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First Look at castAR Augmented Reality Gaming Glasses at PAX
CastAR, formerly Technical Illusions, recently got a big boost in the form of a 15-million dollar venture capital investment. The company plans to use that money to deliver on promises to their...
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Big Data Mining in Call of Duty – Using Data to Improve Games
Activision allowed two of their most credentialed employees to host a PAX ’15 panel on the role users play in game development. PhDs Justin Shacklette and Spencer Stirling spent nearly an hour...
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Be Quiet!'s Updated PSU Lineup & Hopes for Liquid Cooling
Be Quiet! has been in the air cooling and power supply business for more than a decade, dating back to a 2002 origin. At CES 2016, the German company didn't have any ground-breaking new technology or...
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Hands-On: NZXT Revisits 'Vulcan' Territory with New Mini-ITX Case
NZXT's latest case has unique side panels that are convexly curved and stamped from steel, a tooling process we discussed with Corsair earlier in the CES 2016 show. At NZXT's case unveil, we got a...
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Intel's 'Jetpack:' A Mobile, Almost Wireless HTC Vive Backpack
Intel has plenty of floor presence at CES – building-sized booths, et al. – but the most interesting thing they brought to CES may have been in a separate demo suite. The suite was loaded with the...
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Kingston UV400 SSD & New PCIe SSD Coming to US
Two new SSDs piqued our interest from Kingston Technology at this year's CES: the Kingston UV400 and unnamed PCIe HyperX SSD. The second drive comes from the gaming side of the company – badged under...
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Artful Case Mods at Thermaltake's CES Suite (And New W Series Cases)
Thermaltake greeted us this year with a steel tank packing two mini-guns. It was the winner of the X9 modding competition and was created by Jesse Palacia, a case modder prolific in the Dirty South PC...
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Phanteks Project 916 Massive Case Hands-On, Eclipse P400, & New Evolv
Phanteks introduced several new products at CES 2016, additionally implementing a few variations on existing cases. The new gear included a large addition to the Enthoo Primo line-up, a new series of...
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Rosewill Gungnir & Nighthawk 117 Case Specs at CES
Rosewill had a subtle offering at CES 2016. The case & power manufacturer brought along its recently released full-tower, the Nighthawk 117, and announced the release of a new mid-tower case, the...
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Plextor MP8e NVMe SSD Pushes 2.2GB/s, M7V Fights for Gaming Market
Plextor has been making SSDs since 2008, but their presence in the PC gaming market is nearly unrecognized. They are the third-largest OEM SSD manufacturer behind only Samsung and SanDisk, and...
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Unreleased Gigabyte Motherboards at PAX East - Broadwell-E Incoming
Gigabyte pleasantly surprised us at PAX East 2016 with a small set of unreleased motherboards. These boards will likely surface about the time that Broadwell-E is released – keep an eye out over the...
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Unreleased GTX 960 OC Card & OCZ RD400 NVMe SSD at PAX East
PAX is always surprisingly full of PC gaming hardware, and we’ve run across a couple more items that aren’t yet available – but will be soon. PNY brought the newest addition to their red-and-black...
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Seven: The Days Long Gone is Seriously Worth a Look - PAX Gameplay Preview
The freshman effort from studio Fool’s Theory looks promising. A small group of seasoned game developers that comprise the studio has been together now for about a year – including former CD Projekt...
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Broadwell-E: Buy or Wait? i7-6950X vs. i7-5960X Speculation
To Broadwell-E or not to Broadwell-E. That is the question! If you're an enthusiast and that Nehalem or Sandy Bridge setup you built years ago is ready for a replacement, you might be considering an...
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Newegg Allegedly Purchased for $2.63 Billion by Hangzhao Liaison Interactive
Retail powerhouse Newegg is allegedly now majority-owned by Hangzhao Liaison Interactive Information Technology Co., Ltd, heretofore known as Over-compensator, Inc. UDN reports that the company with...
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Enermax Saberay Case, PSU Sleeving, & MaxTytan | CES 2017
Enermax , known for PSUs, cases, and CPU coolers, brought a mix of their products to Gigabyte’s suite at this year’s CES 2017. Most notably, their PSU line will add some variations on old units,...
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What Are Intel’s Optane and 3D XPoint Technologies?
Optane is Intel’s latest memory technology. The long-term goal for Optane is for it to be used as a supplemental system memory, caching storage, and primary storage inside PCs. Intel claims that Optane...
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Deepcool EarlKase, BaronKase, Quad Stellar, and Ark 90 | CES 2017
Deepcool has made their mark on the PC hardware industry by including liquid cooling solutions in their cases. Deepcool’s Genome cases had a helical reservoir built into the front of the case. At CES...
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Razer's Challenging Pursuit of the Core + Ultrabook
At CES 2016, Razer introduced what they touted as the long-awaited solution for laptop users that wanted desktop power gaming: the Razer Blade Stealth and the Razer Core. Razer promised UltraBook...
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Intel Optane DC P4800X SSD & Consumer 3D Crosspoint
Intel’s latest memory technology has big aspirations. It has the ability to one day unify the DRAM and non-volatile memory structure, but we’re not there yet. Today, we get the Data Center Optane SSD...
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