An accidental leak, just a day shy of the actual announcement, has revealed AMD's plans for its Ryzen R5 CPU line-up. According to a post on Guru3D.com (now removed), AMD Ryzen R5 CPUs will come in four different flavours – two hexacores and two quadcores – with a clear assault …
Read More »AMD Ryzen 7 1700 CPU Review
An overclockable 8C16T Ryzen 7 for £330. Bargain. You get an RGB cooler too.
Read More »Report claims AMD’s RX 500 series will arrive in April as a Polaris refresh
Update: A couple of weeks ago, we first began hearing rumours of an RX 500 series coming in April. At the time, the source claimed that the RX 580 and RX 570 would be arriving in the first week of April, with the lower end RX 560 and RX 550 …
Read More »Nvidia’s FCAT VR performance analysis tool is now available
Back when Nvidia began showing off the GTX 1080Ti, the company also announced FCAT VR, its newly developed tool for properly benchmarking virtual reality titles. Up until now, benchmarking VR games has been a bit of an issue but with FCAT VR now freely available, GPU reviewers and VR enthusiasts …
Read More »The BitFenix Portal would fit right at home in Valve’s offices
This week, the BitFenix Portal mini-ITX case launched and it almost looks as if it came straight out of Valve's game of the same name. The Portal case takes on traits from some of BitFenix's other small form factor cases but inverts the layout to accommodate larger hardware and make …
Read More »Custom GTX 1080Tis will start shipping in April
Last Friday, the GTX 1080Ti officially started shipping out to those looking to buy on day one. However, as many of you will have noticed, so far there have only been Founders Editions in stock at most retailers and while pre-orders are available for custom cards from the likes of ASUS, …
Read More »Report claims Nvidia’s Volta GPUs will jump to 12nm
It looks like Nvidia might be making the jump from the 16nm process to 12nm for its upcoming Volta GPU architecture as reports this week indicate that TSMC has received a new order for High-Performance Computing chips from Nvidia. This isn't the first time we have heard whispers of Volta …
Read More »Cooler Master Masterwatt Maker 1200W MIJ PSU Review
A £900 power supply. Hand built and designed by legendary OEM partner Murata. Just how good is it?
Read More »NAND Flash supply is achingly short on all fronts
According to a report from analyst firm DRAMeXchange, demand for consumer-grade Flash NAND during a production transition phase has left Flash manufacturers scrambling to keep up with demand. Contract prices are estimated to climb 10% this first quarter of 2017. In what seems to be a perfect storm of bad …
Read More »AMD addresses Ryzen 7/Windows 10 Thread Scheduler concerns
As successful and positive as AMD's Ryzen 7 CPU launch was, there has been some controversy surrounding gaming performance, particularly at 1080p. There have been all sorts of theories surrounding why Ryzen might be underperforming at 1080p in some titles, despite AMD's previous efforts to explain the situation. One of …
Read More »Valve’s statistics show Rift users on Steam have doubled since Touch launch
The HTC Vive and Oculus Rift have both been on the market for almost a year now and during that time, Steam's own statistics have consistently shown the Vive well ahead of the Rift in terms of users. However, a lot of this gap was simply due to the fact that …
Read More »Seasonic PRIME 1000W Platinum PSU Review
PRIME is back, but this time Seasonic are releasing Platinum units to target a wider audience.
Read More »New leak reveals details on RX Vega specs, confirms 8GB HBM2
We've been hearing about RX Vega leaks for a few months now but it looks like we are finally starting to get into more specific details surrounding the GPU. This week, a benchmark database entry for what appears to be an AMD RX Vega engineering sample revision leaked onto the …
Read More »Judge dismisses ‘breach of contract’ lawsuit against Oculus
It looks like Oculus has one less lawsuit to worry about as this week, a judge dismissed a breach of contract suit levied against the company by Total Recall Technologies. We first learned about the lawsuit back in 2015, when TRT claimed that Oculus founder Palmer Luckey had violated a …
Read More »ADATA SD700 External 256GB SSD Review
The ADATA SD700 is an external SSD which uses 3D NAND - is it any good?
