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ASUS B85M-GAMER – The Poor Man’s ROG Gaming Motherboard

Although PC Gaming is definitely where it's at, the cost to get into the game, can sometimes be cost prohibitive. That's why we're pleased to see ASUS bringing gaming features and a bit of their ROG styling d... Continued

Seagate Thunderbolt Drives Are No More

Thunderbolt (formerly known as Lightpeak before Apple "reinvented" it) is an interesting technology that does all sorts of things that USB 3.0 doesn't do. For starters, it has a whole ton more bandwidth, it's... Continued

Less Than Five Percent Return Rate in Response to GTX 970 “Memory-Gate”

You may recall that a few days ago, we reported on an issue regarding the advertised memory onboard NVIDIA GTX 970 GPUs. In a nutshell, the memory advertised was 4GBs, but only 3.5GBs on it ran at full speed.... Continued

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The Apple Crumbles as TUAW Says Goodbye Along With Joystiq

The folks on the Mac side of the fence have been heralding the death of the PC for years. But when one of their largest mouthpieces takes a turn (over) for the worst, you have to wonder who's still drinking the... Continued

Is the LAN Party Really Dying?

I just read a piece from Polygon about the demise of the beloved LAN party. The writer, Ben Kuchera, makes some good points, that I think, are worth hearing. In a nutshell, he thinks the deck is stacked again... Continued

The AMD vs NVIDIA Battle Reignited Over GeForce GTX 970 Memory-Gate

If you haven't already heard, NVIDIA has been under fire over the amount of usable memory on their GeForce GTX 970 GPUs which advertise 4GBs onboard. However, if you use more than 3.5GBs of memory, you'll see... Continued

MacBook Pro Who? The 2015 Dell Precision M3800 Mobile Workstation Pushes For the Creative Crown

When Dell launched the original slim and sexy M3800 workstation notebook back in late 2013, many people were excited. Especially those of us that have to share elbow room with those "creative types" at the co... Continued

The ASUS Strix GTX 960 is Hitting the Shelves Soon

The ASUS Strix brand is a bit of an interesting bird, that is sandwiched between their regular channel products, and their top end Republic of Gamers (ROG) products. They've positioned it as sort of a non-twe... Continued

ZOTAC GeForce GTX 960 GPUs Hit The Stores in Two Flavours

ZOTAC was pretty tight lipped about their plans for the new GTX 960 during our CES 2015 meeting. But despite leaks from other companies trying to get a jump on the announcement (cough...MSI...cough), ZOTAC de... Continued

CES 2015 Coverage – Seagate Shows Ultra-Thin SEVEN, LaCie Rugged RAID, and Mirror USB Hard Drives (Video)

Seagate was once again showing off some new products for CES 2015. This year is a little special because 2015 marks the company's 35th anniversary. In celebration of that, the company launched a new "evolutio... Continued

CES 2015 Coverage – GIGABYTE Shows X99 SOC Champion Motherboard, New BRIX S, and the Aorus X5 Gaming Notebook (Video)

GIGABYTE continues to soldier on as the number one motherboard maker on occasion, with stiff competition from ASUS. And like ASUS, GIGABYTE has continued to branch out into different product categories. At CE... Continued

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