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Corsair's latest case costs £79.99 - but does it have enough features to justify the price?

Despite being a premium brand with costs that often reflects as such, Corsair hasn’t forgotten about its mid-range fans by adding a new chassis to its Carbide series. Introducing its new Carbide 275R case, Corsair claims it packs “high-end features you need, and nothing you don't,” all for £75. Shaving …

For quite some time, EVGA has been regarded as one of the best graphics card sellers for those who care about warranties and return/upgrade policies. In a somewhat controversial move, the firm has now removed the ability to conduct a “Guest RMA,” to return a GPU, instead requiring users to …

The Oculus Rift has overtaken the HTC VIVE in Steam usage for the first time. We saw the writing on the wall last month, when the December Steam hardware survey results came out, showing the Rift with a better growth percentage. Now two months later, the Vive has officially been …

Last year, Intel and AMD made its collaboration official, with plans to launch a new chip packing an Intel CPU and an RX Vega M GPU with HBM2 on board. At CES we got more details on specific specs for all five G-series processors and now this week, we have …

Over the past couple of months, Intel has been churning out stable microcode fixes to help mitigate Spectre vulnerabilities across its line of processors. Microsoft has announced that it will begin lending a helping hand with distributing the firmware updates, provided that users are running Windows 10. As of yesterday, …

AMD began kicking off its Ryzen 2000 series roll out last month with the launch of its two Raven Ridge APUs. However, we are still waiting on the new series of CPUs to land, featuring the refined Zen+ architecture built on the 12nm process. These CPUs will be heading our …

Last year during Oculus Connect, the company took to the stage to announce its next virtual reality headset. It's called Oculus Go, costs $199 and aims to bring VR to the masses as an all-in-one solution, with no additional hardware required. We've known about this HMD for several months now, …

Six months on from the reveal of Intel’s Kaby Lake refresh, it seems that mobile variants of 8th generation Coffee Lake processors are coming to laptops. Multiple benchmarking scores have appeared on Geekbench, showing the flagship Intel Core i7-8750H to be a similar powerhouse to its desktop counterpart. Spotted in …

Last week, Intel addressed Spectre issues in the form of a stable software fix for Skylake, Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake. Just one week later, the company is now pushing out its supposedly stable microcode updates for Broadwell and Haswell processors. The latest update is seemingly a major improvement over …

Kolink has already proven that its cases can dress to impress, balancing aesthetic and features with a competitive price. Keeping with this trend, Kolink introduces its Stronghold and Observatory models, built for those needing extra space and wanting to put it on display. Both cases support motherboards up to E-ATX, …

It's a new dual-tower RGB air cooler from Cooler Master. Is it competitive at £74.99?

Back in October, we saw a spiritual successor to Cooler Master's legendary HAF case. This arrived in the form of the MasterCase H500P, which we reviewed positively at the time. Now this week, Cooler Master is expanding on the H500P line, with the new H500P Mesh White. As Dominic said …

Final Fantasy XV is heading to PC officially next week but we've managed to get a quick look at performance ahead of time thanks to the release of a free playable demo. The game's initial benchmark release didn't turn out to be all that useful, but the demo version of …

Graphics card pricing is crazy right now, and apparently the trend won't be stopping any time soon.

Chances are, if you have $3000 or £2,700 to spend on a graphics card like the Nvidia Titan V, then you'll have a bit extra to invest in proper cooling. It has taken a little while to develop, but Titan V owners can now shift from the GPU's reference cooler …

Crucial has launched a new mainstream 2.5in SSD - is it worth your time and money?

AMD endows its embedded processor line-up with Zen architecture, introducing the new Ryzen Embedded V1000 and the EPYC Embedded 3000 family of processors.

It's the new Corsair Obsidian 500D. It's got no RGB lights. Wait, what?

Earlier this year, AMD debuted its CPU roadmap for 2018, kicking off with two new Ryzen 2000-series APUs, followed by new Ryzen CPUs based on the Zen+ architecture. We've seen the APUs already, so now it is only a matter of time before the new CPUs hit the market. That …

Last year, the graphics industry had a major shakeup, with Raja Koduri switching to the blue team to take the reins on discrete GPU development for Intel. Since then, things have been somewhat quiet, but this week that changed with some discrete GPU prototype details making their way onto the web.

During CES in January, we learned that Asus would be taking its first step into the virtual reality market with the launch of its first HMD. At the time, we heard that the first Windows 10 Mixed Reality headset would be available in Q1 and now it seems that time …

Earlier this month, EK Waterblocks issued an apology to customers, explaining that its EK-Supremacy EVO Threadripper waterblock didn't meet the company's standards. It turns out that these waterblocks suffered from less than expected performance due to a flaw with the cold plate design. For that reason, the Supremacy Threadripper block …

Back in 2016, Samsung debuted the world's highest capacity SSD for its time, measuring in at just over 15TB. Now they are back at it again, this time with a 30TB SSD featuring 512Gb V-NAND, 40GB of DRAM, an all new memory controller architecture and even faster read/write speeds.

Some early Ryzen 2000 series APU buyers are finding themselves stuck in a boot loop due to outdated motherboard BIOS versions. Fortunately, AMD has a solution, and it seems to involve sending out free processors.

Intel is experiencing an overwhelming amount of legal action over the Meltdown and Spectre flaws, as the company reveals that the count is currently at 32 lawsuits. The blue team is also under fire from the inside, as three shareholders have each filed shareholder derivative cases claiming a lack of …

While Intel's integrated GPUs have never been a particularly strong option for PC gaming, it is an option that many still use to this date. In fact, Steam's hardware survey will often show Intel iGPUs among the most used. To help those users, Intel is introducing a new feature to …

HTC has found great success in the virtual reality market, not just with the VIVE headset, but with the Viveport service too. The subscription-based service grants VIVE owners access to a bunch of virtual reality apps to dive in to each month. Unfortunately for current subscribers, in order to attract …

So you don't understand any of this jargon? You aren't alone - and we are here to help today.

Ever since the Meltdown and Spectre revelations hit at the start of this year, security researchers have been working out the extent of the damage and the various ways it can be exploited in order to help with patch development. This week, experts from Nvidia and Princeton University managed to …