Read More »LaCie Rugged Thunderbolt USB-C 2TB Review
LaCie's Rugged range of protected external hard drives has been with us for over a decade now with a variety of interfaces, formats and capacities to choose from depending on your needs. The latest drive range is the Rugged Thunderbolt USB-C which uses, as you might have guessed already, both …
Read More »The ASUS Maximus IX Extreme packs integrated water cooling and super fast DDR4 support
There has been so much talk about Ryzen lately that it might be easy to forget that Intel's Kaby Lake processors are still relatively new. With that in mind, there are still new motherboards coming out for the Z270 platform and this week, we have one from ASUS- the ROG …
Read More »The GTX 1080Ti is officially available to buy, accompanied by 1080/1070 price drops
The announcement has been and gone, the reviews are in and now we are finally at the official launch day for the GTX 1080Ti. Nvidia's latest flagship gaming GPU manages to bring Titan X levels of performance down to a card that is almost half the price and from 6PM …
Read More »Cougar LX Series 600 W Power Supply
Its cheap and its got a 5 year warranty in Europe. Is the £60 Cougar 600W LX PSU any good?
Read More »John Carmack is firing back at Zenimax with a lawsuit of his own
Over the last couple of years Zenimax and Oculus have been embroiled in a lawsuit, with Zenimax making allegations that Carmack had stolen company information prior to making his move to Oculus back in 2014. Zenimax did win that lawsuit, with Oculus having to pay up $500 million but it …
Read More »Super Flower Leadex II 1000W 80 Plus Gold Review
In the market for a new high wattage power supply? Super Flower have you covered
Read More »Nvidia’s latest driver is all about boosting DirectX 12 performance
It looks like Nvidia is starting to focus on boosting its DirectX 12 performance as today's latest ‘Game Ready' driver includes a bunch of refinements intended to significantly boost GeForce performance in DX12 titles. This driver is the ‘Ghost Recon Wildlands' Game Ready driver but it packs in much much …
Read More »Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition 11GB Review
Nvidia has chopped up its flagship Titan X GPU, increased the clock speed, and reduced price by £480.
Read More »Update: ASRock and Gigabyte X370 boards coming, Biostar delayed by BIOS issues
This is intended to be an update to an earlier breaking story. For the full details on our original coverage, go HERE. Yesterday, we reported on the apparent mass stock shortage of AM4 X370 chipset motherboards. According to our industry sources, prior to the Ryzen launch and positive reviews, there …
Read More »Gigabyte begins teasing Aorus GTX 1080Ti
Just like many other board partners, this week, Gigabyte began teasing its own GTX 1080Ti. The company began posting teaser images of its upcoming Aorus Extreme Edition GTX 1080TI this week, showing off the card's cooler a bit, though this may not actually be the first time we are seeing …
Read More »Valve plans to refocus its efforts on software, next wave of games inbound
Now that virtual reality is out there and in consumer hands, more companies are choosing to invest in it. In fact at GDC right now, LG is showing off its very own SteamVR-supported competitor to the HTC Vive. So with all of this new hardware coming in, Valve plans to …
Read More »AMD’s 32-core Zen-based ‘Naples’ CPU aims to bring innovation and choice back to server market
Now that AMD has worked its way through the Zen architecture launch with its mainstream Ryzen processors, the company can now start turning its attention to other markets. It has been around a year since we first heard whispers of AMD's lofty ambitions for Zen in the server/datacentre market but …
Read More »Cooler Master’s MasterWatt Maker 1200 MIJ brings uncompromised quality for £899
Cooler Master has been making power supplies for a long time now and while many of them have been great in their own right, they usually need to hit an affordable price point, which means things like component selection need to be carefully considered to hit a budget. So what …
Read More »Biostar shows off first Mini-ITX X370 AM4 motherboard
AMD's new Ryzen 7 processors are already turning out to be very popular with 60 percent of our own polled readers apparently planning to buy one. With that in mind, if any of you happen to be looking at putting together a Mini-ITX build, then it looks like Biostar has …
Read More »Nvidia GTX 1080Ti benchmark results leak out ahead of reviews
Unless you have been living under a rock this past week, you should be aware that Nvidia officially confirmed the GTX 1080Ti last week, sporting a GP102 GPU core with a claimed 35 percent performance advantage over the standard GTX 1080. Reviewers already have their hands on these cards and …
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