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Last week, AMD released its flagship 64-core Ryzen Threadripper 3990X. As per our review, the Threadripper 3990X is an immensely powerful CPU out-of-the-box, regardless of the workload thrown at it. But how much extra performance can be squeezed out of this CPU through extreme overclocking? Some overclockers already had the chance to experiment …

AMD gave tech enthusiasts the first glimpse of its new Ryzen 4000 mobile processors back at CES 2020 in January. The new AMD Renoir CPUs were announced with five models listed, ranging from the Ryzen 3 4300U up to an eight-core Ryzen 4800U. At the time of the introduction to …

QNAP has added a new 24-drive bay to its enterprise ZFS NAS series. The new ES2486dc is QNAP’s first high-availability all-flash NAS to feature dual controllers with Intel Xeon D-2142IT processors for excellent I/O throughput and 10GbE Ethernet connectivity. The ES2486dc from QNAP features a dual active-active controller architecture to …

A new addition to the Silicon Power external hard drive range is designed to offer a blend of stylish aesthetics with excellent functionality. Silicon Power has styled the Stream S07 external drive bay around the appearance of stone with a textured surface finish. The reason behind this ‘stone-like' appearance is …

Microsoft launched its brand-new Edge web browser built on the Chromium open source project in mid-January with a goal to provide better compatibility and to create a partnership with the Chromium community to help improve the engine itself. However, performance improvements were not discussed at the time, according to PCMark, …

Owners of 2019 LG Smart TVs can now enjoy Apple TV on the big screen.

The Team at F-Secure Foundry has released a new version of its USB armory flash drive-sized computer. The latest USB armory USB device is suitable for a range of applications that require the flexibility of an embedded computer without sacrificing security such as cryptocurrency wallets, secure authentication and licensing tokens. …

New York based audio brand, Master & Dynamic has announced two new colour versions of its popular MW07 PLUS True Wireless Earphones. The new versions include Jade Green and Black Pearl colour updates to provide consumers with more choice. According to Master & Dynamic, the updated colour options are inspired …

Raijintek has updated its Samos full cover graphics card water block series with a new version that supports AMD Radeon RX 5700 series GPUs. The Samos AD5700 RBW completely covers the RX 5700 series PCB and includes RGB lighting. The new Samos AD5700 RBW from Raijintek is designed specifically to …

Since the outbreak in China of the 2019-nCoV virus (Coronavirus), the tech industry has faced concerns about whether the outbreak will impact PC and component production. Apple is already potentially facing shortages due to the temporary closure of its assembly lines at Foxconn and Pegatron. Now Nintendo Switch production is …

EVGA is currently running a series of free gift promotions to customers with the purchase of select EVGA RTX 20 series graphics cards. The promotions include graphics card trim kits, Deliver Us The Moon and Grip: Combat Racing game bundles free with qualifying EVGA products. The free Trim Kit being …

Today Leo has gathered his thoughts on the new Threadripper 3990X and gives us his immediate reaction to this performance monster, while also giving his thoughts on the CPU landscape as a whole...

Turtle beach is giving one of its best-selling headsets a makeover, the popular Recon 70 series will be available with new colour options including an exclusive silver, as well as two Camo versions, one in green and a blue version. The new Recon 70 headset will be exclusively available in …

Golden Emperor International Ltd, the company more commonly known as GeIL has announced the availability from retailers in the Americas of its new EVO SPEAR memory series, sporting the ASRock Phantom Gaming branding. GeIL memory and ASRock have joined forces to build a strong foundation for compatibility between motherboard and …

Cyberpunk 2077 may have been delayed by six months but CD Projekt Red is already using that extra time wisely by revealing new gameplay details. The studio made a name for itself as a top RPG maker with The Witcher 3, through a mix of excellent main story quests as …

Blizzard has been back in the hot seat over the last week, as Warcraft 3: Reforged launched to much fan disappointment. The remaster ended up falling short of the expectations set by the original Blizzcon demo and now after being hit with the lowest user-score on all of Metacritic, Blizzard …

Earlier this week, Nvidia officially launched GeForce NOW after a lengthy beta, offering both free and paid streaming tiers right from the get-go. This has got us wondering when Google Stadia's free streaming tier is due to arrive and fortunately, Google has given an answer. Google Stadia was pitched as …

Activision Blizzard recently had its earnings call, and in the meeting, they revealed that the company is planning to announce multiple remastered games and reimagined titles later this year. The company is no stranger to remasters, and so, many of the remastered titles which have circulated the rumour mill over …

Back at CES, AMD promised to ‘push the envelope' of high performance computing once again in 2020 and so far, the company is off to a very good start. Today, the Ryzen 9 3990X officially launches, bringing a whopping 64-cores and 128 threads to desktop platforms. We have been fortunate …

In October 2019, EA announced that after many years of absence, the publisher would be returning to Steam. EA has their own PC store, Origin, and so the announcement was seen as a pro-consumer move. It would appear as though this honeymoon period may have been short-lived however, as it …

Metro Exodus was perhaps the most controversial Epic Games Store exclusive of 2019, with the highly anticipated follow-up to Metro Last Light pulled from Valve's store just two weeks before its release date. The last minute change caught everyone off guard at the time but we are now approaching the …

The MAG322CR is MSI's new high refresh rate monitor for competitive gamers

The Outer Worlds is the latest action RPG to be developed by Obsidian Entertainment. Known for having created Fallout: New Vegas, their latest release was seen as a welcome follow up to 2010’s Fallout entry. It would appear as though the game’s positive reception was reflected in its sales as …

Gigabyte’s Designare brand aimed at content creators has been expanded this week and now includes a range of memory modules sporting the Designare name, along with a sleek looking white aluminium heat spreader. Designare memory kits from Gigabyte comprise of common dual-rank modules that are fully compliant with industry-standard JEDEC …

Micron has announced the production of the world’s first low-power DDR5 RAM. The first batch of LPDDR5 from Micron will be used in the upcoming Xiaomi Mi 10 Smartphone to provide superior power efficiency and significantly faster data access speed. The new LPDDR5 RAM from Micron is designed to address …

The first review of a laptop using a Ryzen 4000 series CPU has been published online. A Ukrainian website reviewed the upcoming Acer Swift 3 SF314-42, which houses the mid-tier Ryzen 5 4500U. With this being our first look at a Ryzen 4000 series laptop processor in action, we had a peek at the …

Though unsurprising, Activision has officially confirmed that a new Call of Duty title is set to release “this fall”. Since the release of Call of Duty 2, a new title in the series has come out on an annual basis. Still, this announcement differs somewhat from previous years’, as Activision …

On yesterday's financial call, Ubisoft promised that it will launch five new games between March 2020 and April 2021. Out of these five new games, three were named, while the other two were confirmed to be a part of the company's “biggest franchises”. Three out of five games will launch in …

It would appear as though exclusive titles are no longer ever truly exclusive. The latest ‘exclusive’ game to go multi-platform is the charming PlayStation VR title ‘Ghost Giant’. Originally released in April 2019, the game has now been announced to be arriving on the Oculus Quest on the 20th of …

We already know that Microsoft plans to continue competing in the console hardware space with the Xbox Series X, but services and more specifically, cloud gaming, are becoming increasingly bigger areas of focus. With that in mind, Phil Spencer is eyeing up competition from the likes of Google and Amazon, …