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Gigabyte to release two thin Mini-ITX form factor motherboards this month

Gigabyte will be releasing two thin mini-ITX motherboards this month with Intel H77 AND Intel B75 Chipsets: the GA-H77TN and GA-B75TN. [caption id="attachment_52620" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Gigabyte ...

12 years ago

SteelSeries showcases Apex and Apex Raw Keyboards

Roccat isn't the only one rolling out a new keyboard. SteelSeries have unveiled two new keyboards during CES 2013. Both the keyboards have programmable macro keys along the top and left side of the keyboard for easy and precise ...

12 years ago

CES 2013 – The eTeknix team travel to Las Vegas

With the start of the new year comes one of the biggest events in the tech calendar, CES International. The event takes over a colossal amount of the Las Vegas strip and its surrounding areas as the who's who of the tech industry, ...

12 years ago

D-Link to roll out 802.11 AC Gaming Router by Spring 2013

D-link announced many new networking products today but a gaming router in a cylindrical shaped case with a Qualcomm StreamBoost Technology (DGL-5500) chip was the highlight. This unit is an 802.11 ac wireless router with QOS ...

12 years ago

CES 2013, Las Vegas Preview

So another year has flown by in the tech world and we're round to that time of year again where the industry comes in to Las Vegas for one of the biggest technology shows of the year; The Consumer Electronics Show. Spearding itself ...

12 years ago

Nokia accused of $545M tax evasion in India

Nokia may be in trouble as the offices of thee Finnish based mobile phone manufacturer in India have been raided. It is alleged that the company evaded tax of $545Million USD - that's about 3000 Crore Rupees in Indian currency. The ...

12 years ago

Asus shows off Asus ARES II armed with 2x AMD Radeon 7970 GHz Edition GPU cores

Asus just announced its limited edition ROG ARES II Graphic card (only 1000 units will be shipped according to a post made by the ASUS ROG Facebook page). The GPU uses two fully fledged HD 7970 GHZ Edition GPUs clocked at ...

12 years ago

Nvidia reveals GRID Server for speedy cloud-based gaming

Nvidia announced the GRID cloud computing gaming platform recently at CES. GRID is built to solve the problem of performance issues that gamers face in cloud-based gaming by providing a real time graphics server. The concept is ...

12 years ago

MadCatz S.T.R.I.K.E.5 PC Keyboard Review

This week I've been spending my time playing around with this S.T.R.I.K.E.5 keyboard from MadCatz, which as some of you may know is the "toned down" edition of their S.T.R.I.K.E.7 Keyboard which Tim reviewed for us a little ...

12 years ago

Time Warner’s new Roku app turns a streaming set-top box into cable TV

Time Warner Cable and Roku are in a partnership to bring a cable TV to streaming set-top boxes with just a simple TV app, and it will be rolled out during this quarter. The app lets subscribers stream more than 300 channels.  This ...

12 years ago

Roccat Ryos MK Pro gaming keyboard to have 2 ARM Cortex processors

The new MK Pro keyboard from Roccat is controlled by two 32bit ARM Cortex processors with 2MB of flash memory. But why would anyone put a couple of Cortex processors in a keyboard? Well, one of the processors is dedicated to ...

12 years ago

Sony’s Xperia Z recently spotted at CES 2013

Sony's Xperia Z was recently spotted in Sony's booth at CES 2013 in Las Vegas. So far it's confirmed that Sony's flagship model for the 5" smartphone market will have a 1080p screen powered by Qualcomm's APQ8064 Snapdragon S4 Pro chip ...

12 years ago

Kingston ships a USB 3.0 flash drive with a jaw-dropping 1TB capacity

Kingston has announced their new 1TB USB flash drive under its DataTraveler HyperX Predator 3.0 line-up, yes that is right - a 1TB USB flash drive. The current HyperX Predator 3.0 is shipped with a 512GB storage capacity. The 1TB ...

12 years ago

Samsung Lebanon reveals that Galaxy S IV will not be released before May 2013

Samsung Lebanon recently spilled the beans about the Galaxy S IV's approximate launch date when it addressed a user via their Facebook page. Just to add, very recently pictures of Samsung's Galaxy S IV were leaked. The company ...

