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South Korea To Make ‘Game Boosting’ Illegal
South Korea To Make ‘Game Boosting’ Illegal It can be rather frustrating when you’re playing a competitive online game to find that while one of your opponents is fairly ok, the other seems almost Godlike. Well, at least compared to your ability. This isn’t, however, particularly uncommon. The term ‘boosting’…
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MSI Introduces OPT BOOST Motherboards with Included Optane
Now that Intel has released its new Optane modules, it’s time for system builders and component manufacturers to include it with their products. As such, MSI announced three new motherboards that come bundled with an Intel Optane 16GB drive. The three new motherboards are the Z270 TOMAHAWK OPT BOOST, B250M BAZOOKA…
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MyDigitalSSD Boost 1TB USB 3.1 Portable SSD Review
Introduction The joys of traveling, may it be far or near, can be highly increased when you have all your data with you where you go. Portable storage usually has the downside and that it that it isn’t as fast as internal storage. As such, it can be a pain…
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ASrock Announce Z97 and Z97M Anniversary Boards
ASRock has announced its Anniversary Edition of motherboards, the Z97 and Z97M, following the Pentium 20th Anniversary Edition G3258. One of the key features of the aforementioned motherboards is the “Pentium Anniversary Edition” technology, making overclocking easier for users. The manufacturer is said to have specifically designed the motherboard with…
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Xbox One Update Brings More GPU Bandwidth and Better Performance Ratios
The Microsoft Xbox One update released this week is said to bring features such as extended hard drive support, Twitter, HBO Go and other social media applications, along with other significant tweaks and updates. According to a tweet from Microsoft’s executive, Phil Spencer, the new Xbox One update surprisingly brings…
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Galaxy Launches 6 GB Variant of its GeForce GTX 780 Hall Of Fame Edition Graphics Card
Galaxy has just launched another NVIDIA variant of GeForce GTX 780 Hall of Fame graphics card, bearing the GF-GTX780-E6GHD/SOC model name, featuring the company’s white PCB signature and performance-oriented cooling solution. In terms of specifications, the card comes with 6 GB if memory, having the rest be similar to the…
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Latest NVIDIA Maxwell Based Graphics Cards Reported To Be Very Power Efficient
News regarding the latest Maxwell chips from NVIDIA show that the GPU is created with mobile and battery optimisations in mind. NVIDIA enjoyed a lot of success with Kepler that grabbed plenty of design wins in the notebook space and eventually it also ended up in the upcoming Tegra K1.…
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Netgear R6250 Dual Band Gigabit Smart WiFi Router Review
Introduction Over the last couple of years the internet has been going through a radical increase in speed and with some connections passing well over the 100Mbps mark, many people are now looking for the next generation of routers that can keep up with the high-speed connections that are on…
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SSD Power: 5 Benefits of Converting to a Solid State Drive
Since the personal computer was invented, it’s been more-or-less relying on the hard disk drive (HDD) to operate. Your hard drive is what lets your system start up, store information and open applications. In recent years, the HDD has seen some competition from the solid state drive (SSD). There are…
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 3GB Graphics Card Review
It’s that time of year again where NVIDIA have a new series of cards in the pipelines and as we have seen running up to today, the number of rumours and leaks that have been flying about are as profound as ever. For some this leads to pure confusion as…
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Asus GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost OC Edition 2GB Graphics Card
There are various areas that a graphics card product can be aimed at, and this includes the budget segment, mid-range and high-end, but we also have to look at the offerings that give fantastic performance for a great price, no matter whether they are the best performer or a run-of-the-mill…
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Asus Launch New Line of mATX Motherboards to Give Superior HTPC Performance
Asus have today announced a new series of motherboards on both their Intel and AMD lines that are set to take advantage of the more powerful integrated graphics that is now available from both chip manufacturers. Using the 4000 series graphics from Intel’s 22nm chips and the 7000 series on-board graphics from FM2 and…
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