Content and news by Rob Williams

Right on schedule, the latest iteration of Ubuntu, 18.04 ‘Bionic Beaver’, released yesterday, and to say that it’s worth an upgrade is probably an understatement. 18.04 becomes Ubuntu’s newest LTS release, meaning that it will be fully supported until 2023. If you’re currently running the previous LTS, 16.04, you’ll be treated to…..

In some of our past reviews of Corsair’s products, we’ve joked about the fact that the company wants in on every possible market relating to PC gaming, and with a new job posting, we’ve yet to see that countered. Spotted by the team at techPowerUp, Corsair’s latest posting seeks someone to head-up…..

When AMD released its first Zen-based processors last spring, the company had an awful lot riding on the success of the launch. After nearly a decade, the company was finally able to deliver not just competitive products, but in some cases, dominating products. After Ryzen launched, Intel was very quick to release…..

Many who are trucking along with an aging rig have found themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place this past year. GPUs have often proven scarce, likely by Folding and Seti@home enthusiasts (right?). When there has been good availability, it’s been grossly overpriced. Graphics cards that should cost $500 have been…..

Some companies may be having a hard time getting their 10 nanometer chips off of the ground, but for Taiwan’s semiconductor giant TSMC, it’s already settling quite comfortably into the new 7nm era. Last week, the company announced that it’s begun high-volume production of 7nm chips, and with “over a dozen” customers…..

Philips has shot over an email to say that its Momentum 43-inch monitor (yes, monitor) is the first to receive VEGA’s DisplayHDR 1000 certification, which, as it sounds, means that the display is properly HDR1000, and not some hacked-together job that some other companies might try to pull off. Given that, and…..

At the start of the month, Dell unveiled a ton of new product in the form of gaming notebooks, consumer monitors, and even desktop AIOs. Fast-forward to today, and the company is once again ushering in a bunch of new product – but this time, it’s laser-focused on the business side of…..

It’s been a mammoth week for AMD’s CPU team, with the company’s latest Ryzen processors proving to deliver a huge wallop for their price. Whereas the original Ryzen launch got off to a rocky start due late-arriving platform updates, you can expect much smoother adoption this time around. At worst, you’ll need…..

Following a deluge of leaks, AMD’s 2nd-gen Ryzen ‘Pinnacle Ridge’ CPUs have landed. These new ‘Zen+’ chips are built on a 12nm process, and bring in a brand-new chipset (even though the older chipset will work just fine!). Read on as we take a look at both the 8-core Ryzen 7 2700X, and 6-core Ryzen 5 2600X.

It’s been a while since we last took a look at some fresh performance numbers from AMD’s Radeon ProRender plugin for 3ds Max, and as you may have assumed, that’s going to be rectified in this article. We’ve pit 12 graphics cards against each other to see which reigns supreme – and the results may or may not surprise you.

AMD has just kicked-off preorders of its upcoming second-gen Ryzen processors, appropriately named the Ryzen 2000 series. These follow in the footsteps of the 2200G and 2400G Raven Ridge APUs, and out of the door, four SKUs will be made available. The 1800X transitions to 2700X and 2700, and underneath, the 2600X…..

ADATA might not be the first name to come to mind when you hear the word “overclocking”, but the company has today proven its might by accomplishing a 5GHz DRAM overclock on a single stick of XPG SPECTRIX D41 RGB DDR4 memory in an air-cooled configuration. This isn’t a kit that’s going…..

The benchmarking artists formally known as MadOnion will soon be formally known as Futuremark. Back in 2014, safety and certification giant UL acquired Futuremark. As a long-time maker of accurate, reliable gaming and PC benchmark suites, Futuremark’s ideals seemed to align with UL’s. Ultimately, the acquisition seemed like a good thing to…..

I took a look at HyperX’s $50 Pulsefire FPS gaming mouse last summer, and ultimately walked away very satisfied, and in fact, I still use the mouse on the active testbench. It’s simple, but isn’t boring. It doesn’t have software, so it works just as you’d expect when you move it from…..

Just over two years ago, we took at look at Acer’s X34 Predator, a 34″ G-SYNC ultrawide monitor that retailed for $1,299. That’s a bit of a big pill to swallow, but the monitor ultimately proved worth it if you could swing it. I still use the monitor for most of my…..

It’s the weekend, so there’s no better time to hear a great story about awful security, and even worse company responses. After someone questioned T-Mobile Austria about customer passwords being stored in plaintext, a couple of company social reps revealed their complete misunderstanding of computer security, and perhaps how community relations should…..

NVIDIA’s annual GPU Technology Conference took place last week in San Jose, California, and as always, the event has given us a lot to think about upon returning home. Some things stand out more than others, and it’s those that will be talked about here: from GPUs and ray tracing to deep-learning and artificial intelligence.

If you’ve been on the hunt for a new notebook or all-in-one, a slew of new announcements out of Dell and Alienware hints that your wait so far hasn’t been in vain. This week, both brands are rolling out some super-sleek notebooks, and even some desktop AIOs. Oh, there’s some new monitors,…..

As we discovered a couple of weeks ago, Chaos Group has been hard at work on its next-gen V-Ray renderer, and fortunately for users, a performance-boosting beta has already been released. We’re taking a preliminary look at performance from the new renderer, both on the CPU and GPU side (spoiler: the chips also join forces!).

There’s a lot to love about Ubisoft’s latest FPS, Far Cry 5, but as I found out over the weekend, there’s also a lot to be annoyed over. Well, in actuality, it’s really only one thing: the lack of progression for your co-op partner. This is a design flaw that Ubisoft readily…..