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Microsoft has just announced its initial upgrade pricing for Windows 8, and it's sure to turn some heads. For $39.99, you'll be able to download the upgrade regardless of whether you're using Windows XP, Vista or 7. That's right - if you have an aging XP box you want to update, you'll be able to...

OCZ is once again offering an excellent deal on one of its SSDs. This time around it's the monster 512GB Agility 4, on sale for $389.99. This is an effective $70 off, and amounts to $0.76 per GB. Remember when it was hard finding an SSD under $1.50 per GB? I love where this is going...

Well, it's happened. Google, with the help of Gmail, has become the largest provider of e-mail on the Internet, unseating previous champ Hotmail. Seeing as Hotmail first launched in 1996, and Gmail in 2004 (public in 2007), this is quite an accomplishment. Read the rest of our post and...

Long before the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP - heck, long before the original Nintendo Gameboy, there were electronic handheld games. Since technology at the time of their popularity didn't allow for screens with completely customizable graphics, these handhelds featured a static background and an...

It's no secret that that electric cars don't have to be lacking in performance, but Audi has proven it with a recent record set on the famous Nürburgring track. With its R8 e-tron, a time of 8m 9.099s was set - a new record for an electronic car. This, not long after the company's hybrid e-tron...

Creating a bootable flash drive equipped with a Windows installer or Linux distro is a simple affair today, but what about creating one with DOS? Yes, DOS. The need for such a thing can hit you when you least expect it, especially as a hardware enthusiast, but luckily, creating one is very, very...

... and some of us get REALLY excited, such as Ryan.

A friend sent me this image, but I'm not sure where it came from. List of Worthwhile DOS Games (7MB JPG) There are so many good games on this... I just want to play 'em all.

Boy, there sure are a lot of contests lately. Here's a new one from Sapphire: Manic Weekend giveaway with SAPPHIRE Technology and Team EG This weekend (June 30th - July 1st), during the Starcraft II MCSL Season 7 playoffs, SAPPHIRE Technology will run a Manic Weekend giveaway with Team...

Yeah, that's "Windows 8" in the title. If you're running both the OS and a GeForce card, give it a whirl: http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=232671&st=0

After a far-too-long absence, religion and espionage has finally returned to Civilization, in the new Gods & Kings expansion. Along with those are many additional civs, units, buildings, wonders, a diplomatic retooling and a worthy upgrade to the city-state system. Read on as we take a look at...

Air and water-based cooling solutions for your CPU or GPU might seem "good enough", but in reality, they're usually quite inefficient. The reason boils down to the fact that A) these coolers don't actually generate cooling properties (like freon in a refrigerator) and B) there's a limit to how...

If you're on the lookout for a modest-resolution display but yearn for quality better than that budget brand at the local brick and mortar, Dell looks to have you covered. The company today released a combined six displays; three in the "P" line and three in the "E" line. Ordinarily we'd believe...

Alongside the company's announcement of its new P and E series displays today, Dell also unveiled an update to its XPS 15 notebook and XPS 14 ultrabook. These follow in the footsteps of the well-received XPS 13 released earlier this year (which, in my opinion, is one of the best-looking...

Deals don't get much better than this: http://store.steampowered.com/app/110800/ Don't expect a huge action-packed game, because this isn't it. It's mostly about crime-solving. Yes, it's good.

Interested in a sneak-peak of Futuremark's upcoming "3DMark for Windows" (working title)? If so, you're in luck. The company late last week posted a "tech demo" to YouTube that, as you'd expect, is filled to the brim with eyecandy. This time around, the test has a science fiction theme, and it...

Show Us Your Hidden GIGABYTE Gem - Here’s how you can take part. Step 1 - Prove that you ‘Like’ Us To take part, you have to ‘Like’ our GIGABYTE Motherboard Tech Facebook page. Only fans and subscribers can enter the competition page area and view the submissions of others. Step 2 -...

In a market with over a billion (give or take a couple) different chassis for under $100, finding the "right one" is easier said than done. Fortunately, there are some vendors where you pretty-well know by default that their product won't let you down. Corsair is one of those, and we're here to...

No, that's not a typo. $70 to hook yourself up with a super-fast 120GB SSD from OCZ. Preferably you can click one of the ads on the site for this deal, or just go here...

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