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AMD Announces Radeon RX 5500 and 5500M: Mainstream Navi

Posted by Sebastian Peak | Oct 7, 2019 | Graphics Cards | 4

Intel Officially Reveals 10th Gen Core X-Series Processor SKUs, Pricing, and Availability

Posted by Sebastian Peak | Oct 2, 2019 | Processors | 1

AMD Announces Ryzen BIOS Updates for Boost and Idle, New SDK

Posted by Sebastian Peak | Sep 10, 2019 | Processors | 7

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

Posted by Sebastian Peak | Jun 10, 2019 | Graphics Cards | 4

Dell’s New XPS 13 Is Set To Impress

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 18, 2019 | Mobile, Uncategorized | 0

You get a fair amount of choice with the new Ice Lake powered XPS13, though of course it will cost you a fair amount to get the best of everything. You can…

SilverStone Makes Sweet ITX Lucid-ity

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 18, 2019 | Cases and Cooling | 0

The SilverStone Lucid LD03 is a mere 265 x 414 x 230mm (10.43 x 16.3 x 9.06") which makes it perfect for Mini ITX and Mini DTX motherboard, but does place hard…

Think Bendable, Think Lenovo, Think Pad

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 18, 2019 | General Tech | 0

Lenovo is not going to stand by and let Samsung be the exclusive provider of bendable technology and showed off a mysterious laptop at the Canalys Channels Forum in Barcelona yesterday. They…

1909 Now Named Windows 10 November 2019 Update

by Scott Michaud | Oct 17, 2019 | General Tech | 0

The next feature update to Windows 10 will be called the Windows 10 November 2019 Update. This falls in line with the previous three names: the April 2018 Update, the...

If You’re Coming From San Francisco, And Wearing A Bulldozer In Your Hair ..

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 17, 2019 | Uncategorized | 2

The release of AMD's Bulldozer and Piledriver CPUs a handful of years ago upset a group of people who felt that quad-core, dual thread CPUs were not actually octa-core processors...

RTX – Remastered Times Ten?

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 16, 2019 | General Tech | 2

You have probably seen the Quake II RTX demo, if not played it at this point, which adds ray tracing to the old game in a very effective manner, making it quite…

750,000 Cores Makes For One EPYC Supercomputer

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 16, 2019 | General Tech | 0

The UK Government just inked a £79m with Cray for the Archer2, a 28PFLOPS EPYC powered supercomputer which will be made available to scientists and engineers across the UK. It will contain…

Lights Out for Google Daydream

by Scott Michaud | Oct 15, 2019 | Mobile | 2

Google Daydream is not available on their newly announced Pixel 4 and 4 XL phones, and the Daydream View headset is no longer being sold. The software will continue to be…

Bored? Perhaps The Key Is To Switch Away From A Mechanical Life

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 15, 2019 | General Tech | 0

Could Corsair's new RGB wireless K57 keyboard with rubber dome switches actually satisfy a self confessed keyboard snob such as the person who reviewed this keyboard at Techgage? It can connect via…

Is Intel Really Cancelling 10nm Desktop Processors?

by Sebastian Peak | Oct 14, 2019 | Processors | 1

This morning saw some interesting news (based on either rumors or actual inside information) about none other than Intel and their upcoming desktop CPU plans, and it's pretty wild. It began with…

Sennheiser’s New GSP 370 Wireless Headset – 100 Hours Of Play

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 10, 2019 | General Tech | 0

100 hours of battery life is an impressive claim, and it is exactly what Sennheiser is advertising with the new GSP 370. The physical design of the headset focuses on long…

It’s Element-ary Dear User, Intel Is Working To Compartmentalize Computer Components

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 10, 2019 | General Tech | 0

Intel's new Element is a conceptual product that came out of their NUC Compute Element design team which we might see for sale in the coming years. It is a system on…

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, The RAM Was A Mind Trick

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 9, 2019 | General Tech | 0

Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN felt a disturbance when they saw the recommended specification for the upcoming Jedi: Fallen Order game, the suggestion that 32GB of RAM was required. That would push...

Ryzen 9 3900 And Ryzen 5 3500X, Coming To Prebuilt Systems Soon

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 9, 2019 | General Tech | 0

Just as they did with the Ryzen 5 2500X and the Ryzen 3 2300X, AMD is releasing two chips solely to OEMs and not to the general market. The Ryzen 9 3900…

Team Group Cardea II, A Chip Off The Old Block

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 8, 2019 | Storage | 0

Flash does like to be hot but the controller does not, a situation that might be familiar to those who do not sleep alone. Team Group decided that a fair sized chunk…

Can The CM Wraith Ripper Cool The Next Generation Of Threadripper?

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 8, 2019 | Cases and Cooling | 0

Sadly there is no Threadripper leak along with the 3950X which could definitively answer the question, but we can make some educated guesses about this cooler which resembles an engine block. The…

4.4 On All Cores! Ryzen 9 3950X Is Set To Impress

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 8, 2019 | General Tech | 0

Hexus spotted a wee little something which shouldn't have been there when reviewing Aorus X570 overclocking guide PDF; specs on the soon to be released Ryzen 9 3950X. According to Gigabyte's findings…

BiTFenix’s 550W PSU; Does It Have The Formula For A Gold Rating?

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 7, 2019 | Cases and Cooling | 0

The BitFenix Formula Gold 550W PSU is not modular which helps reduce the price, but also uses a 120mm rifle bearing Martech fan which is both quiet and a bit more expensive…