Components

By Kevin Lee Asus has made itself a household name in motherboards and graphics card, but at Computex 2018 the company is officially entering the world of CPU coolers and power supplies. We’ll start off with the ROG Ryujin, Asus’s flagship CPU liquid-cooler that’s available with both in 240mm and 360mm radiator sizes. Unlike most…

By Basil Kronfli Asus has announced three new monitors at Computex 2018. These monitors include two for gamers and one aimed at the creative professional. Rather than just targeting PC users, Asus is going after console gamers its 4K CG32UQ gaming monitor. Specifically going after PS4 Pro and Xbox One X users, the Asus CG32UQ…

By Kevin Lee Just a few days ago, the rumored Intel Core i7-8086K Anniversary Edition processor’s specs were laid bare by retail leaks, and now we know when the chip will debut. Ironically, in a post defaming retail leaks about the supposed special edition chip, Overclocker’s Gibbo let loose that the Intel Core i7-8086K Anniversary…

By Joe Osborne It’s widely known that Apple is rumored to have ambitions of building its own processors for Mac desktops and MacBook laptops, but no one expected the huge undertaking to begin so soon. The Oregonian reports that Apple has opened a hardware engineering lab in Washington County, Oregon, hiring nearly two-dozen people in…

By Joe Osborne Ahead of the Computex 2018 tech show in Taipei, Taiwan next week, Acer has announced AMD processor and graphics options for its entire, freshly-revealed PC gaming hardware lineup. Starting with its new flagship gaming laptop, the Acer Predator Helios 500, Acer will release this 17.3-inch monster with AMD 2nd generation Ryzen processors…

By Kevin Lee It seems Nvidia plans to present its ‘Next Generation Mainstream GPU’ later this summer. Videocardz spotted that Nvidia will be holding a session to talk the future of its graphics cards at the Hot Chips conference on August 20th. The schedule details that Nvidia’s Vice-President of ASIC engineering, Stuart Oberman, will present…

By Joe Osborne If you want to be taken seriously in the PC gaming accessory space these days, you apparently need to develop your own mechanical key switch, as Roccat has with the Titan Switch Tactile. The German maker of PC gaming headsets, keyboards, mice and more revealed the Titan Switch Tactile in a press…

By Darren Allan Intel has finally crammed its Optane technology into a traditional memory stick form, albeit with the initial offering unsurprisingly aimed at heavyweight rather than consumer usage – but this points the way to promising things to come. Intel first announced 3D Xpoint tech, which Optane is built on, almost three years ago…

By Darren Allan Asus has revealed a new motherboard specifically designed for cryptocurrency miners who need lots of GPU power, with the mobo being capable of supporting no less than 20 graphics cards. The H370 Mining Master motherboard (with an LGA 1151 CPU socket) follows up on the previous B250 Mining Expert board, and makes…

By Abbas Jaffar Ali If you’re looking to upgrade your gaming rig with a new graphics card, now is the right time for it as NVIDIA is slashing the prices for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 graphics cards. The “Made to Game” promotion starts today, the 30th of May 2018…

By Darren Allan Last month, a rumor emerged that Intel was preparing a special anniversary edition Core i7-8086K processor – to mark the 40th birthday of the release of the first 8086 chip on June 8, 1978 – and now multiple retailer listings for the CPU are being spotted. As Videocardz reports, the niftily-named Core…

By Matt Hanson If you need to backup, store and transfer a lot of important information, then making sure you have the best rugged hard drive for your needs is incredibly important, and this is where we come in. In this list, we rank the very best rugged hard drive money can buy in 2018,…

By Darren Allan Remember the Meltdown and Spectre fixes that Intel is baking into its processors to make them bulletproof to these vulnerabilities at a silicon level, and which are expected to be incorporated into new CPUs that ship later this year? Well, it’s allegedly the case that those countermeasures won’t defend these chips against…

By Kevin Lee Earlier this week, we reported that Intel’s rumored first octa-core processor appeared with a 2.6GHz base frequency, but this forthcoming Coffee Lake-S chip might be faster after all. Intel’s eight-core CPU appeared in again in the SiSoft Sandra database running at a significantly faster 3.1GHz and the processor will likely be officially…

By Kevin Lee Last week we were crushed by the reality of the Acer Predator X27‘s $1,999 (about £1,490, AU$2,660) price tag. And if you were hoping that the other 4K Nvidia G-Sync HDR monitor was any cheaper, we’re sad to report the Asus ROG Swift PG27UQ is just as expensive. Once again, that two…