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Win a Gamdias Hephaestus 7.1 Headset & Hades Gaming Mouse Winner!

It's been another week full of fun here at eTeknix.com and we've been running some really awesome competitions recently, giving you all the chance to win something. We've still got plenty more competitions in the works, so if you ...

10 years ago

Age of Empires Series Returns on Windows 8

Microsoft has far from abandoned their child Age of Empires and is readying a new version of the game. It will be fully presented at the PAX Prime 2014 that starts in a couple of days. Age of Empires: Castle Siege will be a Windows ...

10 years ago

New Law Requires Smartphones to Come with Killswitch

A new law passed in California on Monday will require smartphones to come with a remote kill switch to render them useless in case of theft or lost. The reason for the new law is the ever rising amount of crimes originating in the ...

10 years ago

US Hypersonic Weapon Destroyed Just Seconds After Testing Began

The US recently tested their new Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2, a new missile deployment systems that could allow them to strike a target anywhere in the world within one hour, but the initial test flight of the new ...

10 years ago

ASRock Reveal X99 Professional “Fatal1ty” Haswell-E Motherboard

Just yesterday ASRock's beastly X99 OC Formula motherboard was unveiled and now it's the turn of their Professional motherboard. The ASRock X99 Professional board is part of ASRock's Fatal1ty series of motherboards designed for ...

10 years ago

Nvidia’s Tegra K1 Coming To HP’s Chromebook 14

Nvidia's Tegra K1 processor has already hit the market with Nvidia's Shield Tablet and Xiaomi's MiPad and according to the latest reports it will now start arriving with Chromebooks. HP's Chromebook 14 is set to be the second ...

10 years ago

Destiny’s Ghost Takes the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

While this isn't the first video game character to take the ALS Ice Bucket  Challenge, it is the latest. Just one week after Digital Extremes Warframe took the spotlight, where their digital space soldiers nominated Master Chief, ...

10 years ago

Windows 9 To Revamp The Modern UI, Only For Touch Devices

[caption id="attachment_127068" align="aligncenter" width="800"] The Windows 8 Start Screen[/caption] We've already heard several times that there will be two versions of Windows 9 "Threshold" - one for desktop style users and the ...

10 years ago

Windows Community Working On Service Pack 4 For XP

Microsoft ended support for Windows XP in April of this year meaning no more security updates or OS patches. Despite the end of support Windows XP is still incredibly popular in the business sector such as on company PCs and even ...

10 years ago

Graphics Card Shipments Drop But Nvidia Still Holds Significant Lead

Not that long ago we heard that graphics card shipments were set to take a tumble in Q2 of this year, that's April through June. The reason for this was because Scrypt-based cryptocurrency miners were dumping their AMD graphics ...

10 years ago

Tesoro Tizona Tenkeyless Mechanical Keyboard Now Available in UK

Tesoro are back once again with another stunning mechanical gaming keyboard. Their latest effort, the Tizona Tenkeyless, is now available in the UK, bringing with it a range of cool features such as an optional detachable number ...

10 years ago

Plextor M6M 128GB mSATA Solid State Drive Review

Introduction A few months ago I took a look at a drive that has managed to slingshot Plextor right back into the enthusiast market with a drive that took the limitations of the SATA III interface and threw it out of the ...

10 years ago

HP’s Autonomy Acquisition Cancelled by Judge

Shareholders of HP have been carrying out legal action for previously claiming that they acquired British based company Autonomy for $8.8bn when the figure was in fact $10.7bn. Outraged shareholders decided to lawyer up and come ...

10 years ago

Click-Bait Links Being Cleaned up by Facebook

Facebook has just announced their plans to clean out our news feeds of click-bait articles and headlines - alongside stories that contain links shared in the captions of photos or within status updates. This follows Facebook's ...

10 years ago

Would You Like Fries With That? Burger King Offering Smartphones to Customers

Burger King are holding nothing back in regards to their new branded mobile app for Android - so much so that they're offering Android smartphones on their website. But as the famous saying goes "Nothing in life is free". ...

