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Best external hard drive in the UAE for 2017: the best portable drives for your PC or Mac

By Mufaddal Fakhruddin,Desire Athow Buying the best external hard drive for your needs is one of the most important things you could do to ensure that your precious data is secure. External hard drives remain the most affordable way to truly secure your virtual belongings, offering you high storage capacities to save pretty much all…

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AMD’s Radeon RX Vega now only supports two graphics cards for multi-GPU setups

By Darren Allan AMD has confirmed that its new Radeon RX Vega graphics cards won’t support any more than two cards in a multi-GPU (previously known as CrossFire) configuration, ruling out the possibility of three- or four-way setups when it comes to gaming. You will, however, still be able to link up the power of…

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Best PC gaming headsets 2017 in the UAE

By Mufaddal Fakhruddin,Kane Fulton It’s time to start thinking about the best gaming headset. Why? Well, for one, with LA Noire being re-released for VR, you don’t want to undermine Rockstar’s cult classic detective game with the use of a dinky pair of earbuds. Instead, it’s essential to use only the best gaming headset in…

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Best SD and microSD memory cards 2017: the best cards for cameras, drones and more

By Desire Athow,Matt Hanson There was a time, not so long ago, when memory cards existed in a bewildering array of flavours and formats: CompactFlash, Memory Stick (by Sony), xD-Picture, MultiMedia Card and SmartMedia vied for the control of the market, but one format survived and thrived thanks to smartphones and tablets. MicroSD and its…

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Intel’s new 8th-generation Core processors include its best gaming CPU ever

By Darren Allan Intel has revealed its 8th-generation Core processors (Coffee Lake S) for the desktop which will go on sale come October 5, including new mainstream Core i5 CPUs which run with six-cores (for the first time ever), and a Core i7 model which the company says is the best gaming processor it has…

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Nvidia’s rumored GTX 1070 Ti specs could scare the pants off AMD

By Darren Allan Evidence is mounting that Nvidia is intending to bring out a new faster ‘Ti’ spin on its GTX 1070 graphics card to better compete with AMD’s latest GPUs – specifically the RX Vega 56 in this case – and some alleged specs have now been leaked. According to a source spotted by…

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Best PC power supply 2017: top PSUs for your PC

By Seth Macy A power supply is one of the most crucial computer components, but perhaps least scrutinized when putting together a computer. So much of your build can be made or broken by a power supply, which is why it’s so important. After all, a $2000 custom build has absolutely no use without juice.…

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We probably won’t see Intel Cannon Lake 10nm processors until late 2018

By Joe Osborne Intel is once again experiencing trouble with its next-generation, 10-nanometer processors – codenamed Cannon Lake – pushing their release back to late 2018, Digitimes reports. This is far from the first time that Intel’s Cannon Lake processors have reportedly run into setbacks, first set to release in 2017. According to Digitimes’s supply…

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The 10 best 3D printers of 2017

By Matt Hanson Finding the best 3D printer doesn’t need to be a chore. The technology behind 3D printers is constantly being improved, and now you don’t have to be are large industrial business to own a 3D printer. There are many that are compact and affordable enough to bring 3D printing to businesses of…

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AOC’s new curved gaming monitor keeps the refresh rates high and the price low

By Kevin Lee AOC has announced the Agon AG322QCX curved gaming monitor for a $429 (£320, AU$530) price that won’t break the bank. The AOC AG322QCX is a 32-inch curved gaming monitor featuring a 2,560 x 1,440 QHD panel with a curvature rated at 1800R. While it’s not an ultra-wide 21:9 display, this monitor does…

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Amazon Great Indian Festival 2017: Best deals on Hard disks, Pen drives and more

By Siddharth Chauhan Looking for a new storage option? Does your data consumption lead you to buy a lot of storage devices? Fret not. Amazon’s Great Indian Festival is here and with it come some really mouth-water deals and offers on storage devices. There are some highly discounted products on sale across Hard drives, Pen…

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Leaked benchmarks hint at the power of AMD’s Ryzen processors for laptops

By Darren Allan AMD has been busy this year pushing out a whole slew of Ryzen chips for desktop PCs – including some monster Threadripper processors of late – but we’ve now seen the first alleged benchmarks of Ryzen mobile CPUs. These processors will boast integrated Radeon Vega graphics and are aimed at powering laptops,…

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HP’s new portable Sprocket printer can print photos on-the-go

By Deepti Purohit HP recently launched a pocked sized photo printer for the Indian market. Priced at Rs. 8,999, the printer is available on Amazon India in black, white and red colour variants. HP along with the printer, is also offering specially designed HP ZINK papers for printing. A bundle of 20 Zink sheets is…

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HP exploits firmware update to make its printers reject third-party ink

By Desire Athow The cost of refilling the ink on your printer quickly adds up, and HP has once again been caught using an official firmware update for its printers to cause them to reject third-party ink. Back in March of 2016, millions of Inkjet and Inkjet Pro owners were issued a fake “security update”…

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Corsair’s latest RAM is faster than your processor

By Kevin Lee Corsair has announced what it calls the world’s fastest DDR4 memory, which operates at a ludicrous speed of 4,600MHz. That’s a big number, and converted into gigahertz the Corsair’s latest Vengeance LPX RAM kit clocks in at at 4.6GHz, which is faster than even some of the top processors like the Intel…

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