AMD has announced a new deal with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) which will see the CPU giant supply 2nd generation EPYC processors to power one of the most advanced meteorological supercomputers in the world, in the Atos BullSequana XH2000. AMD had a successful year in 2019 …
Read More »Lexar NS200 480GB SSD Review
It's a 480GB 2.5in SSD from Lexar - how does it compete against the likes of Samsung and Kingston?
Read More »Overclockers UK and Kolink debut the Big Chungus chassis
Overclockers UK has teamed up with Kolink to bring a stunning new PC case to the UK market for showing off amazing creations in spectacular fashion. The Big Chungus sets new standards in PC cases with huge space inside a tempered glass chassis, with room to install E-ATX motherboards and …
Read More »New Half-Life: Alyx screenshots leak online
We are still a few months away from the launch of Half-Life: Alyx but we are slowly learning more and more about the game. Previously, we've seen new gameplay footage and impressions from across multiple VR headsets and now, some new in-game screenshots have begun leaking out. Tyler McVicker, otherwise …
Read More »ASRock launches its Radeon RX 5600 XT graphics card series
A couple of weeks ago ASRock dropped specifications on its website of AMD’s new RX 5600 XT graphics cards a little earlier than expected. The company has now officially announced its Radeon RX 5600 XT GPU range which includes new Phantom Gaming and Challenger series cards. ASRock has unveiled its …
Read More »EKWB introduce the Aorus X570 chipset water block
EKWB has launched a unique new chipset water block for Gigabyte Aorus X570 based motherboards that completely replaces the stock PCH heatsink and more importantly, the annoying small and noisy cooling fan that has been introduced with AMD X570 motherboards. EKWB has launched a water block for Aorus X570 motherboards …
Read More »Intel i9-10990XE leak shows a 22C/44T CPU, 380W TDP
A screenshot purporting to show a 22-core Intel i9-10990XE HEDT CPU has appeared online...
Read More »DRAM prices to ‘trend slightly upward’ in Q1 as PC makers begin stocking up
There has been plenty of news around the DRAM and NAND market over the last couple of weeks. Firstly, a Samsung facility suffered a small power outage leading to several days of production downtime. Beyond that, analysts are putting in their predictions for 2020, setting expectations for price rises. Trendforce …
Read More »Panasonic develops world’s first UHD HDR virtual reality glasses
Panasonic's concept VR glasses are the first to feature HDR high-resolution image quality in a compact design
Read More »Wolfenstein: Youngblood update finally adds ray-tracing and DLSS support
While Wolfenstein: Youngblood was teased to be an RTX-supported game in the run-up to release, the game's ray-tracing and DLSS updates have taken quite some time to get ready. Now, six months later, the RTX update has arrived, with ray-traced reflections and DLSS now available. NVIDIA announced that the update …
Read More »Kingston launch the DC1000B NVMe SSD for data centre
Kingston Technology has announced a new range of NVMe SSDs for data centre solutions. The Data Centre DC1000B M.2 NVMe is optimised for server boot applications and equipped with power-loss protection (PLP). The new Data Centre DC1000B range from Kingston is a high-performance M.2 (2280) NVMe PCIe SSD utilising the …
Read More »Nvidia end Quadro driver support for a selection of Windows operating systems
Microsoft is set to end update support for Windows 7 on 14th January 2020 and Nvidia will also discontinue Quadro driver support for the operating system soon too, along with Windows 8 and other selected operating systems. Nvidia is planning to end support for Quadro drivers on a selection of …
Read More »Micron announces the next generation Crucial Ballistix gaming memory
Micron, the parent company of Crucial memory has announced the next generation of Ballistix gaming memory. The new RAM leverages a performance-tuned Micron die to provide high-speed memory with low latency. A new portfolio of Crucial Ballistix gaming memory designed for gamers and extreme overclockers has been unveiled by Micron …
Read More »MSI introduce the Creator 400 chassis series and new AIO coolers