10 years ago

Amazon Has Bought Twitch, Not Google

Amazon has bought video-game streaming service Twitch for $970m (£585m) and not google as originally thought. Twitch, launched in June 2011, is the most popular Internet destination for watching and broadcasting videogame play. ...

10 years ago

Why Build A City In SimCity When You Can 3D Print it!?

If you're a big SimCity fan then this latest use for 3D Printing could be right up your street. A designer called Ittyblox has produced modular buildings from the SimCity game using 3D Printing. As you might expect, they aren't ...

10 years ago

Intel’s Core i7 5960X Gets Priced At Retailer – Eyewateringly Expensive

We always knew Haswell-E wasn't going to be cheap. If Intel's six core i7 4960X was priced at $1000 on launch, then how much more would an eight core i7 5960X cost? According to the latest retail pricing that's showed up at a ...

10 years ago

ASRock’s X99 OC Formula Finally Gets Pictured

Anandtech have managed to nab themselves some exclusive pictures of ASRock's flagship X99 overclocking series motherboard. The first standout thing is the design: the black and yellow colour scheme is very brave but I think it ...

10 years ago

JEDEC Release LPDDR4 Standard: DDR4 For Tablets, Smartphones, Notebooks

DDR4 for the desktop may be just around the corner with Intel's X99 Haswell-E launch at the end of this month but DDR4 for the mobile market is a bit further off. Today JEDEC announced the new "JESD209-4" LPDDR4 standard for low ...

10 years ago

Powercolor’s R9 285 TurboDuo “Tonga Pro” Graphics Card Is Revealed

AMD's Tonga Pro R9 285 is just around the corner, September 2nd to be exact, and so far we've seen a compact mini-ITX version from Sapphire as well as a STRIX version from ASUS. Now it is Powercolor's turn for the spotlight with ...

10 years ago

New AMD FM2+ CPU Spotted

A new AMD CPU has been spotted in the support manual for the FM2A88X Pro+ motherboard from AsRock. The new CPU has a model number of 450 and the Athlon branding, so it probably won't have an integrated GPU. With the Athlon X4 860K ...

10 years ago

ASRock X99 Extreme 6 Motherboard Pictured

A week ago we saw the new X99 workstation motherboard from ASRock, the X99 WS. Now it has become time to see the gaming variant of this board, called the ASRock X99 Extreme 6. The board of course supports the  Haswell-E ...

10 years ago

Google Wins against German Publishers

Google has won a victory in Germany where a handful of publishers tried to force Google to take down access to their articles. A regulator handed Google Inc. a victory on Friday as it said it would not pursue a complaint brought ...

10 years ago

Silicon Power Unveils Latest 4TB USB3 External Hard Drive

SP/ Silicon Power unveiled their new-designed 3.5-inch USB 3.0 external hard drive, the Stream S06. Taking all aspects into consideration without compromising, the Stream S06 is build upon the USB 3.0 interface and with high ...

10 years ago

NZXT and Ducky Booth at Insomnia i52

NZXT recently joined forces to offer gamers a great chance to get a special edition Ducky Shine 3.0 keyboard alongside the incredible NZXT H440 chassis. This partner ship seems to have lasted a while longer as both brands are on ...

10 years ago

G.Skill Ares 8GB 2400MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit Review

Introduction   Choosing the right memory kit for your system is a fairly mundane task, for most people it is just about getting the right amount of memory and at a good price. While price and capacity are ...

10 years ago

Lian Li Reveal Unique Looking PC-Q19 Mini-ITX Case

The beauty of mini-ITX systems is that you can build them into unique and compact form factors. Lian Li's latest PC-Q19 case is a fantastic example of this. With a sleek brushed aluminium exterior, a choice of black or silver and ...

10 years ago

PSN Network Hit By DDOS Attack, Back Online But Sony Postpones Maintenance

Sony's PlayStation Network was hit by a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack this weekend which affected service. As of today the service has resumed normal operation but Sony have had to cancel their planned August ...

10 years ago

Assassin’s Creed Unity XB1 Beta Build Screenshots Leak Online

Assassin's Creed Unity is the seventh instalment of Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed series and the game's launch is just two months away. Based on early screenshots of the Xbox One version that have been leaked online it appears Ubisoft ...

10 years ago

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