Month: September 2022
- News
be quiet! Confirms its AM5 CPU Cooler Compatibility
Following the release of AMD’s Ryzen 7000 platform, while many are excited to be making the transition to the new AM5 socket (and all the goodness that goes with it), it has clearly raised more than a few questions in regard to CPU cooler compatibility. – Fortunately, following a number…
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Alphacool Unveil its New Liquid Cooler and Riser Card for M.2 NVMe SSDs
NVMe SSDs in M.2 format has become standard PC equipment, as they allow high transfer rates and extremely low access times and thus enable faster and more effective work or gaming. Due to their design, however, M.2 NVMe SSDs are only capable of delivering their maximum performance for a short…
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Creative Launch the Sound Blaster Katana V2X Gaming Soundbar
Creative Technology has announced the release of Sound Blaster Katana V2X, its latest gaming soundbar which offers the same all-conquering audio prowess that the Katana series is known for, and has been re-engineered to not just suit users with smaller spaces for their gaming set-ups, but is also easier on…
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ASRock Unveil its Z790 Motherboards Ready For Intel Raptor Lake
ASRock has officially announced its new series of Intel Z790 motherboards supporting the latest 13th Generation Intel Core Processors. ASRock’s Z790 series includes premium Z790 Taichi, including a new Special Edition Z790 Taichi Carrara, in addition to Z790 Steel Legend WiFi targeting high-end users, Z790 PRO RS, Z790 PG Lightning…
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- News
Intel Reveal Custom Arc A770 and A750 Graphics Cards
With Intel formally confirming the upcoming release of its Arc A770 graphics card earlier this week (for October 12th in case you were not aware), we were clearly set, sooner or later, to start seeing official unveils for custom models from the Arc series. Particularly since, based on Intel’s own…
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PC Building Simulator 2 Confirmed For Release on October 12th
While technically representing itself as a game (due to the main campaigns repair shop design), for those of you who played the original PC Building Simulator, I think you’ll agree that in terms of teaching you the basics of putting a system together, it’s a really good program. And, dare…
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Google Confirms the Death of Stadia! (In News That Shocks No One)
Released back in November 2019, the Google Stadia was one of the first and biggest attempts to secure and establish the world of stream-based gaming. – Now, admittedly, Nvidia had successfully done this for several years with their ‘Shield’, but this was different. While Nvidia rightly recognised the Shield as…
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Sackboy: A Big Adventure Confirmed For PC Release Next Month (Official Trailer)
It took Sony a long time to figure it out, but following a number of hugely successful ports, they’ve finally discovered that bringing their former PlayStation-exclusive gaming titles to PC is not just a great idea, but one that can also make them a fairly tidy pile of cash! –…
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- Peripherals
Best FPS Gaming Mouse Buying Guide 2022
Last month, I presented you with my MMO Gaming Mouse Showdown, pitting three of the mouse advanced gaming mice on the planet against each other while I binged my way through Elder Scrolls Online, and they were all pretty fantastic. However, in the last few months, I’ve been heavily getting…
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Overwatch 2 Will Require Your Phone Number – No 2FA? Then No Play!
Overwatch 2 is officially set for release on October 4th, and while anticipation is high for the game, I think it would be equally fair to say that more than a few people are worried that Blizzard may contrive their latest means of turning a once beloved gaming franchise into…
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BIOSTAR Launch its New Z790 Valkyrie & Z790A SILVER Motherboards
BIOSTAR has officially unveiled their upcoming Z790 VALKYRIE and Z790A-SILVER motherboards geared to run the next-gen Intel Z790 Chipset processors. – The Z790 VALKYRIE and Z790A-SILVER motherboards are BIOSTAR’s top-shelf motherboards with flagship tier performance intended to dominate the market. With superior features, functionality, and design elements synonymous with BIOSTAR’s…
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EVGA Unveil its Z790 DARK K|NGP|N & CLASSIFIED Motherboards
EVGA has announced the launch of its new Z790 motherboards, the pinnacle of high-performance computing. Featuring the Z790 DARK K|NGP|N and Z790 CLASSIFIED, these motherboards support the latest Intel Z790 chipset and are built for extreme computing with 13th Gen Intel Core Series processors utilizing PCIe Gen5 lanes and DDR5…
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Intel Quietly Launches the Arc A310 (Proving you Can Do Worse Than an A380!)
With Intel finally announcing the launch of the Arc A770 earlier this week, while it certainly raised more than a few pleasant questions, it did also raise the matter of where the other Arc graphics cards were, and more importantly when we could expect them to arrive. – Well, it…
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NZXT Unveil its New N7 Z790 ATX Motherboards
NZXT has announced the launch of its new N7 Z790 motherboard supporting the latest generation of Intel CPUs. With the newest chipset for Intel processors, the N7 Z790 has all the latest features and is designed for Raptor Lake. Features such as PCIe gen 5 support and DDR5 RAM will…
Read More » - Power Supplies
FSP Hydro PTM X Pro 1000W Power Supply Review
FSP is something of a moderately unusual power supply manufacturer. While many consumers are perhaps not aware of their existence, it’s incredibly like that they’ve still encountered their work in the past. – Why would this be the case? Well because, and putting it rather bluntly, FSP fulfils PSU orders…
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