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By Kevin Lee Intel already has all giddy about the prospect of new seventh generation processor-powered laptops coming later this fall and now AMD says it’s also on track to deliver desktop-grade Zen processors by next year too. Literally a block away from the IDF 2016 conference, AMD unveiled the first official details of its…

By Darren Allan Those of you who want to jump on the Pascal bandwagon and grab one of Nvidia’s latest video cards will be pleased to hear that the company has revealed a new cheaper variant of the GeForce GTX 1060 with 3GB of memory on-board. That’s half of the vanilla card’s 6GB of video…

By Darren Allan Roccat has announced the launch of a new RGB gaming keyboard which has been some time in the making (it was first teased a couple of years back), and tries something different by fully integrating mobile devices, be they iOS or Android, via a docking slot. Said dock runs along the top…

By Kane Fulton Introduction Nvidia’s new Pascal GPUs have made their way into at least 10 gorgeous (and incredibly powerful) gaming laptops, with more to come. In addition to letting you dip your toes into 4K gaming, VR and super-smooth triple-digit frame rates, the company’s new architecture promises to make real difference to your gaming…

By Kevin Lee Logitech has announced a new affordable gaming mouse design for aspiring and professional E-Sports players. The new gaming mouse cuts out all the chaff like extra buttons and focuses squarely on being the most responsive and reliable for high level play. At the peripherals core is a PMW3366 sensor, which features a…

By Kane Fulton For many people, the keyboard that comes with their computer or laptop is just about good enough. For a small subsection of users, however, nothing less than a mechanical keyboard will suffice. Often built like tanks and available with a range of different switch types offering various levels of tactility and responsiveness,…

By Kane Fulton Introduction For many people, the keyboard that comes with their computer or laptop is just about good enough. For a small subsection of users, however, nothing less than a mechanical keyboard will suffice. Often built like tanks and available with a range of different switch types offering various levels of tactility and…

By Desire Athow Just hours after Seagate showcased a 60TB SAS solid state drive at the Flash Memory Summit, Samsung announced a 32TB model, the PM1643, one which it claims is the world’s largest to be based on 512-gigabit V-NAND chips. The difference is in the form factor (2.5-inch for Samsung and 3.5-inch for Seagate)…

By Desire Athow Just hours after Seagate showcased a 60TB SAS solid state drive at the Flash Memory Summit, Samsung announced a 32TB model, the PM1643, which it claims is the world’s largest SSD to be based on 512-gigabit V-NAND chips. The difference is in the form factor (2.5-inch for Samsung and 3.5-inch for Seagate),…

By Andrew Williams Introduction Kaby Lake is the next generation of CPUs from Intel. Right now we’re in the Skylake generation. You’ll still see quite a few laptops from the previous Broadwell and Haswell series on sale, but they are officially past-it. Here are all the details you need to know on the upcoming Intel…

By Andrew Williams Introduction Kaby Lake is the next generation of CPUs from Intel. Right now we’re in the Skylake generation. You’ll still see quite a few laptops from the previous Broadwell and Haswell series on sale, but they are officially past-it. Here are all the details you need to know on the upcoming Intel…

By Darren Allan You may recall that when 3D Xpoint was first unveiled – the technology which promises superfast SSDs and system memory – as well as Intel, co-developer Micron said it would make products based on this tech. And now, over at the Flash Memory Summit in the US, Micron has revealed that it…

By Darren Allan You may recall that when 3D Xpoint was first unveiled – the technology which promises superfast SSDs and system memory – as well as Intel, co-developer Micron said it would make products based on this tech. And now, over at the Flash Memory Summit in the US, Micron has revealed that it…

By Darren Allan There’s been plenty of storage news emerging, due to the fact that the Flash Memory Summit is currently underway in Santa Clara, and Seagate has certainly come up with a headline-grabbing development: a massive 60TB SSD. Yes, you read that right, this is a solid-state drive which uses 3D TLC NAND (that…

By Darren Allan There’s been plenty of storage news emerging, due to the fact that the Flash Memory Summit is currently underway in Santa Clara, and Seagate has certainly come up with a headline-grabbing development: a massive 60TB SSD. Yes, you read that right, this is a solid-state drive which uses 3D TLC NAND (that…