We often hear of brands such as G.SKILL and Corsair breaking memory frequency and latency records. However, Micron, the company behind the Ballistix brand, has claimed to have set a new overclocking record for DDR4. According to Micron Insight, the company’s Ballistix high-performance gaming memory has set a new overclocking …
Read More »New AMD driver brings optimisations for The Outer Worlds and Modern Warfare
Earlier this week, Nvidia began rolling out a new GeForce driver with optimisations for this weekend's big game releases- The Outer Worlds and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Now, those equipped with a Radeon GPU also have a day-one driver available to install, which should grant some notable performance boosts. …
Read More »First Intel Core i9-10980XE review gives an early look at performance
Intel officially announced its new line of Cascade Lake-X HEDT CPUs a few weeks ago, with SKUs all the way up to 18 cores and more competitive pricing to combat the growing popularity of Ryzen. The full launch is coming in November with reviews set to drop around the same …
Read More »Micron X100 SSD brings 3D XPoint Technology for data centres
Micron is widely known for its Cruical branded desktop range of SSD and memory solutions. The company also provides a range of high speed, high capacity storage devices for professional enterprise and data centre systems. Micron has announced an innovative memory technology which claims to produce the world’s fastest SSD, …
Read More »HyperX announce shipping milestones ahead of Cloud MIX Rose Gold launch
Kingston’s HyperX division has been popular among gamers and enthusiasts for some years now. HyperX provides a range of gaming hardware and peripherals for price-conscious users who refuse to compromise on quality. But just how popular is the HyperX range? I hear you ask, well here is the answer. As …
Read More »Intel officially announces Tremont microarchitecture
Intel officially announced its new 10nm ULP x86 microarchitecture – Tremont. This new microarchitecture will be at the core of Intel's Lakefield chipsets, planned to be used in servers, IoT devices, laptops, 5G networking, and tablets, like the Surface Neo. Yesterday, in Santa Clara, California, at the Linley Fall Processor …
Read More »ASUS ROG STRIX X570-E Gaming Motherboard Review
This is a board you dont want to miss, given its powerful 16 phase power delivery system
Read More »ASRock introduce new motherboards to X299 range
With the release of Intel’s 10th generation high-end desktop X-Series CPUs becoming ever closer, there is no doubt we should expect a barrage of new motherboard announcements to support the new CPU series soon. ASRock has got a head start on the rest with an update to their current X299 …
Read More »Sources claim that ReShade will be implemented into the GeForce Experience in new update
Every PC gamer enjoys playing around with mods from time to time. One of the most popular tools in recent years has been ReShade, allowing users to make custom filters to draw out extra detail in games and inject new graphical effects for extra visual improvement. Nvidia is apparently a …
Read More »Team Group introduces 32GB kits to the Team Elite U-DIMM range
While Team Group is widely known for its range of high performance, low latency T-Force gaming RAM, the company also produces more budget-oriented memory offering extended compatibility through its Team Elite range. When Team group added its 32 GB unbuffered DDR4 to its product range, it took some of us …
Read More »Samsung announce industry’s first 24Gb LPDDR4X chips
With the demand for faster and higher capacity memory in mobile devices such as smartphones increasing, manufacturers are racing to bring innovative new products to market which fulfil these needs. At the company’s annual Tech Day at its Device Solutions America headquarters in San Jose, California, Samsung announced it has …
Read More »Intel Xe set to support multi-GPU scaling
Intel Xe is still on track for 2020 and after scouring recent driver updates, it looks like we can expect multi-GPU scaling support.
Read More »Alphacool unveil compact enterprise cooling solutions
When planning out a custom liquid-cooling loop, fitting all the components that make up the loop into the tight constraints of a PC chassis can sometimes cause a bit of a headache. Alphacool has come up with a solution to this problem. A new range of liquid cooling pump/reservoir combinations …
Read More »Apple has reportedly begun sampling 5nm chips, possibly for 2020 AR and iOS devices
Earlier this week, we learned that TSMC was investing extra money to boost production capacity for 7nm and 5nm chips. Now, we seem to have a good idea as to why 5nm in particular is being fast-tracked, as Apple has reportedly begun receiving 5nm SoC samples in preparation for new …
Read More »Fractal Design ION SFX GOLD 650G Review
This is based on a killer Seasonic design, and its cheaper - whats the catch?
