Just last week, Intel kicked off its rollout of Optane products, featuring its long in development 3D XPoint technology. It all began with the Optane DX P4800X SSD for data centres but this week, Intel is launching something more consumer-oriented. In April, Intel will begin shipping Optane Memory in 16GB …
Read More »Oculus picks up former Apple design chief to lead hardware division
It looks like Facebook is shaking things up over at Oculus as this week, the company hired a veteran from Apple's product design team to head up the hardware division for Oculus VR. Michael Hillman was an employee over at Apple for 15 years as chief architect for Apple's consumer …
Read More »ASUS ROG Crosshair VI Hero (X370) Motherboard Review
A high-end AM4 motherboard with plenty of features on offer.
Read More »AMD’s RX Vega will come in 4GB and 8GB HBM2 versions, launch is just around the corner
With the second quarter of 2017 now at our doorstep, it is about time to start counting down the days to AMD's launch of the RX Vega. We've already seen some details through various leaks and demonstrations over the last few months and this week, we learned that the RX …
Read More »Apple may have been working on Augmented Reality glasses for longer than expected
Following on from earlier reports surrounding Apple's plans for augmented reality, new sources have come to light to reveal more about the company's own augmented reality glasses. Apparently, Apple has been working on its one Augmented Reality smart glasses for more than a year already, with plans to possibly unveil …
Read More »Cryorig R1 Ultimate Cooler Review
Cryorig's biggest and baddest air cooler features two 140mm fans and 7 heatpipes - is it worth the £76.99 asking price?
Read More »We want to know what graphics card you are running in 2017
Every now and then, we like to check in with our readers and see what you guys are running in your gaming rigs, so today, over on our Facebook page, we are running a poll to see which of you are running an AMD or an Nvidia graphics card. We …
Read More »ASUS ROG STRIX GTX 1080 Ti OC (O11G) 11GB Review
ASUS has slapped a triple-fan cooler and 115MHz overclock onto GTX 1080 Ti. Is this the best graphics card you can buy?
Read More »AMD X399, X390 leak onto the web, Ryzen 4700, 2700 in the works
Some technical diagrams for the upcoming AMD X399 and a would-be X390 chipset have made a splash on the internet, it seems. A post on an AMD subreddit included some very convincing chipset block diagrams showing off what looks like the X399 and X390 chipsets, and even a board layout …
Read More »MSI GTX 1080Ti Gaming X is on the way, out of the box clock speeds unveiled
Earlier this month, MSI officially began teasing its GTX 1080Ti Gaming X graphics card. This was one of the first custom GTX 1080Ti boards we saw announced and while it won't begin shipping until April, we do know some additional details, like out of the box overclock speeds. The MSI …
Read More »ITC agrees to investigate AMD’s graphics patent complaint against LG, Vizio and others
Back in February, we first heard that AMD had filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission (ITC), calling for it to investigate and possibly ban several products sold by the likes of LG, MediaTek, Vizio and Sigma Designs due to patent infringements on graphics technology. Since then the ITC …
Read More »Samsung’s next-gen GearVR could feature a higher resolution than the Vive or Rift
While it may not quite live up to the likes of the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, Samsung has managed to carve itself a nice piece of the virtual reality market over the last few years with the GearVR. Unfortunately up until now, these headsets have also required a Galaxy …
Read More »The Vulkan API does support multi-GPU, even on older versions of Windows
Over the last week or so, it has been widely reported that the Vulkan API would not support multi GPU setups on older versions of Windows. This topic came to a head when the studio behind Star Citizen announced plans to drop DirectX 12 in favour of Vulkan due to …
Read More »Cryorig H7 Air Cooler Review
The Cryorig H7 has been called the 'Hyper 212 killer.' Just how good is it really?
Read More »Toshiba P300 3TB HDD Review
Today we look at Toshiba's latest P300 series - in a 3TB capacity.
