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By Darren Allan Nvidia has announced its latest financial results, and the GPU giant made the unusual move of clarifying exactly how much money it had raked in from selling graphics cards to cryptocurrency miners – alongside the revelation that these sales will drop massively in the next (currently ongoing) quarter. And that would obviously…

By Darren Allan Nvidia has just announced that GeForce cards are back in stock in a major way, at the manufacturer’s recommended price to boot. This is welcome news after months of graphics cards being thin on the ground thanks to demand from cryptocurrency miners, with sky-high prices for those GPUs which were on sale.…

By Kevin Lee Intel has been rumored to be working on a discrete graphics card for some time now, and we may well see it announced at CES 2019. At least that’s the word on the Internet according to Anthony Garreffa from TweakTown. According to an industry source within Intel, Garreffa alleges that Intel’s GPU…

By Darren Allan There’s an interesting development in the graphics card world this morning, as the alleged specs of the successor to the current GTX 1080 have been posted. In an entry for the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1180 in the TechPowerUp GPU database, the full details of the unreleased card are given, albeit with obvious…

By Nick Rego Imaging and printing solutions provider, Brother, today revealed its latest product offering for the MENA market. Dubbed ‘Inkjet Multi-Function Centres’, the new range of office and home printers comes in four models, and offer a combination of print, copy, scan, and fax facilities. The launch comes in line with the company’s planned…

By Kevin Lee Rumors of new Nvidia desktop graphics cards seem to have all but dried up, but we might possibly see new GPUs coming to laptops. A Gigabyte/Aorus UK Notebook representative on the OverclockersUK forum confirmed laptops equipped with next generation Nvidia GPUs are scheduled to release towards the end of the year –…

By Darren Allan There’s some worrying news on the security front today, with the revelation that eight fresh Spectre-class flaws have been discovered – and Intel has issued a statement on the matter. These new bugs have been reported by German tech site Heise.de, and it has dubbed them Spectre-NG or ‘Next Generation’, claiming that…

By Bill Thomas In April 2018, AMD launched its line of Ryzen 2nd Generation processors and completely blew the first generation out of the water when it came to performance. But, what about the high-end Ryzen Threadripper CPUs that put Intel on the Core X defensive in 2017? Well, we’re expecting to see that follow-up…

By Kevin Lee Intel is on a roll with introducing new Optane storage solutions and now the company has announced its fastest drive yet. Meet the new Optane SSD 905P. It features the highest random read rated at 575,000 IOPS and random write rated at 555,000 IOPs we’ve ever seen. Its 2,600MB/s sequential read and…

By Matt Hanson Welcome to our list of the best home printers in 2018. For many homes, having a printer can be extremely useful. From printing out documents and your children’s homework, creating your own Christmas cards and posters or printing your holiday photos, there’s plenty of reasons why you’d want a printer for the…

By Matt Hanson Intel has revealed it’s discontinuing its quad-core Kaby Lake-X processors, a mere 11 months after they were first announced, with the company explaining its plans for the chips’ EOL (end of life) status. The Intel Kaby Lake-X Core i7-7740X and Core i5-7640X were designed for the enthusiast market, with the chips capable…

By Kevin Lee We’ve had our first taste of Ryzen 2nd Generation with the Ryzen 5 2600X and Ryzen 7 2700X, but AMD has many more processors in store for us. Videocardz spotted an official AMD listing that detailed multiple unreleased Ryzen 2000 series processors and the first mentions of high-end Ryzen Threadripper 2nd Generation…

By Kevin Lee Welp, so much for seeing Intel’s 10-nanometer Cannon Lake processors this year as the manufacturer announced that they’ve been delayed into 2019. In its first-quarter 2018 earnings, the company stated that it’s “currently shipping low-volume 10nm product and now expects 10nm volume production to shift to 2019.” Cannon Lake delays, while disappointing,…

By Darren Allan As we saw earlier today, AMD has just revealed some impressive financial results, driven primarily by Ryzen and Ryzen 2nd Generation processors, but the firm is understandably keen to keep pushing ahead on the graphics card front as well, with assurances from the CEO that gamers are AMD’s priority – as opposed…

By Kevin Lee It seems Intel is working on a little more than a new Z390 chipset as new leaks also point to an upcoming X399 chipset for high-end desktop CPUs. A Twitter user named Momomo, posted an alleged document pulled from Intel’s download center that include the rumored Z390 chipset and the first ever…