless connection while on the road or in a packed conference room," said Daniel Kelley , associate vice president of consumer marketing, D-Link North America. [......]
Gigabyte claims its new GeForce GTX 550 Ti Overclock Edition graphics card strikes just the right balance between faster clockspeeds and quiet computing. Armed with a custom cooler, the GV-N550OC-1GI, as it's named, boasts "extraordinary overclocking ability" and outpaces reference GTX 550 Ti cards by 6 percent, Gigabyte says. The custom cooler was designed in-house and utilizes a 10cm fan with a pure copper node inside[......]
