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At Corsair’s hotel suite during Computex, the company didn’t have a huge assortment of new product to show off, but what was exhibited is well worth checking out. I hate to admit that the thing to get me excited the most is a piece of software, but bear with me. First, let’s…..

For the mere mortal, counting the number of CPU coolers on the Computex show floor would be a grand challenge, but finding thermoelectric coolers is much easier. While visiting Cooler Master, company reps were eager to show off its upcoming TEC cooler, which at the current time doesn’t seem to have an…..

Over the past couple of months, I’ve talked to press peeps about what could be interesting at Computex. We all seemed to agree that this year’s Computex may not be the most exciting for performance hardware, only because we’re in between certain launches (CPU, GPU, etc). Other companies would have to step…..

At Computex 2018, Qualcomm releases details about a platform it first talked about at great length at last year’s Computex: all-day notebooks. To date, three models featuring the Snapdragon 835 have hit the market, but traction has been a bit tepid, for a couple of reasons – OS updates have been needed…..

If NVIDIA’s beloved co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang has a keynote to deliver to a room full of gamers, but has little gaming stuff to relay, you can bet on one thing: those gamers are going to ask about it. At Huang’s annual Computex showing, the man in charge talked a bit…..

The title of this post targets RGB, but to be fair, cost could also be a major factor here. Nonetheless, one of the latest releases from GIGABYTE’s Aorus brand baffles me a bit. At first, I was excited to see the company enter the DRAM market, but after seeing what’s on offer,…..

During his annual keynote at Computex 2018, NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang talked quite a bit about hardware and software we’ve heard about before, but in greater detail, and with more success cases to talk about. The company’s recently launched HGX-2 cloud server platform for AI and high-performance computing was a hot topic, while…..

Earlier, we wrote about Corsair’s latest Crystal chassis, an mATX tempered glass option that becomes even better for those who dig lots and lots of RGB. To control that RGB, you need a solid software solution, and likely to the surprise of no one, Corsair has been working on such a thing…..

With its Crystal series of chassis, Corsair gives users an option that is rather… see-through. Most panels on most Crystal models feature tempered glass, and with RGB kitted out throughout the system, the end result is seriously eye-catching (whether that’s a good thing depends on your tastes). Personally, I’ve come to really…..

If you like to travel a lot and listen to music, earbuds and IEMs are some of the best options going. Not only do they passively block out noise, they’re incredibly compact, too. Creative’s Aurvana Trio is a premium pair of IEMs with a detachable cable, and strong musicality for bass-heads. We take them for a ride half-way across the country.

Intel has today announced the introduction of its Optane DC persistent memory, which as the name suggests, is targeted squarely at the datacenter, behaves similarly to DRAM, and offers persistent storage. Persistence is just part of the equation, though; Optane DC persistent memory is designed to improve performance, and in effect improve…..

Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition brings an awful lot of PC goodness to the table, but given the fact that it’s as demanding on GPU hardware as it is, we wish the game would’ve shipped with NVIDIA SLI support. But who needs official support? Join us in our quest to hit 4K/60 at max detail with dual TITAN Xps in FFXV.

It looks like someone’s being a bad Apple again. Earlier this week, Valve released the Steam Link mobile app that let users stream games from their PC to their phone or tablet – a la NVIDIA GameStream (which has existed for five years). Like any developer worth its weight, Valve released both…..

It’s a big week for those who like to measure the viewport performance of leading applications, as SPECgpc members have just launched their latest benchmark: SPECviewperf 13. SPECviewperf, and SPEC in general, is no stranger to our results pages. Our just-posted video tackling Radeon Pro and Quadro performance analyzed results from eight…..

It’s beginning to look like this is the week for new graphics card drivers. Earlier, we posted about NVIDIA’s latest Game Ready drivers, which tackles performance for The Crew 2 (beta) and State of Decay, but somehow, a brand-new Radeon release managed to escape me. Yesterday, AMD released 18.5.1, an actually very…..

In case the fact has somehow escaped you, artificial intelligence is big business right now. We went from barely hearing about AI in the real-world to hearing about it all of the time. It’s hardly annoying, though, like many other constant reminders in our lives can be (it’s “Laurel”, by the way).…..

Back in February, at a time when Qualcomm had been hassled relentlessly by acquisition efforts, the company announced a new higher-end Snapdragon mobile SoC series targeting devices for those who demand solid performance, but don’t necessarily need the best of the best. Ultimately, Qualcomm wants to get AI-capable chips into more and…..

Cluing me into the fact that The Crew 2‘s launch is much closer than I realized, NVIDIA has today released a new Game Ready GeForce driver that tackles performance enhancements for the game before it even gets here. I was a pretty big fan of the original The Crew, having been a…..

A 3GB version of NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1050 has been rumored about for some time, and today, we finally see the card rise to the surface – at least by way of appearing in plain text form on NVIDIA’s website. It’s a bit of an odd beast, though… almost too odd, making…..

This isn’t likely to come as a surprise to anyone who follows the console market, given the fact that AMD silicon is currently featured in both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, but we’re beginning to see hints that AMD’s Zen microarchitecture is going to wind up in Sony’s next major console.…..