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Could the GA103 and GA104 be powering the RTX 3070 and RTX 3080?

Bitfenix has launched a new elegant mid-tower PC case that is available to purchase now from Overclockers UK. The DAWN TG is equipped with an innovative mesh RGB behind a tempered glass front panel that extends to the right-hand side. Bitfenix says its new mid-tower chassis draws inspiration from the …

Gigabyte has announced a new partnership with cooling specialists Incooling to design a prototype model for a new class of two-phase liquid cooling solution...

Back in November, MSI announced its latest series of mid-tower PC cases, the MAG Forge 100 range. Now as we approach the end of January, two of the three MAG Forge 100 cases are arriving in the UK- the Forge 100R and the Forge 100M. Both versions come with mesh …

Lenovo has been hovering around the Virtual Reality space for a few years now, having released headsets for the Google Daydream and Windows Mixed Reality platforms, while also licensing Sony's PSVR design and taking on manufacturing duties for the Oculus Rift S. This year, it looks like Lenovo will be …

A couple of weeks ago, Nvidia launched the latest GeForce Game Ready driver, adding in support for more G-Sync Compatible monitors, enabling new features in the control panel and bringing RTX ray-tracing support to Wolfenstein Youngblood. Unfortunately, the driver also caused some issues for some users, so a hotfix has …

As RTX 2060 prices begin to drop, AMD's upcoming RX 5600 XT has reportedly received a last minute speed boost.

With Half-Life: Alyx coming out this year, a lot of Valve fans are wondering what could be coming next. There have been plenty of leaks around another Left 4 Dead game dating back many years but rumours kicked up a notch yesterday when HTC China's president tweeted a presentation slide …

It would appear as though January 2020 is quickly becoming the month of game delays, as yet another highly anticipated title was announced to be delayed for a number of months. Marvel’s Iron Man VR, originally slated to release on the 28th of February for the PSVR, has now been pushed …

EKWB has launched some new tools, essential for building hard line and soft tube custom liquid cooling systems. The tools of the trade include a soft tube cutter and hard tube bending jig to accurately produce angled bends in hard-line water-cooling solutions. The new tools from EKWB will help to …

Intel plans to detail more about its Xe GPU architecture at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2020, running from the 16th to the 20th of March, in San Francisco, California. Scheduled for later this year, Intel's GPU is supposed to fight the likes of Nvidia and AMD for a slice …

Palit has launched a new batch of GamingPro graphics cards. The newly released models consist of four Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics cards: two RTX 2080 Super, the GP and the GP OC, and two RTX 2070 Super, the GP OC and the GP Premium. The Gaming Pro graphics cards feature …

Back in 2018, Samsung managed to break Intel’s 25-year long streak as the largest chipmaker in the world. Intel had been holding the title since the early 90s, but a boom in NAND and DRAM demand led to significant growth for Samsung, putting it over the top in 2017 and …

During CES 2020, Thermaltake launched a bunch of new cases and liquid cooling products. Something we had a brief look at in Las Vegas was the Thermaltake Level 20 RS chassis, which is a new mid-tower PC case due to be made available for purchase very soon. Thermaltake says the …

Following on from Valve's announcement of Half-Life: Alyx, the VR headset market saw an immediate boost. The Valve Index swiftly began running out of stock and now just a couple of months away from the game's release, the Index has sold out in almost every country it is sold in.  …

Looking for a new 360mm AIO? We test the Captain 360X from Deepcool on socket TR4

Could AMD really have three high-end Radeon RX 5000 series GPUs coming?

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 …

It's a 480GB 2.5in SSD from Lexar - how does it compete against the likes of Samsung and Kingston?

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

A screenshot purporting to show a 22-core Intel i9-10990XE HEDT CPU has appeared online...

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 …

Panasonic's concept VR glasses are the first to feature HDR high-resolution image quality in a compact design

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …