Components

By Kane Fulton PC gamers have never had it so good. While the e-sports scene is ramping up to enjoy unprecedented popularity, powerful graphics cards are becoming more affordable than ever, finally allowing PC to serve as a viable alternative to consoles. But, whether you aspire to be the next League of Legends or Call…

By Kane Fulton It wasn’t long ago that a monitor was as essential a purchase as a refrigerator or a microwave. Without one, the only other way to access your email and type up documents would be on a laptop. Now, however, we can accomplish that and so much more from an amazing device that…

By Darren Allan News has emerged of a worrying flaw in Intel’s processors which can be leveraged to bypass a major security feature that the majority of mainstream operating systems use (including Windows, macOS and Linux). The security feature we’re talking about in this hardware-sabotages-software scenario is ASLR or Address Space Layout Randomisation, a memory…

By Darren Allan News has emerged of a worrying flaw in Intel’s processors which can be leveraged to bypass a major security feature that the majority of mainstream operating systems use (including Windows, macOS and Linux). The security feature we’re talking about in this hardware-sabotages-software scenario is ASLR or Address Space Layout Randomisation, a memory…

By Desire Athow What makes a processor great? Some say it’s how expensive it is, while others suggest it’s the number of cores or its overclockability that determines the quality of a CPU. In reality, it’s a matter of personal preference backed by hard-earned numbers. You would likely be disappointed if you handed over a…

By Kevin Lee The 3D printer world is heating back up. Just last month MakerBot introduced a new pair of Replicator machines and now Ultimaker is following suit with the Ultimaker 3. The headlining feature of the Ultimaker 3 is its new dual extruder head allows it to create objects with a complex composition and…

By Kevin Lee The 3D printer world is heating back up. Just last month MakerBot introduced a new pair of Replicator machines and now Ultimaker is following suit with the Ultimaker 3. The headlining feature of the Ultimaker 3 is its the company’s first 3D printer with a two extruders that allows it to create…

By Darren Allan We’ve seen a couple of leaks focused on Nvidia’s incoming GeForce GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti graphics cards in recent times, and now full details on these Pascal-on-a-budget offerings have been spilled courtesy of what appear to be official launch slides – including game benchmarks for the vanilla 1050. According to the…

By Darren Allan Nvidia has officially announced the price and launch date for its incoming GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti graphics cards – and we’ve seen the first game benchmarks for the former Pascal-on-a-budget offering. Both the GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti will launch a week today (October 25) priced at $109/£115 (around AU$140), and…

By Kane Fulton Updated: We’ve added the SteelSeries Arctis to our shortlist of the best gaming headsets you can buy today. No PC gamer worth their kill/death ratio would skimp on a decent headset. Arguably more important than a mechanical gaming keyboard or mouse, a worthy pair of cans make the difference between guessing where…

By Desire Athow Update: We’ve swapped out the Western Digital My Passport Wireless with its “Pro” counterpart, accompanied by a USB-C offering at numbers 8 and 9! Yes, even in a world replenished by the wonders of cloud computing, the external disk drive, or HDD for short, has its place. With desktops on the wane…

By Darren Allan Tt eSports (a division of Thermaltake) has announced a new gaming mouse with a novel addition – a fingerprint sensor built into the side of the peripheral. The Black FP mouse sports the integrated sensor at the front of the left-hand side of the device, where the thumb of a right-handed person…

By Darren Allan Tt eSports (a division of Thermaltake) has announced a new gaming mouse with a novel addition – a fingerprint sensor built into the side of the peripheral. The Black FP mouse sports the integrated sensor at the front of the left-hand side of the device, where the thumb of a right-handed person…

By Darren Allan Apple’s next Magic Keyboard could push forward with some serious innovation in the form of E-Ink keys which can dynamically change allowing the user to switch languages or layouts on-the-fly. A Reddit user claiming to work at Tsinghua University (described as the “Chinese MIT”) said that they saw a prototype model of…

By Darren Allan Apple’s next Magic Keyboard could push forward with some serious innovation in the form of E-Ink keys which can dynamically change allowing the user to switch languages or layouts on-the-fly. A Reddit user claiming to work at Tsinghua University (described as the “Chinese MIT”) said that they saw a prototype model of…