Not your ordinary mouse (or is it?) Cougar is calling its new 550M mouse a “flagship gaming” rodent, which is an odd descriptor considering that Cougar also offers at least two seemingly higher end options, the 600M and 700M. The hype doesn’t stop there. According to Couger, the 550M “is the result of years of continuous work with a single objective: creating the most perfect gaming...
Small form factor PC gets new 6-core and 8-core CPU options There was a day when the size of your desktop was a pretty good indicator of the performance inside, or at least potential performance. That's all gone out the window lately with the emergence of high performance small form factor (SFF) PCs, some of which are specifically intended for living room gaming. Enter Falcon Northwest...
Get yours starting at $955 We first spied CyberPower PC’s funktastically designed Trinity gaming PC at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this year. Back then, Trinity was in the prototype stage, and all too often we’ve seen such things turn to vaporware. Not this time. CyberPower today announced that its Trinity PC is available to configure and order, with prices...
The new wave of Steam Machines The new box from Zotac, dubbed SN970, is a compact PC akin to Alienware’s Alpha, except a little bigger. The following are its specs: “6th” gen Intel CPU: Zotac writes this on its spec sheet, but we reckon it’ll be an Intel “Skylake” CPU, manufactured at 14nm NVIDIA GeFoce GTX 970M MXM with 3GB GDDR5 8GB DDR3 64GB M.2 SSD 1TB 2.5″ HDD 2 x Gig-E Ethernet...
Radeon and GeForce GPUs in the same PC? When it comes to DirectX 12 we have been cautiously optimistic.Early tests have been promising and we are curious to see what else Microsoft has to say about its API. However, it appears thatDirectX 12 will allegedly have Explicit Asynchronous Multi-GPU Capabilities according to an unnamed source who spoke toTom's Hardware. According to the...
It’s sometimes tough to see it as its happening, when when we look back on the most recent year, some trends start to emerge, whether we’re looking at tech, movies, world news, or whatever else. It’s no different for video games. We trolled through the last year of news stories and game releases and came out with some of the common threads we saw woven throughout the year; some good,...
Adding a new graphics card to your Alienware notebook to enjoy the latest games can be difficult and costly, but Alienware’s new Graphics Amplifier lets you pair your laptop with a standard desktop-class GPU for a spectacular gaming experience. The Graphics Amplifier is a little like an external hard drive dock, only instead of sticking an HDD inside it, you throw in a graphics card...
Here's a look at how Nvidia's next batch of graphics cards might perform How about we kick off the work week with some rumors, speculation, and purportedly leaked info, shall we? Sure, why not! What we have tumbling out of the rumor mill today is the notion that Nvidia is going to launch its GeForce 900 Series cards based on its Maxwell architecture on September 19. Specifications are...
Gaming laptop brings the bling Gold seems to be the ‘in’ thing among mobile devices these days, so why not extend the color option over to laptops? That must have been what MSI was thinking when it conceived limited edition versions of its GS60 Ghost Pro 3K and GS60 Ghost gaming notebooks. Each one packs high end hardware inside a “luxurious golden chassis” measuring 15.35 inches by 10....
Finding middle ground between Full HD and 4K gaming MSI today announced what it claims is the world’s first 3K gaming notebook, which hits the market just in time to be added onto your holiday wishlist. The GT60 2OD-261US is a 15.6-inch laptop with a WQHD+ display (2880×1620) that kicks things up a notch over Full HD 1080p without going all the way up to 4K, which would be both more...