Month: June 2021
- Cases
Antec NX250 Mid-Tower Case Review
Antec is one of the oldest names in the PC case business, and I think several of my first PC builds were in Antec cases, albeit some of their most affordable models. Of course, Antec does make a great range of high-end and more expensive models, but they’ve long been…
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Thermaltake Launch its TT Premium PCIe 4.0 Extenders
Thermaltake has announced the release of its new PCI-E Extender 4.0 series, with the launch of the PCI-E 4.0 Extender 300 mm/600 mm and PCI-E 4.0 Extender 300 mm (with a 90-degree adapter). Promising an easy installation, these PIC-E 4.0 Extenders are perfect for dealing with larger and heavy graphics…
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FSP Unveils its Dagger Pro SFX 750W/850W Power Supplies
FSP has today announced the launch of two new high-power PSU models: the DAGGER PRO 850 W and DAGGER PRO 750 W. The DAGGER PRO power supplies are fully modular and are SFX 12 V V3.3 standard compliant. The DAGGER PRO can easily be integrated into any ATX or SFX…
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Microsoft Teases Windows 11 Release Date?
With Microsoft officially announcing the launch of Windows 11 last week, a lot of the sparkle has perhaps worn off for many consumers now as they come to realise that, due to a very unusual set of system requirements, their PC is perhaps not quite ready to upgrade to the…
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- News
EVGA Teases New ‘Dark’ AMD Motherboard
Earlier this year, EVGA announced the launch of its Intel Z590 Dark motherboard. It was a design that effectively represented one of its top-of-the-line specifications and was certainly angled towards the overclocking or enthusiast user. With, incidentally, a price tag to match. – While this motherboard variant has yet to…
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Doom Eternal Finally Gets its Ray Tracing and DLSS Update
Given that it was one of the flagship gaming titles presented when Nvidia first launched the 20XX series of graphics cards with DLSS and ray tracing back in late 2018, it has been a factor of relative embarrassment that nearly three years on. Not to mention a brand new series…
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Bethesda (Again) Confirms Elder Scrolls 6 is Still Years Away
Although initially announced over two years ago, Bethesda has always been pretty clear that The Elder Scrolls 6 is going to represent a pretty colossal task for the developer. Not, incidentally, that we would expect anything less from this franchise which has always impressed the gaming community with its massively…
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Razer Blackwidow V3 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review
Razer is easily one of the best-known names in the PC gaming market, with many of the gaming mice, keyboards and headsets on the market today. Of course, they make everything from Laptops to gaming chairs too, but today, I’ll be focusing purely on their latest gaming keyboard, the Razer…
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- News
GTA 3 & Vice City Reverse-Engineering Projects are Back After Takedown!
Do you remember the fantastic Grand Theft Auto 3 and Vice City reverse-engineering fan projects? Known as re3 and reVC, the projects were both hit by a DMCA from Rockstar’s parent company Take-Two, claiming copyright infringement. Of course, Take Two were unhappy as the fan-created source code for both games…
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Microsoft May Lower Windows 11 CPU Requirements
Earlier this week, Microsoft revealed the system requirements for Windows 11, and well… most of can’t run the damn thing. Even some of the latest and greatest hardware was throwing up issues. Plus, even when you did get the hardware right, you quickly had to learn what the f*** a…
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FSP Dagger Pro SFX Power Supplies Revealed
FSP is one of the best known PSU manufacturers in the world. With that in mind, I’m rather excited about the reveal of their latest SFX Power Supplies, the FSP Dagger. There will be two new models available, the FSP DAGGER PRO 850 W and DAGGER PRO 750 W. As…
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xCloud Game Streaming Launches on iOS and PC
I’m a big fan of game streaming services, albeit it’s more of a curiosity to me than a full-blown replacement for local media. I remember reviewing and rather enjoying OnLive many years ago. I managed to play a couple of the Batman games on that thing just fine, but the…
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- Systems
MSI Modern AM271P 11M AIO PC Review
The world has become a very strange place over the last year or so, with many of us changing our work schedule quite drastically. Not to mention working from home more often or homeschooling your kids. There are all kinds of reasons why you may need a new PC or…
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Intel LGA18XX Socket Appears in Leaked Image
With Intel’s Alder Lake-S CPUs set for release later this year (probably around September-October), we will officially see the debut of the LGA-1700 socket and, of course, all the other tasty tech launches that are coming alongside it. DDR5 memory, for example. While Alder Lake-S is certainly exciting, however, you…
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Microsoft App Now Tells You WHY Your PC isn’t Windows 11 Ready
While there was certainly a lot of excitement surrounding the official announcement of Windows 11 last week, it subsequently turned out that behind all the glitz and glamour, upgrading to Microsoft’s latest operating system wasn’t as straightforward as initially suggested. – Put simply, Windows 11, when compared to prior OS…
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