Last week, the first smartphone built-in wireless charging was announced in the U.S when the Nokia Lumia 920 was released. This Windows Phone 8 smartphone is the first of what we expect to be many smartphones to have embedded wireless charging. Read on to see what Intel is planning on doing with wireless charging on upcoming products!
For those that follow the PC industry you might have heard of the “Next Unit of Computing” (NUC) mini-PC by none other than Intel. This is a SFF PC that takes things to the next level by using a 4-inch square motherboard stuffed into a tiny plastic case. Intel started designing this system over a year ago and it is expected to ship next month. Read on to see what Intel is up to in the SFF PC space!
Lian-Li recently announced two new brushed aluminum full tower chassis PC-A75X & PC-A76X. These two cases use the HPTX standard, which means they are 13.6 by 15 inches in size. Both of these cases have Continue reading “Lian Li Debuts Two New Full Tower HPTX Cases PC-A75X & PC-A76X”.
Overclocker Nick Shih has overclocked an Intel Core i7 3770K ‘Ivy Bridge’ processor to n amazing 7.136 GHz with the newly released ASRock Z77 OC Formula motherboard. The ASRock Z77 OC Formula was developed by Continue reading “ASRock Z77 OC Formula w/ Core i7-3770K Reaches 7.136 GHz”.
Are you wanting to pre-order the Apple iPhone 5 tomorrow? You will be able to pre-order online starting at 12:01AM Pacific Time or 3:01AM Eastern Time. This is the time that Apple will open it’s Continue reading “Apple iPhone 5 Pre-Orders Start at 3:01am Friday”.
Nintendo today revealed full details about how the new Wii U home console and its groundbreaking touch-screen Wii U GamePad controller can revolutionize not only video game play but also the way people find and Continue reading “Nintendo Wii U Gaming Console Launching November 18th for $299”.
This morning NVIDIA announced two new graphics cards that bring Kepler to every gamer: the GeForce GTX 660 and the GeForce GTX 650. The GeForce GTX 660 provides an ideal combination of performance, price, and power efficiency, hitting the gamer’s sweet spot and that is the card that we will be reviewing today. Read on to see how a pair of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 cards by MSI and EVGA do in our tests!
During the IDF 2012 Technology Showcase we got a chance to see the new Western Digital hybrid hard drives in person! On display at the WD booth was a WD Black 500GB drive (Model Number Continue reading “IDF 2012: Western Digital 5mm Hybrid Drives Seen”.
While in San Fransisco this week we bumped into OCZ and they showed us a new SATA III 6Gbps Solid-State Drive (SSD) called the called the Vector. The OCZ Vector will soon be replacing the Continue reading “OCZ Vector SSD Coming Soon – Indilinx Barefoot 3 Controller”.
Intel looks like they are encouraging the PC industry to move towards ultra-high resolution (UHD) displays at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) this year in San Francisco. WE were able to see a demonstration yesterday Continue reading “Intel Announces Ivy Bridge Processors Will Support 4K Resolution Displays This Year”.
Microsoft has designed Windows 8 for the diskless world, so it should not be much of a surprise that consumers will be able to install and operate in such environments. This could also help low cost systems as you could essentially boot and run Windows from external Flash drives. With Microsoft Windows 8 comes a new feature called Windows to Go and we get a chance to check it out with Kingston!
This morning Intel kicked off the corporations 15th Intel Developer Forum (IDF) with an opening keynote that was given by David Perlmutter. More than 4,500 attendees are expected from around the world this week to see what Intel is planning for the future. During this keynote Intel introduced the Haswell microarchitecture and even showed it running the Heaven DX11 benchmark utility!
AMD announced that the game title Far Cry 3 will be part of partnership for our AMD Gaming Evolved program. Far Cry 3 is a tropical survival shooter video game from Ubisoft Montreal and Massive Continue reading “Far Cry 3 Will Be Optimized for AMD Radeon Graphics Cards”.
NETGEAR today announced NETGEAR RAIDiator 5.3.6, a firmware update for NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo and NETGEAR ReadyNAS NV+ storage systems that enables users to access, manage and backup data in ways never before possible on a Continue reading “NETGEAR Launches ReadyDROP For ReadyNAS Storage Systems”.
EK Water Blocks plans to release a Full-Cover water block for the MSI N680GTX Lightning graphics card next month if all goes as planned. The upcoming EK-FC680 GTX Lightning (abbrevated as ‘LTG’) water block is Continue reading “MSI N680GTX Lightning Video Card Getting Full Coverage Waterblock”.
