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Is this the ultimate gaming system? Briony tests it out today !

To kick off this year's IFA in Berlin, Intel held its third Real World Performance event, which brought us some interesting news. Not only is the Core i9-9900KS coming soon, but there was also confirmation of Cascade Lake X coming very soon. The Core i9-9900KS is a special edition version …

G.Skill has been a front runner in high-performance RAM for a good while now, with a ton of high performance DDR4 kits already available. Today, G.Skill is adding two new 64GB RAM kits to its lineup, delivering speeds of 4300MHz and 4000MHz. These are part of the Trident Z Royal …

While 3rd Gen Ryzen has mostly been positively received, there have been some issues along the way. One of the main issues currently is that a good number of 3rd Gen Ryzen owners aren't able to hit advertised boost clock speeds. Fortunately, AMD is aware and may have found a …

Back in July, Toshiba Memory Corp announced plans to kick off a new era for the company under a new name. Part of this new era will include some expansion, as Toshiba Memory is acquiring Lite-On Technology's SSD business in a deal worth $165 million. The agreement will see Toshiba …

Back at Computex during our time at the be quiet! suite, we came across the new Pure Base 500 chassis, an all new entry-level case. Now just a couple of months later, we are gearing up for the launch, with this compact ATX case set to come out in just …

ARCTIC Technical Director, Vincent Andre, sits down to give us a sneak peek at the brand new Liquid Freezer II and Freezer 50 TR CPU coolers, while also giving us insight into the design process and work involved when launching an all new product.

Kolink has been making power supplies for many, many years now. This week, the Kolink Enclave PSU series is hitting the market, bringing new 80PLUS Gold modular power supplies to the UK at sensible prices. Kolink's Enclave series promises high quality capacitors, an advanced circuit design and strong 12V single …

EKWB is expanding its Momentum Monoblock range again this month. The Momentum series contains motherboard cooling blocks for some of the highest-end ASUS ROG and Gigabyte Aorus motherboards already and today, the MSI Z390 GODLIKE joins the list. The MSI GODLIKE is a flagship motherboard, heavily delivering on features and …

It's a high-end X570 motherboard that costs £390. Is it worth the money?

MSI has entered the PC case market and Briony looks at the £50 MAG Vampiric 010

Leo analyses the NZXT 510 Elite - the big question is, can it justify the £150 asking price?

Water-cooling distro plates have been getting popular lately and with Lian-Li's latest O11D distro-plate, water cooling can be made easier than ever. Lian-Li and EKWB have teamed up to design the Distro-Plate G1 for the popular O11D chassis, complete with a powerful integrated water pump. The O11D Distro-plate G1 is …

The launch of 3rd Gen Ryzen appears to be going down very well, leading to a big boost in AMD CPU market share.

PowerColor has entered the fray with its RX 5700 XT Red Devil - and it's a cracking card

Leo looks at FOUR different cases from Thermaltake and puts them through their paces

There has been plenty of talk surrounding 3rd Gen Ryzen processors and the X570 platform over the last couple of months, but we haven't heard much about what's next for Threadripper. We were already told that AMD would be revisiting Threadripper in the future and a third generation could be …

Is this one of the finest power supplies you can buy in 2019? We think so ...

The class-action lawsuit against AMD over Bulldozer and the definition of a CPU core has now come to an end.

DirectX 12 was recently updated with Variable-Rate Shading (VRS), giving developers the ability to improve performance by reducing the level of details in parts of a frame where you are unlikely to notice an impact on image quality. Not many games have implemented this technology just yet but to see …

Last week at an event in London, we had the opportunity to get hands-on with Remedy's latest game 'Control', complete with Nvidia RTX graphics to show off real-time ray-tracing. Today, we share our impressions and show off early pre-release gameplay.

Yesterday, TSMC, alongside high profile tech companies like Apple, Nvidia, ASUS, Google and more, were all dragged into a lawsuit filed by Global Foundries, claiming that TSMC has been making and selling chips that infringe on 16 different patents. As part of the lawsuit, Global Foundries is seeking damages and …

It's a 240GB SSD, but it's meant for use in a NAS, not a regular desktop

This week has started off with a bang, as chipmaker Global Foundries has filed lawsuits against TSMC for infringing on 16 patents and is seeking to stop the importing of infringing chips used by the likes of Apple, Nvidia, ASUS, Google and more. There are 20 defendants named in the …

Earlier this year, we saw the launch of the RTX Super series of graphics cards, bringing upgrades to the RTX 2060, 2070 and 2080. For now, there doesn't seem to be an RTX 2080Ti Super on the way, but that could eventually change, as a mysterious new TU102-powered graphics card …

It's a new AIO from Cooler Master, priced at £139.99. How does it perform?

The Freezer 34 is a compact design with four heat pipes and fifty-four fin configuration.

Back in May during Computex, we had the chance to catch up with Thermaltake and check out some of the new cases coming to market in 2019. One of the biggest was the A700, a full tower bigger brother to the A500 for enthusiasts that demand as much internal space …

At Computex a couple of months ago, we had the opportunity to catch up with FSP and see what they’ve got coming up for the rest of 2019. In June, we saw the first batch of new power supplies release and now to wrap up August, FSP is launching the …

The KC2000 uses the latest Toshiba 96-layer NAND in combination with Silicon Motion's newest SM2262EN controller.