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By Kevin Lee AMD introduces a ‘new’ range of Radeon RX 500X Polaris GPUs for OEMs that sadly appear to be only new in name. Rumors of the new Polaris 500X series piqued our interest, as we were hoping for at least slightly faster graphics cards during what’s been an extremely boring time for GPUs,…

By Bo Andersen På det seneste har vi set en underlig udvikling på markedet for grafikkort. Den gode nyhed er, at Nvidias salg er stigende, hvilket betyder, at der er efterspørgsel på grafikkort. Den dårlige nyhed er, at det ikke er til at finde et grafikkort til den pris, som det egentlig burde koste. Dette…

By Kevin Lee Intel’s re-entry into the world of dedicated graphics cards almost seems inevitable and now there are at least three reports that seem to back up the theory. Motley Fool analyst Ashraf Eassa claims Intel is splitting its Arctic Sound – the alleged codename of Intel’s forthcoming discrete GPU – team to develop…

By Darren Allan AMD has pushed out firmware patches to protect its processors against variant 2 of the Spectre vulnerability, in conjunction with updates for Windows 10 which are also designed to squash this particularly nasty bug. As we’ve been told before, Spectre (and indeed Meltdown – although that only affects Intel chips) is a…

By Deanna Isaacs Even the best PCs slow down over time, and if your PC is starting to show its age, you might want to think about replacing, upgrading or adding the best RAM. However, before you do, there are a couple things you need to consider. Capacity, speed and overclocking ability are key aspects…

By Kevin Lee When we first heard of Intel’s H-series Coffee Lake processors for laptops, we had a hunch it would include some of company’s first hexa-core CPUs. But, we never expected Core i9 to make the jump to laptops. On desktops, high-end processors, like the Intel Core i9-7980XE, have brought the highest-core counts we’ve…

By Kevin Lee På senare tid har vi upptäckt att världen av grafikkort upplever stora förändringar. De bra nyheterna är att Nvidia’s försäljningssiffror är positiva, vilket betyder att grafikkort fortfarande har en hög efterfrågan. De dåliga nyheterna är att ingen kan köpa grafikkort (GPU) till tillverkarnas rekommenderade pris (MSRP) just nu på grund av kryptovaluta-grävning.…

By Darren Allan AMD has already begun work on making processors based on the Zen 5 architecture, which may come as a bit of a surprise seeing as the current Ryzen CPUs represent just the first outing of the Zen architecture. This is according to AMD’s Mike Clark, a senior design engineer and chief architect…

By Kevin Lee High-end ultra-wide gaming monitors usually demand a high price, but AOC is ending that trend with its latest 35-inch curved display. Available now for only $899 (about £640, AU$1,170), the new 35-inch AOC AG352UCG features a WQHD (3,440 x 1,440) resolution panel with a curvature of 1800R curvature. On top of being…

By Kevin Lee AMD could soon be refreshing its Polaris series of graphics for the laptop market, according to multiple leaks. Wccftech spotted a Dutch listing for an Acer Nitro 5 equipped with an AMD Radeon RX 560X (4GB GDDR5 VRAM) graphics chip. The AMD Radeon RX 560M is technically already in the mobile market,…

By Joe Osborne,Abbas Jaffar Ali The following article was initially published by TechRadar UK. It has been edited for content to reflect details related to the Middle East launch of Intel’s new processors. Intel is poised to continue its dominance of the mobile computing world in 2018 with the release of new Coffee Lake H-series…

By Darren Allan Following a declaration that it would stop releasing GeForce graphics card drivers for 32-bit operating systems, which came at the end of last year, Nvidia has confirmed that support will officially cease before the end of April. This affects 32-bit versions of Windows 7, 8/8.1 and 10, as well as Linux and…

By Kevin Lee It’s raining SSDs, with two announcements from Adata and Kingston in just the past two days, and now Western Digital is getting into the mix with their fastest drive yet. Western Digital has launched a new Black NVMe SSD with up to 3,400MB/s read and 2,800MB/s write speeds. That’s … like, really…

By Darren Allan The Ryzen 5 2400G is one of AMD’s newly-launched APUs (Advanced Processing Unit) which boasts powerful integrated graphics, and its already wallet-friendly price has been knocked down further at online retailers – along with the price of the lower-end Ryzen 3 2200G chip. AMD’s Ryzen 5 2400G launched costing £149, but has…

By Joe Osborne For those preparing their wallets to be set ablaze when AMD expectedly releases its high-end Ryzen 2nd Generation processors on April 19, maybe put away the fire extinguishers. WccfTech reports that Amazon pre-order listings have leaked for all four of AMD’s high-end Ryzen CPUs for 2018. And, contrary to previous reports that…