High Tech - News, Reviews and Tests
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Super Micro Unveils Z170, H170 Boards With OC Features At CESJan 12, 2016 - in News
Super Micro unveiled a new high-end motherboard based on the Z170 chipset. It also gave new details on its H170 motherboard with overclocking features.
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MSI's Four New Motherboards Includes Gold PCB ModelJan 12, 2016 - in News
At CES, MSI announced four new motherboards divided between the Skylake LGA 1151 and the Haswell-E LGA 2011-3 sockets.
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Motion Capture Inside VR Now Possible, Cloudhead Games And Noitom Did It With HTC ViveJan 12, 2016 - in News
Cloudhead Games, in collaboration with Noitom and its Perception Neuron MoCap suit, developed a way to collect motion capture and voice acting in VR -- for a lot less money than a traditional game or film studio.
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Evga Brings Titanium Label To Its Sub-1000 W PSUsJan 12, 2016 - in News
Evga released 1000W, 850W, and 750W, variants of its SuperNova T2 PSUs.
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French Government May Ban Strong EncryptionJan 12, 2016 - in News
The French Conservative party added an amendment to the Digital Republic bill debated this week in Parliament that would ban strong encryption and would compel manufacturers to decrypt their own devices.
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HTC Confirms Vive Pre-Orders Start February 29Jan 12, 2016 - in News
HTC's JB McRee confirmed to Tom's Hardware that the pre-order date for the Vive VR HMD is, in fact, February 29 of this year.
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Remix OS 2.0 Now Available To Download For PCs And MacsJan 12, 2016 - in News
Jide OS released the Remix OS 2.0 operating system for PCs and Macs, as was promised last week. The OS is still in alpha stage, so it may contain some bugs.
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Virtuix Proved That The Omni Vr Treadmill Is the Real DealJan 12, 2016 - in News
At CES 2016, the Tom’s Hardware editorial team have the chance to test out the Virtuix Omni VR treadmill, and we could hardly be more impressed. Active VR is a huge step forward in immersive gaming.
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EKWB Listens To Community And Debuts 240 mm Expandable Predator AIOJan 12, 2016 - in News
After the community begged EKWB to build a 240 mm Predator AIO with quick-disconnect fittings for months, the Slovenian manufacturer met their demands.
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Sapphire Launches A New Flagship: Nitro R9 FuryJan 12, 2016 - in News
Sapphire has announced a new flagship graphics card based on AMD’s Fury Pro specifications. The Nitro R9 Fury features a custom PCB with reworked circuitry and a higher overclock than the Tri-X OC Fury we tested last year.
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Mushkin Goes For The SSD Trifecta At CESJan 12, 2016 - in News
Mushkin has one of the best selling value SSDs on the market today and looks to expand its product line in early 2016.
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Seagate Launches 8 TB NAS HDDJan 12, 2016 - in News
Seagate expanded its NAS HDD product line with a new 8 terabyte model today. The new drive is a drop in replacement for existing 3.5 inch products that allow a wide range of systems to store more data in less space.
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Plextor M8Pe With Marvell Eldora Coming SoonJan 12, 2016 - in News
Plextor tapped Marvell's new Eldora NVMe processor for the upcoming M8Pe that scales to 1 TB and looks very sharp.
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MSI 990FXA Gaming Versus ASRock 990FX KillerJan 12, 2016 - in Reviews
Today, I will be reviewing the 990FX chipset but, more importantly, ASRock and Gigabyte's offerings to the gaming community.
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Global Organizations, Companies Call On Governments To Stop Undermining EncryptionJan 11, 2016 - in News
A group of almost 200 global organizations and companies, as well as some security experts, signed an open letter demanding that governments stop their efforts to undermine strong encryption, security and anonymization tools.
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Imagination Demos Realtime Ray Tracing (Update: Video)Jan 11, 2016 - in News
Imagination Technology demoed a new PowerVR GPU at CES2016. Called the PowerVR Wizard, It's not a mobile chip, but a desktop PCI card. With passive cooling and only 10 watts, it can ray-trace rings around an Nvidia GTX 980 Ti.
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NVMe 1.2 Redefines SSD Design As Marvell Releases HMB SSD ControllerJan 11, 2016 - in News
Marvell released its 88NV1140 SSD controller at CES 2016 in a move that will likely lead to a sweeping change in the way manufacturers design SSDs.
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Lenovo, Intel Have Duelling Project Tango SmartphonesJan 11, 2016 - in News
Lenovo and Intel are racing to be the first to market with a Project Tango smartphone.
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Skylake Bugs Aren't Odd, They're PrimeJan 11, 2016 - in News
Intel discovered that its latest 6th Gen (Skylake) Core processors have a bug that can cause the system to freeze or crash when calculating prime numbers.
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AMD’s R9 Nano Just Got More Interesting With Big Price DropJan 11, 2016 - in News
AMD announced that it is slashing the price of the R9 Nano graphics card. The launch price of $649 was criticized as being too high. Perhaps $499 will please more people.
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Viewsonic Debuts Eight New Monitors At CESJan 11, 2016 - in News
Viewsonic announced eight new gaming-oriented monitors at CES, including four VX-series and four XG-series displays.
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G.Skill Announces 128 GB DDR4 3000 MHz Kit For Content Creation ProfessionalsJan 11, 2016 - in News
G.Skill has taken the lid off of its latest high capacity memory kit. The new 3000 MHz 128 GB kit is designed for professionals that demand the highest memory capacities and speeds possible.
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U.S. Government Wants V2V Technology In All New Cars To Reduce CrashesJan 11, 2016 - in News
The U.S. Department of Transportation announced that it will require all new cars to use Vehicle-to-Vehicle technology to reduce accidents by up to 80 percent.
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Mark Your Calendar: Phison E7 Set For March ReleaseJan 11, 2016 - in News
The PS5007-E7 has entered the final phase of performance tuning and will enter qualifications this spring. We should start to see retail products as early as March.
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Kingston Readies Several New Products For 2016Jan 11, 2016 - in News
Kingston releases new HyperX products while continuing to expand the premium brand in new directions.
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The QNAP TBS-453A Changes The NAS GameJan 11, 2016 - in News
QNAP's TBS-453A converges several devices into one attractive and very useful slim device that can hide or travel just about anywhere.
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Thermaltake Makes A 'Green' 1250-Watt RGB LED PSUJan 11, 2016 - in News
Thermaltake made an 80 PLUS Titanium certified 1250-watt power supply with RGB LED lights, not surprisingly called the Toughpower DPS G RGB 1250W.
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Thermaltake’s Core W100 And WP100 Are Cases With Plenty Of SpacesJan 11, 2016 - in News
Thermaltake announced two new modular cases called the Core W100 and WP100, along with an add-on chassis called the P100.
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Exclusive: Fove's VR HMD At CES 2016, First LookJan 11, 2016 - in News
Tom’s Hardware met up with Fove Inc.’s Chief Technical Officer, Lochliam Wilson, to get a quick hands-on impression of what eye tracking can bring to VR.
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ARM Cortex-A72 Architecture Deep DiveJan 11, 2016 - in Reviews
ARM's Cortex-A72 CPU adds power and performance optimizations to the previous A57 design. Here's an in-depth look at the changes to each stage in the pipeline, from better branch prediction to next-gen execution units.