
ASRock has announced that its flagship overclocking motherboards, the Z87 OC Formula and the Z87 OC Formula/ac, will come with a five-year warranty. These motherboards have been crafted to be the ultimate overclocking motherboards, therefore also being coated with a conformal coating to protect the motherboard from liquids. “ASRock provides the five year warranty package [...]

HighPoint, an industry leading Storage HBA and solutions manufacturer, has launched a new selection of cost-effective hardware RAID HBAs for PC and Mac platforms — the RocketRAID 362x series. The new line of PCI-E RAID cards are ideal for large-scale configurations of 6Gb per second SATA hard drives, and were designed specifically for I/O intensive [...]

AMD will be taking its first steps in producing ARM-based processors, according to a new roadmap. The chip manufacturer will be creating “Seattle” processors for the server market which will use ARM Cortex-A57 cores, which could eventually lead to AMD creating ARM processors destined for tablets in the distant future. The Seattle chips will initially [...]

Intel is planning to release a version of Haswell processors for enthusiasts in the second half of 2014, according to details inside a leaked presentation. The enthusiast model, dubbed Haswell-E, will launch with options for six and eight-core processors and up to 20MB of L3 cache, and with continued support for Hyper Threading will have as [...]

Super Talent Technology has launched the UltraDrive MX3 range of solid state drives that are designed to survive a “high endurance atmosphere filled with shock, vibration, and extreme temperatures” and intended for use in enterprise data centers and in desktops and laptops. The UltraDrive MX3 features a SATA III interface that offers read and write [...]

MSI has announced that all of its current FM2 motherboards support AMD’s third generation APU processors. All that will be needed from users might be a BIOS update and perhaps a couple of new drivers. The OC Genie II features will still work on Richland APUs, just as they should. AMD’s most powerful Richland APU, [...]

Sony has revealed five special edition versions of the Vaio Duo 13, Vaio Pro 11 and 13, and Vaio Fit 14 and 15. The new limited Red Edition notebooks follow just a week after the launch of the standard versions and are available in ‘extremely limited quantities.’ At this stage, the new models are headed [...]

HP has announced the evolution of its PC portfolio, with new Haswell processors. Added to the line are the HP Elite One 800 G1 and ProOne 600 G1 series all-in-one PCs, and the EliteDesk 800 G1 and ProDesk 600 towers and small form factor desktop computers. The HP EliteOne 800 G1 is HP’s most powerful [...]

Alienware has updated its flagship products for the Haswell chipset. Three new revised laptop models being revealed are the Alienware 14, Alienware 17, and Alienware 18 — all with the Haswell i7-4700MQ processor, 8GB of dual-channel RAM, and a 750GB SATA-2 hard drive. The models are distinguished by screen size. The Alienware 14 has a [...]

AMD has unveiled what it calls the world’s first commercially available 5GHz CPU processor at the E3 gaming show. The FX-9590, an eight-core chip using the ‘Piledriver’ architecture that reaches 5GHz in turbo mode, is accompanied by the FX-9370, which also has eight cores and the same architecture, but is clocked at the slightly slower [...]