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AMD recently held an earnings call discussing its Q1 2020 financial results. During the call, Lisa Su – President and Chief Executive Officer of AMD – said that the company now has “more than 50% share of premium processor sales at many top global e-tailers”. It's no secret that AMD …

EK Water Blocks is introducing two new mounting brackets for pumps, reservoirs and pump/reservoir combos. These mounting brackets can be installed to either 120mm or 140mm fan mounting points and support an extensive set of custom cooling hardware. The EK-Loop UNI Pump Reservoir Bracket will be available in two models …

We build a £3000 custom loop system using Hydro-X hardware

EK Water Blocks has just launched a new VRM Bridge designed for the brand-new Asus ROG Maximus XII Formula. Featuring D-RGB lighting, this new cooling solution “bridges the existing integrated CrossChill EK III VRM cooling and the CPU water block into a single entity.” According to EK, the Quantum Momentum …

Today, Intel is announcing its 10th generation desktop processors, starting with cheap dual-core Celeron processors and ranging all the way up to the Core i9-10900K with 10-cores and 20-threads.  The Core i9-10900K is going to take over from its predecessor, the 9900K, as ‘the world's fastest gaming processor'. Under the …

We get hands on with eight brand-new Z490 motherboards

Intel has been releasing graphics drivers for quite some time now. However, the latest edition – version 26.20.100.8141 released on April 27 – comes with a big change. Intel has decided to release an unlocked version of its graphics drivers. Until now Intel has released its graphics driver through its …

How does this little cooler from Arctic fare against the Wraith Prism and Stealth?

be quiet! is updating its entry-level Pure Rock CPU cooler. The new Pure Rock 2 CPU cooler will keep things simple, just like its predecessor. It will offer support for 150W TDP processors, high clearance for memory modules and comes with a Pure Wings 2 fan to cool the heatsink. …

KIOXIA is launching a new technology which, it claims, extends the life of flash storage, makes it easier to use and more predictable in nature. The company calls the new technology Software-Enabled Flash. Software-Enabled Flash – or SEF for short – is software build around a “flash-native API”. SEF is expected …

Antec is set to expand its portfolio of PSUs with new Signature series Platinum and Titanium models. These new power supplies will be Antec's flagship models, available in 1000W and 1300W variants and with both Titanium and Platinum efficiency. According to TechPowerUp, the Signature series PSUs are equipped to deliver …

Is the Pure Base 500DX worth the upgrade over its predecessor?

Kingston has announced its latest NVMe PCIe SSD. The KC2500 is a next-gen M.2 SSD for desktops, workstations and HPC systems that uses 96-layer 3D TLC NAND memory modules and the “latest Gen 3.0 x4 controller”. With sequential read speeds as high as 3500MBps, and sequential write speeds reaching up to 2900MBps, the …

Cinebench R20 scores for both of the upcoming Core i3 and Ryzen 3 processors have been published, giving us a closer look at the relative performance of these new CPUs...

TSMC is expected to start volume production of its 5nm process nodes later this year, and to follow that up with 3nm during 2022. Now the hunt for ever smaller node sizes continues as TSMC is reported to have started R&D for its 2nm process nodes. The reports come from …

Over the last few driver updates from AMD, there has been one known issue lingering, causing black screen instances on RX 5700 users on occasion. With this week's latest update, that problem has now been fixed, while optimisations are also in place for new game releases.  The Radeon Software 20.4.2 …

Back at CES, Intel showed off the first version of its ‘Xe' graphics architecture running as an iGPU. We have yet to see the discrete graphics version in detail, but we'll get to see Xe Integrated Graphics in just a few months time.  Intel's Tiger Lake processors are currently set …

It has been a few years since the Oculus Touch controllers first launched and while there have been small tweaks to it along the way, we have yet to see a proper ‘next gen' controller from Oculus. That could be changing quite soon, as recent firmware updates have shed some …

It has been about six weeks since Nvidia began reworking its plans for this year's Graphics Technology Conference. While we thought we were going to be missing out on a keynote address from Jensen Huang, plans have changed a bit, with the GTC 2020 keynote now set to be live …

Too hot to handle? We push four CPU coolers to their limits on the Threadripper 3990X

The Eiszyklon Aurora LUX PRO 2 Digital RGB fan is Alphacool's latest addition to its cooling portfolio. The Eiszyklon Aurora LUX PRO 2 features PWM control and digitally addressable RGB LEDs. The 5V RGB LEDs in the Eiszyklon Aurora LUX PRO 2 surround the fan blades in a light diffuser …

The German overclocker der8auer succeeded with pushing an AMD FX-8350 to 8.127 MHz – speeds nearly twice as fast as what we'd expect from a stock chip. The 32 nm CPU was forced up to this speed by giving it voltage of 1.920 vCore – making a single core pull 100 W of power. …

AMD recently announced the new 4C/8T Ryzen 3 processors. Although the CPUs haven't launched yet, the first benchmarks for the Ryzen 3 3000 series have started to pop up, and they seem to pack quite a punch...

Update 10:47 24/04/2020: The price has dropped further – now to under £159. Even better. AMD's Ryzen 3000 processors have been around for almost a year now, and they have been widely praised for offering top multi-threaded performance and high efficiency levels. Now, you can get a 6-core Ryzen 5 …

Though the next generation of consoles are likely to bring with them a massive leap in performance and technical ability allowing developers to take full advantage of new technologies, there have been fears that the rumoured Xbox Lockhart could hold back all other next-gen systems. According to some developers however, …

GIGABYTE's AORUS products are usually equipped with the latest technology and aimed towards gamers – with the company's upcoming Z490 motherboards being no exception. The lineup is reported to come with forwards-compatibility for PCIe 4.0. Based on reports from VideoCardz, GIGABYTE's AORUS Z490 lineup will consist of 14 different boards that …

OWC has unveiled its Thunderbay 8 storage solution that offers up to 128 TB storage and uses Thunderbolt 3 to reach speeds of up to 2586 MB/s. Those who are in dire need of even more storage can daisy-chain up to six units together for up to 768 TB of storage …

Can the ML240L V2 knock the Arctic Liquid Freezer II from its perch as best budget AIO?

The Crucial P5 is the company's latest addition to its P-series M.2 NVMe SSDs. The P5 SSDs combine 3D NAND and ‘cutting-edge controller technology' to attain read and write speeds of up to 3400MB/s and 3000 MB/s, respectively. The read and write speeds of up to 3400 respectively 3000 MB/s are …

Patriot has released a new high-speed external SSD with three storage capacity options: 512GB, 1TB, and 2 TB. Aimed at those who need a portable high-speed storage device, the PXD SSD can also be used as external storage for your PS4 or Xbox One. Weighing about 35g and measuring 103×31.5×9.7mm …