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Can the 4C8T Ryzen 5 1500X hand Intel's locked Core i5 a beating?

Chillblast has sent us a £1319.99 Ryzen 5 1600 system for launch day - just how good is it?

Last week, Gearbox gave G2A a bit of an ultimatum, it asked that the shady key marketplace commit to several changes in an effort to be a fairer place for both game developers and customers. If G2A did not respond, Gearbox would pull out of its Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition …

When AMD launched its Radeon RX 480 graphics card it promised to deliver VR for the masses, or at least the computing power to do so. And it did. Fast forward 10 months and while VR-capable graphics cards have become relatively the norm, the software (apps) and hardware (headsets) ecosystem …

Following several weeks of leaks and a tiny bit of conflicting information regarding the GPU used on AMD's upcoming RX 580 and RX 570 graphics cards, we finally have confirmation of Polaris 20 XTX and Polaris 20 XL. Thanks to a driver leak this week, we now know that AMD's …

It looks like Intel might be planning to launch its new batch of enthusiast series CPUs earlier than anticipated, with reports this week indicating that the launch has been brought forward to June. Previously, Intel's X299 and Skylake-X CPUs were expected in August but apparently due to mounting pressure from …

Earlier this month we learned that Apple would be abandoning its use of IMG's graphics technology for iOS devices in two years time. At the time, Imagination Technologies (IMG) had some doubts about Apple's ability to produce its own mobile GPU but it looks like Apple is looking to prove …

Meet MSI's only mini-ITX motherboard for the Z270 chipset.

Denuvo has been slipping somewhat recently. Resident Evil VII only took one week to crack and pirates successfully managed to break in to Mass Effect Andromeda fairly quickly too. However, it seems that in Mass Effect's case, the fault lies with Bioware, who forgot to update their version of the …

Last week, Gearbox announced a partnership with G2A, bringing Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition to the key marketplace in an official capacity. This caused plenty of outcry and after seeking the help of YouTuber ‘TotalBiscuit', Gearbox instead decided to give G2A a list of demands to better protect customers and developers …

Two new coolers in Cooler Master's MasterAir series - how do they stack-up against the competition?

My colleague Allan reviewed this weeks ago, but I wanted to get a hands on myself. £900 for a PSU?

PC enthusiast memory maker G.SKILL has announced a new line-up of top-tier memory kits for discerning modders and gamers. The Trident Z RGB DDR4-3333MHz 128GB and 64GB retail kits are squarely aimed at the high-end X99 and Z270 motherboards, respectively, currently driving the likes of Intel's Xeon E5 (v3)-series and Kaby Lake …

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awarded its second eSports Audience Award in a ceremony last night, giving the people a vote in recognizing the popularity and importance of eSports and related game franchises. The nominee list, chock-full of AAA-rated MOBA and TDM games like Overwatch, DOTA …

Shortly after Ryzen's launch, AMD made it clear to reviewers that its Ryzen 7 series processors were built with a +20°C temperature offset, meaning software would be showing these CPUs running 20 degrees hotter than they actually were. Now, a few weeks later, it looks like CPU monitoring software is …

Reports have surfaced in the Japanese press that TSMC has quit on its bid to buy Toshiba's rather precious NAND-flash business, leaving Foxconn in the lead position. Foxconn has offered to pony-up 3 trillion Yen (around $30 billion), or $21.2 billion more than what Reuters had reported as the sought-after …

If any of you are planning on trying out Quake Champions this weekend during its closed beta phase, then it may be worth double checking that your drivers are up to date as this week, Nvidia released an all-new Game Ready driver in preparation for id Software's new fast-paced competitive …

Recently, it was discovered that CD Projekt Red had applied to trademark the word ‘Cyberpunk' in Europe and already has the trademark over in the US. This caused quite a stir, especially since Cyberpunk is a general term used to describe a genre of science fiction in lots of media. …

PC Specialist has launched its Fusion Zen PC which is built around the new AMD Ryzen 7 1700X CPU and a GTX 1070 graphics card. KitGuru has been impressed by Ryzen 7 with its eight cores and 16 threads and it is quite mind boggling to consider that Intel charges …

Earlier this week, it was announced that Gearbox would be partnering up with G2A for the launch of Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition. This special edition partnership was unusual given G2A's reputation as a fraudulent key marketplace and ended up causing quite an uproar on social media. It turns out, Gearbox …

The DiskStation DS916+ is the latest addition to the the Synology Plus product line aimed at Workgroups and Small & Medium Business users. The 4-Bay DS916+ features a Quad-core Intel processor and expandable memory. Powered by an Intel Pentium N3710 processor clocked at 1.6GHz (burst up to 2.56GHz) the DiskStation DS916+ …

Despite a number of teardown sites already having published complete guides on the Nintendo Switch, we now get a better idea of the BoM involved in the manufacture of the device through a report from Fomalhaut Techno Solutions in Japan. This lab has gutted the gaming device in order to …

Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical, introspectively announced on the Ubuntu insights blog that his company is facing a change of direction, despite highlighting how great a quarter the company has just had. Six years after adopting Ubuntu Unity (not to be confused with the open-source graphics engine), the project that …

Well there were certainly no leaks about this. Today, it seems that Nvidia has officially replaced the Titan X (Pascal) with the Titan Xp, featuring faster memory, more CUDA cores and faster clock speeds over the previous version. For starters, the most obvious and immediate change to the Titan Xp is …

A gaming headset from cooling gurus Arctic - how does it compete around the £70 mark?

While much of the Galaxy S8 launch announcement was leaked ahead of time, one of the few surprises that Samsung kept up its sleeve was Samsung DeX. With this little base station, Galaxy S8 owners can transform the device from a smartphone to a desktop PC. Features like a proper file …

Over the last few years, we have seen a huge rise in the popularity of 21:9 ultra-wide displays, both for productivity and gaming but this year Samsung is hoping to shake that up with even wider displays. According to reports this week, Samsung is already preparing a 32:9 ‘DFHD' display, …

Today we look at a reasonably priced gaming laptop from Dell, the Inspiron 15 7000.

There have been privacy concerns surrounding Windows 10 ever since its launch, prompting complaints not just from users but from government watchdogs as well, particularly here in Europe. However, it looks like Microsoft is finally prepared to do something about it, starting off with an update to its privacy statement …

Right now, the Internet is rife with rumours and screen grabs of AMD's latest reincarnation (or rebrand, or rebadge) of its totally vanilla and mainstream RX 400-Series-come-500-Series GPUs. According to one site, someone has been benchmarking the RX 500-Series Radeons on 3DMark and posting their results. The benchmarking event, documented at …