Also, Corsair’s Cherry MX RGB Launch Date Changed
So I actually did not see this until after I published the Razer story. Just a few hours ago, Corsair posted an announcement to their Facebook page that claimed a...
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Aug 19, 2014 | Cases and Cooling, General Tech | 3
So I actually did not see this until after I published the Razer story. Just a few hours ago, Corsair posted an announcement to their Facebook page that claimed a...
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Aug 19, 2014 | Cases and Cooling, General Tech | 8
Earlier in the year, we reported on Corsair's exclusivity over Cherry MX RGB-based mechanical keyboards. The thing is, Razer develops their own switches and is not reliant on ZF Electronics (Cherry Corporation).…
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Aug 16, 2014 | General Tech, Graphics Cards, Shows and Expos | 13
Let's be clear: there are two stories here. The first is the release of OpenGL 4.5 and the second is the announcement of...
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Aug 14, 2014 | Displays, General Tech | 27
At SIGGRAPH, Richard Huddy of AMD announced the release windows of FreeSync, their adaptive refresh rate technology, to The Tech Report. Compatible monitors will begin sampling "as early as" September....
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Aug 14, 2014 | General Tech, Graphics Cards, Mobile, Processors, Shows and Expos | 19
Along with GDC Europe and Gamescom, Siggraph 2014 is going on in Vancouver, BC. At it, Intel had a DirectX 12 demo at their booth. This scene, containing 50,000 asteroids,...
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Aug 13, 2014 | General Tech | 4
While it may not seem like it in North America, we are in a busy week for videogame development. GDC Europe, which stands for Game Developers Conference Europe, is just wrapping up…
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Aug 7, 2014 | General Tech, Shows and Expos, Storage | 13
According to an HGST press release, the company will bring an SSD based on phase change memory to the 2014 Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, California. They claim that...
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Aug 7, 2014 | General Tech | 5
Origin, with its On the House program, has been releasing games for free, to promote their distribution platform. This time, they dug deep in...
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Aug 7, 2014 | Cases and Cooling, General Tech | 2
So, I am writing about a wireless, non-mechanical keyboard. Mad Catz has made a weird keyboard layout. Honestly, it looks like something from a 1990's-era sci-fi video game. I could imagine...
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Aug 6, 2014 | General Tech | 17
Hubert Joly, CEO of Best Buy, talked with Re/code about the overall health of their company and various industry trends. The first question (at least in the order Re/code presented...
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Aug 3, 2014 | General Tech, Graphics Cards | 54
Just recently, we posted a story that claimed NVIDIA was preparing to launch high-end Maxwell in the October/November time frame. Apparently, that was generous. The graphics company is said to...
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Jul 30, 2014 | Displays, General Tech, Graphics Cards | 78
Dynamic refresh rates have two main purposes: save power by only forcing the monitor to refresh when a new frame is available, and increase animation smoothness by synchronizing to draw rates (rather…
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