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For now, we are still unsure about AMD launching the Radeon RX 6600 XT on August 11th, but while we wait for confirmation, new photos and benchmark results for the card have appeared online.  Looking at the photos shared on Tieba Baidu (via VideoCardz), the card looks like a qualification …

It's an external USB 3.2 Gen1 hard drive with Razer RGB lighting - worth a punt at £125?

The Oculus Quest 2 quickly became one of the most popular VR headsets following its release late last year, thanks to its solid hardware and relatively cheap price. One of the system’s few downsides was its base storage, which offered just 64GB. Now, it seems as though Oculus and Facebook …

In the gaming industry, the gold standard for a successful game typically rests at 1 million copies sold. This is even more so applicable to VR titles which have a significantly smaller install base. Even so, a few select games have hit this major milestone, with two new titles joining …

We have been eagerly waiting for AMD to announce the Radeon RX 6600 series GPUs ever since the launch of the RX 6700 XT back in March. Until now, AMD hasn't yet shared an official release date for the mainstream series graphics cards, but a new rumour claims that they …

With Kingston having sold its HyperX brand to HP back in February, the component manufacturer has since rebranded its lineup of “high-performance memory” to ‘FURY’. New memory under the FURY brand has now officially been released, offering plenty of options to choose from to suit all kinds of gaming rigs. …

A recently leaked Intel roadmap suggests Alder Lake desktop and mobile vPro SKUs will be available for commercial clients in the first quarter of 2022. Moreover, a table detailing Windows 10 support on the Intel vPro series shows Alder Lake should be supported by the OS until 2023. According to …

Zalman is back in the mid-range cooler space - but how good is the CNPS10X Performa Black?

Since AMD announced it was working with Samsung to release a new SoC featuring RDNA 2 graphics, new leaks and rumours about this chip have started to ramp up. The latest is based on the structure diagram of the supposed Exynos 2200, which suggests the SoC will feature six Compute …

AMD has kept its word and has made FidelityFX Super Resolution an open-source technology. Moreover, the company also announced that both Unity and Unreal Engine 4 game engines now support FSR, and that games including Myst, Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodhunt, Arcadegeddon, Necromunda Hired Gun, Edge of Eternity and Resident Evil …

As the launch of Intel's Alder Lake desktop processors approaches, more detailed leaks have started to surface. The latest of these details the K-series SKUs, including the clock speeds of each core cluster, the amount of L3 cache as well as the PL1 and PL2 values...

Phanteks is expanding its AMP series of power supplies with new 850W and 1000W 80Plus Gold rated units. Powered by Seasonic, the Phanteks AMP series power supplies aim to be the perfect companion for high-end systems with new-generation graphics cards.  The high efficiency and compact design of the AMP series …

Synology is launching its brand new HAS5300 series 3.5″ SAS hard drives this month to meet growing demand for high-capacity and resilient storage systems. There are three HDDs, offering up 8TB to 16TB of storage. Available in 16TB, 12TB, and 8TB models, the HAS5300 drives are the latest addition to …

Corsair keeps adding new water cooling components to the Hydro X series. This time, the component manufacturer introduced the XD7 RGB pump/reservoir combo, white models of the XR5 radiators, and a white variant of the XT Hardline satin white tubing. Available in black and white, the Hydro X Series XD7 …

Earlier this month, Rockstar Games announced that it would be bringing Nvidia's DLSS technology to Red Dead Redemption 2 and Red Dead Online on PC as part of an upcoming update. That update has now arrived, and it looks like RTX graphics card owners will be getting up to a …

Gigabyte Aorus Gaming Boxes are already available with RTX 3080 and 3090 GPUs, but now, Gigabyte is also introducing an RTX 3080 Ti model to its line-up. With the RTX 3080 Ti Gaming Box, Gigabyte now offers a Gaming Box for every card using the GA102 GPU. Like other Aorus …

AMD's Zen3 core architecture is already available on Ryzen and EPYC processors, but we are still waiting for AMD to release its Zen3 HEDT processors. We may not have to wait much longer, as new reports claim that the long-awaited Threadripper 5000 series will launch next month.  Codenamed “Chagall”, the …

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MSI's Hydrogen series might be coming back, as seen on an EEC listing filed by the company. According to the listing, the new Hydrogen series will only feature one SKU, an RTX 3090 card, but MSI may launch more cards further down the line. Moreover, the listing also includes MSI's …

Leo checks out the NZXT N7 Z590 motherboard... and finds looks aren't everything

InWin is back with another unique case – the 309 Gaming Edition. As the name suggests, it's very similar to the original InWin 309, but there's a big difference – it features a full LED front panel that lets you play games on it. Featuring 144 ARGB LEDs in the …

Moss was one of the PSVR’s biggest and most well received VR titles, letting players “meet Quill, a mouse with dreams of greatness. While exploring the woods, she finds a mysterious Glass Relic and an ancient magic is awakened”. At the recent State of Play (which also saw Death Stranding: …

It looks like AMD's next graphics card launch is right around the corner. Multiple sources this week have claimed that the RX 6600 XT graphics card will release in August.  According to Coreteks and Moore's Law is Dead (via Videocardz), The Radeon RX 6600 XT will launch in August and …

About a year after Nvidia released the RTX 20 series, the company refresh the line-up with the RTX 20 Super variants. Based on this, Nvidia may do the same with the RTX 30 series, and according to a new rumour, that should happen early next year for the laptop GPUs. …

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According to a roadmap we shared a few days ago, we are still more than a year away from the release of consumer Intel Sapphire Rapids CPUs. However, considering there are already benchmarks of dual-socket systems equipped with Sapphire Rapids CPUs, the server-grade processors might be coming sooner rather than …

Thermaltake is revamping its power supply offerings this month with the new ‘TT Premium Edition' Toughpower GF1 1000W and 1200W PSUs. Both new units are 80Plus Gold certified and feature a hydraulic bearing fan with intelligent RPM controls. Like many modern power supplies, the Toughpower GF1 will stop the PSU …

The graphics card pricing situation appears to be moving in the right direction. Last month, GPU prices were 81-91 percent above MSRP on average, but that number has been dropping. If GPU prices continue reducing at this rate, we might see some cards finally reach MSRP pricing. 

Earlier this year, we learned that MSI was preparing its first line of storage devices. Now, the company has announced its new Spatium M.2 NVMe SSDs, including PCIe 4.0 and PCIe 3.0 options and capacities up to 2TB.  The MSI M480 SSD is a PCIe 4.0 using NVMe 1.4 technology, …

Shortly after announcing the Oculus Quest 2 last year, Facebook confirmed that the new standalone VR headset would replace the original Quest and eventually, the Rift S too. We’ve now reached the end of the Oculus Rift S lifecycle, with stock finally running out on the Oculus Store.  Back in …