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Intel Architecture Day 2021: Alder Lake and Arc

Posted by Sebastian Peak | Aug 19, 2021 | Processors, Graphics Cards | 2

AMD Announces Radeon RX 6600 XT Graphics Card

Posted by Sebastian Peak | Jul 30, 2021 | Graphics Cards | 2

Valve’s Steam Deck is the PRO Handheld that Might Make You SWITCH to Linux

Posted by Sebastian Peak | Jul 16, 2021 | Systems, Mobile | 9

Opinion: Windows 11 System Requirements Actually Make Sense

Posted by Sebastian Peak | Jun 30, 2021 | General Tech | 9

The Neo Forza FAYE 32GB DDR4 4600MHz Dual Channel Kit

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 15, 2021 | Memory | 0

DDR4-3600 is still the go to frequency for many users, especially those running AMD systems, but lately the tightest timings readily available have been CL 18 and many kits are not even…

Buffalo Portable SSD-PUT; An Adaptable 500GB Thumbdrive

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 15, 2021 | General Tech | 0

With the rise of portable NVMe drives the humble USB thumb drive's popularity has faded. They are still very handy, likely you have a few within reach of you right now shoved…

LANtenna, Sniffing Packets Out Of Your LAN Cables On The Cheap

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 15, 2021 | General Tech | 1

A researcher at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev has successfully sniffed UDP packets out of CAT6 cabling and decoded them into human readable text, without spending more than $30. The…

HTC’s New Vive Flow VR Headset; No Facebook But An Android Phone Is Required

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 14, 2021 | General Tech | 0

The best thing about the new HTC Vive Flow is that the $500 headset does not require you to give Facebook access in order to use it, but there are some trade…

Far Cry 6 Benchmarks, Will You Have To Craft An Upgrade?

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 13, 2021 | General Tech, Graphics Cards | 3

Far Cry 6 benchmarks are slightly more interesting than the past couple of games, as the Dunia 2 engine is well known, as we have been testing the engine since Far Cry…

Android Still Gathers Personal Data And Sends It To The Mothership

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 13, 2021 | General Tech | 0

Android phone vendors like Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, and Realme have been in the news several times over the years as researchers published their findings about the amount of data that the handsets…

Colorful GeForce RTX 3060 Bilibili 12G, The Cutest CUDA

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 12, 2021 | Graphics Cards | 0

It has been quite a few generations of GPUs since we've seen artwork on the card itself, with most opting for a solid coat with a second tone for highlights for a…

Intel And AMD CPUs; A Decade Of Change

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 12, 2021 | Processors | 1

A lot has changed since 2011; for instance the only Star Trek cast member to make it to space at that time was James Doohan and even then only posthumously. Along the…

News Of A DRAM Price Correction Comes Fourth

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 12, 2021 | General Tech | 0

Good news for those looking for a memory upgrade, for DRAM will be the one and only component expected to experience a price drop in the near future. The Register quotes…

Gate All Around! Samsung’s 2nm Process Node

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 8, 2021 | General Tech | 0

Processors built on a 3nm node are not that far off, with TSMC expecting to be selling wafers of 3nm chips by 2024 while Samsung expects to be shipping their first…

Window 11 Known Issues And How To Install Them

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 7, 2021 | General Tech | 1

If you like to live dangerously you can pop into your registry and create a DWORD called "AllowUpgradesWithUnsupportedTPMOrCPU" under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup\MoSetup and set it to a value of 1. After doing...

It’s Far Cry 6 Day … Unless You Are Still Beta Testing BF2042

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 6, 2021 | General Tech | 6

Far Cry 6's arrival was somewhat overshadowed by a mostly open beta which came out at the same time, but there are some who would rather wander around an island alone over…

Sure Your Facebook Feed Broke, But What About Oculus Quest Fans?

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 6, 2021 | General Tech | 1

The transformation from successful KickStarter program to Facebook appendage may have garnered the creators a lot of money but it certainly hasn't made them popular. The decision seems to have only exacerbated…

Hush! Kailh Wants You To Look In Their BOX Right Now

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 5, 2021 | General Tech | 0

The mechanical keyboard market, unlike the actual keyboards themselves, keep adding new keys to an already crowded space. On the other hand, the keyboards continue to sell at extremely high volumes which…

Thermaltake Divider 500 TG Air Black; Ya Gotta Keep ‘Em Separated

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 5, 2021 | Cases and Cooling | 0

The new Thermaltake Divider 500 TG Air, in either black or white, will look somewhat familiar on the outside but the inside offers more cable management features and enhanced airflow. It also…

Would You Rather A Spinal Tap Or A Windows 11 ISO?

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 5, 2021 | General Tech | 9

Ready or not, Microsoft have now made Windows 11 publicly available, and you can grab the Windows 11 ISO directly from them right here. If your system meets the...

The Acer Predator GM7000 M.2 PCIe 4.0 4×4 NVMe SSD Shows It’s Grit

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 4, 2021 | Storage | 0

If you were expecting yet another PCIe 4.0 SSD review with a Phison controller then you are in for a pleasant surprise as Acer chose the Innogrit IG5236 controller for their Predator…

Clearview Is Not Backing Down On Facial Recognition, They’re Doubling Down

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 4, 2021 | General Tech | 0

Clearview AI is a facial recognition company which quietly collected billions of images from social media and other sites on the web, to develop a product to allow you to instantly find…