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CES 2012: MSI’s Z77 Motherboards & Graphics Upgrade System

skymtl — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:53:52 +0000

The show may not have even started yet but CES 2012 is already off to a roaring start and we’re got a few people nosing around. The latest bit of information we’ve received is a quick peak inside of MSI’s suite, a location that held a few surprises including Ivy Bridge motherboards and Thunderbolt-equipped external graphics solutions.

The 2011 PC Market in Review; Hits and Misses

skymtl — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 05:23:07 +0000

2011 was a busy year in the tech world as a whole but the PC market in particular was moving at a brisk pace. In this article we’ll take a look over our 150+ reviewed items from this year, pick out the most memorable components and discuss some of the hits and misses from that overflowing stack of hardware.

Usage Based Billing Compromise is Almost a Step in The Right Direction

skymtl — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:49:31 +0000

Earlier this week the CRTC released their landmark decision regarding UBB (Usage Based Billing) for internet access and downloads. In their document, there seemed to be something for everyone but does it signify a step towards true innovation for the Canadian telecom industry? We weigh in.

NVIDIA GeForce LAN Day 2 & 3 Coverage

skymtl — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 04:03:16 +0000

While the first day of the GeForce LAN was focused on an opening keynote by DICE’s Johan Andersson, NVIDIA’s Drew Henry and Phil Eisler, day 2 and 3 were all about exhibitor presentations and the Battlefield 3 tournament. In this article we look at the tournament, the players, some cool rigs and the new products from EVGA and Toshiba.

NVIDIA GeForce LAN Day 1 Coverage

skymtl — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 23:00:51 +0000

Earlier in the year NVIDIA announced the latest edition of their GeForce LAN events and PC gamers eagerly grabbed tickets to what promised to be one of North America’s largest LAN parties. Once registration was complete, over 600 people had applied to be part of the 48 hour Bring Your Own Computer LAN. We’ve got full opening day coverage here.

AMD Hits 8.429GHz with Bulldozer FX-8150 Processor; Smashes World Record

skymtl — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:16:42 +0000

With a bunch of media in attendance, some quickly binned processors, and whole lot of liquid helium, a supremely capable group made up of Sami (Macci) Mäkinen, Brian (Chew*) McLachlan, Aaron Schradin, Pete Hardman, and Simon Solotko pushed an octo-core FX-8150 (with two cores enabled) to new heights and achieved a new CPU frequency world record of 8429.38 MHz at 2.016V.

F@H Core 16: Taking AMD GPU Folding to the Next Level?

admin — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 03:21:50 +0000

A few weeks ago, Stanford introduced the new Core 16 Project 11293 work units which are specifically tailored towards OpenCL-supporting AMD graphics cards. But do they bring the hoped-for increase in Folding@Home performance or is this yet another step towards disappointment?

GIGABYTE G1-Killer Motherboard Launch / LAN Party Coverage

admin — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:12:48 +0000

Gigabyte’s G1 Killer boards have finally been launched and to celebrate the occasion, they held a LAN party event which was open to the general public. Hardware Canucks was there to cover it from start to finish.

An In Depth Look at Intel’s Thunderbolt Technology

admin — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 02:51:10 +0000

After nearly two years of teasing us with tantalizing bits of information, Intel has finally launched their Light Peak technology which is now called Thunderbolt. In this article, we will go through the story behind this promising new I/O standard and discuss the possibilities it brings to the table for a storage hungry market.

Event Report: MSI Master Overclocking Arena 2011

admin — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 04:14:36 +0000

During CES 2011, MSI held the first of what will likely be a long line of overclocking events throughout this year. Called the Master Overclocking Arena, these events bring together some of the world’s best overclockers in a multi stage competition of ultra low temperates and sky high clock speeds. Hardware Canucks was on hand to cover the MOA’s North American leg in Las Vegas.

