The WD Black SN770 – Look Ma, No DRAM!
Many companies have released versions of their NVMe drives that lack a DRAM cache to lower the cost to purchase one, at the cost of sustained performance, and now Western Digital has…
Read MorePosted by Jeremy Hellstrom | Feb 7, 2022 | Storage | 10
Many companies have released versions of their NVMe drives that lack a DRAM cache to lower the cost to purchase one, at the cost of sustained performance, and now Western Digital has…
Read MorePosted by Jeremy Hellstrom | Feb 7, 2022 | Graphics Cards | 0
The ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3090 Trinity doesn't have extra fancy RGBs nor integrated watercooling, it is more or less a reference RTX 3090, though not at the reference MSRP ... of…
Read MorePosted by Jeremy Hellstrom | Feb 7, 2022 | General Tech | 0
Cisco decided to give us a great start to the week by providing details on five critical bugs affecting four models of routers, of which three bugs are of the highest severity. …
Read MorePosted by Jeremy Hellstrom | Feb 4, 2022 | General Tech | 0
MSI is hoping you might consider them as the supplier of your next mechanical keyboard, specifically their VIGOR GK71 SONIC gaming keyboard. The board is similar to many ~$100 ones on the…
Read MorePosted by Jeremy Hellstrom | Feb 4, 2022 | General Tech | 2
There was a time before NVMe, SATA and even IDE, when hard drives connected using Modified Frequency Modulation (MFM), and the cool kids added Run Length Limited (RLL) controller. When you did…
Read MorePosted by Jeremy Hellstrom | Feb 2, 2022 | Cases and Cooling | 0
SilentiumPC is a relative newcomer to the heatsink market, there have been several reviews of their Fera 5 and Fera 5 Dual, but this is the first time the Fortis...
Read MorePosted by Jeremy Hellstrom | Feb 2, 2022 | General Tech | 0
If you pre-ordered the Season Pass for Battlefield 2042, perhaps this release has convinced you that perhaps buying things sight unseen is not the wisest course of action. EA will throw those…
Read MorePosted by Jeremy Hellstrom | Feb 2, 2022 | General Tech | 3
The Raspberry Pi has included a 64-bit processor since the release of the original Pi 3 in 2016 but Raspberry Pi OS has only been 32-bit until now. Some brave souls have…
Read MorePosted by Jeremy Hellstrom | Feb 1, 2022 | Storage | 0
Internally the Corsair MP600 Pro LPX is essentially equivalent to the Pro XT model, with a Phison E18 PCIe 4.0 controller and Micron 176 Layer B47R Fortis grade flash. The difference is…
Read MorePosted by Jeremy Hellstrom | Feb 1, 2022 | Cases and Cooling | 0
Seriously, before even thinking about touching the insides of your PSU make sure those capacitors don't have any charge left in them or this might be the last thing you ever do. …
Read MorePosted by Jeremy Hellstrom | Feb 1, 2022 | General Tech | 0
Samsung has had an incredible year, with averaged sales up 30.5% from 2020 thanks to the fact that memory is selling as fast as it can be fabbed, up 31% from…
Read MorePosted by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jan 31, 2022 | General Tech | 0
The Jade Audio JD3 in-ear monitors may not look like much but there are some rather interesting features in these ~$20 earbuds. The drivers contain 9.2 mm composite diaphragms with neodymium magnets…
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