platimax will be showing off a ton of new products at COMPUTEX 2011 in Taipei, Taiwan this year and the company has issued a press release stating what the best products are. The first is Continue reading “ENERMAX Showing Off 80 Plus Platinum Power Supply At Computex”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
May 28, 2011 at 7:39am
Renesas Electronics recently announced that the cumulative total shipment of the company’s SuperSpeed Universal Serial Bus (USB 3.0) host controllers has reached 30 million units worldwide as of May 19, 2011. This achievement comes only Continue reading “Renesas Ramps Up Production of USB 3.0 Host Controllers”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
May 27, 2011 at 10:31am
When a new chipset or processor socket change comes people always moan about how they come so fast and that they are sick of paying for something that is always changing. Keeping that in mind, Continue reading “Intel X58 Replacement Coming in Q4 2011 – Called X79”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
May 27, 2011 at 9:33am
Assassins Creed Revelations is the sequel to the November 2010 game Assassins Creed: Brotherhood and the trailer that was released for it yesterday looks amazing. This game will take us out of the Vatican and Continue reading “Assassins Creed Revelations E3 Trailer Released – Game Due in November”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
May 27, 2011 at 9:19am
GIGABYTE today announced the new GIGABYTE Z68XP-UD3-iSSD motherboard based on the Intel Z68 Express chipset and pre-bundled with the 20GB Intel Solid-State Drive 311 Series. The included mSATA-based single level cell (SLC) solid-state drive (SSD), Continue reading “Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3-iSSD Motherboard Comes w/ 20GB Intel 311 SSD”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
May 27, 2011 at 9:09am
AMD released CATALYST 11.5b hotfix drivers on May 25th, so if you haven’t downloaded them yet you might want to think about them. The main update in this new hotfix is for an issue in Continue reading “AMD Catalyst 11.5b Hotfix Drivers Released”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
May 27, 2011 at 8:00am
Futuremark has released a teaser trailer to share that offers a glimpse at three unannounced games currently in development at Futuremark Games Studio. Nothing else is known, but they did say that we should tag Continue reading “Futuremark Working on Three New Game Titles for PC, XBLA and iOS”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
May 27, 2011 at 7:43am
Before everyone takes off for the holiday weekend be sure to take notice that the QuakeCon 2011 online pre-registration for attendees and press is set to open today, May 26th at 7:00pm CST/8:00pm EST! While Continue reading “QuakeCon 2011 Online Pre-Registration Opens Today”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
May 26, 2011 at 3:38pm
NVIDIA just sent us an e-mail letting us know that they have announced a special sweepstakes that will send a lucky gamer to the launch of Duke Nukem Forever! NVIDIA will be giving one lucky Continue reading “Win A VIP Trip To The Duke Nukem Launch Party in Dallas on June 11th”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
May 26, 2011 at 3:11pm
Corsair today announced the production of a Dominator GTX 8GB dual-channel DDR3 kit guaranteed to operate at 2400MHz, with latency settings of 9-11-10-30, at a memory voltage of 1.65V. Corsair says that the 2400MHz kits Continue reading “Corsair Releases Dominator GTX 2x4GB 2400MHz CL9 DDR3 Memory – World’s Fastest”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
May 26, 2011 at 6:38am
NVIDIA today announced that YouTube is for the first time giving users the ability to view thousands of 3D videos in rich, high-quality stereoscopic 3D on their NVIDIA 3D Vision PCs and notebooks when using Continue reading “NVIDIA 3D Vision Video Now Available on YouTube w/ HTML5”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
May 26, 2011 at 6:24am
Enermax has a new 80 Plus Gold rated power supply series that called MaxRevo with models available at 1200, 1350 and 1500 Watts. MaxRevo incorporates the Copper-Bridge Array transmission technology to replace traditional wires, which Continue reading “Enermax Announces MaxRevo Power Supply Series”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
May 25, 2011 at 9:46pm
Parents in Ashburnham, Massachusetts are questioning a school proposal to buy 150 new Apple iPads for children in kindergarten. The idea is for the school district to purchase 150 iPads for children to use in Continue reading “Apple iPads To Be Given To Kindergarten Students”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
May 25, 2011 at 4:27pm
Did you know that today is Geek Pride Day? Today was declared Geek Pride Day to commemorate the release of the first Star Wars film on May 25th, 1977. But this day wasnt officially acknowledged Continue reading “Happy Geek Pride Day!”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
May 25, 2011 at 4:20pm
Another leaked AMD roadmap has been posted on DonanimHaber that details the upcoming Bulldozer based Zambezi-FX processors coming out later this year. We don’t know if this slide is real or not, but if it Continue reading “AMD Bulldozer Zambezi-FX Processor Roadmap Leaked”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
May 25, 2011 at 10:57am