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Illuminating The Best Of The Displays On The Market

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 23, 2019 | Displays | 0

There have been some amazing advances in monitors these past couple of years, up to and including a technology to bring colour to Josh's face! Ars Technica have just revealed...

Hack Yourself An Airplay 2, Sonos Enabled, TruePlay Tuned Ikea Speaker

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 23, 2019 | General Tech | 0

These specific $99 bi-amp-able speakers from Ikea contain a well designed EMI shielded motherboard with a WiFi socket and a heatsink which offers you all the features of a Sonos device, like…

Did You Know Chrome Rusts? Google Does!

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 23, 2019 | General Tech | 0

Did you know that Google provides 6.5 years of Auto Update support for devices, after which you hit the Auto Update Expiration (AUE) Date. That date is not tied to when you…

The DeeplyCool Gamer Who Stormed The Castle

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 22, 2019 | Cases and Cooling | 0

It is true, there is indeed a pressure relief bag on the 240EX cooler, one side of the bag exposed to air and the other side surrounded by coolant inside the radiator. …

Gaming The Laptop Market

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 22, 2019 | Mobile | 0

There is still a huge market for gaming laptops, regardless of the lack of upgradability and the extra costs involved in compacting a gaming PC into a reasonably portable form. This is…

Scratching The Surface Of A Battery Issue

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 22, 2019 | General Tech | 1

Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet/laptop hybrid devices have been in the news lately; but not in a good way. Last week we heard tell of a firmware update that might have been the…

MSI Unveils Content Creator Laptops Powered by 10th Gen Intel 6-Core Processors

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 21, 2019 | Mobile | 0

MSI have announced three new workstation class laptops powered by Intel's new Comet Lake CPUs. The Prestige 14 and 15 are paired with the GTX 1650 Max-Q, 16GB DDR4 and an M.2…

Watt’s Up With Overclocking Navi?

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 21, 2019 | Graphics Cards | 0

AMD's drivers and third-party overclocking tools have matured since their inception, which has inspired The FPS Review to put effort into seeing how far they can push the two reference cards. Now…

Feeling Edge-y Today?

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 21, 2019 | General Tech | 0

How's that for an incentive to try Microsoft's new beta version of Edge meets Chromium? Not only can you scream and yell about the interface and compatibility, but you have a chance…

Intel Comet Lake Processor Lineup Launches: Includes First 6-Core U-Series Part

by Sebastian Peak | Aug 21, 2019 | Processors, Mobile | 0

Intel officially launched 10nm "Ice Lake" mobile processors on August 1st, and today they are adding eight new 14nm "Comet Lake" SKUs to the 10th Gen lineup slated to ship...

More Info on the Minecraft RTX Update

by Scott Michaud | Aug 20, 2019 | Graphics Cards, General Tech | 0

On Monday, Microsoft and NVIDIA announced that Minecraft for Windows 10 will be getting an RTX update. Sebastian wrote up how the popular dig and build game will have raytraced...

AMD Publishes RDNA Whitepaper: Inside the Navi GPU Architecture

by Sebastian Peak | Aug 20, 2019 | Graphics Cards | 0

We have already seen how impressive the performance of RDNA can be, even with the Radeon 5700 Series topping out at just 40 CUs. Navi has significantly out-performed the previous...

ASUS Reveals Trio of New X299 Motherboards

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 20, 2019 | Motherboards | 0

ASUS have released updated versions of three X299 motherboards, the ROG Rampage VI Extreme Encore and ROG Strix X299-E Gaming II as well as the Prime X299-A II. These new...

HyperX At Gamescom

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 20, 2019 | General Tech | 0

HyperX is showing off a few new products at Gamescon, including a new Cloud Alpha S Gaming Headset which adds a bass slide and virtual 7.1 surround sound to the popular

FIGHTCRAB! Looks Like Crab, Fights Like People

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 20, 2019 | General Tech | 0

Do not get flipped over or you will have "no choice but to submit to the pot". You may be an immortal crustacean, immune to damage from swords, lightsabers or...

What Can You Do With 400,000 SLACers?

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 20, 2019 | General Tech | 0

There is something strange going on at Hot Chips this year, brought to us by Andrew Feldman, the man that created and later sold Seamicro to AMD; the largest chip on the…

NVIDIA’s Gamescom Game Ready Driver Boosts Performance, Adds Low Latency and Integer Scaling

by Sebastian Peak | Aug 20, 2019 | Graphics Cards | 0

In what promises to be the biggest driver update of the year NVIDIA has dropped a "Gamescom Ready Driver" this morning that not only offers what the company claims to be up…

EasySMX; Three Kind Mice, Cheap As They Come

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 19, 2019 | General Tech | 0

TechPowerUp takes a look at three mice from an unfamiliar company, all of which are affordable enough to give to a serial rodent slayer. The EasySMX V50 is available for $19.99, looks…

AMD Announces Radeon RX 5700 XT and RX 5700 Graphics Cards: Midrange Competitor

Intel Launches 10th Gen Ice Lake Mobile Processors with Gen11 Graphics

Illuminating The Best Of The Displays On The Market

Hack Yourself An Airplay 2, Sonos Enabled, TruePlay Tuned Ikea Speaker

Did You Know Chrome Rusts? Google Does!

The DeeplyCool Gamer Who Stormed The Castle

Gaming The Laptop Market

Scratching The Surface Of A Battery Issue

MSI Unveils Content Creator Laptops Powered by 10th Gen Intel 6-Core Processors

Watt’s Up With Overclocking Navi?

Feeling Edge-y Today?

Intel Comet Lake Processor Lineup Launches: Includes First 6-Core U-Series Part

More Info on the Minecraft RTX Update

AMD Publishes RDNA Whitepaper: Inside the Navi GPU Architecture

ASUS Reveals Trio of New X299 Motherboards

FIGHTCRAB! Looks Like Crab, Fights Like People

What Can You Do With 400,000 SLACers?

NVIDIA’s Gamescom Game Ready Driver Boosts Performance, Adds Low Latency and Integer Scaling

EasySMX; Three Kind Mice, Cheap As They Come

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