Components

By Darren Allan Corsair has announced that its new Lux range of mechanical keyboards are now on sale, with three different models available. The keyboards comprise of the K70 Lux RGB (pictured above), K70 Lux, and K65 Lux RGB, which follow on from the previous K70 RGB, K70 and K65 models (note that the K70…

By Darren Allan Corsair has announced that its new Lux range of mechanical keyboards are now on sale, with three different models available. The keyboards comprise of the K70 Lux RGB (pictured above), K70 Lux, and K65 Lux RGB, which follow on from the previous K70 RGB, K70 and K65 models (note that the K70…

By Gary Marshall Introduction and carbon nanotubes Note: Our beyond silicon feature has been fully updated. This article was first published in October 2007. Today’s processors are made from silicon, which itself is fashioned from one of the most abundant materials on earth: sand. But as it gets harder and harder to make ever more…

By Gary Marshall Introduction and carbon nanotubes Note: Our beyond silicon feature has been fully updated. This article was first published in October 2007. Today’s processors are made from silicon, which itself is fashioned from one of the most abundant materials on earth: sand. But as it gets harder and harder to make ever more…

By Darren Allan There’s some bad news when it comes to the performance of future-generation graphics cards, thanks to the announcement of a delay in the arrival of faster GDDR6 memory. GDDR6 video RAM is the next step on from the current GDDR5X (as seen in the new GeForce GTX 1080), but over at the…

By Darren Allan There’s some bad news when it comes to the performance of future-generation graphics cards, thanks to the announcement of a delay in the arrival of faster GDDR6 memory. GDDR6 video RAM is the next step on from the current GDDR5X (as seen in the new GeForce GTX 1080), but over at the…

By Darren Allan While Intel has been fairly tight-lipped concerning the details of its next-generation Kaby Lake CPUs thus far – although we did get a taster at IDF, where the company demonstrated that Kaby Lake integrated graphics were good enough to play Overwatch – a fresh leak has shown us more about what sort…

By Darren Allan While Intel has been fairly tight-lipped concerning the details of its next-generation Kaby Lake CPUs thus far – although we did get a taster at IDF, where the company demonstrated that Kaby Lake integrated graphics were good enough to play Overwatch – a fresh leak has shown us more about what sort…

By Darren Allan Want a cracking fast SSD but don’t want to pay a lot of money for the privilege? Then you might want to take a look at the new 3D NAND sporting SSDs which Intel has just released onto the market. The company has unleashed a number of solid-state drives targeting different arenas…

By Darren Allan Want a cracking fast SSD but don’t want to pay a lot of money for the privilege? Then you might want to take a look at the new 3D NAND sporting SSDs which Intel has just released onto the market. The company has unleashed a number of solid-state drives targeting different arenas…

By Gary Marshall Introduction and power corrupts Note: Our future CPU tech feature has been fully updated. This article was first published in November 2011. It’s easy to think that some things will be around forever, but technologies change. Vinyl records became digital discs and then digital downloads. The internal combustion engine morphed into the…

By Gary Marshall Introduction and power corrupts Note: Our future CPU tech feature has been fully updated. This article was first published in November 2011. It’s easy to think that some things will be around forever, but technologies change. Vinyl records became digital discs and then digital downloads. The internal combustion engine morphed into the…

By Gary Marshall Introduction and 3D XPoint A few months ago, we took an aging laptop and brought it kicking and screaming into 2016. We quadrupled the RAM, swapped the hard disk for an SSD and transformed it from a bit of a laggard into the electronic equivalent of Usain Bolt. Usain Volt, anyone? Bad…

By Gary Marshall Introduction and 3D XPoint A few months ago, we took an aging laptop and brought it kicking and screaming into 2016. We quadrupled the RAM, swapped the hard disk for an SSD and transformed it from a bit of a laggard into the electronic equivalent of Usain Bolt. Usain Volt, anyone? Bad…

By Kevin Lee Critical components Deca-core processors and video cards with 12GB of video memory are arguably some of the hottest components of our generation. But, what do you know about the chips that made today’s veritable supercomputers actually possible? Anything? Well then, bring up a chair and listen up, whipper snappers. Without these chips,…