CES 2011: More Cooler Master Storm Products & A New Water Cooler

admin — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 05:04:55 +0000

This year’s CES was an exciting time for Cooler Master, as the company expands its CM Storm lineup with a new range of products while finally launching a new water cooling solution after years of absence.

CES 2011: Antec Updates Chassis and Goes Under Water

admin — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 03:16:16 +0000

Antec, a company once known for their quiet, office-centric cases has really embraced the enthusiast market this past year, possibly more so than ever in their 25 year history. We had a chance to go through the company’s line for 2011 at CES, which involves a few updates to existing lines as well as embarking on a whole new cooling quest.

CES 2011: Sapphire Shows Fusion APU, HD 5570 Xtend & Set Top Box

admin — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 06:25:51 +0000

Considering Sapphire is an AMD-centric company, they didn’t have that much new to display that we can discuss without breaking NDA. With that being said, the coming months should some interesting graphics cards from them and the acquisition of most of EVGA’s motherboard development team means major moves on that side of things as well.

CES 2011: MSI Demos New AM3+ Big Bang Conqueror & Lightning GPUs

admin — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 06:10:33 +0000

For MSI, things are rolling with brand new marketing and PC product development teams. Not only did they show off a number of new and upcoming products at highly competitive price points but overclocking muscle was also flexed with an overclocking event dubbed MOA. In this article we take a look primarily at the AM3+ Big Bang Conqueror and their new Lightning series of GPUs.

CES 2011: Hands on With Corsair’s New Products

admin — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 05:48:51 +0000

At this year’s CES, Corsair was one of the few PC component manufacturers brave enough to set up shop at the Las Vegas Convention center. Their major announcement was of course their new-found partnership with CoolIT but there were plenty of other interesting items as well.

CES 2011: Kingston Showcases Next Generation of Products

admin — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:34:52 +0000

During this CES, Kingston is showcasing a number of upcoming and current products which mostly focus upon the quickly expanding storage market. With USB 3.0 and SATA 6 coming into the limelight, 2011 will feature a large number of devices from nearly every sector which takes advantage of these two technologies.

CES 2011: NVIDIA Press Conference Debrief; Project Denver Announced

admin — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:08:29 +0000

NVIDIA’s press conference has just finished. While most of it was about Tegra 2′s place in the mobile market, an announcement was made about Project Denver; the first dedicated high performance ARM core which is being jointly developed by NVIDIA and ARM.

CES 2011: ASUS Showcases Its New Tablets

admin — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:18:46 +0000

ASUS today announced four new tablet computers designed for a wide range of users and applications — The Eee Pad Slider, Eee Pad Transformer, Eee Pad MeMO and Eee Slate EP121.

Event Report: GIGABYTE Open Overclocking Championship 2010 Worldwide Final

admin — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:09:47 +0000

Every year, Gigabyte invites the best of the overclocking world to compete for glory, money and hardware in their Open Overclocking Competition. After months of regional competitions, the field was narrowed down to 15 competitors who were invited to the Worldwide Final in Taipei. Hardware Canucks was there to see the action from start to finish.

A Photo Tour of Gigabyte’s GOOC 2010 Worldwide Final

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 04:42:29 +0000

This weekend, Taipei played host to some of the world’s best overclocking talent by being the city of choice for Gigabyte’s Open Overclocking Championship. Hardware Canucks was invited to cover GOOC 2010 and while our coverage started with the North American finals, it was only fitting that we followed through to the LN2-heavy final in Taiwan.

Event Report: GIGABYTE Open Overclocking Championship 2010 NA Final

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:49:16 +0000

Gigabyte’s Open Overclocking Championship has been running now for the last few years. In it, the top overclockers from around the world compete for prizes and bragging rights by publicly pushing their systems to new heights. This year, Hardware Canuchs was invited to the North American final where teams from Canada and the USA competed for a place in the finals.

