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We examine Roccat's versatile Cross headset.

The Nintendo Switch is just about to enter its third week on the market and it seems that so many people are excited about the console (and probably Zelda) that it has gone on to become Nintendo's fastest selling console ever.  We already knew that week one sales in the UK …

AMD has announced its Ryzen 5 processors which will be launched and on shelves from April 11th 2017 in the form of two 4C8T parts and two 6C12T SKUs. Pricing will range from $169 to $249 USD, with the Ryzen 5 flagship 6C12T 1600X featuring a Precision Boost clock frequency …

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 …

An overclockable 8C16T Ryzen 7 for £330. Bargain. You get an RGB cooler too.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

It looks like the StarCraft HD remake rumours are doing the rounds again, this time claiming that Blizzard will be releasing the game as soon as May or June. The StarCraft remake would feature the same gameplay elements as the original game to get long-time fans on board but things …

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 …

A £900 power supply. Hand built and designed by legendary OEM partner Murata. Just how good is it?

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 …

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 …

Samsung has been experimenting with foldable/flexible displays for quite some time, showing off its new technology at trade shows for a number of years now. However, over the last few months we have been seeing increasing reports claiming that Samsung now has its tech down to a point that it …

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 …

PRIME is back, but this time Seasonic are releasing Platinum units to target a wider audience.

After previously claiming that the Nintendo Switch isn't facing any widespread issues, it looks like Nintendo is finally acknowledging the widely reported Joy-Con connection issues. Reggie himself opened up about the issues this week, stating that Nintendo is in ‘full fact-finding mode' but it looks like a YouTuber may have already …

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 …

It looks like Microsoft is getting closer to the release of its Windows 10 Creators Update as this week, the company is expected to sign off on its RTM release as well as a release candidate for Windows Insiders. Typically when software is at the RTM (Release To Manufacturing) stage, …

It looks like Sony is updating the hardware it uses to run the PlayStation Now service as soon, you will be able to stream PS4 games too. Given that the service launched on PC last year, this also has the add-on effect of allowing PC-only gamers to get their hands …

The Nintendo Switch has only been on the market for a week and a half but it looks like hackers haven't been wasting any time since then as an exploit has already been discovered. This particular exploit seems to boil down to the Switch's web browser, which is running on an …

Following a slew of rumours published on the web earlier this morning, Intel has confirmed its plans to acquire Mobileye, a company that specialises in self-driving cars and has teamed up with the likes of Tesla and BMW in the past. The Israeli firm will be bought in a deal currently …

A new flagship keyboard from Razer - at £164.99, can it compete with the ROG Claymore or the Corsair K95 RGB Platinum?

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 …

The ADATA SD700 is an external SSD which uses 3D NAND - is it any good?

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 …

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 …

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 …

Its cheap and its got a 5 year warranty in Europe. Is the £60 Cougar 600W LX PSU any good?