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GIGABYTE Launches UD PRO SSD Series For Budget-oriented Consumers
A new entrant has just arrived in the SSD market: GIGABYTE. With its initial UD PRO series, the company is targeting the value-conscious consumer who doesn’t want to spend a whole lot, but still want much better performance than mechanical storage (or simply need to replace their preexisting SSD). GIGABYTE has provided…..
Valve’s Dota 2 The International 2018 Compendium Is Out & Breaking Records
Valve’s The International Dota 2 tournament happens once a year like clockwork, and just like clockwork, it never fails to break new records. With a prize pool already 25% higher than the equivalent period last year, The International 8 is already past $6.5 million and seems poised to reach $30 million this…..
NVIDIA GeForce GTX Supply Has Just Become A Lot Better, And With More Reasonable Pricing
NVIDIA sends us many emails, but it’s one that says something as simple as “GeForce GTX back in stock!” that makes our ears perk up. It’s a secret to no one that the GPU market has been seriously rough the past year or more, with prices skyrocketing on any model capable of…..
AMD Releases Updated ProRender 2.2 Plugin For 3ds Max – We Test 13 GPU Configurations
Last month, we tried to counter April’s showers with a look at the performance of two ray tracing renderers: AMD’s Radeon ProRender, and Chaos Group’s V-Ray. On the V-Ray side, the latest 4.0 version brings significant performance boosts, especially if you’re using a GPU equipped with Tensor cores. At the time our…..
QNAP’s TS-963X A 9-bay NAS In A 5-bay Size, Powered By AMD G-Series Quad-Core SoC
As someone who’s used five-bay NASes for quite some time, I’ve come to feel like it’s the “perfect” size. Four of the bays can be used for RAID5 (not that this is particularly suggested for huge volumes), and the spare could be used when one of the other four drives needs to…..
Future Intel ‘Cascade Lake’ Server Platform To Include 6-channel Memory, Up To 224 Cores Per System
It’s becoming hard to predict what Intel is going to do next, and for a number of reasons, that’s a great thing. I sound like a broken record at this point, but it seems clear to me that AMD’s Zen has really lit a fire under Intel’s bottom. We saw it with…..
NVIDIA Further Optimizes Its Deep-learning Software Platform To Deliver Dramatic Performance Boosts
With a fresh look at workstation graphics performance posted one week ago today, we had many of the usual benchmark suspects, but one page made a sudden introduction: deep-learning. Equipped with CUDA software libraries, we dove into a look at general matrix multiplication (GEMM) performance, as well as performance when churning through…..
Samsung Drops Prices On 970 EVO & PRO NVMe SSDs At Launch
On the very day the 970 generation of EVO and PRO NVMe solid-state M.2 drives hit retail shelves, it would appear Samsung has already reduced prices from those initially disclosed to the press. We are unsure if this is simply a marketing ploy or a genuine reconsideration on launch prices, but in…..
Noctua Releases New Fan Made Of Liquid-Crystal Polymer – NF-A12x25
Noctua shouldn’t need an introduction, it’s one of the best known enthusiast computer cooler suppliers in the market, offering up the best heatsinks and fans going, for all different price ranges. While new products come along with marginal changes, it’s quite rare to see something that’s actually new. Designing and building a…..
Intel Discontinues Oddball i7-7740X & i5-7640X Kaby Lake-X Processors
It’s the end of an era. Not much of an era, but an era nonetheless. When Intel released its Core-X processors last summer, the lineup was complemented with a few bottom-feeders based around the Kaby Lake-X microarchitecture. This was in contrast to Skylake-X, which represented the actually enthusiast parts, from the six-core…..
Ubuntu’s 18.04 LTS ‘Bionic Beaver’ And All Of Its Flavors Have Been Released
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…..
RGB Displays Inbound? Corsair Hiring Monitors Product Manager
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…..
Fight Mode Engaged: Intel Poaches Jim Keller From Tesla To Head Up Silicon Engineering
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…..
AMD Launches ‘Combat Crate’ Bundle, Includes Radeon RX 580, Ryzen CPU & MSI Motherboard
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…..
Samsung Reveals the 970 PRO & 970 EVO Generation M.2 SSDs
For the last several years running, Samsung has been at the forefront of raw NVMe M.2 solid-state drive performance, constantly expanding the performance envelope since the debut of the 950 PRO three years ago. Today that trend continues with the launch of the third-generation 970 Series powered by Samsung’s new “Phoenix” controller.…..
TSMC Has Begun Mass Production Of Chips Built On Its 7nm Process
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’ Momentum 436M6 43-inch 4K Monitor Receives First HDR1000 Certification From VESA
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…..
Dell Bolsters Its Commercial Portfolio With New Monitors, Notebooks & AIO Desktops
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…..
AMD’s Ryzen 7 2700X Hits #2 Spot On Amazon’s Best-selling Processors List
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…..
ASUS Announces New X470 Boards For Ryzen
Time a for a new batch of motherboards as AMD releases details of the new X470 chipset that’s set to support the upcoming 2nd gen Ryzen CPUs from AMD. While there are no major breakthroughs, this is a launch aimed at refinement, and ASUS was first out of the gate to show…..
Kingston Unwraps UV500 Series SSDs With AES-256 Encryption And TCG Opal 2.0 Support
Full drive AES-256 encryption used to be ubiquitous among most SSDs, but in recent years it has become a rarer feature to find on entry-level solid-state drives. Kingston is looking to change that with the UV500 Series SSDs which feature full AES-256 encryption and support for the TCG Opal 2.0 specification. The…..
AMD Kicks Off Ryzen 2nd-gen Pre-orders, First Four CPUs Set To Launch On April 19
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 Overclocks One Of Its DDR4 Memory Sticks To A Clean 5GHz
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…..
Futuremark Changing Name To UL, Launches New Website
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…..
HyperX’s Pulsefire Surge RGB Gaming Mouse Brings Both Bling And Performance
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…..