Month: July 2017
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Star Citizen Alpha 3.0 Release Delayed Until September
Star Citizen fans have been bracing themselves for a major alpha 3.0 release for August. However, it appears that they have to wait just a little bit more until sometime in early to mid-September. The news comes directly from the latest schedule report on the Roberts Space Industries website. The…
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AMD Radeon Pro SSG Breaks Terabyte Memory Barrier
While AMD‘s Threadripper CPUs and RX Vega GPUs caught the bulk of the attention at Siggraph 2017, AMD had plenty more mouth-watering hardware announcements as well. This includes the Radeon workstation graphics Radeon Pro WX9100 and the Radeon Pro SSG. The latter has the distinct honor of breaking the terabyte…
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AMD’s “i9-Killer” Ryzen Threadripper CPUs Starts at Only $549
While at Siggraph 2017, AMD made several announcements which also includes officially launching the much-anticipated Ryzen Threadripper CPU line. While rumours of an additional, more affordable Ryzen Threadripper CPU surfaced a few days ago, it is finally verified at the LA event. Although the rumoured Ryzen Threadripper 1900 was not…
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Watch the Full AMD Capsaicin Presentation at Siggraph 2017
AMD held an hour and a half long presentation at Siggraph in LA to officially launch their new Ryzen Threadripper CPUs and Vega GPUs. While most keynote speeches at these types of events are padded with a lot of promotional content, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su instead packed it top…
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HBO Hackers Threaten to Leak Game of Thrones Episodes
HBO is the latest media outlet to fall victim to cyber attack, and the parties responsible are threatening to leak new episodes of Game of Thrones. The anonymous hackers claim to be in possession of 1.5TB of data obtained from HBO. In particular, we know that unreleased Ballers and Room…
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Asus Launches New ROG and Prime X399 Motherboards
Asus is releasing two new ROG and Prime X399 motherboards for AMD’s Threadripper processors. The pair of SocketTR4 – one Republic of Gamers (ROG) and one Prime board – are built for “power users, gaming enthusiasts and prosumers”. Indeed, the ROG Zenith Extreme and Prime X399-A both feature: 4x PCIe…
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MSI Unveils New X399 Threadripper Motherboard
MSI is launching three new motherboards, one of which supports AMD’s high-end Threadripper CPUs. The SocketTR4 MSI X399 Gaming Pro Carbon AC features swappable heatsink covers, four reinforced PCIe slots, and three M.2 SSD slots. Meanwhile, is also launching the Ryzen-supporting X370 Gaming M7 ACK and B350 Tomahawk Plus motherboards.…
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EKWB Introduces EK-Vardar EVO Fans with Start-Stop Feature
EKWB is introducing the next evolution of their famous EK-Vardar fan line: The EK-Vardar EVO. This new EK-Vardar EVO series features an extended range of PWM operation, including a full-stop function. This is on the electronics level of the PWM controller itself, selecting a full fan stop should the PWM…
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AMD Radeon Pack Offers $420 Worth of Value with RX Vega Purchase
In case you are have any doubts about how serious AMD is about being competitive in the GPU space with the release of their Radeon RX Vega, then you do not need to look further than their Radeon packs. Available in three tiers, AMD is offering massive discount packs for…
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Antec Releases Mercury Series AIO Coolers
Antec was teasing their Mercury series AIO coolers last month but they are finally available. These are a lot more sleek looking than their Bane-from-Batman-like Kuhler H20 and it even features RGB lighting. Not that Antec is forcing everyone to jump into the RGB LED bandwagon of course. They are…
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MSI Refreshes WS63 Workstation with NVIDIA Quadro P4000
MSI has plenty of gaming notebook options available, but they also have the WS63 workstation laptop for professionals. Up until recently, users have the option of using a Quadro P3000 GPU with their MSI WS63 workstation. However, the option of an NVIDIA Quadro P4000 GPU is now available as well.…
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Gamemax Moonstone Tempered Glass RGB Chassis Review
Gamemax Moonstone Tempered Glass RGB While Gamemax may not be a big household name, it’s one that is quickly expanding and pushing into more markets. This is especially true of their growing presence in Western markets, where we’re seeing an increased number of retailers picking up the Gamemax hardware. We…
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ASUS RoG STRIX RX Vega 64 Coming in September
ASUS RoG STRIX RX Vega 64 Are you a fan of ASUS RoG gaming hardware? I’m sure many of you are, especially given their premium graphics cards are often some of the fastest in their respective classes. Now ASUS has confirmed that they will be playing their RoG hand with…
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Get Ready – The VEGA NANO is Coming!
VEGA NANO is Coming! With all the big news coming from AMD this week, we have a lot to talk about. However, outside of the official product reveals, it looks like something else has slipped through the net. A photo from twitter user Drew shows Chris Hook outside the AMD event.…
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Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Niantic for Pokemon GO Fest
The most recent Pokemon GO festival held in Chicago did not exactly go swimmingly. It was supposedly going to be a celebratory event for all players with the chance to participate in legendary raids. The event however was plagued with server and connection issues. It also left many of the…
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