There are times when having a bit more performance is better. Actually, who are we kidding? Having more performance is always better. In the case of networking, this is especially true. You can never have enough bandwidth. There will be some, though, who argue that x number of megabits or gigabits per second is “more…

Top Deal: Congratulations, you recognized the importance of backing up your data and picked up a NAS box! It sure is pretty, isn’t it? Look at it sitting there, just dutifully waiting to do the one thing it was born to do, which is archive your data. There’s only one small problem — it can’t…

Intel’s most powerful SSD line yet The key to offering increasingly fast solid state drive options has been tapping into the power of the NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) interface. Samsung did it with its gum-stick sized 950 Pro SSDs announced yesterday, and Intel continues to do it, this time with its new DC P3608 Series….

Best gaming experience for Killing Floor 2 Nvidia has a new WHQL-certified driver available for users running GeForce brand graphics, version 355.98. According to Nvidia, this is the driver you want if you plan to play Killing Floor 2. “This new GeForce Game Ready driver ensures you’ll have the best possible gaming experience in Killing…

A colorful rodent If you followed our coverage from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this year, then you might recall G.Skill’s MX780 RGB gaming mouse. G.Skill showed it off alongside several other gaming gear and we just received word today that it’s now available to purchase. The MX780 RGB has a cyborg…

Keeping your cool in court Asetek, a CPU and GPU cooling company, has won another legal victory against Cooler Master’s CMI subsidiary. It’s the second win for Asetek in less than two years. A bit of background information is in order. Back in January 2013, Asetek filed a lawsuit against CMI USA, a subsidiary of…

Don’t call it Chromebook 3 Toshiba is adding new hardware to its Chromebook 2 laptop, though not so much that it would warrant calling it Chromebook 3. More specifically, the Chromebook 2 is getting 5th Generation Intel Core i3 and Celeron processor options, otherwise known as Broadwell, and an all-new LED backlit keyboard. The Chromebook…

Getting acclimated to a new Office In what could be the most important update ever to Microsoft’s popular productivity suite, Office 2016 for Windows is now available, Microsoft announced on Tuesday. The new Office suite puts a much bigger emphasis on collaboration than ever before. One of the key ways it does that is through…

Just how fast is that SSD? Every now and again, resetting the benchmark charts is necessary. Now is such a time, for several reasons. First, we have a new testbed (Skylake) that enables potentially higher performance, particularly for M.2 PCIe drives. Second, some of the benchmarks we were using have gotten a bit long in…