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AMD ended 2019 with the message that the company will push the envelope of high computing again in 2020, at the same time as announcing it will be holding its annual CES press conference on Monday 6th January at 2 pm. AMD finished off 2019 with a message on its …

CES 2020 is set to showcase the industry’s innovative upcoming products next week and a company that’s looking forward to showing off its new designs at the event will be FSP. The PC hardware manufacturer will be at CES to display its new products, including PC cases and a range …

Just a few days ago Greenliant announced it had started sampling new SATA SSD’s from the company’s industrial enterprise and have now announced a new line of NVMe U2 SSD devices will be adding to the EnduroSLC series. Greenliant is sampling to customers that require high endurance storage, a new …

Rumours circulating recently that AMD Radeon RX 5600 series graphics cards will be coming very soon might just have turned out to be correct since AMD GPU partner ASRock accidentally leaked information and specifications of an upcoming RX 5600 XT SKU. Just over a week ago, the guys over at …

There has been a lot of talk around Virtual Reality’s growth over the last few months. A lot of this is attributed to Valve’s announcement of Half-Life: Alyx, but there are other great games floating around too. Over the Christmas break, SUPERHOT VR in particular saw a big boost, generating …

Storage and multimedia products manufacturer Transcend has announced a new line of high performance, high endurance USB flash drives. The Transcend JetFlash 910 series offer high performance and large capacity in a compact USB device. The Transcend JetFlash 910 is manufactured using the latest 3D NAND technology to provide up …

It's a highly affordable 480GB NVMe drive from Lexar - how well does it perform?

Intel is expected to announce at CES that Project Athena laptops will feature an innovative vapor chamber and graphite sheet cooling solution

Intel is set to fire back at AMD in the new year when the company launches its 10th generation desktop Core series processors. Exactly when this will be is still uncertain, however, the flagship Intel Core i9-10900K is expected to boast 10 cores to offer competition to current Ryzen 3000 …

EVGA don’t release a huge number of motherboards, but when they do its usually something pretty impressive. A new motherboard that has just been announced from EVGA is no different, the SR-3 Dark offers exceptional performance and engineering. The new SR-3 Dark motherboard from EVGA features the Intel C622 chipset …

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) will be held in Las Vegas between 7th– 10th January 2020, so we don’t have long to wait until we find out what new and innovative technology will be launching in the new year. SK hynix will be there and have some new products on …

Rumours suggest AMD Ryzen 4000 processor architecture could offer up to 20% performance increase over the previous generation

Good news for Intel fans, LGA1200 should support current LGA115x cooling solutions.

Industrial enterprise SSD’s are often subject to harsh environments with devices expected to operate under extreme temperatures. In these situations, a reliable and robust design is required and that is exactly the thought behind a new range of enterprise SSD’s from Greenliant. Greenliant is sampling a new range of enterprise …

There has been plenty of Oculus Quest headsets in stock to go around in the months following launch but that changed over the last few weeks. It would seem that the holiday season, combined with some big end-of-year VR game launches and announcements, has caused a stock shortage, with new …

PC modders worldwide will be pleased to learn that Thermaltake has proudly announced its most exciting modding competition of the year, the Thermaltake Case MOD Invitational Season 2 is underway with voting running until 7th January 2020. All the amazing projects can be found on the Thermaltake CaseMOD website as …

Deepcool is adding to its wintry themed pc components with the release of the GAMMAXX GTE V2 White CPU cooler. The company already has an array of components for those PC building enthusiasts who love a white colour scheme and now this updated air cooler provides another option. The range …

Montech is launching a new line of budget-oriented gaming PC cases that could offer exceptional value

Leo is joined by Dave from Alphacool and they build a full-on custom loop with the Alphacool Eisball

AMD has been slowly ramping up its Navi GPU lineup, with the RX 5500 XT recently joining the RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT. The next step seems to be the RX 5600 XT, with leaked benchmarks leading us to expect similar performance to a Vega 56. User ‘_rogame’ posted …

Western Digital has announced it is shipping new HDD samples to enterprise OEMs and hyperscale customers worldwide. The new devices are the industry’s highest capacity HDDs featuring up to a huge 20TB capacity in SMR form. First announced in September 2019, the new high-capacity HDDs from Western digital include the …

Is ASUS ROG's TRX40-E Gaming worth a look at just under £500?

It has been quite a year for G.Skill, with new memory kit launches, the annual overclocking world championship and the expansion of the Trident Z Royal line of DDR4 kits. To cap off 2019, G.Skill has another launch, delivering ultra low-latency DDR4 memory kits in configurations up to 256GB. CL14-18-18-38 …

Kioxia recently announced it has developed a new flash memory cell structure. Twin BiCS FLASH is the world’s first three-dimensional semicircular split-gate flash memory cell structure using specially designed semi-circular Floating Gate cells. The new memory cell structure from Kioxia achieves greater program slope and larger program/erase windows with a …

OWC has announced a brand new ultra-high performance internal PCIe M.2 SSD that is capable of delivering over 6000 MB/s real-world data transfer speeds in capacities up to 8TB and is the fastest SSD ever built by the company. Accelsior 4M2 is OWC’s most high-performance SSD to date and is …

Enermax has introduced a new entry-level power supply range designed specifically for the European market, the MAXPRO II line from Enermax is available in 400 to 700-watt models and is 80+ 230V EU White level certified. The MAXPRO II range from Enermax offers up to 87% efficiency at 50% system …

It seems that PowerColor will be the first AMD AIB partner launching a Radeon RX 5700 GPU in the Mini-ITX form factor. This means Powercolor will also be the first to bring the Navi 10 GPU to small form-factor (SFF) builds. According to Hermitage Akihabara (via Tom's Hardware), the new PowerColor …

Half-Life: Alyx may have skipped its planned showing at The Game Awards but Valve did have something else planned to make up for it. This week, the folks at Tested put up a half an hour video showcasing new gameplay and also talking about how the game works across a …

Deepcool's Macube 550 will set you back £80 - does Leo think it's worth it?

Just last week, EK Water Blocks launched a brand new monoblock for the Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master motherboard and the company has now announced it will extend its X570 Aorus motherboard support with a new monoblock being launched for the X570 Aorus Elite. Water cooling enthusiasts have been eagerly awaiting …