SilverStone has announced the CS330, a new micro-ATX case aimed at video editors, those with home servers and small business owners. Featuring up to nine drive bays, the CS330 supports a ton of storage space for your professional needs. Out of the nine drive bays, one is for 2.5-inch drives …
Read More »Deepcool announces the dual-fan Gammaxx 400 Pro CPU cooler
Deepcool has added a new model to its Gammaxx 400 series of CPU coolers. Dubbed the Gammaxx 400 Pro, this cooler is very similar to the other models in the range, with the biggest difference being the addition of a second LED fan to aid heat dissipation. Besides the addition …
Read More »EK Cooling Expo 2020 reveals new EK Quantum lineup, EK-AIR and some excellent PC builds
With physical, in-person events all on hold for the time being, we have begun seeing a series of digital expos in their place. Last week, we covered the huge Thermaltake digital expo and this week, we are looking over everything that EK Water Blocks announced in its own digital showcase. …
Read More »Elite Dangerous: Odyssey won’t have VR support at launch
Last week, the next major expansion for Elite Dangerous was announced, offering players the opportunity to get out of their spaceships and stretch their legs on the surface of planets. Unfortunately, unlike the Horizons expansion, Odyssey will not have VR support at launch. Elite Dangerous has been one of the …
Read More »Amazon EC2 instances feature 2nd Gen AMD EPYC
Towards the end of 2019, Amazon mentioned that new AMD-powered instances were in the works, and these have now finally debuted in form of 2nd Gen AMD EPYC-run instances. Amazon's 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors run at frequencies of up to 3.3GHz and are the sixth instance family at AWS powered …
Read More »YMTC set to enter the SSD market this year
The Chinese-based memory manufacturer, YMTC, is expected move into the SSD market in Q3 2020. The company is reported to have started mass-producing 64-layer 3D NAND that will be used in the upcoming SSDs. Yangtze Memory Technologies, also known as YMTC, was founded in Wuhan, China in July 2016 – …
Read More »AMD SmartShift will only feature in one laptop this year
Announced at CES 2020, AMD SmartShift is a technology that dynamically shifts power between the CPU and GPU depending on the situation, which should enable higher performance. However, the technology is yet to really take off, and now the Chief Architect of Gaming Solutions at AMD has said that only one laptop model …
Read More »PNY Elite 960GB External SSD Review
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Read More »Intel details the power limits and “Tau” of its 10th Gen desktop processors
Intel has officially revealed the power limits and Tau of its 10th Gen processors...
Read More »Intel’s Tiger Lake architecture teased for summer launch
Intel's Tiger Lake launch appears to be on the horizon. The chipmaker has started to send marketing kits teasing the launch of the 11th Gen mobile processors for this summer. This is not the first time that Intel has done something like this. Back when Coffee Lake launched, Intel sent …
Read More »Leaked images allegedly show Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080
It has been three weeks since Nvidia officially unveiled its next-gen GPU architecture, codenamed ‘Ampere'. The A100 GPU has been announced but we have yet to see what variants will be used in new GeForce graphics cards. That may be starting to change, with new images reportedly showing the RTX …
Read More »MSI MEG Z490 Ace Motherboard Review
We review MSI's £400 MEG Z490 Ace motherboard
Read More »Intel Rocket Lake-S engineering sample spotted on 3DMark, not coming in 2020
An engineering sample of an Intel Rocket Lake-S processor has been spotted in the 3DMark database, featuring 8 cores,16 threads, a base clock of 3.2GHz and a boost clock of 4.3GHz...
Read More »Corsair is recalling and replacing SF series PSUs due to technical problems
After Corsair noticed an above-average RMA rate for its SF series of small-form factor PSUs, the company conducted a ‘thorough investigation' as to why this was happening. It seems that these PSUs suffer from a technical problem that has forced Corsair to issue a recall on all SF power supplies with …
Read More »Patriot PXD 1TB External SSD Review
How capable is this pocket-sized external SSD from Patriot?
Read More »MSI announces the MPG Z490 Carbon EK X motherboard
Featuring a custom EK water block "that aesthetically blends with the motherboard", MSI claims the new MPG Z490 Carbon EK X offers outstanding cooling performance for both the motherboard's VRM and the CPU...
