Content and news by Jamie Fletcher

More storage solutions at CES 2018, this time from WD and by extension, SanDisk. The two flash-based products are being geared towards mobility and for use with drones, which means durability and speed are the main factors to consider. With Internet access being common too, private clouds are also a focus with…..

In keeping with the Lenovo and Qualcomm partnership, a standalone headset is coming, called the Mirage Solo. This headset is one of a new generation of Google Daydream powered standalone devices, built around Qualcomm’s reference design using the Snapdragon 835 VR platform. This follows on from previous announcements about reference designs and…..

How would you like a 65-inch, 4K display with G-Sync, HDR and 120Hz refresh rate? That’s what NVIDIA calls a Big F***** Gaming Display… sorry, excuse me, that’s Big Format Gaming Display, or BFGD. No, we’re not kidding… Leveraging partners with monitor experience already, NVIDIA is creating yet another new format/standard of…..

Just recently, before the holidays kicked off, Qualcomm, the creator of the venerable Snapdragon SoC found in nearly all flagship smartphones, officially announced its bright future inside Windows 10 notebooks and mobile devices. At the time, Lenovo had no product on hand, but was a listed partner. Here at CES 2018, we…..

Storage is one thing we seem to never have enough of. With higher resolution video going from 720p, to 1080p, to 4K, 3D VR and 360 degree, 24, to 30 to 60 to 120 frames per second, more and more storage is needed. But quantity is only half the problem, it’s also…..

Over the last couple of years, NVIDIA’s push for automotive AI has been, to put it politely, extreme. At pretty much every single press event, it’s making headlines with its DRIVE systems, super power efficient SoCs, and a huge emphasis on AI. At the beginning of CES 2018, today is no different.…..

At a pre-CES 2018 keynote, AMD briefed members of the press and media about how far its come over the last year with the successful launch of the Zen and Vega architectures, and what it plans to do over the next year, including a number of earlier-than-anticipated surprises. To call Ryzen a…..

Corsair’s new budget headset, the HS50, is a no-nonsense headset for gamers, be it PC or console. While there are plenty of $50 headsets on the market, Corsair has used a very solid OEM design that shares a number of features with more premium headsets. The result is a surprising headset that should be good for any gamer.

The new Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition is part of AMD’s annual refresh of its drivers, aimed at delivering major new features, as well as continued performance enhancements. From improvements to Chill, ReLive, and WattMan, there’s also Enhanced Sync and Compute modes, a new overlay system, and integration with a smartphone through AMD Link to monitor you’re system.

You thought the GTX 1070 Ti would be the last card of the year from NVIDIA? Yeah, well, it wasn’t. Completely out of the blue comes an announcement for one of the most powerful graphics in the world, and it’s a real Titan. Behold, NVIDIA’s first (sort of) Volta-based graphics giant, the…..

Continuing with the Tech Summit from Qualcomm on Hawaii, the new Snapdragon flagship SoC had its details released to the public, jumping from the current Snapdragon 835 that’s found in nearly every top-end smartphone, to the brand new 845 SoC. There are lots of incremental changes that we’d expect, such as faster…..

Looking for deals on a new-build? Perhaps replacing some old for new? Want to keep that tech-lover in your life happy? Black Friday is your last chance to get those orders in before the year ends and festivities begins. While SSDs, Memory and GPU prices are at all-time highs, there are still a number of deals to be had.

Corsair already has a wide range of gaming headsets with its VOID and VOID Pro ranges, but this time it’s going for something a little bit more cost-effective with the new HS50. It’s a trio of headsets built for consoles and PCs that’s meant to tick all the right boxes for sound…..

The head of AMD’s Radeon Technologies Group (RTG), Raja Koduri, will be leaving AMD, and heading on over to Intel. This announcement was first reported by Hexus from a leaked email, but has since been confirmed independently from multiple sources. What’s interesting is that instead of heading over to somewhere like Apple,…..

A rumor about an Intel/AMD partnership has circulated for decades, with copious amounts of ifs and buts thrown in. Today we have confirmation of a partnership that may both surprise and delight, as Intel lays the groundwork for a new generation of on-package processors, that of third-party GPU integration with its CPUs.…..

One and two-bay NAS units are some of the most common on the market, for when all you need is just a simple storage place on the network, without having to worry about complicated RAID setups. Synology is launching its latest range, and with the updated CPUs, they have a new trick…..

A poorly kept secret over a new Pascal-based GeForce card denoting a Ti series moniker has now become official with the release of the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti. It sits itself between the GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 in terms of performance, and has its sights set firmly on AMD’s RX Vega…..

This is one of those things that’s been a long time coming, yet still can’t get here soon enough. While the IoT revolution is lauded as both a blessing and a curse, one critical aspect has had more than its fair share of news coverage, and that’s security. Arm (yes, it’s Arm…..

Cooling and looking cool have always been a part of the DIY PC gaming community. NZXT would like to fulfill both those obligations with its new product launches; the H-series cases for the looks, and the GRID+ V3 for the cooling. Clean lines, mesh filters, flat surfaces, and of course, tempered glass…..

How much RGB does someone need in a PC? Corsair thinks ‘all of it’ is an appropriate answer, as it releases a new set of PC fans with 16 LEDs packed into each one. The new LL Series of fans are for those that want to look cool, but sound cool too……..