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360Hz monitor!?

Alienware 360Hz monitor

Alienware and Asus are in a race to release the first 360Hz monitor! We’re going to need faster GPUs. Alienware is prepping a gaming monitor with a breakneck 360Hz refresh rate and my first thought is that the consumer version of Nvidia’s Ampere architecture can’t arrive fast enough. Same goes for AMD’s next-generation GPUs, because that sound you hear is the collective gasp of …

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Razer Opus – noise-cancelling headphones with THX audio

These surprisingly low-key cans are only available in China for now. Razer once again proves that it can make cool headphones without slapping three snakes and RGB onto them. According to Engadget Chinese, the latest product to benefit from this cleaner design cue is the Razer Opus, which are a pair of active noise-cancelling wireless headphones certified by the company’s very own THX. …

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CORSAIR Launches New DARK CORE RGB PRO Wireless Gaming Mouse

CORSAIR®, a world leader in high-performance gaming peripherals and enthusiast components, today announced the launch of the new DARK CORE RGB PRO and DARK CORE RGB PRO SE, its new premier wireless mice. Utilizing CORSAIR SLIPSTREAM WIRELESS, hyper-polling technology, and an 18,000 DPI optical sensor, these new mice offer bleeding-edge wireless mouse performance with both wired and wireless charging options. …

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ROG Spatha Gaming Mouse

CES 2015: ROG Spatha Gaming Mouse: Wireless/Wired, MMO, Laser Sensor And More Following recently Gladius and soon-to-launch Sica, ASUS are also introducing our fans to the premium Spatha! It’s still early days yet with the mouse shown below is still in active design and development, and is not projected for release at earliest until post Q2. We have a mix of images from an …

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ASUS Announces Strix GTX 960

The Strix GTX 960 is a new performance-mainstream graphics card, with a 1,291MHz factory-overclocked GPU and 1,317MHz GPU boost clock in OC mode, giving it a 12% faster than reference boost. The Strix cooler still features the critically acclaimed 0dB design in low temperature (and power) modes, with dual fans keeping cool under heavy gaming loads. In addition there’s 5-phase Super Alloy …

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Charge your phone while you jam out on Phaz’s headphones

Phaz is hoping to grab some of your dollar’s music-listening attention with its newly launched P2 headphones. This over the ear headset is powered — while in active mode — by a 1200 mAh battery that’ll also charge your phone via a USB port while you’re listening. The controls are dead simple: on the bottom of one earpiece is a …

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Asus ROG Unloads Expansive Lineup of New Gaming Gear at CES

Uh, where’s the kitchen sink? Day 1 of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is quickly wrapping up, though not before Asus Republic of Gamers (ROG) could blitz gamers with a bevy of hardware, including its new Spatha and Sica Gaming Mice, Strix Tactic Pro Mechanical Gaming Keyboard, and a few other products. While not all of what Asus ROG brought …

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Tiny 1TB SSD

A terabyte in your pocket? There are a few options out there, even an absurdly expensive USB drive. But none of them are quite as slick as Samsung’s newest portable SSD. And while its tiny little body tops out at 1TB for now, there are bigger sizes coming down the line. Samsung’s boringly named “Portable SSD T1” supports transfer rates …

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Thermaltake Tt eSports Breeds a Second Generation Black Laser Gaming Mouse

Program up to 35 macros across five profiles Thermaltake’s Tt eSports division has just uncaged a new rodent for gamers, the Black V2 laser gaming mouse. The Black V2 is a follow-up act to the original, and according to Thermaltake, it’s been upgraded in just about every way possible, including the laser sensor, surface finish, grips, buttons, and even the …

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Asus Rolls Out Strix 2.0 Gaming Headset for Multi-Platform Gamers

A headset for platform agnostic gamers We obviously favor gaming on the PC, and that’s not about to change. However, we also recognize that some gamers like to groove on multiple platforms. Apparently so does Asus, which just announced its Strix 2.0 headset with support for PC, Mac, PlayStation 4, smartphones, and tablets. Granted, you may look a little funny …

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