At CES this week we saw some innovative new products from MSI. A couple of interesting new things from MSI that didn’t appear in our feature videos from the MSI Suite was the new Creator 400 desktop chassis series and a new line of AIO coolers from the company. MSI …
Read More »CES 2020: First look at new InWin cases and AIO coolers
Leo takes a look at what we can expect from InWin in 2020
Read More »CES 2020: Luke and Leo discuss the Intel NUC 9 Extreme
Luke and Leo share their views on the Intel NUC 9 Extreme at CES 2020
Read More »Vodafone teams up with Sony to offer a great new year deal
Vodafone and Sony have teamed up to bring a great new year special offer when purchasing a new Xperia 5 handset on a pay monthly contract with Vodafone. The Vodafone Big Winter Sale is running until 30th January and includes some great deals. Vodafone will offer customers who purchase a …
Read More »Job Simulator sells 1 million copies, becoming only the second VR exclusive title to do so
While the VR market may not be the largest segment of the video game industry, there is still plenty of room for the platform, and its games, to be a success. Making the official announcement recently, Job Simulator, the ‘tongue-in-cheek’ simulation title developed and published by Owlchemy Labs, has now …
Read More »CES 2020: Patriot shows off its SSDs and peripherals
Today at CES Luke and Leo visited Patriot, where we got a look at some new peripherals as well as a load of SSDs, which opened up an interesting discussion from Leo- what can we expect from next-gen SSD tech? Patriot has released plenty of decent gaming peripherals over the …
Read More »CES 2020: First look at the Intel NUC 9 Extreme at EVGA
we look at the NUC 9 Extreme with an EVGA RTX 2060 KO GPU crammed inside
Read More »CES 2020: EVGA’s $2000 motherboard, RTX 2060 KO and more!
At EVGA's CES suite, we check out a cheaper RTX 2060 and a much more expensive motherboard. We also get a good look at some new power supplies and the upcoming Nu Audio 7.1 Pro sound card.
Read More »CES 2020: FSP debuts T-Wings chassis and 12V-only power supply
Leo and Luke have been roaming around CES in Las Vegas over the last couple of days and during those travels, we caught up with FSP find out what's new in the power supply world. PSUs weren't the only thing catching our attention though, as FSP has its own case …
Read More »Samsung launch T7 Touch portable SSDs
While the main hardware news this week has focused on what’s happening at CES, there are other hardware launches happening at the same time. Samsung has revealed a new line of external SSDs, the T7 Touch series. Samsung claims its new T7 Touch Portable SSD series delivers lightning-fast transfer speeds …
Read More »CES 2020: Lian-Li Odyssey X, O11D Mini and new cooling gear
Today we paid a visit to Lian-Li here at CES 2020 to get a good look at all of the latest cases. In our coverage here, we go over the LANCOOL II Mesh, 315, O11D Mini and of course, the high-end Odyssey X. Lian-Li had plenty of new cases to …
Read More »CES 2020: Enthoo Pro II, speakers, RGB & more at Phanteks
Leo took a trip to Phanteks where he got a first look at a bunch of new PC cases and RGB products
Read More »CES 2020: Cooler Master serve up new gaming chairs, monitors, cases and peripherals
Continuing with our coverage at CES, today the guys are at the Cooler Master suite checking out what’s to come this year from the hardware manufacturer. Luke finds some interesting products on display including gaming chairs, monitors, peripherals, cases and cooling products from Cooler Master. Luke and Leo have been …
Read More »CES 2020: EKWB AIOs, CPU blocks, distribution plates and more
Luke and Leo see what we can expect from EKWB in 2020
Read More »CES 2020: First look at Concept Orion, Corsair’s RGB tempered glass
Ever wanted RGB tempered glass? it could be coming to the market sooner than you think...
Read More »CES 2020: Hands-on with Corsair’s new air and AIO coolers
Luke is at the Corsair booth taking a look at what new coolers the company is launching for 2020
Read More »Gigabyte introduces two new RX 5600 XT graphics cards
It's common for AIB partners to unveil their new graphics cards when a new GPU is released. With the announcement of the AMD RX 5600 XT at CES 2020, Gigabyte is adding to its gaming hardware portfolio two new graphics cards, following on from Sapphire's and MSI's announcement. These two new graphics …
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