Acer Heads into 2014 with a New Corporate President and CEO

TSMC veteran joins Acer Acer's search for a new chief has come to end. The man who will replace interim CEO Stan Shih is Jason Chen, who served at TSMC from 2005 to 2008 as the vice president of TSMC Corporate Development. Since then, he's been serving as senior vice president of Worldwide Sales and...

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Microsoft Gifting 20 GB of Free SkyDrive To Windows Phone Users

Extra storage for the holidays If you're a lucky owner of a Windows Phone or have a giftee in mind who would love some extra storage space, it's about to be one happy holiday! Microsoft is offering extra SkyDrive storage for free in an email announcement sent to all Windows Phone users. That's 20...

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AMD to Grab Nearly a Third of the Professional Graphics Card Market in 2014

Apple deserves a 'Thank You' card AMD has proven itself to be quite the resilient company over the years. No matter how bad the financial situation looks at times, the Sunnyvale chip designer always manages to find a way to stay afloat, and it's not always through desktop and/or laptop processors. AMD's...

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Build a PC: Recommended Builds (December 2013)

Budget, baseline, and performance PC builds! What time is it? It's time to build a PC with our Blueprints! This month, we've built three rigs at three approximate price points: Baseline, Performance, and Ultra. Baseline gets you a powerful that is suitable for gaming and content creation at 1080p,...

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MSI GT60 (2013) Review

Prodigal son returns... with Haswell and a 780M! If the MSI GT60 looks familiar, that might be because it’s identical to our zero-point gaming notebook, which we first reviewed in our December 2012 issue. While the laptop uses the same chassis, the refreshed unit comes with shiny new parts...

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Google Niantic's Reality MMO "Ingress" Leaves Beta, Now Open to Everyone

Augmented reality meets MMO After more than a year in closed beta and amassing over 1 million downloads, Google's Niantic Labs just launched Ingress to the public. What is Ingress, you ask? It's a journey into alternate reality gaming, is one answer. Another answer is that it's a blending...

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Powercolor Launches First Liquid Cooled Radeon R9 290X Graphics Card

Nope, you can't find this one in stock either Less than a week after teasing a shot of a liquid cooled AMD Radeon R9 290X graphics card on its Facebook page, Powercolor has gone and introduced a retail version to market. The Powercolor LCS R9 290X uses an EK water block, the same as identified...

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Genius GX Gaming Peripherals Now Available in White in the U.S.

Gaming peripherals shipping in white in time for winter If you're looking for gaming peripherals to match the white computer case you just bought, Genius may be your ticket to color coordination. Genius has just given its GX Gaming series of peripherals a white makeover, including the DeathTaker mouse, Imperator...

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LG Plans to Unveil an All-in-One System Running Chrome OS at CES 2014

All your "Chromebase" belong to LG LG on Wednesday announced plans to show off what it claims is the first ever "Chromebase," otherwise known as an all-in-one (AIO) PC powered by Google's Chrome operating system, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas next month. The LG Chromebase (model...

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Corsair H110 Review

Size isn’t everything It seems like every month brings a new liquid cooler to review. Sometimes this rapid pace creates unexpected side effects. Exhibit A: The Corsair H110, which is nearly identical to the NZXT Kraken X60 reviewed on page 81 of this issue. They don’t use the same fans, they...

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Fully Loaded Mac Pro Ravages Your Wallet for $9,600, Ships in February

You could toss a small fortune into Apple's trash bin-shaped workstation For those of you who like to keep abreast of what's happening on the other side of the pond, Apple's cylindrical Mac Prosystems are now available to order, though don't bother shopping for one unless you're ready to drop some serious...

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Looking for Last Minute Gift Ideas? Steam's Holiday Sale Starts Now!

Don't forget to set aside a few dollars for food and other bills Word to the wise -- don't go quitting that second job you got to pay for all the games you bought during Steam's Autumn Sale, you're going to need it to fund another round of discounts. The 2013 Steam Holiday Sale is now on and runs...

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AMD Catalyst 13.12 WHQL Driver Now Available to Download

Official support for AMD Radeon R9 and R7 Series graphics cards It's time to retire that beta driver you've been running your AMD Radeon R9 or R7 Series graphics card on and step up to AMD's newly minted Catalyst 13.12 WHQL-certified driver. The new Catalyst software is available now and in addition...

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The Ultimate Computer Hardware Guide

Things you need to know to become a PC hardware expert Knowledge is power, and when it comes to PCs and computer hardware that’s especially true, because only by knowing how your PC components’ specs actually affect performance can you get the maximum power you need for the type of computing you...

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The Ultimate Computer Hardware Guide: Page 5

RAM  System RAM, or memory, seems like such a basic thing, but there’s still much to know about it Clock Speed  The clock speed of RAM is usually expressed in megahertz, so DDR3/1866 runs at 1,866MHz, at a certain latency timing. The only problem is that modern CPUs pack so much cache and are...

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