If you are in the hunt for the best gaming mouse, you might not have considered a model with a built-in joystick, though not necessarily from lack of interest—it’s a rather sparse field. It also just got a little big bigger with the introduction of the Asus ROG Chakram. Our first impression of a mouse with a […]
Category Archives: Hardware
Here’s Some DDR5-4800: Hands-On First Look at Next Gen DRAM
Just like all major makers of DRAM, SK Hynix produced its first DDR5 memory chips a couple of years ago and has been experimenting with the technology since then. To that end, it is not surprising that the company displayed its DDR5 RDIMM at CES 2020, which implies that development is proceeding as planned. At […]
Intel Readies Core i9-10990XE With 22 Cores & 44 Threads – 380W TDP Design & Up To 5 GHz All-Core Boost
While Intel’s X299 may not have much fuel left in it against the Ryzen or Threadripper parts, Intel still seems to be focusing their attention on the 3-year-old platform in the HEDT space if the latest rumors are to be believed, readying yet another 10th Gen Core i9 CPU. Intel’s Core i9-10990XE Rumored To Feature […]
ASUS Unveils All-White Concept Strix X570 Motherboard
Amid a plethora of ASUS announcements and product showcases at CES 2020, one of the more interesting pieces of hardware on display came on the motherboard side. In what ASUS is currently calling a concept, it had a full system with white components on display, including an X570 Strix motherboard dressed to the nines in […]
ASUS Showcases Concept 420mm AIO For TRX40
It’s no secret that ASUS has its fingers in multiple areas of computer components including motherboard, VGA, desktop, mobile, and peripherals. Taking into consideration the cooling requirement for AMD’s HEDT Ryzen Threadripper 3000 series of processors, it’s showcased its latest conceptual AIO CPU cooler design which features a large 420 mm radiator, supplied with three […]
Samsung 980 PRO PCIe 4.0 SSD Makes An Appearance
Samsung’s booth at CES 2020 includes our first look at their next flagship consumer SSD, the 980 PRO M.2 NVMe SSD. This would appear to be Samsung’s first client/consumer SSD to support PCIe 4.0, which has until now only been rolled out to their high-end enterprise drives. Since this just a low-key preview instead of […]
Corsair K95 RGB Platinum XT Review: Upgrading a Classic
Corsair’s flagship K95 is a classic of the gaming keyboard realm, first arriving in 2013 with the RGB model arriving a year later. The company updated the K95’s Platinum RGB model in 2017 to include an RGB light bar up top and Cherry MX Speed switches alongside MX Blue and Brown options. In its latest iteration, the K95 RGB Platinum XT adds […]
AMD Launches Threadripper 3990X and Ryzen 4000 ‘Renoir’ APUs
AMD capped it’s whirlwind 2019 with promises of more to come: In particular, the beastly 64-core 128-thread Threadripper 3990X that we now know will come with a suggested pricing of $3,990 and land on February 7, 2020. AMD also finally fleshed out its Ryzen Mobile 4000-series, otherwise known as “Renoir,” that mark the first x86 […]
Intel Xe DG1 GPU might not be so discrete a graphics card after all
One of the most important specs for the first Intel Xe discrete graphics card, the DG1, has now been confirmed by development kit listed on the EEC database. The post confirms the rumoured 96 execution units previously speculated as the base configuration for the initial Xe GPU, the same as has been found in the upcoming top Tiger […]
Intel Core i9-10900K 10 Core CPU Benchmarks Shows It’s More or Less A Core i9-9900K With Up To 30% Better Multi-Threading Performance
Official performance numbers for the Intel Core i9-10900K 10 Core CPU have leaked out by Tom’s Hardware. Intel’s Core i9-10900K will be the flagship chip of the 10th Gen Comet Lake family that is expected to land in the coming months but will be featuring the same 14nm architecture that has long been running since Skylake. […]