Read More »Kingpin has managed to overclock the GTX 1080Ti beyond 3GHz, sets new record
If you thought last week's record setting GTX 1080Ti 2.5GHz overclock was impressive, then prepare to be blown away as now, extreme overclocker ‘Kingpin' has managed to push Nvidia's latest flagship gaming card past the 3GHz barrier. This sets a new record for the highest frequency achieved on a graphics card. …
Read More »ASUS is offering up to £40 cashback on motherboards and up to £50 on GPUs
Now that Nvidia has unleashed the GTX 1080Ti and Intel has got the ball rolling with Kaby Lake, some of you are likely shopping around for upgrades. If that happens to be the case, then you may want to take a look at what ASUS has to offer as the …
Read More »Seasonic PRIME 1200W Platinum PSU Review
This week we take a look at another of the latest Seasonic PRIME Platinum power supplies – this time in a 1200 watt capacity. These new supplies are less expensive than the previous flagship Titanium graded units but still offer a pure modular design and feature high grade Fluid Dynamic …
Read More »Seven RX Vega SKUs spotted in AMD driver code
It seems that AMD is busy preparing drivers for the RX Vega launch as this week, thousands of lines of updates code were sent out as part of a series of little patches, adding RX Vega support to AMD's Linux graphics drivers. Inside of the code, seven different Vega SKUs …
Read More »32GB Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4-3000MHz
Corsair has jumped on the RGB band wagon with its new Vengeance RGB memory. The 32GB kit we were sent consists of 4x8GB modules and is rated at DDR4-3000MHz which is a perfectly decent speed. The reviewer’s guide also puts the CAS 15 timing front and centre, a point we …
Read More »Oculus wants to do away with the misconception that VR has no real games
When it comes to virtual reality, one of the more common misconceptions thrown around the web is that ‘there are no games'. While the rollout of games with larger budgets has been somewhat slow, Oculus is hoping to erase that misconception this year by releasing a big studio title every …
Read More »ASRock Fatal1ty Z270 Professional Gaming i7 Motherboard Review
Three M.2 and Ten SATA ports, three wired networking connections and AC WiFi, ASRock's Fatal1ty Z270 Gaming i7 is connectivity crazy.
Read More »Rumour claims RX 500 series will be based on Polaris 20 XTX and Polaris 12
AMD's next batch of graphics cards are on the way and as we have previously heard, they are set to be based on refreshed Polaris chips. We already knew that AMD had found a way to increase the performance per watt of Polaris towards the latter half of 2016 and …
Read More »Kingston and Samsung are dominating the global SSD market
Over the years, the SSD market has become very saturated, with a ton of companies all competing for market share. However, it looks like we have three clear standouts based on global sales from 2016, with Kingston and Samsung making up the two top SSD sellers worldwide. According to statistics put …
Read More »Intel’s first 3D XPoint SSD has arrived
This week, Intel officially launched its very first SSD to make use of its new 3D XPoint technology. This tech was first demonstrated back in 2015 and is faster/denser than any other type of memory right now. In all, it is said to be several hundred times faster than the …
Read More »Star Citizen will drop DX12 for Vulkan to avoid forcing users to upgrade to Windows 10
One of the key offerings Microsoft has to try and tempt gamers to upgrade to Windows 10 is DirectX 12 support. The latest API has been picked up by plenty of games in the last year and while the folks over at Cloud Imperium Games planned to include it in …
Read More »ASUS ROG Maximus IX Apex (Z270) Motherboard Review
Meet the latest Republic of Gamer's motherboard that's torn up the rule book.
Read More »Cooler Master MasterAir Maker 8 Review
It's Cooler Master's behemoth, £100 air cooler. The best alternative to liquid cooling?
Read More »PNY CS2030 240GB PCIe NVMe M.2 drive Review
Built on an M.2 2280 form factor with a PCIe Gen3.0 x4 interface, the NVMe CS2030 uses a combination of a Phison E7 controller and Toshiba 15mn MLC NAND.
Read More »UK pricing for Ryzen 5 CPUs revealed
This week, AMD officially announced its Ryzen 5 processor lineup, with plans to start rolling out the new six core and quad core SKUs on the 11th of April. These CPUs include the Ryzen 5 1600X, 1600, 1500X and 1400, and while US pricing was announced at the time, we …
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