Activision has released their Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 box art images! In this brand new trailer, we see how war has ignited across the globe for World War 3. You might have already Continue reading “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Box Art Released”.
Our readers have asked numerous times if we could take a longer term look at an SSD to see how the performance fares over time. We thought the Samsung drive would as good a guinea pig as any. Measurements on a few benchmarks were taken over the course of three months and compared against scores on a fresh drive. General perception is that a noticeable performance loss occurs. Are they right? Read on to see.
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”.
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”.
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”.
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”.
In Win Dragon Rider Full Tower Chassis Review @ eTeknix.com and other reviews from around the web can be found by visiting our forums! In Win and their products have featured here at eTeknix only Continue reading “May 27, 2011 News from Around the Web”.
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”.
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”.
The BUC from In-Win is a great little PC case with simple styling and features that make installation nearly effortless. Carrying a price tag under $100 we found that features like hot-swap drive bays an SuperSpeed USB 3.0 make this case one that is hard to ignore when shopping for budget gaming cases. Other features make the BUC a joy to use, so read on to see what the In Win BUC is all about!
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”.
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”.
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”.
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”.
PQI has harnessed the power of the trusty SandForce SF-1200 controller with their line of S535 drives. In an already crowded SATA 3Gbps SSD market, have they managed to eke out more performance to make the drives stand out from their peers? PQI says this drive will reach 250MB/s in both read and write tests in the ATTO Benchmark, so we’ll have a look to see how it performs on our test system to see if we can also hit those numbers.
