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CPUBoss Creators Launch SSDBoss for Storage Shoppers

Posted 04/23/2013 at 7:45am | by Paul Lilly

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A quick and easy way to compare solid state drives.

The same people who brought you CPUBoss and GPUBoss have now launched a similar comparison website for solid state drives. SSDBoss.com is nearly identical in form and function to the other two sites, offering storage shoppers an easy way to compare the performance and value of different SSDs. You can also look up full spec comparisons of various drives, all under the hood of a single site.

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Nvidia Reportedly Prepping GTX Titan Ultra and Titan LE SKUs

Posted 04/23/2013 at 12:38am | by Pulkit Chandna

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Not one, but two new Titans said to be in the works

With AMD’s answer to the the $1,000 Nvidia GTX Titan scheduled to hit the market later this week, you need something special to prevent AMD’s upcoming dual-chip beast, the Radeon HD 7990 “Malta”, from hogging each and every ray of the spotlight that the tech media has reserved for graphics cards. The two-month-old GTX Titan has managed to do just that thanks to rumors that it is about to be turned into a mini graphics card brand.

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Adata Launches a DDR3 2600MHz Memory Kit, Tells Games 'Come Get Some'

Posted 04/22/2013 at 8:22am | by Paul Lilly

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Adata may be targeting the wrong audience.

The folks at Adata announced an insanely fast DDR3 memory kit that can hit speeds up to 2600MHz, though it's interesting the company is taking aim at gamers instead of overclockers. It's true that PC gamers have a played a pivotal role in driving demand for increasingly faster components, but it seems to us this is the kind of kit a professional overclocker would have more interest in.

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Nvidia's May Launch GeForce 700 Series GPUs at Computex 2013

Posted 04/15/2013 at 10:52am | by Paul Lilly

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New graphics cards from Nvidia could be set for a summer debut.

Summer is just around the corner, and with it is the Computex computer expo in Taipei, Taiwan. Are you wondering what the event will introduce to the computing world? So are we, and word on the web is that Nvidia is planning to launch its next generation desktop GeForce 700 Series graphics cards at Computex. In addition to pushing the performance envelope, the GeForce 700 Series is said to be in response to AMD's aggressive game bundles.

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PowerColor Shows Off Passive Radeon HD 7850 Graphics Card

Posted 04/11/2013 at 10:54am | by Paul Lilly

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A passively cooled Radeon HD 7850 could be the centerpiece of a home theater PC (HTPC).

If you go poking around Facebook long enough, you're apt to run into teaser shots of unreleased products just like we did. Over on one of PowerColor's pages (the company has several), we spied a couple of photos of a passively cooled Radeon HD 7850 graphics card (SCS3), which to the best of our knowledge hasn't been done before. PowerColor didn't post any accompanying specs, though we suspect it will stick with the reference design.

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Intel Starts Shipping Haswell Chips, Minor USB Bug Affects Chipset

Posted 04/08/2013 at 12:48pm | by Paul Lilly

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Haswell is one step closer to its retail launch.

Intel has reportedly begun shipping its next generation Haswell parts to PC builders in preparation for a launch later this quarter. Right now you can file that tidbit under "R" for "Rumor," though the Santa Clara chip maker is expected to announce its fourth generation Core processor line at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in Beijing next week. That's the good news. And the bad?

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Mushkin Now Shipping 1.8-inch Chronos Go Deluxe Solid State Drives

Posted 04/08/2013 at 8:22am | by Paul Lilly

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A compact drive with full size performance.

Mushkin is now serving up its new 1.8-inch Chronos Go SATA 6Gbps solid state drives, or so the company says. The only place we could find the new drives for sale is on Ebay, as we lucked out in our search at the usual online suspects, and even at a few unusual corners. Be that as it may, the new line is supposed to be available in 120GB, 240GB, and 480GB capacities, each one built around the 1.8-inch form factor as opposed to 2.5 inches.

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Asus Shows Off Rampage IV Extreme Black Motherboard

Posted 04/05/2013 at 9:46am | by Paul Lilly

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See every shot in our photo gallery below.

What better way is there to head into the weekend than by spying a few shots of a swank blacked out motherboard that's to be used for some secret project? If you feel the same way, then give kudos to Asus for supplying a bunch of pictures of its Rampage IV Extreme - Black motherboard, which we've placed into a photo gallery for your convenience. So, what do we know about this motherboard?

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Enermax Adds Coenus Case to Mid-Tower Lineup

Posted 04/04/2013 at 9:28am | by Paul Lilly

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Enermax named its sci-fi looking case after a Greek general.

Coenus is remembered as a faithful and fearless general of Alexander the Great, and nearly 1,700 years later, he finally has a computer case named after him. Would he approve of Enermax's namesake chassis? That's something we'll let the scholars debate, but as far as we're concerned, the latest mid-tower from Enermax looks like a solid option on paper (we haven't played with one in person), provided you're a fan of the aggressive aesthetics.

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Costly DRAM is Driving Up Graphics Card Prices

Posted 04/03/2013 at 11:48am | by Paul Lilly

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Even with prices going up, it's still a great time to be a PC gamer.

Are you planning to build a gaming PC for the summer? If so, you might want to get started early in order to get the most bang for your buck. Yesterday we told you that desktop DRAM pricing is on the rise as contract chip prices have already jumped 50 percent in 2013, spiking 20 percent in March alone, and now we're hearing that graphics cards are getting more expensive.

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