Content and news by Jamie Fletcher

On a cold Tuesday morning, a miasma of self-doubt and confusion descended; panic set in from a mysterious phone call. Yahoo found a problem with my account, and I needed to do something about it, fast! ‘This is not a scam’, I was told repeatedly, and that someone had been using my account to do terrible deeds. Except it was a scam, one I’ve heard a hundred times before.

We visited EVGA’s suite at CES 2017 and saw first-hand some of the new water cooling blocks that will be coming in the next few months. Both closed-loop and open-loop blocks were shown, with a variety of quick-release connectors. EVGA will also be releasing CPU blocks, as well as its own GPU…..

Near the GIGABYTE exhibit (more on that later), Enermax was showing off some cool (puns intended) new PSUs and fans, plus some rather enlightening chassis designs packed with LED strips. This time, we also have lots of pictures to share too. There were a total of six recent or brand new power…..

Kingston’s HyperX comes out with a product refresh this CES, building on its past successes in the peripheral market targeted at gaming and eSports. There are a handful of new items, plus a new addition to the well-received Cloud series headsets. We’ll start with the two keyboards, the ALLOY FPS and ALLOY…..

I’ll be honest, this is cool. There have been times were a single display just isn’t good enough, and hooking up an extra can be a pain. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a laptop with three displays? That’s what Razer thought as well. Queue introduction of Project Valerie! At the heart…..

CES is a great time to see some novel inventions. Some are cool tech demos, while others can lead into real products. Intel’s Compute Card is something that sits between the two. How would you like a PC that’s slightly thicker than a credit card, that you can carry around in your…..

It’s a new year and a new wave of peripherals. Corsair’s been busy updating its venerable line of high-end peripherals. While RGB backlighting remains a hit, it’s the small refinements that makes these keyboards and mice the perfect weapon in your digital life. K95 RGB Platinum Starting with the keyboard, Corsair has…..

AMD will be launching its Vega-based GPUs in the coming months, but to get the ball rolling, a high-level overview of the architecture has been detailed. With HBM2 already confirmed, we take a look at some of the other features that make up Vega, including new cache mechanics, primitive shaders and moving into the Compute market.

Intel’s Next Unit of Computing bare-bones systems started off with a bit of a slow start, but over the years have not only made themselves a niche, but came to the forefront of Small Form Factor computing. Mini PCs are one of the few growing desktop markets left, and it’s not hard…..

Following on from our coverage of the GeForce NOW Cloud Streaming service, NVIDIA is releasing a refresh to its SHIELD TV. This goes beyond gaming, streaming and otherwise replacing your smart TV; NVIDIA is also integrating some Artificial Intelligence into the system too. At a basic level, the new SHIELD TV works…..

Well, this is going to be quite the story to cover. NVIDIA has been busy outside of its typical graphic card launches. Announced at CES 2017, NVIDIA will begin rolling out its own cloud rendering gaming service called GeForce NOW, updating its SHIELD platform to integrate with modern 4K UHD and HDR…..

ASUS has certainly been busy. At its latest presentation as part of the CES event, a new generation of products were announced, covering a wide gamut of display technologies, mobile phones, new laptops, motherboards, mice, keyboards, routers and even a microphone. Note: Press packs were not complete at time of publish, so…..

It’s that special time of year where journalists and tech enthusiasts descend on Vegas for a non-stop week of everything new and shiny that’s to come out over the next year. It’s a big event, hosted over several hotels and show floors, and pretty much impossible to cover everything – but we’ll…..

Ready for some seriously advanced hardware with every kind of feature you can think of? Acer has a monster Laptop coming out soon, and it’s a doozy. Curved screen, eye tracking, SLI graphics, Kaby Lake processor, and it’s all overclockable. Oh, and it’s ultrawide too. We had to do a double take…..

We remember a certain time when our website crashed under the breaking news of the previous 1TB flash drive that was announced back in 2013. We doubt that’ll happen again (fingers crossed) but Kingston have packed in even more data into a tiny USB 3.0 Flash drive. The Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate GT…..

Intel’s latest 7th generation CPUs were launched a couple months back with a focus on the mobile markets. Today, Kaby Lake finally comes to the desktop with eager hands awaiting. A new platform is introduced with the Z270 chipset, new overclocking features, Optane Memory, and an unlocked i3 CPU. Read on as we put the flagship Core i7-7700K under review!

GPUs have come a long way over the years, and NVIDIA is pushing boundaries for what to expect from our investment. GPUs are for more than just rendering games; they’re also for offering full immersion and sharing our experiences with others. We’re taking a look at GeForce Experience, a comprehensive tool that lets you utilize your GPU to capture, share, optimize, and sometimes, even win!

Looking to put together a decent gaming rig? This build guide will help you get started, and throw some advice on how to plan for future upgrades. While the focus here is on 1080p in modern titles, this rig will handle 1440p with a large number of titles, plus 100 FPS+ with popular eSports titles like Overwatch and CS: GO.

A year on from the initial Radeon Crimson software release, AMD is pushing out a huge update today for all you Radeon fans. Dubbed Radeon Crimson ReLive Edition, the updated software stack introduces a whole mass of new features, such as frame limiting with Chill, game recording and streaming with ReLive, plus a unification of the driver stack for all Radeon graphics cards.

Gaming headsets often don’t live up to the expectations of a decent pair of headphones, often in the same price range. Antlion Audio has carved out a niche for itself by providing a quality microphone mod for people that enjoy premium headphones, who don’t want to resort to a headset when gaming.…..