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Corsair is expanding its SSD line-up this week with the brand new MP400 Gen3 PCIe x4 NVMe M.2 SSD. This time around, Corsair is utilising 3D QLC NAND technology, enabling high capacities and fast speeds. The Corsair MP400 will be available in 1TB, 2TB and 4TB capacities to start off …

The Western Digital Black series of storage devices has long been a favourite amongst enthusiasts and gaming PC builders. This week, the WD Black portfolio is getting some big upgrades, including three new NVMe SSDs, pushing PCIe 4.0 speeds to their limits.  First up is the WD Black SN850 NVMe …

It's a data-centre or enterprise-class SSD from Kingston, priced at over £400

Intel has finally confirmed the release date of Rocket Lake-S. Scheduled for Q1 2021, the 11th generation of Intel desktop processors will support PCIe 4.0, and as usual, Intel claims that "it’ll be another fantastic processor for gaming".

NZXT has announced the launch of its third generation of motherboards. The N7 Z490 ATX motherboard was “specially designed around Intel’s 10th generation Z490 chipset”, offering DIY enthusiasts everything they need to squeeze every bit of performance from their systems. NZXT has partnered with ASRock to manufacture the N7 Z490 motherboard, …

Today, Phanteks is launching a new chassis for the budget-conscious PC building crowd. The Eclipse P360A launches today, including a tempered glass window, two RGB fans with PWM control and a sleek mesh metal front panel for high airflow. The Phanteks Ultra-Fine Performance Mesh front panel comes with 1mm perforations, …

How good is this budget, air-flow oriented case from Phanteks? Spoiler: it's very good!

MSI has found itself wrapped in controversy this week, as allegations of the company scalping its own products for a higher price on eBay began doing the rounds. The accusation started off on Reddit, with someone linking a company called ‘Starlit Partner' to MSI. Starlit Partner recently sold several RTX …

Virtual Reality is a perfect companion for many types of video game genres. One of these is undoubtedly horror. Bloober Team appears to have recognised this, as the studio has taken its most recent release, Blair Witch, and adapted it for VR devices. Coming to Oculus Quest first on the …

A new entry on the SiSoftware database shows an unannounced Intel 12th Gen processor featuring Intel's hybrid processor architecture, Alder Lake. This Alder Lake-S processor spotted on SiSoftware comes with 16 cores, from which 8 are allegedly big cores and the other 8 are small cores, and 32 threads.  Intel …

After announcing plans to develop DDR5 memory back in 2018, this week, SK Hynix has announced its first DDR5 RAM modules.

Antec is about to launch a new airflow focused mid-tower chassis to house your system. The upcoming DP502 Flux takes the “thermal performance of the Antec Dark Series to a new level”, offering advanced ventilation and 5 RGB fans at a competitive price. The front panel of the DP502 FLUX …

Many enthusiasts are still waiting to get their hands on one of Nvidia's new RTX 30 series graphics cards but unfortunately, it doesn't look like the situation will be getting easier anytime soon. During a GTC Q&A session this week, Nvidia's CEO warned that demand will continue to outstrip supply for the rest of the year.

Nvidia has officially unveiled the RTX A series of graphics cards during GTC Digital 2020. Consisting of the RTX A6000 workstation graphics card and the RTX A40 data centre graphics card, the new RTX A series was designed to help professionals deal with emerging enterprise workloads, "from the desktop to the data centre". As it seems, the "Quadro" and "Tesla" naming has been dropped on the upcoming graphics cards.

AMD has trademarked a new technology named Infinity Cache. This technology is expected to feature in the upcoming RDNA 2 graphics cards that AMD is developing, compensating the “lack” of bandwidth by offering a faster cache memory for data that is more frequently accessed. As reported by @momomo_us, AMD has …

Initially scheduled for a release in 2019 and then delayed to 2020, Intel has now pushed the release date of Ice Lake-SP once again, from Q4 2020 to Q1 2021. This report comes from partners working in the supply chain, which claim that the orders targeted for Q4 have slowed …

How good is this 3600MHz CL14 memory kit from Team Group?

If you've been shopping around for an RTX 3080 or RTX 3090 over the last couple of weeks, you have likely been tempted by the cost-effective MSI Ventus 3X model. For those looking to take their GPU cooling to the next level, Alphacool has you covered with a new MSI …

Google's ambitions in the virtual reality space have stalled over the last couple of years and now, it looks like the tech giant is throwing in the towel for the time being. Google's Android-specific VR platform, Daydream, is shutting down.  In an updated support post this week, Google confirmed that …

While Intel's upcoming Meteor Lake CPUs are still quite far from release, work on support for Linux has already started. Intel engineers have started to work on patches for the Linux Kernel so that the upcoming Intel architecture is supported on Linux-based systems out-of-the-box. As noted by Phoronix, the Linux …

A new report detailing Intel's upcoming Tiger Lake-H, Alder Lake-P, and Alder Lake-S architectures has surfaced. These details include core and thread count, process node, cache memory, packaging size, GPU and respective features, memory support, connectivity, PCIe lanes, and security features.

With the next generation of consoles just over a month away, both Sony and Microsoft have been pushing their respective SSDs as being one of the core improvements set to arrive with the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X. That being said, SSD storage isn't cheap, and so both consoles …

We check out Kioxia's mid-range NVMe offering

Back in July, Asobo Studio, the team working on Microsoft Flight Simulator, revealed that they were working on VR support – a feature that should ship this year. Ahead of that though, VR support needs to be publicly tested, so Asobo has opened sign-ups to participate in the beta.  The …

With the rise in popularity of SSDs, Microsoft has added a storage health monitoring tool to the latest build of the Windows 10 Insider Preview. Introducing a storage health monitor allows users to prevent data loss by warning them when their storage drive is degraded, giving enough time to create a …

EKWB has launched a vertical GPU mounting bracket that uses two mounting points on the motherboard and “thicker materials than other similar solutions”. Thanks to the “patent-pending technologies”, the EK-Loop vertical GPU holder is a unique vertical GPU mounting bracket that rises above the competition. Placing a graphics card vertically is an ongoing …

AMD announced and launched its latest Raise the Game bundle earlier this year, offering RX 5000 GPU buyers a free copy of Godfall and/or World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. This offer was initially due to end soon, but AMD has extended it, offering free games to GPU buyers through to early …

Let the mods begin! Today we strip down the Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO modules and mod out the heat spreaders...

A screenshot of a CPU-Z benchmark score of an alleged AMD Ryzen 9 5900X has surfaced. The screenshot shows us both the single-core and multi-core score, compared to the Ryzen 7 3700X, but another image with the Ryzen 9 3900X overclocked to 4.5GHz has also been posted by the same leaker.

Over the last couple of weeks, Nvidia has faced plenty of criticism over lack of availability for new RTX 30 series graphics cards. Ahead of this month's RTX 3070 launch, Nvidia is taking that feedback on board, delaying retail availability so that more units can be made.