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AVADirect Pimps Workstation PC with Dual Xeon E5 CPUs and 512GB RAM

Posted 04/15/2013 at 11:11am | by Paul Lilly

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The latest workstation from AVADirect is packing some serious horsepower.

AVADirect, a boutique system builder based in Ohio, sent word to us today that it's now offering a new workstation build configurable with up to two Xeon E5 eight-core processors and a whopping 512GB of RAM installed into 16 DIMM slots. At the heart of this monster system is the Asus Z9PE-D16/2L motherboard with optional SAS interfaces (using Asus PIKE RAID cards) and fan speed control.

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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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Asus Starts Shipping 13.3-inch Dual-Display Taichi

Posted 04/15/2013 at 9:22am | by Paul Lilly

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The Asus Taichi 31 sports two 13.3-inch screens.

After an initial delay pushed the release of the Asus Taichi 31 Ultrabook back several months in the U.S., we were beginning to wonder if the 13.3-inch SKU would ever see the light of the day. We can all stop twiddling our thumbs as Asus said it has finally begun shipping the dual-display Ultrabook stateside. That's great news if you've been jonesing for a Windows 8 Ultrabook with two 13.3-inch panels.

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Origin PC Offers Tax Day Discounts on Desktops and Laptops

Posted 04/15/2013 at 9:01am | by Paul Lilly

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For a limited time, Origin PC is offering free shipping and other money-saving incentives.

Today is Uncle Sam's favorite day because it's the deadline to file individual tax returns, though depending on what deductions you had taken out throughout the year, you may be owed a refund. Whatever the case may be, boutique builder Origin PC is offering some tax day incentives to purchase a new rig, giving you an opportunity to spend your refund guilt free, or give you a head start on next year's tax write offs (after all, your business is due for a new PC, right?).

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Blackberry Claims Analyst Reports Citing Abnormally High Z10 Return Rates Are “Absolutely False”

Posted 04/14/2013 at 7:42pm | by Justin Kerr

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Blackberry isn’t ready to talk sales numbers just yet, but is fighting back against negative analyst reports.

It has become fashionable over the years to dump on Blackberry, and for once, the company isn’t going to let it slide. Late last week analysts from Detweiler Fenton and ITG released reports citing poor sales of Blackberry’s new Z10 flagship handset, and one even went so far as to insinuate that returns are outstripping sales in several markets. Rumors like that tend to mess with stock prices, so the company wants to set the record straight.

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Diamond Releases New USB Powered External Display Adapters

Posted 04/14/2013 at 7:03pm | by Justin Kerr

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Need to drive six displays off one notebook?

Desktop machines typically come with two or more display outputs right out of the box, but as the world becomes increasingly mobile, finding a way to plug in your extra display’s when using a notebook has always been a challenge. Sometime even if you’re fortunate enough to have a laptop with more than one output, they don’t all work at once. Thankfully Diamond has been hard at work on the problem, and late last week they let us know that their new lineup of USB powered display adapters are ready to ship.

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IHS iSuppli: No More Netbooks Beyond 2015

Posted 04/12/2013 at 11:40am | by Paul Lilly

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The once popular netbook is now on the verge of extinction.

Say goodbye to the netbook as you know it. In a couple of years, netbooks will virtually disappear from the market place, becoming the first true casualty of the tablet era. Even today there really isn't much of a market for netbooks, a category that was at the height of its popularity just three short years ago. In 2010, it seemed like OEMs were lining our inboxes with new netbooks announcements on a daily basis.

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Creative Sound Blaster ZxR Review

Posted 04/11/2013 at 2:00pm | by Gordon Mah Ung

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The sound card is back—but does your PC need one anymore?

If you think of your PC as a lifeboat full of components floating in the Atlantic Ocean after one of those ARM-based subs put two fish into the side of the PC’s troop transport, you can better understand the plight of the sound card.

Note: This review originally appeared in the February 2013 issue of the magazine.

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Your Phablet Looks Small Next to Samsung's Galaxy Mega

Posted 04/11/2013 at 11:38am | by Paul Lilly

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Samsung's Galaxy Mega stretches the boundaries of phablet design.

You better have big pockets if you have any notion of treating Samsung's Galaxy Mega device as a smartphone. It's actually a phablet -- a phone and tablet hybrid -- though even in that category, the Galaxy Mega stands out because of its massive 6.3-inch HD display. That's not a typo; the Galaxy Mega's display is 6.3 inches, or just over half-an-inch smaller than a Nexus 7 or Kindle Fire HD.

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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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