Sapphire gives its new flagship graphics card 6 GB of very fast memory, compared to the mere 3 GB on AMD’s reference card. Does this give Sapphire’s Toxic HD 7970 GHz Edition a real-world speed boost? We connect it to an epic six-screen array to find o…
ASRock X79 Extreme11 Review: PCIe 3.0 x16/x16/x16/x16 and LSI 8-Way SAS/SATA
The end of summer marks the start of the X79 refresh line. We are, at best estimates, coming up to half-way in the Sandy Bridge-E life as the top of the line processor range before Ivy Bridge-E comes to market. Both chips will be expected …
PAX Prime 2012: Oculus Rift VR Headset Hands-on
Taking VR head tracking to the next level.
Promise Pegasus J2 Review: The Smallest High Performance Thunderbolt Drive
Promise was the first to get us a Thunderbolt chassis with the Pegasus R4/R6. Not only was the Pegasus the first shipping Thunderbolt storage chassis, but it continues to be among the fastest on the market. If you've never seen one, the Pegasus R4…
OCZ Agility 4 (256GB) Review
For the last few years, OCZ's consumer SSD lineup has primarily consisted of two models: Vertex and Agility. The history of these two goes all the way back to 2009 when OCZ realized that they can differentiate their SSDs by equipping them with dif…
Fall Budget System Buyer’s Guide
Most of the systems I build for friends and clients are destined to spend their days performing basic computing tasks like checking email and Facebook accounts, shopping for shoes and such, word processing, household finance spreadsheet analysis, Skyp…
Keyview-Smartype Keyboard Designed to Avoid Neckpain
How much innovation room is there left in the good old keyboard?
Asetek Takes CoolIT to Court Over Allegations of Patent Infringement
Cooler manufacturer Asetek is taking its competition to court over allegations of infringing upon patents it was recently granted. “Asetek is an innovation company by DNA,” said André Sloth Eriksen, Founder and CEO of Asetek, in a statement. “These patents, some of which have priority back to 2003, spring out of our rich PC enthusiast […]
Google Optimizes Screen Power by Reducing Image Sizes
Turning off pixels you don’t need can save substantial power consumed by an OLED display.
GTX 660 Ti Roundup (ASUS, EVGA, Gigabyte, Galaxy, MSI)
With the newly-released GTX 660 Ti making inroads within the GPU market, we have decided to look at five competing cards from NVIDIA’s top board partners. ASUS, MSI, Galaxy, Gigabyte and MSI have all sent cards but once the dust settles, only o…