It may not look like much, but the Addlink S90 is a tiny revolutionary. A small drive trying to upset the status quo. Conventional wisdom says quality storage only comes from a few big players. Names like Samsung, Western Digital, Crucial, Intel et al. Addlink doesn’t have much respect for the old ways though, so […]
Category Archives: Hardware
Tested: X570 Motherboards Can Overjuice Ryzen, But Rarely Do
HWinfo claims that X570 motherboards from a variety of manufacturers are guilty of underreporting power to Ryzen CPUs so the chips will go faster at stock settings, but at the possible expense of chip longevity. It doesn’t appear that AMD condones the misreporting. However, in response, AMD said that it was investigating the issue, but it doesn’t […]
This is AMD’s secret weapon against Intel and it could change personal computing forever
AMD’s big announcement this week was the launch of the new Ryzen 3000 XT CPUs – a stopgap between the current generation and the Ryzen 4000 series expected to launch later this year. Tucked away at the foot of the press release is mention of something that might become a fundamental part of AMD’s toolset, […]
Corsair A500 Review: Premium Price, Curious Flaws
Corsair – the company who has brought us seemingly endless options of AIO liquid cooler models for the masses, has recently introduced their first large air cooling option, the A500. The dual-fan, monolithic heatpipe cooler is also devoid of another Corsair staple: RGB/aRGB lighting, meaning the new Corsair A500 is either a welcome change or a […]
New Radeon Pro VII Wows on Price and Double Precision
Earlier this morning, AMD revealed its new Radeon Pro VII graphics card, its latest workstation-class competitor to Nvidia’s Quadro line of GPUs. As its name suggests, this is a professional level update on last year’s Radeon VII GPU, incorporating the same Vega 20 GPU but almost doubling the base Radeon VII’s double precision performance. When […]
Patriot P300 M.2 NVMe SSD Review: Low Price, No Frills
Patriot’s been on fire lately, releasing some appealing SSDs. The company’s Viper VP4100 is one of the fastest money can buy, and the Viper VPR100 offers solid PCIe Gen 3 performance with some tasteful RGB illumination. But, while these SSDs are great picks for enthusiasts, they’re too expensive for those searching for NVMe flash storage on a tight budget. […]
This overclocked GeForce RTX 2070 Super is on sale for $460 right now
Gigabyte’s factory overclocked GeForce RTX 2070 Super Windforce OC 3X graphic card is on sale again, with this latest discount matching the lowest price we’ve ever seen for one of these cards. It’s available on eBay (via Newegg) for $459.99. That’s $40 below its regular list price. Not too shabby for what we consider the best graphics […]
GeiL Unveils 64 GB DDR4-3200 SO-DIMM Kit, 2 x 32 GB
Memory manufacturer Golden Emporer International Limited, or known generally as GeiL, has announced its new memory line with support for Intel 10th Gen and AMD Ryzen 4000 series processors. Casually calling its new 64 GB product simply ‘SO-DIMM’, it will be available in a 2 x 32 GB DDR4-3200 kit. With mobile processor architecture improving at […]
The ASRock Z490 Aqua: Thunderbolt 3, PCIe 4.0 Ready, Water Cooled
Following a resurgence of motherboards decked out with custom monoblocks, ASRock has announced details on its Z490 Aqua. It includes a familiar aluminium plated copper custom monoblock, with just 999 units available for purchase. It includes two Thunderbolt 3 Type-C ports, three PCIe 3.0 x4 M.2 slots, an Aquantia 10 G and Realtek 2.5 G […]
Intel 10th Gen Comet Lake-S Desktop CPU Final Specifications & Prices Leak Out – Core i9-10900K 10 Core For $488 US, Core i7-10700K 8 Core For $374 US, Core i5 6 Core Starting at $150 US
The final specifications & prices of Intel’s upcoming 10th Generation Comet Lake-S Desktop CPU family have leaked out by Videocardz. The information confirms the details that we already knew but the most important thing covered in this leak is the prices that show that Intel has definitely given its Core lineup a major overhaul in terms […]