OCZ Technology has announced their new ZS Power Supply series that offer consumers superior value for home desktops and gaming systems. Providing high efficiency, cool operation, and a compact case design, the ZS Series offers Continue reading “OCZ Technology Launches ZS Power Supply Series with 550W to 750W Models”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jul. 22, 2011 at 7:52am
BioWare a division of Electronic Arts announces three editions of Star Wars: The Old Republic. Which are called The Star Wars: The Old Republic Collectors Edition, Digital Deluxe Edition and Standard Edition each are custom Continue reading “EA Announces Special Edition of Star Wars: The Old Republic”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jul. 22, 2011 at 7:43am
ASUS has released the ROG Vulcan ANC, the world’s first active-noise-cancelling pro gaming headset designed to immerse users into games and keep them free of distractions like never before. Created from the needs of competitive Continue reading “ASUS Releases the ROG Vulcan ANC Pro Gaming Headset”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jul. 22, 2011 at 7:34am
The Western Digital Scorpio Black Series are known to be some of the fastest 7200 notebook hard drives that money can buy. The largest capacity drive in the Scorpio Black family is the 750GB drive that goes by model number WD7500BPKT. We take a look at this 750GB monster to see how this 7200 RPM drive with 16 MB of cache performs on the test bench and then in a notebook for some real world testing!
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jul. 22, 2011 at 12:00am
Western Digital today reported financial results for its fiscal year 2011 and fourth quarter ended Jul. 1, 2011. For the quarter, revenue totaled $2.4 billion, net income was $158 million, or $0.67 per share, and Continue reading “WD Announces Q4 Revenue of $2.4 Billion”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jul. 21, 2011 at 5:36pm
AMD today announced revenue for the second quarter of 2011 of $1.57 billion, net income of $61 million, or $0.08 per share, and operating income of $105 million. The company reported non-GAAP net income of Continue reading “AMD Reports Second Quarter Results – Revenue $1.57 billion”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jul. 21, 2011 at 5:32pm
SAPPHIRE just introduced a new motherboard developed to support the latest A-series Fusion APU family from AMD. The SAPPHIRE Pure Platinum A75 is a full ATX sized board making full use of the combined features Continue reading “Sapphire Announces PURE PLATINUM A75 Motherboard For AMD Fusion”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jul. 21, 2011 at 7:37am
Corsair just released the Enthusiast Series Modular line of power supplies with the announcement of four models. The new power supplies range in size from 550 Watts to 850 Watts and $109 to $169 in Continue reading “Corsair Announces Four New Enthusiast Series Modular Power Supplies”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jul. 21, 2011 at 7:02am
Today we are looking at the newest version of the True Spirit from Thermalright. The Thermalright True Spirit has four 6mm heatpipes and 48 aluminum fins to help keep your processor nice and cool. Join us as we put the updated cooler to the test on our Intel Core i7-930 test system and see how it stacks up against some of the best coolers we have tested.
By Shane Higgins •
Jul. 21, 2011 at 12:00am
Intel was expected to earn $0.51 per share for quarter ended Jun 11. Estimates from Wall Street analysts ranged from as low as $0.49 per share to as high as $0.59 per share. Intel announced Continue reading “Intel Blows Away Estimates – Fifth Straight Quarter of Record Revenue”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jul. 20, 2011 at 3:33pm
Wall Street expected hard-disk drive maker Seagate Technology Inc’s fiscal four-quarter earnings to slide down to 25 cents a share, but it looks like those experts were off today. Seagate announced this afternoon that the Continue reading “Seagate Ships 52 Million Drives, but Earnings Down Nearly 70%”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jul. 20, 2011 at 3:14pm
Jacob Freeman over at EVGA has posted up a picture of the companies upcoming Intel X79 Express (LGA2011) motherboard today. We all know the rumors about this board having quad-channel DDR3 memory, PCI Express 3.0 Continue reading “EVGA Shows Off Their LGA2011 X79 Motherboard For Sandy Bridge-EP”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jul. 20, 2011 at 1:18pm
OCZ Technology announced that in March 2011 that the company was acquiring Indilinix for $32 million. OCZ today unveiled their first Indilinx product since purchasing the company and that would be the new Everest SATA Continue reading “OCZ Unveils Indilinx Everest Series SATA 6Gbps SSD Controller”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jul. 20, 2011 at 1:02pm
T-Mobile today announced new Value plans, but after reading the press release twice it looks like they have announced metered plans! The press release states that the new Value plans offer single-line and multiline options Continue reading “T-Mobile Unveils New Unlimited Data Plans – They Really Mean Metered Plans”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jul. 20, 2011 at 11:10am
LaCie recently announced the latest addition to its family of award-winning Rugged hard drives with a new 7200RPM portable USB 3.0 hard drive drive called the Rugged Mini. Designed by Neil Poulton, the LaCie Rugged Continue reading “LaCie Announces Rugged Mini For Those That Abuse Hard Drives”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jul. 20, 2011 at 9:17am