We review USB 3.1 today alongside a RAID0 SSD based storage unit that is USB 3.1 compatible. With USB 3.0 performance is amazing at roughly 450 MB/s. With USB 3.1 we can reach speeds of an excess of 800 MB/s or even better over USB 3.1, and in this article we'll show you all the details involved, and some performance numbers as well of course.

Read the full review here.
 

Reports have been coming in for a while not that people end up with dead Samsung 850 Pro SSDs. The problem seems to originate from a firmware update issued using samsung's Magician Software. Once users update the firmware to the latest build people run into black screens and an unrecognizable SSD in the BIOS. 

The Intel Iris Graphics 6100 (GT3) is an integrated Broadwell GPU revealed in Q1 2015.  The Broadwell-GT3 silicon, Iris 6100 will get 48 execution units, a 300 to 1100 MHz dynamic GPU core frequency, and an L4 eDRAM cache. 

The official Twitter account of Civilization has revealed the release date for Sid Meier's Starships. Take command of a fleet of powerful starships in this adventure-driven strategy game from legendary designer Sid Meier.This new strategy game from Sid Meier will be released on March 12th on PC, Mac and iPad, and will be priced at $14.99. 

Thermaltake introduces the new Riing 12 and 14 LED Radiator Fan Series, patented LED ring radiator fan fitted to enhance static pressure that produces impressive cooling performance with an optimized fan blade design. Hydraulic bearings for silent operation guarantee ultra-low noise. In addition, an anti-vibration mounting system strengthens the stability during operation. 

Tesoro announces the Gungnir Black optical gaming mouse with customizable RGB illumination. The Gungnir Black is named for the spear Odin used in Norse mythology. Much like the mythological Gungnir, the Gungnir Black with a 3500 DPI optical sensor ensures smooth and controlled movements when targeting opponents in the heat of battle.

Samsung announced today that it is now mass producing the industry's first 128-gigabyte (GB) ultra-fast embedded memory based on the much-anticipated Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 2.0 standard for next-generation flagship smartphones. The new embedded memory's UFS 2.0 interface is the most advanced JEDEC-compliant, next-generation flash memory storage specification in the world.

The handy DDU / Display Driver Uninstaller is now at update 1.4.0.0.0 - Display Driver Uninstaller is a driver removal utility that can help you completely uninstall AMD/NVIDIA graphics card drivers and packages from your system, without leaving leftovers behind (including registry keys, folders and files, driver store). 

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Check out some of the screenshots of foliage with Unreal Engine 4.7, beautiful rendering of leaves and foliage, HDR texture support, in-editor animation editing, along with hundreds of optimizations and improvements.

Battlefield Hardline, the upcoming cops-and-robbers first-person shooter from Visceral Games, has "gone gold," meaning the studio has completed initial development on the project.

ASUS announced the world's fastest and first complete line-up of SuperSpeed+ USB 3.1 solutions, including motherboards with built-in USB 3.1 and two ASUS USB 3.1 Cards. 

You know, I have to say this, it is just ridiculous how Rockstar games insults the PC gaming community. Delay after delay after delay. So it should come with nor surprise that the March launch of GTA5 for the PC has been postponed, this time the release date is set at April 14. Seriously, the game got old and dated before it was even released. It is just beyond insulting isn't it ?

CEO and Founder of NVidia Jen-Hsun Huang back in 1993 has written a post on Nvidia's blog regarding the GeForce GTX 970. It is quite unusual for a CEO to do this, so I'll just leave it for you to read. After the break you can read his post.

The Tundra TD02-E / TD03-E is SilverStone’s first all-in-one liquid cooler and is a breakthrough in a market segment filled with similar-looking products. Its unique alloy water-block is constructed with copper base and aluminum body for better durability compared to plastic-built competitions.

Valve will be showing a SteamVR hardware system at next week's GDC in San Francisco. There was gossip on this for a while now, virtual reality projects that is. So we'll see what next week offers. I've been using the Oculus Rift Dk2 myself for a while now, and Oh my ... motion sickness is soo bad.

We have a peek at the rig of the month February 2015. A very special build that comes from the Czech Republic. Filip made this chassis and design by hand, and the craftsmanship is pretty nice. Every project must have a name, his is called the ROG V-3.

Check out his rig right here.

ORIGIN PC launched today their new line of home theater PCs, the ORIGIN OMEGA, for gamers and enthusiasts all over the world. The ORIGIN PC OMEGA is the ultimate Home Theater PC designed to bring the power and flexibility of a PC to any living room.

That's right, 10TB ! This division of Western Digital started sampling its first 10TB sealed HDDs a while ago, the HDDs are filled with helium and use shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology to offer even platters with 1.43TB of storage capacity on each of them.