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EVGA Introduces GeForce GTX 780 with New ACX Cooler

Rob Williams — Fri, 24 May 2013 12:45:39 +0000

Prior to the launch of NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 780, we didn’t expect any vendor to launch right away with a special model, but EVGA has managed to surprise us. It’s not only announced multiple versions of the GTX 780, but has equipped some with its brand-new cooler, dubbed ACX. Thanks to the ACX’s “40% increase [...]

Enermax Launches Five New Fan Models

J.D. Kane — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:00:31 +0000

Enermax is introducing five new fan models that feature a new patented fan speed control technology and encompass two different series. Under the Twister Advance Series are the Cluster Advance, Everest Advance, and Magma Advance fans; under the New Vegas LED Series will debut the T.B. Vegas Quad and T.B. Vegas fans. Essentially, the new models [...]

Xbox One Follow-up: Always-on, Achievements & Used Games

Rob Williams — Wed, 22 May 2013 13:30:52 +0000

With the dust having settled from yesterday’s launch of Microsoft’s Xbox One, I thought I’d follow up on our initial post to talk about a couple of other things that didn’t immediately catch our eye; three in particular. These include some findings regarding persistent connection, how achievements work, and also whether or not selling used games [...]

Ultimate Ears’ UE BOOM the First ‘Social Music Player’

Rob Williams — Wed, 22 May 2013 12:45:17 +0000

With its just-announced “UE BOOM”, Ultimate Ears has delivered what it calls the “World’s First Social Music Player”. To call the product a “music player” is a bit inaccurate, however, at least according to common interpretations of the term. Instead, it’s a wireless speaker – one that happens to have a lot of functionality built-in. To push [...]

Microsoft Reveals the Xbox One, Aims for Complete Media Integration

Rob Williams — Tue, 21 May 2013 18:54:09 +0000

As expected, Microsoft today announced the third major iteration of its Xbox lineup, which it calls Xbox One. To say that there’s a lot to talk about would be putting it mildly, so let’s waste no time with fluff. First, the tech specs. It’s long been rumored that AMD would be handling the CPU and [...]

NVIDIA’s Tegra 4i Might Not be Out Yet, But it Just Became 50% Faster

Rob Williams — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:20:39 +0000

Announced in February, NVIDIA’s Tegra 4i sets out to be the company’s ‘fast and frugal’ SoC offering. Compared to its bigger brother, Tegra 4, it lobs off 12 GPU cores to sit at 60, and adds in an integrated i500 LTE modem. Aside from these changes, both chips are essentially the same – we’d just [...]

AMD Plucks Marketing Manager Sean Pelletier from NVIDIA’s Crew

Rob Williams — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:51:15 +0000

AMD has been having a rough couple of years. Or, depending on who you ask, it’s been having a rough time ever since it acquired ATI – or even earlier. But in reality, acquiring ATI is one of the best decisions it’s made, as while the company’s CPUs are not as competitive as it’d like, [...]

GELID Releases Rev. 2 GX-7 CPU Cooler, Features Stacked Heatpipes

Ryan Perry — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:40:00 +0000

GELID Solutions, a company long known for it’s aftermarket GPU coolers, fans, and other cooling related bits and pieces, has announced the release of its Rev. 2 GX-7 CPU cooler. Like the original GX-7, this 159mm tall tower-style cooler has 7 nickel plated heatpipes, two of which are stacked on top of the first row of [...]

Futuremark Announces PCMark 8 – Includes Battery Tests and Native App Benchmarks

Rob Williams — Mon, 20 May 2013 16:52:52 +0000

With its latest 3DMark iteration, Futuremark released its most ambitious project to date. For the first time ever, 3DMark became cross-platform, giving users the ability to benchmark smartphones, tablets, notebooks and of course, regular desktop PCs, and then be able to compare the scores accurately between them. That’s impressive, to say the least, but as [...]