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MSI rolls out first USB 3.1 motherboards for AMD and Intel platforms
MSI released 14 motherboards with the newly available USB 3.1 ports, out of which one of them also has a Type-C port. It also should be pointed that there are a couple of AMD AM3+ variants- 990FXA...
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Intel preparing ‘Ice Lake’ CPUs for 2017, ‘Kaby Lake’ for 2016
Intel ‘Cannonlake’ architecture processors were supposed to be the successor of the upcoming ‘Sky Lake’ processors with LGA 1151 package, but things seem to have changed. Intel will be introducing...
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Intel i7-6700K reviews leak, 29% more performance than Core i7 4790K
Intel may not be happy about it, but potential early adopters will be happy to know that the Sky Lake Core i7-6700K processor will be producing up to 29.1% more performance than its predecessor the...
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Intel to reveal i5-6600K and i7-6700K Skylake S CPUs on August 5th
Sources indicated that Intel will be revealing two of its Skylake S processors on August 5th. The Core i5-6600k and the Core i7-6700K along with Intel Z710 chipset motherboards would be showcased...
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AMD unable to have enough R9 Fury yield rates for its partners
AMD cannot catch a break for a while now. Before the launch of the Radeon 3xx and Radeon Fury X, news reports indicated that they were giving preference to cards who are ‘positive’ towards them. Of...
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New Zealand customs rips apart a Gigabyte G1 Assassin 2 motherboard
When certain desktop motherboard started making gaming motherboards using designs of bullets, guns and even miniguns, I wondered how difficult it would be to clear customs, especially if you are...
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Case Labs issues an apology for accusing Thermaltake
Earlier it was reported that Case Labs accused Thermaltake (especially Shannon Robb) for ripping-off case designs and also posted a lot of information about interaction between Kevin Keating, the Vice...
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AMD to launch Radeon R9 Nano by August
The small form factor graphic card Radeon R9 Nano will be releasing in August though AMD didn’t give away any specifications. So far, it is known that the GPU is based on Fiji core whose full version...
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SoundMAGIC launches a new set of audio hardware
SoundMAGIC released three earphones- the E50, E50S, E80 and the other headset the BT20. The E50 and the E50S uses aluminum housing with 10mm dynamic drivers, with the S variant comes with a...
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SanDisk releases next gen portable SSDs Extreme 900 and Extreme 500
To keep up with the times, SanDisk release two portable SSDs that should peek an interest of some people. The Extreme 500 is a SSD-based external drive that allows transfer speed up to 415MB/s. The...
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AMD creates ‘Radeon Technologies’ business unit
For a very long time, AMD’s presence in the DIY PC and server market share fell down much quicker than the apple falling from a free. The company did a lot of shuffling from time to time- from...
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Lenovo launches Y700 Gaming Notebook for 1.25 Lakhs
Lenovo launched a new gaming notebook lineup called the Ideapad Y700. This series is not only featuring Nvidia’s newer Maxwell 2.0 notebook graphics chip GTX 960M, but also Intel’s 6th Skylake Core i7...
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WD releases My Cloud Mirror Gen 2
WD launched a new OS called My Cloud OS 3 and will be available for My Cloud, My Cloud Mirror and My Cloud Expert variant EX2 and EX4. Along with the newer OS with its NAS units, there’s also a My...
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Asetek wins injunction against Cooler Master (again), gets more royalty
Asetek took Cooler Master’s parent company CMI to court over patent infringement for its all-in-one liquid cooling units at the US District Court for the Northern district of California. The first...
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Micron will start TLC NAND based SSDs from this quarter
Micron Technology has revealed plans to start selling Solid-State Drives using triple-level cell NAND chips starting from this Quarter (Q4 2015). The company will be using 16nm based fabrication...
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Micron acquired SSD controller manufacturer Tidal Sytems
Just after announcing its plans to shift towards TLC NAND, Micron added that it purchased Tidal Systems which are known to make specific SSD controllers. To main high reliability on TLC NANDs, SSD...
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Microsoft acquired Havok physics engine from Intel
Intel’s Havok engine was used in many well-known titles such as Mortal Kombat X, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Destiny, Watch Dogs and The Elder Scrolls Online. Recently, Microsoft was able to complete the...
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Batman: Arkham Knight for PC sales to resume by the end of October
Warner Bros. pulled down the sales of Batman: Arkham Knight for PC because of series of issues as a result of a crappy PC port variant done by a firm with no PC port experience. After months of wait,...
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Intel adds SGX in newer Skylake, to be out by late October
Intel said that a newer batch of Skylake based processors will have its Software Guard Extensions technology enabled. Intel SGX was first introduced in 2013, which does raise the question why wasn’t...
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AMD Radeon R9 Fury X2 ‘Gemini’ card currently tested in India
Recently it is found out that AMD chipped six units of the dual-GPU core ‘Gemini’ based Radeon R9 Fury X2 to India for internal testing. The import details show that it’s an entire GPU card with a...
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