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By Kevin Lee We’ve been expecting Intel Coffee Lake for the longest time, however, the chipmaker just announced its 8th generation CPUs will be a Kaby Lake Refresh. Before you get too disappointed though, this tick-tock-tock update is bringing some big developments including some of the first quad-core U-series processors. Intel latest batch of Core…

By Joe Osborne Intel is evangelizing its 8th-generation Core i series with reckless abandon, most recently detailing the upcoming desktop chip line to Chinese manufacturing partners in a private session it had to know would inevitably leak online. Just ahead of an August 21 official reveal, the leak comes courtesy of a photo from the…

By Darren Allan Asus has pushed out a new 27-inch curved screen monitor which boasts some nifty tech to facilitate smooth frame rates, and doesn’t break the bank considering what it has on board, going up for pre-order at $350 (around £270, AU$440). The ROG Strix XG27VQ is a 27-inch panel boasting an 1800R curve,…

By Darren Allan Microsoft has updated its Surface app so that the software now shows battery levels for any of the company’s Bluetooth peripherals that are being used. That means those who use the likes of the Surface Mouse, Surface Keyboard, or indeed the Surface Pen or Dial will be able to see the battery…

By Darren Allan Are you partial to a spot of gaming on the go? Then Razer believes it has the perfect mouse to go with your laptop, in the form of a wireless peripheral that boasts a seriously impressive level of battery life. The Razer Atheris is powered by a pair of AA batteries from…

By Darren Allan As you doubtless saw, at the start of this week AMD’s new Radeon RX Vega 64 GPU hit the shelves, priced at $499 or £450 (around AU$630), but apparently this – and the quoted launch price of $399 (which is around £310, AU$510) for the Vega 56, which comes out at the…

By Darren Allan Samsung has unleashed a new portable SSD which promises blazing fast performance. The Samsung Portable SSD T5 uses the firm’s latest 64-layer V-NAND technology to deliver transfer speeds of up to a claimed 540MB/s. Aside from raw performance, the benefit of a portable SSD compared to an external hard disk is that…

By Darren Allan Intel has spilled the first official (though admittedly scant) details on a future generation of processors that will be known as Ice Lake, and which will utilize a 10nm+ process in their manufacturing. As you may be aware, Intel has the big reveal of its Coffee Lake CPUs – the eighth generation…

By Darren Allan Graphics cards are increasingly being bought by cryptocurrency miners as the likes of Bitcoin and Ethereum continue to grow in popularity, and we’ve heard quite a lot lately about the shortage of AMD’s GPUs as a result – but of course, Nvidia’s stock is also being bought up by these non-gamer types,…

By Darren Allan AMD’s first batch of mighty Ryzen Threadripper processors officially launch today, but folks who’ve got hold of a chip already have been testing out its overclocking potential, and the good news is it seems the 1950X is a seriously strong performer in this department. This leak comes from a Reddit denizen (going…

By Joe Osborne On the day of the great solar eclipse across the US, Intel will show Coffee Lake, it’s 8th generation of Core series processors, to the world. That’s right, on August 21, when the sun and moon will throw immense shade upon the US for but a few moments, Intel will throw its…

By Kevin Lee Hot on the trail of the release of our first AMD Ryzen Threadripper benchmark results, Intel is firing back with the full specifications of its 18-core Extreme Edition processor. The Intel Core i9-7980XE Extreme Edition CPU is the company’s top of the line CPU that will feature 18-cores and 36-threads, with a…

By Kevin Lee AMD Ryzen Threadripper‘s long awaited release is still three days away, but today we’re spoiling you with a sneak peek of what this extreme processor can do. TechRadar received an early review unit of the Alienware Area 51 Threadripper Edition, and we can confidently say it is the most powerful system we’ve…

By Joe Osborne It appears that AMD Vega will be a big thorn in Nvidia’s side, as new benchmarks have allegedly leaked via TweakTown peg the Radeon RX Vega 56 as a veritable Nvidia GTX 1070 killer. The outlet cites sources familiar with the matter, naturally, providing some downright benchmark results that put the RX…

By Darren Allan Top-end Ryzen Threadripper 1950X, 1920X and 1900X processors are being released this month, but AMD is rumored to also be readying non-X variants of these – and now we’ve seen leaks of the as-yet unannounced Threadripper 1920. As PC World reports, listings for the Threadripper 1920 have been spotted on the sites…