Read More »Kingston announce revamp to Canvas Select Plus SD line
For years, Kingston has been the go-to brand for many, the company produce high quality and high-speed memory in form factors ranging from 2.5-inch SSDs to their HyperX branded gaming RAM. Kingston also offers high-performance microSD cards suitable for a range of mobile devices. According to TechPowerUp, Kingston has announced it …
Read More »Galax KFA2 RTX 2080Ti Hall of Fame 10th Anniversary edition GPU – The £1800 GPU!
The 10th anniversary HOF RTX 2080Ti is really something special to look at and even features an inbuilt water cooling block for improved cooling performance. It's pretty hard to justify spending £1800 on a graphics card but it is definitely a special piece of technology that I was very pleased to take a closer look at...
Read More »Micron unintentionally announce new enterprise SSD range
It seems someone was a little hasty at Micron recently after its website product page was updated with a new series of 5300 SSD enterprise devices, which had been unannounced up until this point. Spotted by the guys over at the Computer Base, a revision to the enterprise pages on …
Read More »Nvidia rolls out Game Ready driver for The Outer Worlds and Modern Warfare
We have two major game launches heading our way this Friday. Not only is Obsidian returning to first-person, New Vegas style RPGs with The Outer Worlds, but Infinity Ward is back in the saddle with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Both games are coming on the 25th of October and …
Read More »Phanteks AMP 750 Power Supply Review
Another fantastic power supply, designed in collaboration with Seasonic.
Read More »EKWB releases new monoblock for Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Hero
EK Water Blocks has released a new monoblock for AMD AM4 based CPUs, as part of its Quantum line of products. The EK-Quantum Momentum ROG VIII Hero D-RGB will specifically fit the AMD X570-based Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Hero motherboard. The new monoblock features digital addressable RGB lighting and will …
Read More »Final specification of Nvidia GTX 1660 Super revealed
After bucketloads of rumours and leaks regarding Nvidia GTX 1660 Super graphics cards over the past few weeks, it looks like we finally have confirmation of specifications, even though we probably knew most of them already. Last week, we reported on some Nvidia GTX 1660 Super leaks from various manufacturers, including …
Read More »Intel’s “Tremont” microarchitecture expected to be announced 24th October
Intel's race to ship 10nm started a few months ago when the first Ice Lake chips for laptops were released. Now it's time for the low-end, mobile, and IoT devices to get Intel's 10nm… hopefully. Tremont, the name chosen by Intel for the next-gen SoCs built for low-end, IoT, and …
Read More »ASUS RX 5700 TUF Gaming X3 OC Edition Review
It's an expensive RX 5700, but what has ASUS done with the memory cooling?
Read More »10th generation Intel Core i5 Comet Lake set for Hyper-Threading
For quite some time now, Intel has had a stranglehold on the desktop CPU market, especially when it comes to gaming. A recent resurgence from AMD has seen a large chunk of that market being taken away, with AMD Ryzen offering performance benefits for productivity, streamers and content creators. Due to …
Read More »Kingston KC600 SSD launches with 3D TLC NAND and up to 2TB capacity
While new form factors and higher speed SSDs have been dominating much of the news cycle this year, there is still a big market for 2.5″ SATA SSDs. If you are looking to finally move on from that ageing high capacity HDD, then Kingston's new KC600 SSDs might be the …
Read More »Apple reportedly planning a big Augmented Reality push in 2020
We have known for some time now that Apple has big plans for Augmented Reality technology. A good chunk of Apple's engineers are working on various projects and we have seen Apple buying up AR specialist companies to help pave the way for a wearable. Last month, a new Apple …
Read More »SK hynix introduces 1Znm DDR4 memory
SK hynix Inc has announced it has developed new 1Znm 16Gb (Gigabits) DDR4 memory. 1Znm will offer the industry’s largest density and total capacity per wafer available in existing DDR4 DRAM modules. The company claims productivity of the new 1Znm memory modules has been improved by approximately 27% over the …
Read More »Image of rumoured Aorus TRX40 motherboard appears online
It looks like the first consumer desktop motherboard from Gigabyte to support AMD Threadripper 3000 has been revealed after an image was posted online over the weekend. The dark and grainy image shows what is expected to be the first motherboard from Gigabyte’s Aorus gaming line to support the rumoured …
Read More »Geekbench 5 tests put AMD Ryzen 3950X ahead of Threadripper 2950X
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X launch is just around the corner. The new 16-core, 32-thread monster will be arriving in November following a short delay. A small hint of the performance has been revealed via a Geekbench 5 test showing very positive results. An alleged Geekbench 5 result for the AMD …
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