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While the first products featuring Intel’s Broadwell micro-architecture were released last fall, problems with yields for their latest 14nm manufacturing process lead to long delays in the release of some products, which forced Intel to delay the full Broadwell rollout. Today, marks the latest, and presumably final phase in their Broadwell cycle, with the release of five new higher-performance quad-core processors, …

Crucial, a world-leading producer of memory and storage devices, is announcing Crucial Ballistix DDR4 16GB performance memory modules, as well as 8Gb-based DDR4 server memory modules. Utilizing new high-density 8Gb-based components creates Ballisitix 16GB DDR4 memory modules for memory-intensive usage scenarios, while the 8Gb-based DDR4 server memory modules offer a significant cost benefit as compared to current 4Gb-based DDR4 modules. …

Today Patriot – a company known for making desktop memory, flash storage, as well as a variety of mobile accessories – has announced a new line of Viper gaming accessories. The newly unveiled line consists of four products, which include an RGB Keyboard, 7.1 Virtual Surround Sound Headset, and a pair of gaming mice. V760 VIPER MECHANICAL GAMING KEYBOARD The first …

Today, Phanteks has announced that they’ll be releasing an all-new entry into their premium EVOLV chassis lineup, this time catering to the large amount of users who want space for a full-sized ATX motherboard. The aptly named Enthoo EVOLV ATX will be available in two colors Black, or ‘Anthracite Gray’ (pictured above), and features the same design guidelines and premium …

KTC launched its L81F TV series, which features supreme cost-performance. KTC has found a way to provide large-screen LCD for an affordable price. The L81F TVs come in three sizes including 40”, 32”, and 24” all of which use top grade LCD panels providing rich pictures and true colours. The TVs in the L81F series have been designed to be …

Graphics card manufacturer, EVGA, has recently entered the desktop memory market, introducing a wide variety of new, competitively priced DDR3, and DDR4 memory kits to the market, which are currently available exclusively at Microcenter (in-store only). The company, which is new to the DRAM market, has released a total of 10 separate kits under their Superclocked and SuperSC (Super-Superclocked) brands, …

Hot off the news of AMD’s future from their Financial Analyst Day, we’ve got some newly leaked images courtesy of the folks over at WCCF Tech. The outlet claims to have acquired some exclusive images of the not yet announced AMD Radeon R9 390x – nomenclature unconfirmed – which is based on AMD’s upcoming flagship, ultra-enthusiast Fiji XT graphics core. The …

Yesterday at their financial analyst day, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su presented an update on AMD’s graphic business. Since AMD has already previously discussed their technology roadmaps over the next two years earlier in this presentation, we will get straight into the new stuff. Although AMD failed to mention it in their GPU roadmap, it was finally confirmed by Dr. Lisa Su …

AMD laid out the company’s future to their investors at their financial analyst day, yesterday, and what a future it is. While the company denied the legitimacy of the recently leaked investor presentation, which supposedly offered detailed specifics for their upcoming ‘Zen’ CPU architecture, they did offer some worthwhile details of said architecture. AMD’s ‘Zen’ is a completely new design, …

This year at CES one of the most interesting things we saw was a crazy-looking mini-ITX case from DeepCool – a Chinese company best known for PC cooling – called the Tristellar.  DeepCool has recently created quite a splash in the PC chassis market, with some very interesting designs, the Tristellar being just the latest in their line of niche cases. The …