Kingston Factory Tour (Hsinchu, Taiwan)

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:55:48 +0000

Kingston is one of the largest and best known memory manufacturers in the world but their production facilities are usually hidden from prying eyes. In this article, we take you deep within Kingson’s factory in Taiwan in order to see the birth of the products we all buy.

NVIDIA’s 3D Vision Surround: A Game Changing Experience?

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:59:19 +0000

After some initial delay’s NVIDIA’s 3D Vision Surround is finally read for prime time. With it, they are looking to usher in a new era for multi monitor gaming by essentially following in ATI’s footsteps and adding in their patented out of screen 3D effects with 3D Vision. In this article we take a closer look at NVIDIA’s surround gaming technologies and put them to the test.

GIGABYTE’s New Technologies: CloudOC, Unlocked Power & More

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:05:54 +0000

Gigabyte has long been known as a leader in numerous fields and in the new few months they are looking to take things to the next level. In this article we take a closer look at some of the technologies which they will be introducing including the already-available Unlocked Power and the innovative CloudOC.

Post-Computex 2010 Report: Kingston unveils 64GB SDXC Card, HyperX SSD & More

admin — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 02:15:39 +0000

Although Kingston didn’t have a booth at this year’s Computex Taipei event, the company did announce a handful of very interesting products prior to and during the exhibition. In this article we take a closer look at some of them.

NVIDIA’s New Focus in a Changing Market

admin — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:17:43 +0000

Last week, Hardware Canucks was invited to NVIDIA’s first annual GPU Technology Conference. It proved to be an eye-opening experience regarding the state of the industry in general and the exciting directions where it will be going in the next few years. In this article we discuss some of the focuses of the conference as well as new technologies that are just over the horizon.

GIGABYTE P55 & Second-Gen X58 Motherboards Revealed

admin — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:33:57 +0000

Gigabyte has been releasing new motherboards at a breakneck pace. But what does the future hold? In this article we take a look at upcoming P55, X58 and AMD-based Gigabyte products and even take a look at some of their future software.

Event Report: GIGABYTE Open Overclocking Championship 2009

admin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:13:52 +0000

Gigabyte recently held their annual Open Overclocking Championship and Hardware Canucks was invited to cover the event. Join us in watching some of the best overclockers in the world ply their trades in one of the most hard-fought competitions to date.

Welcome to the New Hardware Canucks!

Wed, 27 May 2009 22:05:41 +0000

Extreme Makeover: Website Edition

No, we weren’t the unwitting recipient of a Ty Pennington knockoff series (much to the dismay of those who had to code it) , but you are in fact looking at the new face of the Hardware Canucks homepage. We have made some enormous changes in the past few years and our re-designed website is just a part of the process to give our visitors and community, a place to read about and involve themselves with the tech world.

One of the major features we wanted to incorporate was a way for visitors to get all the headlines from not just our news and reviews, but everything that is happening around the web from product releases from manufacturers to announcements from developers and business and critical headlines that matter to you. We have also added quick and easy announcements regarding other portions of our website, such as our Performance Charts, Store and TechWiki, as well as making space for other upcoming features.

We wanted to keep the layout clean, simple and easy to navigate without having to leap into the far recesses of the site to get information. Hopefully our aim was accomplished and we encourage you to take some time and familiarize yourself with the new layout.

We will be updating the Tech Headlines on a daily basis with original articles as well as press releases and news from around the web. We will also be featuring regular updates to the Review Roundup about reviews we weren’t able to cover. If you feel inclined to start a discussion about a news story, or reply to one already posted, you may do so anonymously if you are not a member of our forum, otherwise be sure to log in to the forum first to accurately identify yourself.

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Event Report: GIGABYTE Open Overclocking Championship 2008

admin — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:02:18 +0000

Gigabyte’s Open Overclocking Championship recently wrapped up in Taiwan and Hardware Canucks was there from start to finish. Join us on a blow-by-blow history of exactly what was accomplished at this event by some of the world’s best overclockers. Records will fall and LN2 will be used in copious amounts.