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Intel’s next-gen Coffee Lake processors won’t work with existing motherboards

By Darren Allan It seems that people who are looking forward to getting themselves a (rumored) mainstream processor with six-cores from Intel, courtesy of the incoming next-gen Coffee Lake CPUs, won’t be able to drop the chip straight into their existing motherboard – they’ll need to buy an entirely new one. The bad news for…

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A Microsoft Touch Cover for iPads could be in the works

By Kevin Lee Microsoft may have inadvertently revealed the plans for its own iPad Touch Cover. WinFuture discovered the unannounced iPad Touch Cover in a battery document posted on Microsoft’s Download Center. There isn’t much revealed in the file other than a product registered as the iPad Touch Cover 1719 and the fact that it…

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Nvidia bestows the power of Titan Xp upon laptops with eGPU option

By Joe Osborne Nvidia has officially unleashed the wrath and ruin of its most powerful graphics cards upon laptops everywhere with new external GPU (eGPU) options for Titan X and Quadro Pascal-generation products. The graphics chip and System-on-a-Chip (SoC) manufacturing firm made the announcement during the Siggraph 2017 conference in Los Angeles, California to a…

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AMD launches Radeon RX Vega and returns to high-end graphics cards

By Kevin Lee Radeon RX Vega is finally here with two high-end graphics cards from AMD. After months of rumors, leaks and slivers of actual reveals, AMD has finally announced its next generation Radeon RX Vega graphics cards in full. AMD’s new top dog GPU is the Radeon RX Vega 64 that promises to deliver…

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AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper processor family gets a new entry-level addition

By Kevin Lee Threadripper has still yet to officially release, but that isn’t stopping AMD from announcing yet another addition. The newly introduced AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900X is officially the cheapest Threadripper processor you can pick up for $549 (about £420, AU$690). That’s only 50 bucks more expensive than the Ryzen 7 1800X goes for.…

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The 10 best NAS devices 2017

By Dan Grabham,Matt Hanson Looking for a NAS (Network Attached Storage) device to store all of your important files in your home network, or in an office? If so, then you’ve come to the right place, as we’ve put together a list of the best NAS devices money can buy. NAS devices essentially connects a…

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Best USB flash drives 2017

By Desire Athow USB memory sticks (or flash drives as they’re often known) are essential to how we consume data on our PCs these days, and to help you choose what kind of USB storage is right for you, we’ve put together this list of the best USB flash drives you can buy today. USB…

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Best business printer: top 10 printers for your office 2017

By Desire Athow Buying a business printer for your office can be a daunting task due to the huge range of business printers on the market. This can mean making the right decision is difficult, which is why we’ve created this guide to show you the 10 best business printers for your office. When buying…

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AMD shows off the Radeon RX Vega graphics card in its final form

By Kevin Lee Images of the AMD Radeon RX Vega leaked out just a few days ago and sure enough the rumors were true. This weekend AMD is hosting an event in Los Angeles for its next generation graphics cards and we’ve gotten our first look at the hotly anticipated GPU. Although the Radeon RX…

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AMD Radeon RX Vega leak might show graphics cards’ final form

By Joe Osborne Just ahead of their anticipated, big reveal during the Siggraph conference in Los Angeles on July 30, marketing images of three of the expected AMD Vega graphics cards have allegedly leaked online. That’s according to both VideoCardz and WCCFTech, the former of which claiming to have obtained images of the reference card…

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AMD Radeon RX Vega could match GTX 1080’s speed – but maybe not its price

By Darren Allan It’s just a few short days now until the official reveal of AMD’s Radeon RX Vega graphics cards, and we’ve had another benchmark leak – this time from a ‘sort of’ official source – plus some potentially alarming news on pricing. The benchmark is from 3DMark’s Fire Strike test and was conducted…

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AMD launches its range of affordable Ryzen 3 processors

By Matt Hanson AMD has been enjoying a resurgence this year with its launch of its high-end Ryzen 7 processors in March and mainstream Ryzen 5 CPUs in April, and now it has officially launched its entry level Ryzen 3 processors. This new generation of Ryzen processors will be aimed at people building budget PCs…

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AMD massively updates Radeon Software app ahead of Vega

By Joe Osborne If you’re reading this, then you’ve likely followed the same long, arduous journey the rest of have in anticipating the release of AMD Vega graphics chips. The latest chapter in that saga is a huge update to AMD’s Radeon Software Crimson ReLive app for PCs equipped with Radeon hardware. Known verbosely as…

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Razer’s expensive 7.1 surround sound gaming headset promises to be worth it

By Kevin Lee Razer has announces a new pair of flagship gaming headsets with the Tiamat 7.1 V2 and the Tiamat 2.2 V2. First up the Razer Tiamat 7.1 V2 is a long awaited sequel to the company’s analog, true 7.1 surround sound PC gaming headset. It comes outfitted with 10 discrete drivers. That breaks…

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Intel’s 12-core i9-7920X processor lags behind Ryzen Threadripper rival

By Darren Allan In a freshly-released price list for some of its meaty Core X-Series processors, Intel has revealed some new tech spec info on the Core i9-7920X that’s expected to be available next month, including the base clock speed of this 12-core CPU which is pegged at 2.9GHz. This has raised quite a number…

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