Components

By Bill Thomas It’s that time of year again, when all the top PC hardware manufacturers fly out to Taipei, Taiwan to show off all their new stuff. Unfortunately, with the flurry of new announcements, it can be hard to keep up and figure out which new components you want powering your next PC. Don’t…

By Darren Allan Intel only just revealed its beefy Core i7-8086K back at the start of the week at Computex 2018, yet the anniversary edition processor has already been overclocked by an expert to hit a speed of 7.24GHz across all six of its cores. This was achieved by Der8auer (a big name in the…

By Matt Hanson Intel certainly impressed us at Computex 2018 when it showed off a new processor that features an incredible 28 cores clocked at 5GHz – and now we’ve seen more details about this monster CPU. The vast majority of processors that most people use in their PCs feature four cores, so we always…

By Matt Hanson Welcome to our list of the best external hard drives for Macs in 2018. If you find that your Mac, iMac or MacBook is running out of storage space, then these excellent external hard drives can quickly and easily give you a boost in storage space. When looking for the best external…

By Darren Allan Be Quiet certainly hasn’t been hush-hush over at Computex, in fact it has been making plenty of noise about two new PC cases during the show, not to mention some other goodies including a cooler for AMD’s Threadripper CPUs. The firm’s new cases are the Silent Base 601 and 801, and there…

By Darren Allan Earlier this week at Computex, Intel revealed its Core i7-8086K – so named because it celebrates the 40th anniversary of the first 8086 chip – and the company is kicking off a sweepstake today that gives you a chance to win one of these limited edition processors that boost to 5GHz out-of-the-box.…

By Kevin Lee Back at CES 2018, AMD only teased the future of Radeon RX Vega graphics but at Computex 2018, the chipmaker further detailed what we can expect from its next generation of GPUs. While you might be hoping for some mainstream GPU news, AMD actually showed off its next-generation 7nm Radeon Instinct chip…

By Kevin Lee Out of all the announcements we’ve been waiting for at Computex 2018, AMD finally making Ryzen Threadripper 2nd generation processors official was the biggest one. Thankfully AMD delivered on the goods. On the highest-end, AMD says its Ryzen Threadripper 2nd generation processor includes a beastly 32-core and 64-threads. For reference, the last-generation…

By Kevin Lee Out of all the announcements we’ve been waiting for at Computex 2018, AMD finally making Ryzen Threadripper 2nd generation processors official was the biggest one. Thankfully AMD delivered on the goods. On the highest-end, AMD says its Ryzen Threadripper 2nd generation processor includes a beastly 32-core and 64-threads. For reference, the last-generation…

By Kevin Lee We’ve known that AMD had a nano version of its Radeon RX Vega graphics cards since they were initially announced, but only now at Computex 2018 has the company finally made it official. AMD revealed a micro-sized version of the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 at its press conference. The card pictured…

By Darren Allan You may have seen the Intel has just revealed its Core i7-8086K anniversary processor that’s capable of boosting to 5GHz out of the box, but the company has a bigger CPU gun up its sleeve: a 28-core processor that reaches the same clock speed. Yes, Intel is readying a single socket processor…

By Kevin Lee Rumors and leaks of the Intel Core i7-8086K spilled everywhere on the web so it was basically inevitable we would see it at Computex 2018 and now it’s finally official. As previous reports suggested, the Intel Core i7-8068K the brand’s most supped up Coffee Lake desktop processor to date. Intel calls the…

By Kevin Lee Qualcomm Snapdragon-powered computers didn’t exactly take off this year, but the smartphone processor maker hopes to turn things around with its new Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 processor designed specifically for Always Connected PCs. Qualcomm tells us its new processor brings 30% improved performance alongside 20% improved battery life compared to the previous Snapdragon…

By Kevin Lee Corsair has given its Vengeance series PC memory a serious RGB upgrade along with two new tempered glass cases to show it all off in. The Corsair Vengeance RGB has been around for a few years, but now the Pro version of the RAM is adding a light bar for even better…

By Darren Allan Asus has been busy with a number of product revelations over at Computex 2018, with a cluster of peripherals getting an airing for the first time, including a gaming headset, mouse, and a mouse pad with integrated wireless charging – although the mouse itself, while wireless, doesn’t support the latter technology. Anyhow,…