Month: April 2022
- Audio/Visual
1MORE PistonBuds Pro Review
1More is one of the hottest headphone brands on the market today, with a range that spans some extremely competitive affordable models to audiophile-grade enthusiast models for those with deeper pockets and a taste for high-end hardware. While the PistonBuds are closer to the affordable side of the scale, they’re…
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Interstuhl Backforce One Gaming Chair Plus Review
Most office chairs are made in the same factory in China and are made to the specifications of the companies making orders with the factories. But what happens when you do all the engineering, design and even manufacturing yourself? That is what Interstuhl asked, a company from Germany who wanted…
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Sony Seemingly Disables PlayStation Plus subscription stacking
Since the start of the year, there had been more than a few rumours suggesting that Sony was planning to launch a pretty significant overhaul of its PlayStation Plus subscription service. – Looking to effectively bring it more in line with the (in my opinion) significantly better Xbox Game Pass,…
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Twitch Considering Huge Pay Cut For Streamers?
It’s hardly any secret that while Twitch still remains the most popular streaming platform, in the last few years, it has started to face some pretty stiff and serious competition. – Similar to platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, Twitch does seem to be going through a moderate period of…
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- News
ASRock Officially Registers Radeon 6X50XT Graphics Cards
On May 10th, AMD is (probably) set to formally confirm the official release of its new Radeon 6000 refreshed graphics cards. We say probably as, at the time of writing, we are still pending an official confirmation and/or launch event from the company. – With this believed to include three…
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Call of Duty RICOCHET Cheat Detection Looks to Apply ‘Invisibility Cloak’ to Legit Players
With the launch of the new RICOCHET cheat detection system earlier this year, while it certainly hasn’t provided the magic bullet solution (nearly) everyone was hoping for in regards to stopping cheaters on Call of Duty (Warzone or Vanguard), it has at least represented something of a solid step in…
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Apple Officially Launches its Self Service Repair Store!
For many years now, Apple has been the subject of a lot of criticism (both from customers and consumer groups) over the, basically, total lack of options when it comes to fixing a product of theirs that is either faulty or broken. – Putting things like screen replacements to one…
Read More » - Memory
PATRIOT VIPER VENOM DDR5 32GB 6200MHz Memory Review
DDR5 is still relatively new, considering it launched along with Intel’s Z690 chipset and Alder Lake Core processors back in November last year and while at its inception it didn’t seem to offer much in terms of performance in comparison to DDR4, it was wildly more expensive and beyond reach…
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- Displays & Monitors
Iiyama G-MASTER GB2770SU 165Hz Gaming Monitor Review
Iiyama is one of the biggest names when it comes to PC monitors, and I know I’ve had a few of their products over more years than I care to count. While they have a range that spans affordable office models to high-end gaming monitors, I’ve often found their strength…
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AMD Ryzen 7000 to Feature DDR5 5200MHz Default Support!
While the AMD Ryzen platform has certainly represented an excellent choice for those looking for potent and affordable CPUs, it’s hard to deny that ever since its release back in 2017, RAM compatibility has been a bit of a consistent problem. Don’t get me wrong, RAM works with it, but…
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Nvidia GeForce 512.59 – Game Ready for Dune: Spice Wars
Nvidia has announced the launch of its latest GeForce 512.59 graphics card drivers and although one of the key features is the game ready support for Dune: Spice Wars, this one comes with a lot of other excellent features including ray tracing support for a number of titles as well…
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Energy Provider Advises Consumers to Save Money By Switching Off “Vampire” Tech
I think many consumers are aware that even when a technology product is turned off, it is still entirely capable of consuming energy/power. Well, presuming that it hasn’t been physically switched off or had its power cable pulled out of the wall socket. – Out of general convenience, however, and…
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- News
Leak Source Claims Potentially Insane Specifications for Nvidia 4090 Ti(?)
With the Nvidia 4000 series of graphics cards expected to release around October/November this year, it’s admittedly a little surprising that we haven’t seen more leaks/information surrounding them yet. – I mean, by and large, we already know a few solid details about them and most primarily the fact that…
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Microsoft Claims Xbox Series X/S Has Secured A Bigger Two-Quarter Market Share
While Microsoft has been able to claim small victories here and there, it’s hard to deny that for the last few generations, Sony has represented if not the ‘winner’ of the console wars, then at least the more desirable system from the vast majority of consumers. – Following a report…
Read More » - Graphics Cards
Gigabyte RTX 3090 Ti Gaming OC 24G Graphics Card Review
NVIDIA has been on something of a hot streak recently. Since the launch of the RTX 3000 series of GPUs they have been riding high on the leaderboards and stock shares, creating a set of powerhouse cards at reasonable prices, at least on paper. Of course, the prices are only…
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