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AMD reportedly launching Polaris GPUs this month

Just a few days after Nvidia's official unveiling of the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 Pascal-based graphics cards, reports surrounding AMD's plans for the year have begun to surface. According to the most recent reports, AMD is apparently planning a major press conference for the end of May, at which …

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Intel Broadwell-E Core i7-6950x benchmark results leak

Intel is set to announce Broadwell-E very soon indeed if leaks are anything to go by. Earlier this week, we got a look at some early performance numbers for the Core i7 6850K and now, someone has managed to get their hands on the ten-core flagship Broadwell-E chip, the 6950x, …

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MSI’s flagship X99 motherboard is now available in the UK

Back at CES this year, MSI announced the X99A GODLIKE GAMING Carbon Edition motherboard, it's top-tier model built for Intel's enthusiast-grade CPUs. After a few months of waiting, this feature-packed board is now available here in the UK, just in time for the impending arrival of Intel's Broadwell-E line-up that …

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AMD to focus on 8-core dies for first Zen processors

It has been a while since we have heard anything to do with AMD's upcoming crop of Zen processors but this week, we finally learned a bit more about AMD's potential plans for the launch later this year. According to reports, AMD is said to be sticking to eight core …

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Oculus signs on Fitbit’s Hans Hartmann as new COO

Oculus VR is continuing to snatch up some of the tech-world's brightest stars, taking on Fitbit's Hans Hartmann, who will leave his role as chief operating officer, to fulfil the same role at Oculus instead. Oculus's current COO, Laird Malamed, is said to be taking on another executive role within …

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Intel 5820K VS 6850K Broadwell-E benchmarks leak

It looks like the lid on Intel's upcoming Broadwell-E processors has well and truly bl0wn off. Not only have several leaks from both motherboard makers and Intel itself confirmed the upcoming chips but now, benchmarks of the upcoming 6-core 6850K VS the Haswell-E 5820K have made their way on to …

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Nvidia and Samsung have settled their patent dispute

The legal battle between Samsung and Nvidia over GPU patents appears to have come to an end as the two companies managed to reach a settlement agreement just a few hours before the final court hearing was set to proceed. This process began back in September 2014, when Nvidia filed …

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UFC Champion is blown away by Gear VR skiing

Putting on a virtual reality headset for the first time can be quite a disorienting thing, even if you're someone who's balance, mind and body and well tuned for some of the most stressful situations in the world. Take professional fighter and current UFC Light-Heavyweight champion, Daniel Cormier (DC), who …

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Intel Core i7 7700K Kaby Lake details supposedly leak

The first details surrounding Intel's Kaby Lake line-up of mainstream CPUs appear to have leaked out, revealing some key specifications for the upcoming 7th generation Intel Core i7 7700K. This comes just a few weeks after Intel updated its CPU roadmap, killing off the tick-tock release cycle that we have …

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Rumour suggests Nvidia could be planning a GTX 1060Ti

Over the last few weeks, we have been hearing a lot about the impending launch of the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 Pascal graphics cards from Nvidia. However, we haven't heard much about GPUs coming later down the line, until today, as a new report has revealed some potential information …

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