ViewSonic has announced the addition of two new monitors to its Elite gaming portfolio. The manufacturer is aiming to expand its gaming line-up with the ELITE XG27 gaming monitor series, XG05 gaming monitor series and ELITE Ally monitor control peripheral. The XG270QG gaming monitor includes a series of features designed …

Back with another episode of Leo Says, today Leo is focused on the latest news around AMD and Intel's CPUs

FinalWire, the company behind AIDA64, has released version 6.10 of the PC diagnostic and stress testing tool. The new version is available to download immediately and includes support for new processors, PCIe 4.0, NVMe 1.4 and more. Multiple versions of AIDA64 6.10 are available to download from the official website. AIDA64 …

This week, Intel has published an official datasheet for its upcoming and previously unannounced 495-series chipset. The document reveals key details about the specification and supported features in preparation for new CPU launches. The 495-series chipset will be compatible with Intel's ‘Premium U' and ‘Premium Y' SKUs, which often prioritise …

It's a new headset from MSI, priced at £79.99 - is it any good?

Back when the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 consoles first launched, both were found to have fairly high power draw when on standby and not fully switched off. Both console makers released more efficient hardware revisions over time but as we build up to next-gen, both companies are committing to …

This has been quite the week for PC hardware leaks. We’ve been hearing a lot about Threadripper, Intel 10th Gen, Cascade Lake-X and various motherboards but now, we are also getting early news of upcoming graphics cards. Specifically, new GPUs based on AMD’s Navi architecture. Over the weekend, we began …

We've seen a number of Intel and AMD leaks recently, pointing towards new processors and motherboards to go with them. This week, we have an interesting leak from the Eurasian Economic Commission's database, which lists a slew of TRX40, Z490 and X299X motherboards from Gigabyte. This news comes to us …

Andy compares three different ASUS Strix Fusion headsets

We've seen a number of ultra high-speed SSDs hitting the market following the launch of PCIe 4.0. This week, Gigabyte Aorus is adding a new SSD to the mix, cramming four 2TB M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSDs onto a sleek PCIe card with cooling and Raid 0 support for maximum speeds.

Two fake tech-support scammers have been arrested by the FBI in the U.S for defrauding over $10 million from over 7500 victims – most of whom were elderly. The frauds took place from March 2015 through to December 2018. The pair of scammers, who were from Las Vegas and New …

Ghost Recon Breakpoint is Ubisoft’s upcoming co-operative shooter and sequel to the popular Ghost Recon Wildlands. The second Breakpoint beta offers an early hands-on experience of the game and is due to start this coming week, spread over four days. The beta will start on the 26th of September and continue until …

It's a 1TB NVMe SSD from Seagate, currently priced at £199.99

Adverts on websites – a lot of people love to block them. Just be careful of how you do that as it would appear that some adblockers are putting cookies into the web browser of millions of users so they can gather ‘affiliate income' from referral schemes. This is one …

It has been a long time since Sony or Naughty Dog has said anything official about The Last of Us Part II. This week, that silence was broken, with the game confirmed to be appearing as part of Sony's ‘State of Play' announcement live stream on the 24th of September. …

September is back to school season for many. If you are heading off to college or university, then chances are you'll be looking for a trusty new PC/laptop for work and play. We've rounded up some of the best deals to help you choose.

This week, we saw IBM continue to push its quantum computing efforts by announcing  a 53 quantum bit/qubit capable quantum computer. That’s a big increase on IBM’s Q System One, which debuted this January boasting 20-qubits of processing power. For anyone who doesn’t know, a qubit is a quantum bit …

Intel will be launching the Core i9-9900KS in October, boasting a base frequency of 4GHz and a boost speed of 5GHz across all cores. As expected, this level of performance can't be achieved with the 95W TDP of the original Core i9-9900K,  with reports currently indicating that the CPU could near …

It's ASRock's £300 X570 offering - what does Luke make of it?

After plenty of rumours, leaks and speculation, today AMD has confirmed 3rd Gen Threadripper's launch in addition to providing an update on the impending release of the Ryzen 9 3950X.

Back in July, following the success of Valve's open approach to Dota Underworlds development, the Steam team also began trialling a similar early access system. Now, Steam Labs is live and gives Steam users the chance to try out experimental new features and provide feedback before these experiments are rotated …

Corsair's latest iCUE 465X RGB case has made its way to Leo for review

Divinity Original Sin 2 is one of the best RPGs of the generation, with Larian taking what was learned from the first game and improving in almost all areas. Recently, the game made its way over to the Nintendo Switch, granting the ability to take the game with you on …

Modern Warfare returns this year for the Call of Duty franchise, bringing back classic multiplayer modes and a single-player campaign. The beta has already been live on the PS4 for a few days now but this weekend, the open beta also kicks off for PC and Xbox One players- we …

Samsung combines super fast PCIe 4.0 speeds with some very smart software upgrades to create what could be the most 'fail proof' SSD to date.

Fans of HEDT platforms have quite a lot to look forward to at the moment. Not only has there been leaked information surrounding AMD's 3rd Gen Threadripper CPUs, but we also have details on Intel's Cascade Lake-X chips thanks to benchmark leaks. The Intel Core i9-10900X and Core i9-10980XE were …

Following in the footsteps of PUBG and Fortnite, earlier this year Activision officially announced Call of Duty Mobile, bringing one of the most-played shooter franchises of all time to Android and iOS. The game has been in beta for a while now but a final launch is nearing, with a …

A lot of major tech companies are making the jump to 7nm chips and TSMC has a lot of major clients vying for production lines. According to sources this week, TSMC might be struggling to meet this demand for 7nm chips, which could see production times jump. TSMC makes chips …

We’ve had a lot of big smartphone launches this year already but the year isn’t done yet. Aside from Google’s Pixel 4 launch next month, we are also getting two new devices from OnePlus- the OnePlus 7T and OnePlus 7T Pro. These phones aren’t due to be announced until later …

It's Toshiba latest ball grid array drive, and it's about the size of an SD card