Component

The folks at be quiet! have been in the all-in-one liquid cooling market for some time now, consistently improving with each new generation. This week, be quiet! is introducing its next series of AIOs – Pure Loop, promising silent, reliable and versatile cooling. You even get a refill port and …

Samsung SSDs have always been amongst the most popular, reliable and high-performance. Samsung is looking to keep that track record going with PCIe 4.0, as the company today officially announced the Samsung SSD 980 PRO. This is an SSD that was previously leaked via the Samsung website, but the official …

AMD has just launched the first “Zen” processors for Chromebooks, the Ryzen 3000C series. Set to be used in Acer, ASUS, HP and Lenovo systems, the new series of AMD mobile processors for Chromebooks will consist of 5 SKUs, offering up to 212% better performance than the previous generation. Based on …

As the official announcement of the AMD Radeon RX 6000 series of graphics cards comes closer, new leaks about the GPUs have been popping up on the Internet. The latest one reveals some key specifications of two GPUs, more specifically the ones codenamed Sienna Cichlid and Navy Flounder. The AMD …

Recently, we reported that the price for the Xbox Series X and S’s proprietary expansion cards had seemingly leaked online, with a 1TB card coming in at $220. Now as pre-orders have gone live for the consoles, and other accessories are beginning to become available to purchase, it seems as though …

The launch of the RTX 3070 is still almost a month away, but Gigabyte is already showing us what they have in store for us. The first RTX 3070 graphics cards to be presented by Gigabyte powered by the GA104 GPU are the RTX 3070 Gaming OC and RTX 3070 Eagle …

Adata has announced a new PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD for gamers and tech enthusiasts. The XPG Gammix S70 is the latest addition to the XPG's lineup of PCIe 4.0 SSDs, which includes both the Gammix S50 and S50 Lite. By delivering “unmatched read and write performance” through the PCIe 4.0×4 …

As most of you probably have noticed, the RTX 3080 launch wasn't the smoothest. With websites crashing, limited stock and with scalpers using bots to get the few available graphics cards. Just how much demand was there for the RTX 3080 on launch day? Well thanks to Zotac, we have a pretty good idea. 

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 launch is right around the corner, but the first benchmarks of this graphics cards have already been leaked. These leaked Benchmarks include results from Time Spy, Geekbench, Superposition, Blender, and multiple games with RTX/DLSS and without it. As shared by VideoCardz, the RTX 3090 scores …

Gigabyte's Watch Dogs Legion redeeming form has listed multiple unannounced GeForce RTX graphics cards from the company. Some of these graphic cards weren't even announced by Nvidia, namely the 306S, 307S, and 308S ones, leading us to believe that Nvidia is already working on the Super/Ti RTX 30 series variants. …

Following on from the launch of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080, EK has readied up an impressive set of water blocks and backplates to allow users to add their recently acquired GPUs to their water loops. EK has launched two water blocks: the EK-Quantum Vector RTX compatible with a vast selection …

The bad news: RTX 3080s sold out in a matter of minutes. The good news: more are on the way and Nvidia is manually reviewing orders to ensure it reaches legitimate customers.

A new tweet posted by software engineer Patrick Schur suggests that AMD will indeed skip the Ryzen 4000 naming scheme for the upcoming Zen3 processors. The decision behind this could be that the company wants to unify the name of the upcoming Ryzen “Cezanne” APUs, which use Zen3 architecture, with …

Nvidia's latest graphics driver introduces support for the recently launched RTX 3080 and the upcoming RTX 3090 cards. The 456.38 WHQL graphics driver also introduces Nvidia Reflex, Nvidia Broadcast, and the typical set of optimisations for some games. Additionally, it disables implicit SLI on Ampere graphics cards, but explicit SLI will …

Ubisoft is set to make another big push into the VR space. Following in the footsteps of Star Trek Bridge Crew, Ubisoft's last major VR game, the publisher has officially announced brand new Assassin's Creed and Splinter Cell titles built for VR.  These games were announced during Facebook Connect alongside …

Facebook Connect took place last night and just as previously leaked, the Oculus Quest 2 was the big showstopper. The now official headset is coming in October and will completely replace both the original Quest and the PC-focused Oculus Rift line.  The Oculus Quest 2 packs a Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 SoC, …

MSI's Gaming X Trio is a beast of a GPU, but it is also priced at £759.99

We check out Gigabyte's RTX 3080 Eagle - attractively priced at £649

Besides the Gaming X Trio and Ventus x3 graphics card series, it seems that MSI is also planning to release a Suprim and Corsair line of GPUs. A listing in EEC made by MSI hints that it's developing two new series of RTX 30 graphics cards and that an RTX …

Despite the continued maturity of Virtual Reality, Beat Saber remains one of the best titles utilising the unique hardware capabilities of VR to its fullest. Thanks to this success, the team has continued to evolve the game, adding new features and songs. The latest addition to Beat Saber has now …

New photos of the AMD Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards show two different coolers, one featuring a 3-fan design and the other featuring a 2-fan design. Additionally, a Linux kernel patch submitted by AMD suggests that the upcoming RDNA2 graphics cards will support AV1 decoding. Revealed by JayzTwoCents, the first photo …

Does PCIe Gen4 make a difference for the RTX 3080? Were we wrong to use Intel's Comet Lake-S platform for our RTX 3080 review data? Let's answer that question by directing comparing RTX 3080 performance on AMD's X570 platform with PCIe 4.0, versus Intel Z490 and PCIe 3.0.

Our RTX 3080 review is here - just how fast is this card really?

New reports about the Intel Xe dedicated graphics solutions show that a Xe-HPG graphics card with 960 EUs is being evaluated and that the DG2 graphics card might come with up to 8GB of GDDR6 memory. As per MebiuW, the Intel DG2 is expected to come with 128, 384, and 512 …

With Nvidia's ARM acquisition, the company is in a good place to start producing its own CPUs. Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huang, already hinted at it but only time will tell how this goes. Besides, regulators might prevent the acquisition altogether, but Jensen is confident that the “regulators are going to …

With RTX 30 series' imminent launch, we finally get a look at the reference boards of both RTX 3080 and 3090. Both GPUs will be mounted on PG132 reference boards to produce the AiB partners' graphics cards, while the Nvidia Founders Edition will be based on PG133 and PG136 PCBs …

Corsair has joined the party with its new 4000-series cases

The future of RGB is here! Corsair Elite Capellix AIO coolers.

We are roughly six weeks away from AMD's RX 6000 launch, but AMD is bringing the teasers early - this time with an unveiling of the new RX 6000 GPU cooler design.

Intel’s corporate vice president of client computing, Boyd Phelps, has confirmed that the company is developing Tiger Lake-H processors with 8-core configurations. These 8-core processors are expected to feature 45W TDP, while the 35W TDP ones should only feature 4-core configurations. In a blog post on Medium, Boyd Phelps confirmed …