Read More »Fractal Design Define 7 Compact Case Review
Is the Define 7 Compact another corker from Fractal Design?
Read More »Intel’s 8th Gen Coffee Lake processors to be phased out by end of year
Intel has announced that it will discontinue its 8th Generation Core desktop processors. The CPU lineup was officially discontinued as of June 1, but it will take some time before it's completely phased out. The announcement from Intel was made through a Product Change Notice (PCN), which reveals that the …
Read More »AMD has shipped over 500 million GPUs since 2013
According to a study made by Jon Peddie Research (JPR), AMD has shipped 553 million GPUs since 2013, with discrete graphics cards accounting for 36% of this figure...
Read More »Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB memory kits now available in white
Corsair has released its latest addition to the premium Dominator Platinum RGB family, with a new kit that uses white heatspreaders. Similar to the black versions, these memory modules feature the same RGB lighting system, consisting of 12 Capellix ARGB LEDs. Besides the change to white heatspreaders, Corsair has also added multiple gold-coloured …
Read More »Abkoncore unveils the C710S mid-tower chassis
Abkoncore has introduced its new C710S ‘Middle Tower Case' that, amongst other things, features ‘auto spectrum' LED lighting, included RGB fans and a tempered glass side panel. The C710S case from Abkoncore comes with an ‘auto spectrum' RGB LED strip located at the bottom of the front panel, which Abkoncore says makes …
Read More »ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB3 Motherboard Review
ASRock's Phantom Gaming-ITX is the only X570 mITX motherboard with a Thunderbolt 3 connector
Read More »Thermaltake unveils new cases, coolers, peripherals and more in virtual expo
With Computex no longer happening this month, Thermaltake decided to host its own virtual expo instead, giving us a good look at all the new gear coming over the next six months.
Read More »Prey VR may have leaked via retail listing
It has been a long time since Bethesda and Arkane Studios last discussed Prey. The game just turned three years old last month but it looks like we might be seeing a second resurgence, as ‘Prey VR' has appeared at an online retailer. Bethesda was one of the first major …
Read More »AMD Renoir 4000-series APU 3DMark performance leaked
We've still had no official word on the release of AMD's Ryzen 7 4700G and Ryzen 5 4400G, but leaker Apisak has already released figures showing the 3DMark performance of the upcoming APUs. Earlier this year, AMD released the 4000-series Ryzen APUs for laptops. These accelerated processing units (APUs) combine the Zen …
Read More »Samsung announces new NAND flash facility
Today Samsung announced its plans to expand its NAND flash production capacity in Pyeongtaek, Korea. Samsung said that the facility is being constructed to address upcoming data centre and mobile demands. Construction of the new facility started in May of this year and, if everything goes according to plan, it …
Read More »A French retailer has listed the AMD Ryzen 3000XT processors
Product listings for the upcoming AMD Ryzen 3000XT processors have appeared on Materiel.net, suggesting these CPUs will bring a bump in base and boost clocks compared to the current Ryzen 3000 processors...
Read More »Gigabyte officially launch the Z490 Aorus Ultra G2 Edition motherboard
Just when we thought all the Intel Z490 motherboard launches were done and dusted, Gigabyte has added one more board to its Z490 line up which sees the Taiwan based company continue its partnership with G2 Esports in the form of the Aorus Z490 Ultra G2 Edition Gaming Motherboard. Gigabyte …
Read More »Samsung launch the T7 Touch secure portable SSD
Samsung has announced the release of a new pocket-sized portable SSD series with lightning-fast speed and built-in security via a conveniently placed fingerprint sensor. All this comes wrapped in an elegant and sleek looking durable package. The new T7 Touch portable SSD series from Samsung combines the fastest transfer speed …
Read More »Kingston begins shipping 7.68 TB data centre SSDs
Kingston has announced plans to begin shipping of its DC1000M 7.68TB U.2 NVMe in June, while the 7.68 TB 500R data centre and DC450R SATA SSDs are available now. Both new SSD series are designed to provide additional storage while implementing strict QoS to ensure predictable I/O and low latency …
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