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By Darren Allan Razer has launched a new gaming mouse, the Abyssus V2, with the philosophy ‘less is more’ – in other words, the device offers what the peripheral maker believes are the most important features for tournament-level gaming in a simple package that won’t break the bank. So you get a 5,000 DPI optical…

By Darren Allan Zotac has revealed a pair of GeForce GTX 1060 cards including a new Mini offering designed to fit in small PC cases. The GeForce GTX 1060 Mini (pictured above) is 6.85-inches long (a tad under 17.5cm) meaning it should fit in a Mini-ITX case. Zotac has equipped this model with what it…

By Darren Allan So you want to run Doom with a much faster frame rate? Well the good news is the game now supports Vulkan, a low-overhead graphics API which will put the FPS (frames per second, that is) pedal to the metal. Vulkan (which was built on AMD’s Mantle graphics tech) offers a similar…

By Kevin Lee Samsung is giving you yet another reason to ditch your mechanical hard drive with a new 850 EVO 4TB SSD. A few years ago, you’d be hard pressed to even find SSDs with more than 128GB of storage and now with this, users will be able to store a few dozen games…

By Kevin Lee Samsung is giving you yet another reason to ditch your mechanical hard drive with a new 850 EVO 4TB SSD. A few years ago, you’d be hard pressed to even find SSDs with more than 128GB of storage and now with this, users will be able to store a few dozen games…

By Darren Allan Remember a few months ago when it emerged that Microsoft wanted to use DNA for storage purposes? Well, apparently work on that front is progressing well, and Redmond has announced it’s achieved an important milestone. Working with the University of Washington, Microsoft has revealed that it’s managed to store 200MB of data…

By Darren Allan Remember a few months ago when it emerged that Microsoft wanted to use DNA for storage purposes? Well, apparently work on that front is progressing well, and Redmond has announced it’s achieved an important milestone. Working with the University of Washington, Microsoft has revealed that it’s managed to store 200MB of data…

By Darren Allan Nvidia’s new Pascal-based graphics cards have got a big thumbs-up, generally speaking – and certainly from our expert reviewers – but there’s a new Titan offering in the pipeline which will apparently blow away the GTX 1080, and it’ll be launched as soon as next month. Yes, the GeForce GTX Titan P…

By Darren Allan Nvidia’s new Pascal-based graphics cards have got a big thumbs-up, generally speaking – and certainly from our expert reviewers – but there’s a new Titan offering in the pipeline which will apparently blow away the GTX 1080, and it’ll be launched as soon as next month. Yes, the GeForce GTX Titan P…

By Kane Fulton and Kevin Lee What’s silver and black, matches a GTX 980 for performance but costs less? Nvidia’s new GTX 1060 graphics card, according to its maker, which has been officially unveiled to the world. The GTX 1060 is officially the third graphics card built on Nvidia’s new 16nm Pascal architecture. Although it…

By Kane Fulton and Kevin Lee What’s silver and black, matches a GTX 980 for performance but costs less? Nvidia’s new GTX 1060 graphics card, according to its maker, which has been officially unveiled to the world. The GTX 1060 is officially the third graphics card built on Nvidia’s new 16nm Pascal architecture. Although it…

By Gabe Carey Introduction Look around you. Even with the advent of the cloud and the ubiquity of Wi-Fi replacing cables nothing beats a good old Universal Serial Bus port – or simply USB. It’s ingrained in our phones, tablets, computers, game consoles, cameras and the list goes on and on. Practically anything you own…

By Darren Allan Usually, if you want to build a compact gaming PC, you’ll need to sacrifice something in the way of power for that portability – but not if Gigabyte has anything to do with it, as the company’s latest Nvidia graphics card offering is a GTX 1070 which is small enough to fit…

By Darren Allan If you’ve picked up one of AMD’s Radeon RX 480 graphics cards with 4GB of video memory, there’s a chance you could double that RAM with a relatively simple tweak. So what’s the story here? Apparently, some RX 480 models with 4GB actually have 8GB of memory on board in physical terms,…

By Kevin Lee Das Keyboard has kicked off its first-ever Kickstarter for of all things a cloud-connected keyboard called the 5Q. The Das Keyboard 5Q has everything you want from a modern, mechanical keyboard including a RGB lighting system that’s customizable down to each individual key. On top of giving the keyboard your personal flair,…