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Although custom liquid cooling loops have been commonplace for some time, the addition of liquid distribution plates has become popular recently. EKWB has just announced a new distribution plate designed for the popular custom cooling chassis, the Lian Li PC-011D. EK has added a new liquid cooling distribution plate to its …

The world’s fastest gaming processor is about to get a little bit faster

The debate over which is best between CPU AIO and Air coolers is always a hot topic, with users on both sides of the argument highlighting the positives of each solution. Rajintek realise this by offering CPU coolers in both varieties and has added a new AIO liquid cooler to …

The board has a list of features as long as your arm, however it also costs a hefty amount of money. 

After originally releasing as a PlayStation VR exclusive in late 2018, Borderlands 2 VR has now made its way over to PC. The game didn’t get off to a great start on Steam, with odd issues popping up depending on the headset being used. Fortunately, the developers have been quick …

Could this mark a real push to see Intel's 10nm chips on the desktop platform?

For the first time in its long history, Crucial has announced it is to enter the portable SSD storage market with a new device. The Crucial X8 Portable SSD claims to deliver top performance at a competitive price. Crucial, the brand behind Micron’s memory and storage solutions has announced its …

If you are somebody who likes to keep an eye on developments in the world of network-attached storage systems, you will be very familiar with Western Digital Red drives. Western Digital has announced a range of new Red devices, purpose-built for small business and home office scenarios with NAS environments. …

We often hear of brands such as G.SKILL and Corsair breaking memory frequency and latency records. However, Micron, the company behind the Ballistix brand, has claimed to have set a new overclocking record for DDR4. According to Micron Insight, the company’s Ballistix high-performance gaming memory has set a new overclocking …

Earlier this week, Nvidia began rolling out a new GeForce driver with optimisations for this weekend's big game releases- The Outer Worlds and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Now, those equipped with a Radeon GPU also have a day-one driver available to install, which should grant some notable performance boosts. …

Intel officially announced its new line of Cascade Lake-X HEDT CPUs a few weeks ago, with SKUs all the way up to 18 cores and more competitive pricing to combat the growing popularity of Ryzen. The full launch is coming in November with reviews set to drop around the same …

Micron is widely known for its Cruical branded desktop range of SSD and memory solutions. The company also provides a range of high speed, high capacity storage devices for professional enterprise and data centre systems. Micron has announced an innovative memory technology which claims to produce the world’s fastest SSD, …

Kingston’s HyperX division has been popular among gamers and enthusiasts for some years now. HyperX provides a range of gaming hardware and peripherals for price-conscious users who refuse to compromise on quality. But just how popular is the HyperX range? I hear you ask, well here is the answer. As …

Intel officially announced its new 10nm ULP x86 microarchitecture  – Tremont. This new microarchitecture will be at the core of Intel's Lakefield chipsets, planned to be used in servers, IoT devices, laptops, 5G networking, and tablets, like the Surface Neo. Yesterday, in Santa Clara, California, at the Linley Fall Processor …

This is a board you dont want to miss, given its powerful 16 phase power delivery system

With the release of Intel’s 10th generation high-end desktop X-Series CPUs becoming ever closer, there is no doubt we should expect a barrage of new motherboard announcements to support the new CPU series soon. ASRock has got a head start on the rest with an update to their current X299 …

Every PC gamer enjoys playing around with mods from time to time. One of the most popular tools in recent years has been ReShade, allowing users to make custom filters to draw out extra detail in games and inject new graphical effects for extra visual improvement. Nvidia is apparently a …

While Team Group is widely known for its range of high performance, low latency T-Force gaming RAM, the company also produces more budget-oriented memory offering extended compatibility through its Team Elite range. When Team group added its 32 GB unbuffered DDR4 to its product range, it took some of us …

With the demand for faster and higher capacity memory in mobile devices such as smartphones increasing, manufacturers are racing to bring innovative new products to market which fulfil these needs. At the company’s annual Tech Day at its Device Solutions America headquarters in San Jose, California, Samsung announced it has …

Intel Xe is still on track for 2020 and after scouring recent driver updates, it looks like we can expect multi-GPU scaling support.

When planning out a custom liquid-cooling loop, fitting all the components that make up the loop into the tight constraints of a PC chassis can sometimes cause a bit of a headache. Alphacool has come up with a solution to this problem. A new range of liquid cooling pump/reservoir combinations …

Earlier this week, we learned that TSMC was investing extra money to boost production capacity for 7nm and 5nm chips. Now, we seem to have a good idea as to why 5nm in particular is being fast-tracked, as Apple has reportedly begun receiving 5nm SoC samples in preparation for new …

This is based on a killer Seasonic design, and its cheaper - whats the catch?

For years, Kingston has been the go-to brand for many, the company produce high quality and high-speed memory in form factors ranging from 2.5-inch SSDs to their HyperX branded gaming RAM. Kingston also offers high-performance microSD cards suitable for a range of mobile devices. According to TechPowerUp, Kingston has announced it …

The 10th anniversary HOF RTX 2080Ti is really something special to look at and even features an inbuilt water cooling block for improved cooling performance. It's pretty hard to justify spending £1800 on a graphics card but it is definitely a special piece of technology that I was very pleased to take a closer look at... 

It seems someone was a little hasty at Micron recently after its website product page was updated with a new series of 5300 SSD enterprise devices, which had been unannounced up until this point. Spotted by the guys over at the Computer Base, a revision to the enterprise pages on …

We have two major game launches heading our way this Friday. Not only is Obsidian returning to first-person, New Vegas style RPGs with The Outer Worlds, but Infinity Ward is back in the saddle with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.  Both games are coming on the 25th of October and …

Another fantastic power supply, designed in collaboration with Seasonic.

EK Water Blocks has released a new monoblock for AMD AM4 based CPUs, as part of its Quantum line of products. The EK-Quantum Momentum ROG VIII Hero D-RGB will specifically fit the AMD X570-based Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Hero motherboard. The new monoblock features digital addressable RGB lighting and will …

After bucketloads of rumours and leaks regarding Nvidia GTX 1660 Super graphics cards over the past few weeks, it looks like we finally have confirmation of specifications, even though we probably knew most of them already. Last week, we reported on some Nvidia GTX 1660 Super leaks from various manufacturers, including …