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By Kevin Lee AMD Ryzen Threadripper processors are seeing such dramatic discounts that you might say they’re on a Threadripper tear – and immediately apologize for such a ridiculous pun. Several deals on AMD’s high-end desktop chips including the Threadripper 1920X is now retailing for $670. That’s a pretty dramatic discount from the 12-core chip…

By Darren Allan A new SSD has grabbed the coveted title of the world’s biggest solid-state drive, offering a whopping 100TB of storage space. Nimbus Data has revealed the ExaDrive DC100 with a 100TB capacity, which the firm says is being sampled with select customers now, and it’ll hit the market with general availability in…

By Darren Allan A new leak has given us purported details of Intel’s first six-core Coffee Lake H (8th-generation) mobile processors – including a top-end Core i9 model – which could be pepping up a gaming laptop near you before too long. This info comes from Cinebench benchmarks spilled by a Chinese website (spotted by…

By Kevin Lee It seems that pre-order pages for AMD Ryzen 2nd Generation processors popped a little early revealing the price and April 19 arrival of several chips. Videocardz picked up on several pre-order pages going live in North America and Europe that included listings for the six-core, 12-thread Ryzen 5 2600 and 2600X, as…

By Darren Allan As the company has previously indicated, Intel has redesigned its 8th-generation processors to make them bulletproof to Meltdown and one variant of Spectre at a hardware level. Intel’s CEO Brian Krzanich says that the re-engineered 8th-gen Coffee Lake – and also Xeon – CPUs with baked-in protection at the silicon level will…

By Kevin Lee As if the AMD Ryzen 7 2700X rumored frequency improvements weren’t impressive enough, a fresh leak potentially reveals even better gaming performance from the Ryzen 2nd generation processor. Wccftech picked up on a leaked 3DMark FireStrike Ultra benchmark that shows the rumored processor operating 18% better than the Ryzen 7 1700X and…

By Darren Allan Microsoft is looking to stamp out future major bugs along the lines of Spectre, with the company offering big money to hunt down these sort of flaws. Microsoft’s new bug bounty program is specifically for ‘speculative execution side channel vulnerabilities’ like Spectre and Meltdown which affected Intel chips, as well as AMD…

By Shashank Sharma,Nick Peers,Nate Drake Believe it or not, the Raspberry Pi is now six years old. In its relatively short life the Pi has ushered in a new revolution in computing that stretches far beyond its original remit which was to promote basic computer science education in schools. There have been several fresh Pi…

By Kevin Lee Between all the RGB PC parts, keyboards, mice, keyboards and even monitors, the world has been sorely lacking in light up speakers. Leave it to Logitech to knock it out of the park with a pair of the most gorgeously RGB computer speakers that’ll really set the mood to your games and…

By Darren Allan SteelSeries has revealed the Arctis Pro range, a new line-up of headsets with a flagship model that promises some seriously smart sound. The top-end headset is the Arctis Pro + GameDAC, which employs an ESS Sabre DAC and amp to pipe high quality sound straight into your lucky ears. SteelSeries notes that…

By Darren Allan Word from the GPU grapevine is that Nvidia will soon be launching new dedicated graphics cards aimed at cryptocurrency miners. This might lead you to hope that pressure could be eased when it comes to miners pushing prices up by purchasing gaming GPUs. But sadly, we’re inclined to believe that may prove…

By Kevin Lee It seems that retailers have spilled the beans on the first Intel 8th Gen H-series processors and what appears to be the first Core i9 chip for laptops. Eagle-eyed forum users at Notebook Review and Linus Tech Tips, spotted Amazon listings for an MSI GS65 Stealth laptop that seems to be the…

By Kevin Lee Although we’ve known that AMD has long-term plans for its Ryzen Threadripper processors, we now have a few more details, thanks to recently leaked slides from a potentially legitimate internal presentation. According to leaked slides obtained by Informatica Cero, AMD supposedly has at least three Ryzen Threadripper families planned for launch up…

By Darren Allan A report has been published on a new partner program that Nvidia has cooked up for GeForce graphics cards, alleging that while it might look like a positive move for consumers, the reality behind the scheme is worrying in terms of the company trying to shoulder out the GPU competition. So, right…

By Kevin Lee Will the real next-generation Nvidia graphics card architecture please stand up? Like, seriously. There are currently three competing rumored codenames vying to be Nvidia’s next family of GPUs between Volta, Ampere and Turing. Out of all of them, though, we’re betting Turing will be the next line of consumer-grade graphics cards to…