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By Darren Allan Nvidia just posted some impressive financial results, and the company is certainly in a buoyant mood, with the CEO taking the time to divulge his thoughts on the recently-revealed AMD and Intel partnership in laptop CPUs, as well as the defection of a key executive from the former to the latter. The…

By Michelle Rae Uy 4K or Ultra-HD was once the long sought-after pinnacle of computing, and now it’s an everyday staple for users. From operating systems and PC applications to games, everything is practically now designed for ultra high-definition resolution display, giving users a bigger, crisper work and gaming surface. And these 4K monitors are…

By Darren Allan Intel and AMD may be processor rivals, but as we saw at the start of this week, they’ve got together to produce a new Intel Core H laptop CPU which will feature Radeon graphics – and benchmarks have just leaked showing the power of Intel’s chips which have integrated AMD GPUs. The…

By Kevin Lee Last week Nvidia teased a new GeForce Titan X Collector’s Edition graphic card was on the way and now they’ve been revealed to be a special Star Wars tie-in. While we expected the GPU to be a fresh new launch for CES 2018, in reality they’re a reskin coming just in time…

By Darren Allan SteelSeries has introduced a new Arctis gaming headset with a clever trick up its sleeve: the ability to hear audio from both a Bluetooth source and a wired connection at the same time. You can hook up the Arctis 3 Bluetooth to a PC (or Mac, or console) via the cable and…

By Gabe Carey While console gaming sees the rivalry between PS4 Pro vs Xbox One X, PC gamers are equally zealous about the conflict of Nvidia vs AMD, the two top graphics card companies . Unfortunately, if you don’t pledge brand loyalty to either of these companies, it’s easy to get left behind in the…

By Matt Hanson The battle between Intel and AMD can often seem rather brutal, but it looks like hostilities have paused, at least for now. Both Intel and AMD have announced that the two companies will release an upcoming Intel Core H laptop processor, which combines Intel’s CPU technology with AMD’s Radeon graphics. The idea…

By Darren Allan In the jostling battle for the biggest hard drive between Seagate and Western Digital – the latter of which holds the title at the moment with its 14TB helium-filled offering – Seagate is claiming to have struck a fresh blow with the development of drive tech which will allow HDDs in excess…

By Matt Hanson If you have lots of digital photographs sitting on your hard drive, then you’ll want the best photo printer you can find to print those photographs out and do your photography justice. Digital cameras have made photography – either for professional or personal use – far more convenient, as you can review…

By Kevin Lee Nvidia continues to surprise us with new graphics cards, and today it just released a teaser for a new Titan X Collector’s Edition. Although Nvidia only offered up an extremely short 13-second video, seen below, we’ve nevertheless scrubbed through it frame by frame for juicy tidbits. There’s no mention of specs, much…

By Darren Allan Logitech’s latest peripheral invention is a keyboard that’s designed to be used in virtual reality. As those who have tried to type with a VR headset on will know, it’s a rather odd and somewhat challenging experience – even for those who know the keyboard layout so well they never have to…

By Kevin Lee Intel has introduced a new Optane SSD 900P line of blisteringly fast solid-state storage drives. Not to be confused with Intel Optane memory, these are bonified SSD drives with sequential read speed rating of 2.5GB/s and a sequential write speed of 2GB/s. That’s insanely fast compared to the 3,500MB/s read and 2,100MB/s…

By Darren Allan Intel has revealed its latest financial results with an impressive picture of growth that beat analyst estimates, although there was one wobbly area, namely desktop chips, where AMD’s Ryzen CPUs have made a clearly visible dent in Intel’s armor. Overall, Intel raked in revenue of $16.1 billion (around £12.2 billion, AU$21 billion)…

By Kevin Lee The oft-rumored Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Ti has finally been unveiled in full, and it’s a beast of a GPU. The Nvidia GTX 1070 Ti comes sporting 2,432 NVIDIA CUDA Cores, well above the original Nvidia GTX 1070‘s 1,920 core count. The new Titanium version of the GTX 1070 also matches up…

By Darren Allan AMD has officially unveiled its first Ryzen mobile processors (or APUs as the company calls these CPU plus GPU chips), complete with some impressive benchmarks showing them outpacing Intel’s latest 8th-gen offerings for laptops. The wraps were taken off the Ryzen 7 2700U and Ryzen 5 2500U, both of which are quad-core…