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Asus Maximus VIII Extreme Sub-Zero Overclocking Review
Introduction The Maximus VIII Extreme is the new top of the line socket 1151 board from Asus that just begs to be paired with a 6600K or 6700K for some overclocking goodness. The board was built for overclocking from the ground up and it should be fairly capable in extreme overclocking…
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der8auer Delid Die Mate Coming Soon to Caseking
Today der8auer unveiled his newest device for overclocking, the Delid Die Guard. The device makes removing the lids of CPUs so easy that even my mother could do it. The preferred method of the past has been the vice method for removing lids and unfortunately with the new Skylake CPUs the PCB…
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Google Hangouts Is Rolling out a New UI and Better Video Quality
Today we found out that Google has announced that they are bringing tweaks to Hangouts. The move is intended to streamline the user interface while at the same time improving the streaming video quality. Users can expect that calls will start faster and stay clearer and crisp throughout the call…
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Apotact Labs Takes ‘Gest Controller’ to Kickstarter
Are you a huge fan of the Nintendo Power Glove and wish that you could use it with your Android or iOS device? Well, that isn’t going to happen anytime soon without some electronics hacking on your part but we did see something that may be almost as good. Apotact…
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Quake Live Steam Update Charges $10 and Deletes Player Data!
The popular free-to-play Quake Live first person shooter PC game was launched first as a browser-based game before moving to Steam in 2014. When it moved to Steam it continued to be free but also had a second tier option of a Pro subscription. But today we found out that when gamers…
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Jonsbo Reveal Sleek New UMX3 Micro-ATX Case
Jonsbo announced that it is releasing the new sleek-looking UMX3 Micro-ATX case. The steel and aluminum case features a minimalistic and clean design that will look great for years to come. The front panel of the case features dual USB 3.0 ports, dual USB 2.0 ports, mic in, headphone out, and…
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UK E-tailers Taken Offline by DDoS Attacks
Yesterday, UK based e-tailers were the apparent victims of a DDoS attack that took Aria Technology, Novatech, and Scan Computers websites offline. Channelweb reported that Aria Taheri, the owner of Aria Technology said that after the business’s website was down for a few hours in the afternoon they received an email…
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Misfit Introduces the New Shine 2 Fitness and Sleep Monitor
Misfit is a hardware company that makes wearables that utilize sensors to monitor activity and sleep. Today they announced the Shine 2, the next generation of the award-winning Shine Fitness and Sleep Monitor. Inside the Shine 2’s thinner aircraft grade aluminum body is more advanced hardware than before. This will…
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Godzilla and King Kong Will Rise Again With a Fight Scheduled For 2020
Today there is great news for fans of Godzilla and King Kong as Legendary and Warner Brothers Pictures announced a trio of new movies and dates for them. First out is Kong: Skull Island which will come out March 10, 2017. Production for the movie will begin on October 19th.…
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“Improve Detroit” Cell Phone App Helps Fix More than 10,000 Problems in the City
Any massive city has problems that need addressing that slide by the people in charge. In a city like Detroit, they saw an opportunity to change this. That is how they started thinking about creating a phone app “Improve Detroit”. In April, the app was launched and it residents to…
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FBI Releases Warning of Chip & Sign Credit Card Weakness
The FBI today released a statement today warning consumers that the new chips don’t prevent against online fraud or point of sale compromises (like the Target hack). Apparently the “chip and sign” signature based systems are a point of weakness when compared to “chip and PIN” based systems. They went…
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Light Hopes to Replace DSLRs with Their 16-Lens L16 Camera!
The cover has just been taken off of Light’s L16 camera, something that looks pretty crazy but is certainly awesome. Built to be a great camera to replace the need to lug a huge DSLR everywhere the Light team has come up with a L16 to solve the problem of…
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Gigabyte GA-X99-SOC Champion Under LN2
Introduction The GA-X99-SOC Champion is Gigabyte’s overclocking-centric motherboard for the X99 chipset and is the choice of many professional overclockers and benchmarkers around the world. The board has an OC Socket much like the one that Asus’s Rampage V Extreme had when it came out, that allowed for high uncore/cache…
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Retail Release of Shovel Knight Is Delayed
The retail release of the successful Shovel Knight game was supposed to be released next week but has been delayed two weeks. Now the date is to be October 30th for Europe and November 3rd for North America. Not only has the game been delayed but the release on the…
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Oculus, AMD & Dell Join Forces to Bring You Oculus-Ready PCs
Adding to the long list of Virtual Reality projects that AMD is working on this year, they just announced a unified project between themselves Dell and Oculus. They are aiming to bring consumers Oculus-Ready PCs that have AMD GPUs, and these PCs will start right at $999. This means that Dell…
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