PC enthusiasts and custom PC builders will be pleased to know the Intel/Sandy Bridge nightmare will soon be over. ASUS announced via their company site that the new B3 P67 motherboards with properly working Intel SATA II controllers will begin shipping this week. Owners of pre-built computers from manufacturers such as HP, Dell, and so on have had the option of Sandy Bridge powered hardware due to various business dealings between said companies and Intel in which disabling...

Within the last couple of weeks, the minimum specs for Crysis were made public. While it gave us a good glimpse as to what would be required of our machines to power the latest and greatest Crytek has to offer, it didn’t tell us much in the sense that minimum requirements are often low-balled. Recommended specs are what really matter. Unfortunately, thus far Crytek has been pretty tight lipped about said requirements. Until now. Well, Crytek still isn’t...

Intel may be going some rough times with a massive Sandy Bridge reacall, but that doesn’t mean the platform is weak. Not by a long shot. Since the hardware’s release back in early January, people have been hitting some pretty crazy overclocks from the 2500K and 2600K chips. On a more personal note, I’ve been able to push my 2600K up to 4.7GHz with very little time spent on actual tweaking settings in the bios. But my chip isn’t “the golden...

Hey folks. We’re live in beautiful Las Vegas at ASUS’ pre-CES keynote. There’s plenty of good stuff coming your way. Hop on past for the show… [liveblog]

Samsung Electronics announced today that it has officially developed the world’s first DDR4 modules using a 30nm design process, with a transfer rate peaking at 2.133Gigabits per second @ 1.2 volts. Compare that to DDR3′s best attempts of 1.6Gbps @ 1.35V and 1.5V and you can see where the heat and energy savings come into play. For PC enthusiasts, the next frontier of custom computers is on the horizon thanks in part to DDR4′s increased performance and...