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By Steve Boxer When buying a gaming headset, you should first assess what sort of a gamer you are. Turtle Beach’s new Recon 150 is clearly aimed at gamers without pretension – those who harbour no aspirations to jack in their day-jobs and become the next e-sports star. It’s cheap – at $69.99 (£49.99, AU$99.95)…

By Kevin Lee The Alienware Area 51 has always been a larger-than-life gaming desktop, but this year it will be the only pre-built PC to feature AMD’s new Threadripper processors. That basically means Alienware will be the only major hardware maker with exclusive access to the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X and all of the company’s…

By Mike Williams Microsoft Azure is an integrated collection of cloud tools for building, managing and supporting applications and services. Solutions available cover hosting, backup, cloud computing, application development, e-commerce, monitoring, data analysis, and more. Microsoft Azure also includes a Content Delivery Network. Unusually, this isn’t based around Microsoft’s own edge servers, and instead offers…

By Kevin Lee Over the past half year, AMD has redefined the processor world with high-core count and affordable Ryzen CPUs. Now, the $999 (£999, AU$1,439) Threadripper 1950X feels even more ambitious. This might just seem like a Ryzen chip on steroids, but it also introduces an architecture and features previously only seen in servers…

By Matt Hanson Gaming laptops are usually pricey devices, but if you don’t mind sacrificing a bit of power you can end up with a far more affordable machine – such as the new Gigabyte Sabre 17. This is a mid-range gaming laptop that doesn’t have the most cutting-edge components, but still has enough modern…

By Mike Williams KeyCDN is an easy-to-use content delivery network which provides a solid set of features for a very low price. KeyCDN has relatively few servers, but they’re focused in the key areas: 10 in North America, 10 in Europe, three in Asia, one in Oceania and one in South America. The service supports…

By Mike Williams San Francisco-based Fastly is a versatile cloud company with some big-name customers: New York Times, Spotify, Reddit, Github, Imgur, Airbnb, TicketMaster and more. Fastly’s CDN follows the reverse proxy model, similar to Cloudflare. Instead of giving you a ‘cdn.mydomain.com’ address where you can store specific files, Fastly routes all website traffic through…

By Steve Paris These days, your computer comes with video editing software built-in, whether it’s Microsoft’s Windows Movie Maker (WMM) or Apple’s iMovie. It would take a lot to convince a budding filmmaker to part with £86.56 ($99.99) to purchase something which essentially does the same thing, so what has Adobe brought to the table…

By Desire Athow When manufacturers compete on price, the only winners are the customers. Just over a decade ago, when Android was still in its infancy and Apple had just launched the iPhone, Asus debuted the Eee PC 701, a tiny computer that gave rise to the first true wave of affordable mobile computers. Compact,…

By Mike Williams Cloudflare is a hugely successful American service which combines a reverse proxy with a content delivery network, and throws a host of bonus security and optimisation tools into the technical mix. The service isn’t a conventional CDN. You don’t have to choose the specific content you’d like to cache, and there’s no…

Heads up, computer builders and upgraders: Intel’s 8th-generation Coffee Lake CPUs might not support current motherboards. That means if you want to upgrade, you might have to buy a new one. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

By Matt Hanson Plenty of PC gamers are show-offs – we certainly are. So it’s no good simply dominating a death match – you want to broadcast your triumphs on streaming sites such as Twitch, YouTube Gaming and Microsoft Mixer for the world to see. Of course, pumping out state-of-the-art graphics and maintaining consistent frame…

By Desire Athow We came across this laptop’s predecessor, the Lafite II, at the beginning of 2016, and it was an encounter that left us pleasantly surprised by the potential of the PC Specialist brand. The company has since rejigged its portfolio (eliminating the mobile workstation range for example) but is still heavily reliant on…

By Mike Williams Popular Los Angeles-based provider MaxCDN has been accelerating website performance since 2009. The company is now owned by StackPath, which offers an enhanced version of the CDN, but at the moment MaxCDN is also providing products under its own name. MaxCDN’s core network covers North America (8 edge locations), Europe (3, plus…

By Mike Williams StackPath is an interesting new web services company founded by Lance Crosby, the co-founder and former CEO of SoftLayer. In the past year StackPath has acquired MaxCDN, Highwinds, Cloak (a VPN service), and the web security companies Fireblade and Staminus, and it has now brought some of these technologies together in its…