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Back at CES, we had the chance to catch up with Patriot and its subsidiary, VIPER Gaming. While we were roaming the booth, we caught a sneak peek at the Viper VPN100, a new NVMe PCIe Gen 3 SSD with capacities between 256GB and 2TB. Now, just a couple of …

RTX 20 series pricing is looking better this week as price cuts swoop in at OCUK

Today, Deepcool has officially launched its very own anti-leak technology, aiming to set itself apart in the AIO liquid cooling market. The patented technology achieves automated pressure balance, improving the operation safety of all-in-one liquid coolers. In future Deepcool AIOs, anti-leak technology will be included. Instead of having a valve …

Last week during the Game Developer Conference, the Oculus Rift S was announced. This is a new, PC-tethered headset that will replace the original Oculus Rift CV1. It has plenty of improvements but there are also some drawbacks to the new headset that are worth keeping in mind for those …

It's an update to the hugely popular 970 Evo - is it worth buying?

The introduction of GDDR6 has significantly closed the gap in memory standards, resulting in Samsung revising its high-bandwidth HBM2 architecture. Introducing HBM2E at Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) earlier this week, the manufacturer promises up to 33 percent faster speeds and larger memory buffers while targeting artificial intelligence. Samsung dubbed …

Shadow of the Tomb Raider finally has RTX features - are they worth turning on?

It's a 1TB unit from WD, but is it a worthy upgrade from the old Black drive?

After some initial rumours late last year, we have heard very little since about the future for the Oculus Rift. That changed today with the announcement of the Oculus Rift S, a sequel headset that makes a few design changes to the Rift and bumps up its spec for a …

It costs £200, but it VIBRATES - is this the new feature you need when gaming?

Back when Nvidia began showing off RTX and DLSS running in games for the first time, Shadow of the Tomb Raider was one of the few big titles supporting the technology. Unfortunately, the last six months have gone by without any word on when the RTX patch would arrive. That …

When the first wave of Windows Mixed Reality headsets were revealed, HP was among the few early supporters for the platform. Now a few years later, HP has had time to develop a new and improved headset, featuring the highest resolution VR display we've seen in a consumer headset to …

It's a new £60 mATX chassis from Cooler Master - how does it stack up against the competition?

Soon you'll be able to turn ray-tracing on with your non-RTX graphics card.

It's a tricked out 360mm AIO with impressive ARGB lighting, but is it worth the £158.99 asking price?

There has been a lot of talk surrounding real-time raytracing over the last year. Nvidia, Microsoft and AMD all announced plans to begin supporting the technology at GDC 2018. Now this year, Crytek is carving out its own piece of the pie, releasing a real-time raytracing demo for CRYENGINE. CRYENGINE …

Positioned towards the upper end of the Z390 market, ASUS is targeting deep-pocketed enthusiast gamers with its most affordable ATX ROG Maximus offering. Sporting features you'd expect from a premium Z390 offering, including dual heatsink-cooled M.2 slots and an eye-catching design, ASUS takes the standard ROG Maximus XI Hero and …

GTX 1660 has launched and we look at MSI's flagship Gaming X model

Since the launch of the DirectX 12 API, Microsoft has kept it exclusive to Windows 10. At this point, while there are 800 million Windows 10 devices out in the wild, there are still a good chunk of users running Windows 7. Now, those people will get access to DirectX …

It's a sleek-looking case from Corsair - but is the beauty only skin deep?

Intel is set to take back the title of 'world's largest chipmaker' from Samsung, as the memory market is expected to see a decline throughout 2019.

It's a beautiful new case from Corsair, but at £220 does Briony think it is worth buying?

A major acquisition isn't the only talking point floating around Nvidia today. We are also seeing the company end support for two of its products soon, the first being 3D Vision and the second being the last remaining Kepler-based mobile GPUs. 3D Vision debuted back in 2008 on the cusp …

Nvidia is set to make the biggest acquisition in its history. Today, team green announced that it has reached “a definitive agreement” to acquire Mellanox, a company that specialises in cloud computing, data centres and networking. Nvidia will acquire all issued and outstanding common shares of Mellanox for $125 per …

Last week, we learned that Valve had gone through a round of layoffs, with around 13 employees losing their employment. At the time, it was believed that this mainly impacted Valve's virtual reality hardware team, but there were other areas affected, including the Artifact team. Valve uses a lot of …

It's a triple-fan GTX 1660 Ti from Gigabyte - but with a £300 price tag

With the boom in popularity of the battle royale genre drawing millions of users per day, there has been an increased focus on squeezing every last bit of performance out of hardware. Better components certainly offer more frames per second, but Nvidia wanted discern whether more frames truly translated to …

There have been rumours about Nintendo experimenting with VR again floating around for a while. Last year, a hidden VR mode was found on the Switch, now six months later, Nintendo Labo VR has been announced. Toycon #4, Labo VR, is a pack of Nintendo Labo DIY kits that let …

The DRAM and NAND Flash markets enjoyed a massive boom in recent years, to the point where there have been allegations of price fixing. Late last year, market analysts began talking about ‘steep declines' due in 2019. Now according to updated analysis, DRAM contract prices are in the sharpest decline …

It has been several years since Skylake was at the forefront of the CPU market. In the lead up to Coffee Lake's desktop launch, Intel announced that the Core i7-6700K and Core i5-6600K would be discontinued in 2018. Now, the rest of the Skylake 6th Gen lineup is being put …