Components

By Darren Allan We’ve seen the prices of graphics cards head back to normal levels in recent times, thanks to waning cryptocurrency demand, and this is a trend that’s set to continue according to the latest from the GPU grapevine – with price tags set to drop by around a fifth this month. That’s the…

By Matt Hanson It looks like a German online store has let slip how much the 32-core AMD Threadripper 2990X processor will cost, with a now-deleted page listing it for €1,509 (around $1,700, £1,300, AU$2,300). The store in question is Cyperport, and if its price is correct, it means that AMD will once again be…

By Joe Osborne Not satisfied with the myriad key switches available for gaming keyboards today, Razer has developed another of its very own for two brand new products: Razer Huntsman and Huntsman Elite. The Hunstman Elite is a full-sized gaming keyboard replete with number pad, a plush detachable wrist rest and media control keys beset…

By Joe Osborne While it may seem as if we just got through a major Intel processor refresh (because we did), the latest rumors out of WccfTech suggest that Intel’s 9000 series of Core processors isn’t far off. The outlet claims to have come across marketing materials and product names for a number of upcoming…

By Matt Hanson Welcome to our list of the best SSDs for mining in 2018. When thinking of mining cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, buying a solid state drive may not be high on your list of priorities. However, once you’ve bought the best GPU for mining, along with the best motherboard and best…

By Joe Osborne While we can’t be certain exactly which, Nvidia is clearly hard at work on its next-generation graphics card, judging by a recent Reddit post. Since deleted, the post shared a photo of what appears to be a prototype printed circuit board (PCB) for a graphics card using the next-gen GDDR6 video memory.…

By Darren Allan The latest whisper on the grapevine is that Nvidia’s third-party graphics card manufacturing partners will be getting shipments of next-gen GPUs in August (or possibly early September), meaning that fresh GeForce video cards – likely called GTX 1180 (at least in the case of the initial flagship) – will be inbound shortly…

By Desire Athow Choosing the best business monitor for your needs is quite possibly the wisest, and most important, move you can make, as it’s likely that you often spend hours at a time in front of a monitor for work, which means having a monitor that’s easy on the eyes is essential. Making sure…

By Joe Osborne Gamers have been waiting a long time for true, native keyboard and mouse support on the Xbox One, and that wait that may soon be over, thanks to Razer. Windows Central has apparently found documents revealing that the two companies are working together on the long-promised feature. Rich with images of slides…

By Kevin Lee High-dynamic range (HDR) gaming on PCs and HDR in general has never been more prevalent than today. However, there’s a clear dichotomy of pricing that’s creating a rift in the gaming monitor world. On one side, there are FreeSync 2 HDR gaming monitors priced well below a grand. Meanwhile, Nvidia is going…

By Kevin Lee Intel’s rumored octa-core processor has been benchmarked again and curiously the results were blurred out in the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990X test results we reported on earlier this week. Komachi tweeted an undoctored version of the screenshot to reveal an Intel 8-core Coffee Lake-S processor achieving a Cinebench score of 2,212 points.…

By Kevin Lee AMD teased and benchmarked their forthcoming 32-core Ryzen Threadripper 2nd Generation processor and now it seems the chip has leaked out in full. HKEPC claims to have gotten an exclusive look at AMD’s flagship Ryzen Threadripper 2990X processor – which, according to the Chinese publication, comes equipped with 32 cores and 64…

By Kevin Lee The Corsair Obsidian 1000D is, hands down, one of the biggest and baddest PC cases to come out in recent years. With room for two complete systems, up to five graphics cards, two 480mm radiators in front and another 420mm up top, there’s no other chassis on the market that can hold…

By Darren Allan Remember Intel’s recent competition giving punters the chance to win one of its Core i7-8086K limited-edition processors celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first 8086 chip? Well, in what could be described as a cheeky move – although Intel might use a stronger term – AMD is offering 40 folks in the…

By Bill Thomas Over the last couple years, competition in the CPU market has skyrocketed – reigniting the spirit of competition that has been missing for a long time. Enter Skylake-X, Intel’s answer to AMD’s massively successful Ryzen and Threadripper CPUs. First, a bit of backstory. Back in 2017, AMD revealed its Ryzen line of…