We’ve written on several occasions about GameRail, the private gaming backbone providing low-latency connections to gamers. The service has announced that it is shutting down:
It is with deep regret to announce that the GameRail network has been discontinued at this time. Thank you to the gamers who have participated in the GameRail trial and support of its development […]

Is fast memory really worth it? The folks at Tom’s Hardware set out to find out, and the result is Tom’s Ultimate RAM Speed Test. Here’s an excerpt:
Memory vendors have become excellent at marketing their latest high-end products: DDR3-2000 speeds are currently considered state of the art for enthusiast Intel platforms based on Intel’s P35, […]

Bigfoot Networks has announced a new feature for its popular Killer NIC high-performance gaming network card. Killer Bandwidth Control lets gamers fine-tune how their Killer network card dedicates bandwidth to their games and other applications. Through a simple GUI interface, users can set how Killer should allocate bandwidth usage from other […]