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NVIDIA Releases Drivers With Full Microsoft DirectX 12 Ultimate Support

Posted by Sebastian Peak | Jun 24, 2020 | Graphics Cards | 2

AMD Announces Ryzen 3000XT Processors

Posted by Sebastian Peak | Jun 16, 2020 | Processors | 6

Official Intel 10th Gen Comet Lake-S CPU Power Limits Revealed

Posted by Sebastian Peak | Jun 5, 2020 | Processors | 3

Arm Introduces Cortex-A78, Cortex-X1, Cortex-X Custom

Posted by Josh Walrath | May 27, 2020 | Mobile | 1

Phanteks Eclipse P500A D-RGB Is Feeling Ultra-Fine With Performance Mesh

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jul 8, 2020 | Cases and Cooling | 0

There is absolutely no reason not to incorporate a 420mm radiator into a system build in the Phanteks Eclipse P500A D-RGB, but with the capacity to house seven 120mm fans or six…

Forget 2020, Next Year We Need To Live Through Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Earthblood

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jul 8, 2020 | General Tech | 0

The World Of Darkness will be coming to PC in a variety of games and styles, from two very different Vampire The Masquerade games, a Wraith VR game and the aforementioned lycanthrope…

Boost The Frequency; The New Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jul 8, 2020 | General Tech | 0

Qualcomm have announced the Snapdragon 865 Plus, a refinement of their existing silicon as opposed to a brand new chip; seemingly a trend for this month. The CPU frequency has been boosted…

NVIDIA A100 GPUs Private Alpha on Google Compute Engine

by Scott Michaud | Jul 7, 2020 | Graphics Cards | 0

Google Cloud has added NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU to their Accelerator-Optimized VM (A2) instances. They are currently only available as a private alpha, but they will be released...

AMD’s Ryzen XT Family Appears

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jul 7, 2020 | Processors | 1

If your first question about these chips is if you should replace your original X version with an XT then the answer is the same as if you were thinking of replacing…

The H.266 Versatile Video Coding Codec Arrives

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jul 7, 2020 | General Tech | 3

Today the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, everyone's current favourite provider of codecs, announce the successor to their popular H.265 codec and the benefits it will offer. H.265 did a very good job…

Charles Chiang, MSI CEO and President, Passes Away at 56

by Scott Michaud | Jul 7, 2020 | General Tech | 0

MSI CEO, Charles Chiang, has passed away due to injuries after falling from their office in Taipei, Taiwan. He was promoted to this position in January 2019 after running their Desktop Platform…

Chrome To Start Limiting Background JavaScript Timer Wake Ups

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jul 6, 2020 | General Tech | 0

Chrome's love of devouring available RAM is well known and the subject of more than a few internet jokes. There are a variety of reasons for this immense appetite and today we…

DURGOD Taurus K320; Choose Your Version Of Their Mechanical Keyboard

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jul 3, 2020 | General Tech | 0

The DURGOD Taurus K320 mechanical keyboard series offers you a lot of choices to ensure you end up with the tenkeyless keyboard you actually want. You can choose between Cherry Black, Blue,…

The New Look For Windows 10

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jul 3, 2020 | General Tech | 3

The Insider Preview Build 20161 brings a new look for Windows 10 as well as a change to the taskbar and how alt-tab works. Thankfully, even when these new features are fully…

Meet Samsung’s New 870 QVO SSD

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jul 2, 2020 | Storage | 2

Samsung updated their QLC line to the 870 generation, using 9x layer 3D QLC V-NAND with 4GB LP-DDR4 for cache and capacities of 1, 2, 4 and 8TB. It also gives you…

Microsoft Updated IT’s PowerToys Preview

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jul 2, 2020 | General Tech | 0

Microsoft are bringing back a tool which first appeared in Win95 and allowed you to customize the look of your desktop as well as giving you some more control over how Windows…

Even Crytek Can’t Play Crysis Remastered

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jul 1, 2020 | General Tech | 4

Today was to be the day we could feast our eyes upon gameplay footage of Crysis Remastered and find out when we would be able to play it for ourselves. ...

Reporters Without Borders Minecraft The Uncensored Library

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jul 1, 2020 | General Tech | 0

Reporters Without Borders worked with a professional Minecraft design company (those are a thing) called BlockWorks to create The Uncensored Library to house banned and censored texts in a way that defeats…

EVOO EV-C-116-5, What Can a $140 Laptop From Walmart Do?

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jun 29, 2020 | Mobile | 1

At a price of $140 you can make some assumptions about the usefulness of Walmart's EVOO EV-C-116-5 but remember, they also released a $200 Motile M141 with a Ryzen 3...

Windows File Recovery For Command Line Heroes

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jun 29, 2020 | General Tech | 1

We all have people in our lives that don't believe in backing up their important files; in many cases the only place a picture lives is on the SD card in a…

XPG Summoner, Volume Knob And Cherry Switches

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jun 26, 2020 | General Tech | 0

XPG have released an interesting looking and quite weighty mechanical keyboard, at 951g it should handle a lot of abuse. You can choose between Speed Silver, Red, and Blue Cherry switches, the…

The New MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jun 26, 2020 | Motherboards | 0

At just under $200 the MAG B550 Tomahawk sits in the middle of the pack as far as price goes, as MSI included a variety of features to the board. Due to…