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Top Deal: Go big, go fast, and go cheap! That’s the holy trinity of storage, and usually you can have any two of the three. But every so often, the stars align just right, allowing you to have it all! Need proof? Check out today’s top deal for a Mushkin Enhanced Eco2 480GB SSD for…
Sneak peek at performance When Nvidia unveiled its GeForce Titan X graphics card at the 2015 Game Developers Conference (GDC) last week, company CEO Jen-Hsun Huang revealed almost nothing about the part, other than to say it has 12GB of onboard memory and 8 billion transistors. There was no mention of other specs, let alone…
A dual headed monitor We don’t need to preach the benefits of a dual-monitor setup to power users — chances are you already know. The downside, of course, is the amount of desk space you have to give up for a multi-monitor setup. That’s what makes the Philips Two-in-One display so clever. It’s supposedly the…
A steaming pile of awesome With all of the talk about VR, and with the Valve/HTC Vive system in particular taking the spotlight at GDC, it was easy to miss the several big Steam Machine reveals that Valve made at the show. The company invited us into its booth to take a look at the…
Top Deal: Storage has always been one of the major bottlenecks of system performance. But then came 7,200 RPM hard drives with large cache buffers, and then Western Digital’s Raptor, which kicked things up to 10,000 RPM! They served their purpose, but if you still using a mechanical hard drive, do yourself a favor and…
A little gaming bribery never hurt anyone After the fiasco with Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 970 graphics card and the way it handles the last .5GB of its onboard 4GB of memory, Nvidia could use a bit of positive press. One of the best ways to do that is to dangle something shiney in front of…
Low cost board for overclockers Biostar this week released its TA970 Plus motherboard, its latest AMD socket AM3+ offering with AMD OverDrive and a feature called ACC (Advanced Clock Calibration), which is supposed to help with overclocking efforts. Built around AMD’s 970 chipset, the board supports AMD six-core and eight-core socket AM3 processors, including the…
May require a BIOS update Rumor has it Intel will finally release its 14nm Broadwell desktop processors in the middle of next quarter (think somewhere around mid-May), so you still have some time to prepare for an upgrade or overhaul, if going that route. Wondering if your motherboard will support Broadwell? At least one company…
A bittersweet victory? You would think that after the Federal Communications Commission reclassified the Internet as a utility under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934 that Netflix would be all smiles, giving the implications it has on imposing net neutrality rules. And sure enough, Netflix is putting its happy face on, but the…
Top Deal: Squish, squish, squish, backspace, backspace, squish, squish, squish — “Dammit!” Backspace, squish, squish, squish, “Ugh!” Sound familiar? That’s what it can be like typing on a crappy membrane keyboard. You fingers deserve better. And they can have it, in the form of mechanical key switches. Are you a fan of Cherry MX Blue…