CORSAIR to Acquire Elgato Gaming German Streaming Accessory Maker to Continue as a Separate Brand Within CORSAIR FREMONT, CA, June 27, 2018 – CORSAIR, a world leader in providing high-performance PC peripherals and components for Continue reading “CORSAIR Acquires Elgato Gaming”. …more
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Jun. 27, 2018 at 1:38pm
Phison PS5012-E12 Arrives to Power PCIe NVMe SSDs Chances are you’ve never heard about Phison’s PS5012-E12 SSD controller, but the Gen3 x4 NVMe 1.3 high-performance controller is sampling to customers and it is supposed to Continue reading “Sneak Peek – Phison E12 High-Performance SSD Controller”. …more
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Jun. 27, 2018 at 1:12pm
Did you know that an estimated 67 million people over the age of 12 listen to podcasts every month? And that $250 million will be spent on podcast advertising this year alone? That figure is Continue reading “Blue Compass Broadcast Boom Arm Review”. …more
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Jun. 25, 2018 at 12:51pm
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has resigned after learning past consensual relationship with employee did violate Intels non-fraternization policy. Krzanich has been the CEO of Intel since May 2013 and is married to Brandee Krzanich with Continue reading “Intel CEO Brian Krzanich Resigns After Relationship with Employee”. …more
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Jun. 21, 2018 at 2:10pm
One year ago, AMD launched the EPYC processor series and added another CPU option for the datacenter. EPYC brought more cores to dual and single socket configurations, with up to 32 high-performance Zen cores, 8 Continue reading “AMD Celebrates EPYC Processor Series One Year Anniversary”. …more
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Jun. 20, 2018 at 9:36pm
The Intel GPU team under Raja Koduri continues to grow as they have now hired Tom Forsyth. That name might be familiar to some of our readers as he was considered the man behind Intel’s Continue reading “Tom Forsyth Joins Intel Again – Larrabee Architect Returns”. …more
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Jun. 20, 2018 at 9:04pm
You can purchase PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) right now for $19.99 rather than $29.99 and the sale is running until July 5th, 2018! This is the first time that PUBG has been offered at a sale Continue reading “PUBG Goes On Sale For $19.99 – New Sanhok Map Comes Out Friday”. …more
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Jun. 20, 2018 at 3:14pm
AMD announced their 2nd Gen Ryzen Threadripper CPU going to be available with up to 32 cores, 64 threads of processing power during Computex 2018. The new enthusiast part would be using AMD’s latest 12nm Continue reading “AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990X CPU Destroys Cinebench”. …more
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Jun. 20, 2018 at 12:49pm
NVMe SSD On The Cheap – MyDigitalSSD SBX If you’ve never used an SSD before you are in for a treat as an SSD is the single biggest performance upgrade that can be done to Continue reading “MyDigitalSSD SBX 512GB NVMe SSD Review”. …more
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Jun. 19, 2018 at 1:09pm
XPG SX8200 – Newer Controller and TLC NAND For More Performance If you are looking for a fast and affordable Solid-State Drive (SSD) the ADATA XPG SX8200 PCIe SSD series is worth taking a look Continue reading “ADATA XPG SX8200 M.2 SSD Review – 480GB Model Tested”. …more
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Jun. 15, 2018 at 3:12pm
Have you mined any cryptocurrencies over the past year? Last year on this very day we published an article about mining Ethereum on the NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1070 graphics card. Just running a miner with Continue reading “Ethereum Mining – What A Difference One Year Can Make”. …more
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Jun. 14, 2018 at 7:12pm
Logitech G Expands Choice for Gamers with New Key Switch You Can Feel and Hear Switch Available on G513 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard and All New G512 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard NEWARK, Calif. & LAUSANNE, Switzerland June Continue reading “Logitech G512 Gaming Keyboard Announced Along With New Switch Option”. …more
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Jun. 12, 2018 at 8:22pm
Toshiba RC100 Series – Tiny Drive For A Small Price We first learned about the Toshiba RC100 Series SSD at CES 2018 and were intrigued by the by what Toshiba was showing off. The RC100 Continue reading “Toshiba OCZ RC100 SSD Review – M.2 2242 PCIe NVMe”. …more
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Jun. 12, 2018 at 2:07pm
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory has announced the development of a new 200-petaflops supercomputer called Summit that is roughly eight times more powerful than the 27-petaflops Titan supercomputer that was introduced in 2012. That makes Continue reading “Summit Supercomputer Fastest In World – NVIDIA Volta Inside”. …more
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Jun. 9, 2018 at 3:21am
AT&T is sending customers that still have the old grandfathered unlimited data plans that their rates will be going up by $5 per month. That will take the price from $40 per month to $45 Continue reading “AT&T Raises Prices on Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans”. …more
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Jun. 7, 2018 at 8:41pm