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Greg wraps up his coverage of the ASUS RoG Con that occurred over the weekend: The ASUS RoG Con is done and over with, so we take a look back at what made the weekend so great. Depending on who you ask, the LAN was a great success, with nobody leaving without some sort of swag in their hand...

The non-gaming GPU games are heating up, and Intel is hot on NVIDIA's tail, but can you predict who will reign surpreme in two-years time? Both Intel and NVIDIA have lots to say about their respective GPU architectures, as well as the competition's. Partly because of this, there are numerous...

AMD triumphantly returns with a GPU so powerful, it might just send NVIDIA's engineers scrambling back to the drawing board. AMD has gone too long without a real high-end graphics card to compete with the competition, but they're done with the pity, and prove it with the HD 4870 X2, which...

From our front-page news: Unless I'm blind, today might just be a slow news day. But that downside turned into an upside, as I came up with the most common-sense idea ever... linking to our old content! So from now on, if news is coming in slower than tar dripping from an Alaskan rooftop, we'll...

From our front-page news: In a somewhat surprising move, Richard Brown, VIA's VP of Corporate Marketing in Taiwan, told Custom PC that the company would be leaving the motherboard chipset business in order to focus on more important products, such as their Nano processor (which, as we've seen...

From our front-page news: Regardless of how old you are, it's likely that you enjoy sitting back and reading through an old magazine, or a really old magazine, just for fun. I have many old EGM's, GamePro's, Nintendo Power's and others, and it's great fun looking through just to see how far...

From our front-page news: Although it's been said that PC gaming is on the downslope, piracy of PC games has been steadily increasing ever since it's existed. It's not too often (if it's ever happened before) that a game developer has come straight out and asked, 'Why?'. Why exactly do people...

From our front-page news:Back in May, I made a news post about the certain demise of the QX9650 Extreme processor - the very first 45nm-based offering out of Intel - which we first took a look at last October. Well, the time has finally come, as multiple e-tailers have its replacement in stock...

From our front-page news:On Friday, I made a post about some Windows Vista themes that where not only great-looking, but completely free as well. Definitely check out that post if you haven't already, if you are interested in spicing up your home PC a little bit. Over the weekend, I set up a...

From our front-page news:The news was first leaked this weekend, but will today be confirmed by Intel: the first Nehalem products launched will carry the 'i7' identifier, officially becoming the 'Intel Core i7' processor. As is the norm, each individual model will carry a separate model code...

There's an exciting event happening in Dallas that comes in the form of a LAN party. Not any usual LAN though, as it's sponsored by some of the biggest companies in the business, including the event leader, ASUS. While the Dallas heat sure isn't fun to deal with, the event more than makes up for...

From our front-page news: In an attempt to help fill out their workstation line-up a little better, AMD has just launched a brand-new series, called FirePro. Both the V3700 and V5700 cards are designed to give consumers a better choice, because as it was before, there was an $800 gap between the...

From our front-page news: Vista might look mounds better than XP, but let's face it, even the best interfaces can look boring after a while... it's just something that happens, regardless of what it is. But did you know that Windows Blinds isn't the only solution for skinning your Vista? The...

Planning a new build and don't know which chassis to choose? Does the idea of having a feature-packed mid-tower intrigue you? Well, the P190 is just that, with its intuitive design and two pre-installed power supplies, offering you a total of 1,200W of overkill pleasure. Is the case a true...

From our front-page news: I'm confident that most visitors of our site are net-savvy enough to know spam when they see it, but the latest round of CNN daily roundups is so real, even I thought it was legit at quick glance. I don't subscribe to their newsletter, but when I saw it, I just threw it...

From our front-page news: There are few PC developers who haven't felt the effects of piracy, and it's becoming a bigger issue each and every day. It's even gone so far that Crytek, creators of Crysis, said that particular title would be their last exclusive on the PC, simply due to the vast...

From our front-page news:Let's face it, as perfect as the web browser seems to be right now, it hasn't changed that much since the first browsers of the mid-90s. What does our current browsers lack? Well, a high-tech interface and extremely-refined collaboration tools, of course, two things that...

From our front-page news: AMD might not have had the smoothest two years in the company's history, but they've managed to release a few select products that haven't only impressed, but have astounded. One recent launch to come to mind would be their ATI Radeon HD 4850 and HD 4870 cards, and I'm...

From our front-page news: When Techgage first launched three years ago, the common standard for a new PC build was the inclusion of 1GB of RAM. Most people at that time were still running a hearty 512MB. Later that year, it suddenly became the new standard to have 2GB in your rig, and it was...

From our front-page news: In case you haven't been paying attention, this week has been a good one where GPU computation is concerned. We posted our semi-in-depth look at Intel's Larrabee earlier this week, and shortly afterward, followed-up with responses by NVIDIA regarding their CUDA...