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By Kevin Lee Kingston has announced its first entry-level M.2 NVMe solid-state drives, which promise twice the performance of a SATA drive while being just as affordable. Based upon 3D NAND technology, the new Kingston A1000 supports sequential read and write speeds of up to 1,500MB/s and 1,000MB/s, respectively. Additionally, these SSDs will come in…

By Darren Allan Intel isn’t going to patch some of its older CPUs which are vulnerable to the Meltdown and Spectre flaws, according to a fresh update issued by the company. The first thing to note here is that the processors in question are niche, older models, but this is still a potential fly in…

By Kevin Lee The Samsung 960 Pro has been the undisputed king of M.2 NVMe solid-state drive (SSD) since it launched last year, but it might finally be dethroned by Adata’s fastest gaming SSDs. The Taiwanese electronics firm has introduced a new XPG Gamix S11 PCIe Gen 3×4 NVMe SSD featuring 3,200MB/s read and 1,700MB/s…

By Joe Osborne Intel is poised to solidify its dominance of the mobile computing world with its 2018 release of new Coffee Lake H-series and U-series Intel Core processors, Core i9 CPUs for laptops and Intel Optane taking over mobile memory. All three new types of product are aimed to give Intel what it needs…

By Kevin Lee On top of announcing the first Intel Core i9 processors, the chip maker took to filling out the rest of its Coffee Lake desktop CPU line. Unfortunately, there aren’t any new high-end or extreme processors in this announcement. Rather most of the new Coffee Lake CPUs fill up the ranks with a…

By Joe Osborne Apple is reportedly deep into plans to replace the Intel processors that it currently places inside its iMac and MacBook computers with chips of its own, according to Bloomberg sources. The initiative to make this change happen is reportedly known internally as ‘Kalamata’, is in developmental stages. However, generating new processor designs…

By Joe Osborne External graphics card support, a feature promised by Apple since the launch of macOS High Sierra back in September 2017, has finally arrived via version update 10.13.4 that is available now. Apple has detailed how the feature works through a support page on its website, noting that this function only works with…

By Kevin Lee The Nvidia GPU Technology Conference might have come and gone without any mention of next generation graphics cards, but one memory supplier has confirmed it will utilize GDDR6 video memory. SK Hynix confirmed with Gamers Nexus that its GDDR6 memory will be ready for mass production in three months for use in…

By Kevin Lee After weeks of rumors and various leaks, ASRock is officially joining the graphics card world with its first set of AMD Polaris GPUs. ASRock is kicking off its new Phantom Gaming range of GPUs with the company’s take on the Radeon RX 580 8GB, Radeon RX 570 8GB, Radeon RX 560 4GB/2GB…

By Kevin Lee We’re still waiting for AMD Ryzen 2nd Generation processors to release this coming April, but it seems the first review has already leaked out. A Reddit user posted several images of a forthcoming issue of the CanardPC Hardware magazine containing several reviews on the Ryzen 7 2700X, Ryzen 5 2600X and Ryzen…

By Joe Osborne Contrary to prior rumors and reports, Nvidia may give us a taste of its next line of gaming graphics cards at its GPU Technology Conference (GTC). TweakTown reports, citing an anonymous source, that the company will officially name its next set of graphics cards the ‘GTX 11 Series.’ Widely expected to be…

By Darren Allan It seems that buyers of laptops which run with Nvidia’s GeForce MX150 discrete graphics should be aware that there are reportedly two different versions of this GPU, one of which apparently offers considerably less on the performance front. According to some digging done by NotebookCheck, these two variants are differentiated by their…

By Joe Osborne If you’ve yet to see Epic Games’ amazing demo of ray tracing graphics technology using Star Wars: The Last Jedi characters, go ahead and watch below. Just know that, while these incredible visuals were rendered in real time, they cost at least $60,000 to make. Epic Games detailed the technology behind its…

By Joe Osborne If you’ve been holding out for Intel to finally meet AMD head-on with core-crammed PC processors for the mainstream, Coffee Lake won’t disappoint you this year. Both VideoCardz and WccfTech have found evidence of octa-core Intel Coffee Lake S processors slated for post-June release. Reportedly uncovered through leaks in benchmarking software maker…

By Darren Allan Last week, an Israeli security outfit published details of security flaws that affected AMD processors, and we’ve now had official word from AMD acknowledging that the bugs in question are indeed real – although it added that they’re difficult to exploit, and that fixes are coming. Israeli firm CTS Labs highlighted 13…