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Razer CEO Trash Talks Other PC Makers While Professing his Love for Apple Designs

Posted 06/02/2013 at 11:05am | by Justin Kerr

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Min-Liang Tan likes to think he builds a Macbook for the Windows gaming community.

Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan has a history of being somewhat outspoken, and in a recent interview with The Verge he didn’t pull any punches when it came to the fumbles of his competitors. "We don't think the PC is dying. Rather, what's killing the PC industry isn't the PC itself, but PC makers.” Tan claims his company’s two year old lineup of Blade laptops is a shining example of the types of innovative products HP and Dell aren’t producing.

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Microsoft Critical of Samsung Galaxy S4's Price Compared to Nokia's Lumia 521

Posted 05/31/2013 at 10:18am | by Paul Lilly

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Is the Galaxy S4 worth the pricing premium?

Thinking about picking up Samsung's Galaxy S4 smartphone? Before you do, Microsoft wants you to consider the price. Off contract, a Galaxy S4 will set you back "a cool $750," compared to Nokia's Lumia 521, a Windows Phone 8 device that costs $150 off-contract. Oh yes, Microsoft went there, and then shot a YouTube video showing all the things you could purchase at a Microsoft Store with the money you saved.

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Nvidia Refreshes Mobile Graphics with GeForce GTX 700M Family

Posted 05/31/2013 at 9:19am | by Paul Lilly

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For gaming on the go.

Mobile gamers drooling over the launch of fast desktop parts like the GeForce GTX 780 and GTX 770 need not worry that they won't have anything new to play with in the notebook arena. Following the launch of the aforementioned desktop parts, team green this week introduced its GeForce GTX 700M series of laptop GPUs. There are four new mobile parts in all, each one based on Nvidia's Kepler architecture.

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Pixel Overload: Asus Announces 31.5-inch 4K Ultra HD (3,840 x 2,160) Monitor

Posted 05/31/2013 at 8:35am | by Paul Lilly

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Finally, another large screen monitor for PCs!

There are only a handful of 30-inch PC monitors to choose from, compared to, say, 24-inch panels, of which you could spend an entire weekend just researching all the different options. For that reason, we can't help but get a little excited when a display maker announces a new large screen monitor, only Asus didn't stop at 30 inches. The new PQ321 Asus unveiled is actually 31.5 inches, slightly larger than the competition.

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Acer Upgrades $199 Chromebook Model with Faster Storage

Posted 05/30/2013 at 9:29am | by Paul Lilly

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Be on the lookout for new Chromebook models.

Psst! Hey, you there. Yes, you, the one browsing Acer's C7 Chromebook. Which would you rather have, capacity or speed? Speed, you say? Well in that case, go ahead and take that Chromebook out of your shopping cart and head over to Best Buy. It's there that you'll find the first of several planned new models in Acer's C7 Chromebook line, including an upgraded version of the $199 model you were holding.

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AMD's Opteron X-Series Processors to Challenge Atom in Microserver Market

Posted 05/30/2013 at 8:34am | by Paul Lilly

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AMD makes a run at Atom.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) this week announced a new family of low power server processors optimized for scale-out server architectures. The Sunnyvale chip designer also attached a couple of interesting claims to its new Opteron X Series, formerly known as "Kyoto," the first of which is that these are the highest density, most power-efficient small core x86 processors ever built. The other claim has to do with how they compare to Intel's top Atom chip.

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Asus Teases Upgraded Supreme FX Audio on Z87 Maximus VI Formula Motherboard

Posted 05/29/2013 at 11:29am | by Paul Lilly

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The next evolution of SupremeFX is coming.

I found nestled in my inbox this morning a note from Asus saying it's getting ready to introduce an "even more advanced version of SupremeFX on the upcoming Formula" board built for Haswell. Along with the note, Asus attached a teaser photo marking the recent evolution of SupremeFX (versions III and IV), leaving the world to wonder what it has in store for the next release. Care to venture a guess?

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Powercolor Launches a Low Profile Radeon HD 7750 Video Card

Posted 05/29/2013 at 9:00am | by Paul Lilly

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Small but capable of driving up to four displays.

TUL Corporation's Powercolor division today announced what it claims is the first low profile Radeon HD 7750 graphics card capable of driving up to four displays via AMD's Eyefinity technology. Dubbed HD7750 Eyefinity 4 LP Edition, this low profile part can fit into slim cases and features four mini DisplayPort outputs to run 4x1 Landscape Display Group, 2x2 Landscape Display Group, and 3x1 Display Group Plus 1 Extended configurations.

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AMD Rumored to Launch Radeon HD 8000 Series in Third Quarter

Posted 05/29/2013 at 7:55am | by Paul Lilly

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Next generation video cards from AMD might be just around the corner.

The neat thing about the never ending GPU wars is that there's always something newer and faster on the horizon. AMD and Nvidia never have time to rest on their laurels, instead playing a constant game of leapfrog where the biggest winners are gamers. In keeping with that theme, a Chinese language website is reporting that AMD is gearing up to launch its Radeon HD 8000 Series of graphics cards sometime in the third quarter of this year.

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Adata Launches XPG V2 DRAM with Redesigned Heatspreaders

Posted 05/28/2013 at 11:03am | by Paul Lilly

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Funky or futuristic? You be the judge!

Adata is clearly making a fashion statement with the redesigned heatspreaders it slapped onto its new XPG V2 series of DRAM products designed for 3rd Generation Intel Core processors and the Z87 platform. Exactly which statement is up for debate. Some might view them as funky fresh, others might consider them fugly, but Adata says they were designed with a "futuristic form."

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