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Memory Speed Has a Large Impact on Ryzen Performance
AMD has launched their newest enthusiast and high-performance processors called Ryzen, that shouldn’t be news to anyone anymore. The launch went pretty smooth, but reviewers did complain a bit about the comparable low performance when it comes to 1080p gaming, among other things. The whole issue seems a bit weird…
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SilverStone Releases DS222 External Dual-Bay RAID Enclosure
RAID setups are great for speed and redundancy and why should that be limited to your internal drives. SilverStone released a new external USB 3.0 chassis with built-in hardware RAID functionality and space for two 2.5-inch drives. The price and capacity gap between 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch drives have more or less…
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Windows 10 Fall Update Removes Apps and Drivers At Will!
Updates are supposed to fix issues or add new features, but it looks like Microsoft is going the other way with their big Fall update for Windows 10. Okay, this is probably not intended but it is what’s happening. The thread about it on Reddit is growing steadily with users…
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Player Recreates the Piano Scene from Big – In Fallout 4!
Have you been enjoying Fallout 4 this week? Some people seem to have completely abandoned the main quest for other pursuits, such as building giant pianos! After 19 hours of work gathering all the required copper and putting all the wire and pressure pads together, the end result is pretty…
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Fujitsu Purchase 85% Shares in AMD Operations
AMD have just announced that they are now on a joint venture with electronics giant, Fujitsu. The two companies will be pairing together to provide factories in Penang (Malaysia) and Suzhou (China). Fujitsu will be getting a whopping 85 percent of the joint venture, which is suspected to heavily reduce…
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US Navy Testing Electromagnetic Catapults to Help Launch Aircraft from Carriers
Aircraft carriers have been equipped with steam-powered catapults from the very start in order to help launch fighters and bombers and get them airborne quick. However, this old-fashioned technology seems to be a bit too old for the Navy to use it on newer multi-million aircraft. As an alternative, the…
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Bye Bye Plasma TV Technology
In 2005, Sony and Toshiba announced their departure from the plasma business, followed by Hitachi and Pioneer in 2008. Now South Korean companies Samsung and LG Electronics have announced their abandonment of the once-popular panel option. Samsung and LG have recently cancelled their investment plans into plasma panels into Taiwan’s…
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Apple’s New iOS 8 Update – Too Big to Download?
If you’re currently rocking a 16GB iPhone, then we’ve got some bad news for you. Today, Apple released their iOS 8 update providing users with a massive 1.6GB download and a total of 5.8GB once installed. Obviously there’s been a large public outcry, especially with those who own smaller capacity iPhones…
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Google’s $1 bn Aquisition of Twitch Said to be Confirmed
Most gamers have dreamt about it – wouldn’t it be great to be paid to play video games all day in my room? In this day and age, that is quite a logical possibility – all you need to do is stream it to others at the same time. Twitch.tv is…
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Project Flare To Render a World 17 Times Larger Than Skyrim
Bethesda has made a great job and eventually ended up with Skyrim’s huge map, having it be one of the largest ones out there ever found in a game. However, if users thought the Skyrim world was large, then Project Flare’s world capabilities could be deemed to be a gigantic…
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