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By Darren Allan Sennheiser has revealed the PC 373D headset, which it claims will give gamers the ultimate audio experience on several fronts, from clarity of sound through to comfort levels. This headset gives you 7.1 Dolby Surround with the company’s “unique transducer technology” ensuring clarity and accuracy of sound placement, the latter being particularly…

By Darren Allan Western Digital has announced a major new breakthrough in 3D NAND, meaning we can look forward to some tasty new SSDs hitting the market in the future. Working in conjunction with Toshiba, Western Digital has produced the world’s first 3D NAND tech that boasts 64 layers of storage stacked vertically. It goes…

By Darren Allan Western Digital has announced a major new breakthrough in 3D NAND, meaning we can look forward to some tasty new SSDs hitting the market in the future. Working in conjunction with Toshiba, Western Digital has produced the world’s first 3D NAND tech that boasts 64 layers of storage stacked vertically. It goes…

By Desire Athow Remember that 15.36TB SSD Samsung launched a year ago? You can now buy it, for just $9,690 (about £7,400 or AU$13,000), from a couple of US retailers. At £480 (about $630, AU$840) per TB, that’s actually not far off the selling price of Samsung’s next biggest SSD, the Samsung 850 EVO 4TB…

By Desire Athow Remember that 15.36TB SSD Samsung launched a year ago? You can now buy it for as little as $9,690 (about £7,400 or AU$13,000) from a couple of US retailers. At £480 (about $630, AU$840) per TB, it is actually not far from the selling price of Samsung’s next biggest SSD, the Samsung…

By Darren Allan Nvidia has unveiled two new Pascal-based Quadro graphics cards, to follow on from its fresh consumer offerings (which run from the GTX 1060 up to the new Titan). The Quadro P6000 and P5000 are the company’s heavy-duty workstation-targeted cards, promising much faster performance for the likes of scientific and engineering workloads, VR,…

By Darren Allan Nvidia has unveiled two new Pascal-based Quadro graphics cards, to follow on from its fresh consumer offerings (which run from the GTX 1060 up to the new Titan). The Quadro P6000 and P5000 are the company’s heavy-duty workstation-targeted cards, promising much faster performance for the likes of scientific and engineering workloads, VR,…

By Darren Allan AMD has announced a new range of affordable Radeon Pro WX graphics solutions for workstations and professional use, along with a fresh graphics card – the Radeon Pro SSG – which runs with a whole new concept of incorporating a large SSD to power up its performance. So let’s start with the…

By Darren Allan AMD has announced a new range of affordable Radeon Pro WX graphics solutions for workstations and professional use, along with a fresh graphics card – the Radeon Pro SSG – which runs with a whole new concept of incorporating a large SSD to power up its performance. So let’s start with the…

By Jon Porter Here’s how I came to spend over $200 on a keyboard After a frustrating seven month wait, my custom-made WhiteFox keyboard has finally arrived. It may have only sold 3810 units, but that actually means it’s one of the better selling items from Massdrop, which was the exclusive seller of the keyboard.…

By Jon Porter Here’s how I came to spend over $200 on a keyboard After a frustrating seven month wait, my custom-made WhiteFox keyboard has finally arrived. It may have only sold 3810 units, but that actually means it’s one of the better selling items from Massdrop, which was the exclusive seller of the keyboard.…

By Kevin Lee Nvidia been on a tear introducing new graphics card and while it’s been fun with a surprisingly powerful GTX 1080 and GTX 1060, the card we’ve all been waiting for is finally here. Nvidia just announced its next generation Titan X featuring 3,584 CUDA cores operating at 1.53GHz – that’s a big…

By Kevin Lee Nvidia has been on a tear introducing new graphics cards – in recent months we’ve seen the GTX 1080, and the surprisingly powerful GTX 1060. And now it’s delivered the fastest gaming graphics card on the planet – although not surprisingly it doesn’t come cheap. Nvidia has announced its next-generation Titan X,…

By Darren Allan Is Intel about to bring six-core CPUs into its mainstream processor offerings? Apparently so, although you’ll have to wait till the year after next for them to arrive. Yes, according to a leaked slide, Intel is bringing forth Coffee Lake (yet another ‘lake’ – and a particularly tasty sounding one) in 2018,…

By Darren Allan Is Intel about to bring six-core CPUs into its mainstream processor offerings? Apparently so, although you’ll have to wait till the year after next for them to arrive. Yes, according to a leaked slide, Intel is bringing forth Coffee Lake (yet another ‘lake’ – and a particularly tasty sounding one) in 2018,…