Components

By Darren Allan AMD has made a change to its Radeon RX 560 graphics card, with the introduction of a new variant of this model, but there’s an issue: both versions still carry the exact same model name. In other words, there is now a Radeon RX 560 GPU with 1,024 stream processors (16 compute…

By Darren Allan Following the release of its voice control kit earlier this year, Google has produced a new DIY kit for the Raspberry Pi which lets hobbyists turn the compact board into a computer vision system – or in layman’s terms, a smart camera capable of recognizing stuff. The AIY (do-it-yourself AI) Vision Kit…

By Matt Hanson If you’re keen to join in on the cryptocurrency gold rush, then you’ll want the best mining motherboard for earning Bitcoin, Ethereum and more. This motherboard, like the motherboards in traditional PCs, is the main driving force behind a crytpocurrency mining PC, allowing all the vital components to work together. Of course,…

By Darren Allan AMD may be forging forwards and taking turf in the battle of the processors with Ryzen, but the GPU arena is a very different kettle of pixels, with the firm’s new Vega tech floundering here, and Nvidia taking a greater share of the graphics card market according to new figures. The add-in…

By Darren Allan Intel’s next-generation mainstream flagship processor will be a Core i7 CPU that sports no less than 8-cores with 16-threads, according to the latest from the rumor mill. According to recent leaks, as reported by Wccftech.com, the 9th-generation flagship processor will be the Core i7-9700K which will up the ante to 8-cores from…

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By Aimée Bradshaw The bottom line: This Canon SELPHY Photo Printer is a great gift idea, so look out for the best deals across Black Friday weekend. This handy little printer uses Dye Sublimation Technology to produce instant prints from your phone. With wireless connectivity, an SD card slot and a USB port, you’ve got…

By Desire Athow Colour laser printers used to cost almost as much as a house a couple of decades ago but now you can afford one for not much more than a peak time train ticket. Meet the Lexmark CS310dn, a colour laser printer that costs only £79.98 at Ebuyer and comes with wireless connectivity…

By Desire Athow There was a time when you’d probably need to sell a kidney to buy a laser printer. But now these peripherals are almost as cheap as (posh) chips and a great asset for any household or business. Right now, you can get the HP LaserJet Pro M102W for an astonishing value. It…

By Darren Allan There’s a huge and extremely worrying range of flaws in newer Intel processors which could allow hackers to take full control over the relevant machines – with millions of PCs potentially affected. After a severe exploit was uncovered by Mark Ermolov and Maxim Goryachy, Moscow-based security experts who work for Positive Technologies…

By Michelle Rae Uy Choosing great computer speakers is almost as delicate of a business as choosing a great computer. Alongside the price and the aesthetic, there are other more technical things to consider. Do they deliver excellent clarity? Are the low, mid and high frequencies well balanced, or is there too much high, making…

By Desire Athow Think acquiring a business printer is an easy task? Think again. While a printer’s primary feature is to print, there are so many permutations on the market that it would be foolish to assume that one printer is similar to the next one just because it sports almost identical specifications. Should you…

By Darren Allan Roccat has unleashed a clutch of (extended) Black Friday deals which are live now and will run through until the end of November, with savings of 30% on gaming keyboards, mice and a headset at Currys/PCWorld. More mouse for your money There are plenty of bargains to get your teeth into then…

By Darren Allan If you go by Steam’s figures, Nvidia is a long way ahead of AMD in the GPU world, but a new survey of Firefox users has shown that the reverse is actually true – or at least that AMD is slightly ahead, if not streets in front. The Firefox Hardware Survey takes…

By Matt Hanson The past few years have seen something of a plateau when it came to consumer processor technology, but this year both AMD and Intel have come out swinging with mighty 16-core behemoths. AMD was first out of the gate with its Ryzen Threadripper 1950X, which features 16 cores, 32 threads, a base…