12 years ago

New USB 3.0 enhancement to bring 10 Gbps transfer speeds

The USB 3.0 Promoter group has announced the development of a SuperSpeed USB enhancement which will add a much higher data rate delivering up to twice the data transfer performance of USB 3.0-  although the group isn't going to give ...

12 years ago

Lenovo leaks AMD Radeon HD 8950 3GB GPU while promoting X700 Gaming system

During CES 2013 Lenovo showcased their new gaming system- the Erazer X700. The pre-built gaming rig comes with an i7 processor, 16GB of memory, 2TB of storage and a graphics card that caught everyone's attention- the AMD Radeon HD 8950 ...

12 years ago

Vuzix showcases M100 smart glasses to compete against Google glass

Vuzix has showed off a prototype of a smart glass that would be competing against Google glass. It's said by The Verge that it will include 720p video recording, 2 GB of storage, GPS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth  The actual screen is tiny ...

12 years ago

Thermalright Macho Rev.A (BW) CPU Cooler Review

Thermalright's products have never been reviewed by eTeknix before. I am quite excited to get started with Thermalright products as they are one of the most recognised CPU cooler brands for high performance air cooling ...

12 years ago

Nvidia releases 310.90 WHQL drivers, claims 38% faster performance in Far Cry 3

Nvidia have released a newer WHQL driver which adds optimization for Far Cry 3 and claims that it will provide up to 38% faster performance in Far Cry 3 with a GTX 680. That's not the only games that Nvidia is offering optimisations ...

12 years ago

PCI Express based SATA Specification close to Ratification

The Serial SATA International organization said on Thursday that a new specification of SATA ports will standardize PCIe as a choice of interface for client storage and has started the ratification process. For those who don't know, ...

12 years ago

Android Gaming Console “GameStick” doubles the $110k Goal

GameStick looks like a project that has received a lot more attention than OUYA. Judging by the 2,316 backers in Kickstarter with a pledge of $225,621 (at the time of writing) with 25 days still to go, this project is far more than ...

12 years ago

Disney to make its own games console

Back in June 2011, Disney filed a patent application about a handheld gaming console with 3D Augmented reality. The patent has a description of "toy box". Disney only mentions that Toybox is "a game play that involves various ...

12 years ago

Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 660 SE Information leaked

Nvidia needs a card to target the $180- $200 price segment that AMD currently captures with the 1GB HD 7870 graphics card. It is reported that the GTX 660 SE could be that card. The Chinese website PCEVA have managed to get ...

12 years ago

Intel 530 SSDs to have SandForce Controllers?

Chinese VR-Zone put up a slide of Intel's roadmap with states the 530 series will come during Q1 of 2013. According to the slide, there would be 180GB and 80GB models with 2.5" and mSata form factors. The Intel 530 series would ...

12 years ago

Batman Arkham City PC Review

This week I finally managed to find time for the sequel to one of my all time favourite games, Batman Arkham Asylum, the multi million selling Batman Arkham City. Sure this game has been with us for quite some time now, but its ...

12 years ago

eTeknix: On the go – Part 1

Here at eTeknix, we are constantly on the go, whether we're attending a PR event for a new product, or attending a LAN gaming event. We are forever having to lug our equipment around with us, from iPads to laptops, and even our ...

12 years ago

Xbox 720 (or Infinity) announcement expected at E3

The announcement of Microsoft's next gen gaming console (codenamed "Durango") is expected to happen at the E3 2013 expo. Xbox's spokesperson Larry Hyrb added a countdown to E3 on his website, but did not specify what would ...

12 years ago

Apple to launch iPhone Mini next year?

According to Strategy Analytics analyst Neil Mawston, Apple may in the process of creating a new iPhone Mini that could be seen later this year. The reason for this is that Samsung has clearly dominated the smartphone war that has ...

12 years ago

U.S. Federal judge reject Apple’s complaint over Amazon’s Appstore

Back in March 2011, Apple filed a case against Amazon's Appstore, stating that similar names would confuse and even mislead people into thinking that the two stores were related. California federal judge Phyllis Hamilton dismissed ...

12 years ago

GameStick launches Kickstarter campaign to compete with OUYA Console

A new campaign has recently come to light from Kickstarter for other inventors to follow in the footsteps of the OUYA console. As part of this campaign, GameStick has created a rival console with a similar spec list.. Both consoles ...

12 years ago

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