Components

By Kevin Lee Corsair is kicking off the New Year with a bang and a new flagship K95 RGB Platinum mechanical gaming keyboard. From the bottom up, Corsair claims this is its best keyboard yet. The frame is made of aircraft-grade anodized brushed aluminum, meanwhile, they keys themselves use Cherry’s proven 1.2mm low-travel Cherry MX…

By Kevin Lee Western Digital has become a major player in the flash memory world since acquiring SanDisk last year and now the company is announcing its first WD Black PCIe SSD. Built on the PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe standard, this is the storage maker’s fastest drive yet, 2,050MB/s sequential read and 800MB/s sequential write…

By Kevin Lee Logitech has added a new G533 Wireless Gaming Headset to its ever expanding portfolio of PC gaming peripherals. With a focus on solely delivering the best PC gaming experience, the Logitech G533 are designed to connect only to desktops and laptops with an included USB dongle. While you won’t be able to…

By Cameron Faulkner You might feel high and mighty with your 128GB flash drive, but the latest from Kingston proves that it might be time for an upgrade. At CES 2017, the company announced the DataTraveler Ultimate Generation Terabyte, a flash drive that packs an insane 2TB of storage inside of a fresh, streamlined design.…

By Darren Allan Intel has added to its seventh-generation Kaby Lake and Xeon processor line-up with fresh models boasting vPro technology which are aimed at mobile workstations. As you would expect, there are CPUs catering for a variety of performance and power efficiency demands, with the most frugal power-sipping model being the 4.5W Intel Core…

By Kevin Lee Earlier last summer, Intel introduced a few 7th generation processors destined for Ultrabooks and 2-in-1 devices, and now it’s filling out the rest of its Kaby Lake lineup with some new tech to boot. The most prominent advancement is Intel’s new Optane memory, which promises to give your hard drive a turbo…

By Kevin Lee HyperX has unleashed what it claims to be is the first plug-and-play 7.1 Dolby surround sound headset – and at an affordable price no less. Meet the Cloud Revolver S, which is an upgrade over HyperX’s older generic surround sound capable Cloud Revolver gaming headset. The gaming peripheral maker claims, the new…

By Darren Allan Early benchmarks of AMD’s incoming Ryzen processors (previously known as Zen) have been spilled, and they make for very interesting reading indeed. French magazine Canard PC published the benchmarks which pertained to both general computing performance and gaming, using an engineering sample CPU which appears to be the top-of-the-line model of the…

By TechRadar deals Welcome to the Boxing Day sales here on TechRadar! It’s the day when retailers heavily discount all the unsold Christmas stock so it’s always a good time to pick up a bargain. You need to be quick, too, because once this stuff is gone, it’s gone. Amazon has now launched its Boxing…

By TechRadar deals It’s Christmas Day which can only mean a few things – presents, turkey, sherry and of course, the start of the Boxing Day sales! John Lewis launched its Boxing Day sales promotions at 5pm on Christmas Eve, while Currys launched its first wave of deals earlier that morning including some hot TV…

By Darren Allan Want to cram a powerful graphics card into your compact PC case? Well, Zotac is the latest vendor to bring out a GeForce GTX 1070 Mini video card which is designed to fit into a Mini-ITX case. The card is 210mm long (just over 8-inches) and the core specs include a base…

By Darren Allan Nvidia is readying a Club GeForce Elite subscription membership with a multitude of benefits, a job ad on LinkedIn has revealed – and it also mentions a potential upgrade offer for the GTX 1080 Ti, confirming the existence of the incoming graphics card. The LinkedIn listing for the job (a senior marketing…

By Joe Osborne Nvidia seems to have a new product – well, a bundle of products – that it hopes will inspire the lapsed PC gamer to join the fold again. It’s called the PC Gaming Revival Kit, and it appears to currently be geared toward Spanish-speaking European audiences. That’s at least judging by the…

By Kane Fulton Most people are doing more with their computers these days, and that means more applications are in use at any one time. Whether you’re a writer, graphic artist, coder or call center assistant, having a second display can give you more breathing space on the desktop to spread apps out and use…

By Gabe Carey Building – even just buying – a PC isn’t an effortless task. With an ostensibly endless list of components to consider, powering on that hardy rig for the first time may feel like a pipe dream. Fortunately, we’re here to help you get started. Among the most important parts of a computer…