ADATA Launches XPG SX6000 SSDs: 3D TLC, M.2, 512GB for $200
Update 11/2: ADATA notified us about the corrected MSRPs for the XPG SX6000 series SSDs, which are higher than the ones published. ADATA has launched its new 3D TLC-based SSD...
21 by Anton Shilov on 10/27/2017Now (and Almost) Shipping: Radeon Pro WX 9100 and SSG, with New Vega Pro Drivers
Last week, AMD quietly announced the availability of the Radeon Pro WX 9100 and Radeon Pro Solid State Graphics (SSG), the former card shipping now and the latter shipping...
15 by Nate Oh on 10/26/2017PCI-SIG Finalizes and Releases PCIe 4.0, Version 1 Specification: 2x PCIe Bandwidth and More
This week, PCI-standards consortium PCI-SIG (Special Interest Group) has ratified and released specifications for PCIe 4.0 Specification Version 1, uploading the documents to their PCI-SIG Specification Library. This marks...
27 by Nate Oh on 10/26/2017NVIDIA Unveils GeForce GTX 1070 Ti: $449, Available for Preorders Today
This morning, NVIDIA is finally unveiling the speculation-consumed open secret that is the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti. Based on the same GP104 GPU as its GTX 1080 and 1070...
38 by Nate Oh on 10/26/2017AMD's Progress on Its 25x20 Goal: The Task Ahead
When AMD announced it was creating the new high-performance Zen core, they set a lofty goal. They wanted to produce products that offered 25x the relative efficiency (performance per...
20 by Ian Cutress on 10/26/2017HP Announces ENVY x360 15 With Ryzen Mobile
As part of the launch for the new Ryzen Mobile platform from AMD, HP is today announcing a refresh of their HP ENVY x360 15-inch laptop which features the...
43 by Brett Howse on 10/26/2017Kingston DataTraveler Elite G2 and HyperX Savage USB Flash Drives Capsule Review
Thumb drives are the most commonly used flash-based storage devices, thanks to their compact form factor and affordability. In our series of direct-attached storage reviews, we have taken a...
7 by Ganesh T S on 10/25/2017AMD Announces Q3 Earnings: $71M In The Black
2017 has been a great year for the tech enthusiast, with the return of meaningful competition in the PC space. Today, AMD announced their third quarter earnings, which beat...
68 by Brett Howse on 10/24/2017Dual Xeon Scalable Overclocking: ASUS WS C621E 'Sage' Workstation Motherboard Announced
ASUS has quietly announced a new motherboard: the WS C621E SAGE (or just 'Sage' for short). This workstation class board offers users dual Intel LGA-3647 sockets with CPUs up...
48 by Joe Shields on 10/24/2017AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.10.2: Workload Toggle and 12x GPU Compute Support
Update (10/26/17): AMD has released a hotfix in the form of 17.10.3, resolving crashes or hangs on RX Vega cards in Wolfenstein II and singleplayer mission six of Destiny...
17 by Nate Oh on 10/24/2017Colorful Releases the iGame Z370 Vulcan X V20 Motherboard: South Korea First
Colorful, not a widely known brand in the States, has released a motherboard for the Z370 platform with an exotic name: the iGame Z370 Vulcan X V20. The board...
6 by Joe Shields on 10/24/2017NVIDIA Releases 388.00 WHQL Game Ready Driver
Update (10/26/17): NVIDIA has released the 388.10 Hotfix Driver (non-WHQL), resolving stability issues on certain Kepler-based cards for Wolfenstein II. Ahead of tomorrow’s Destiny 2 launch, today NVIDIA has released...
9 by Nate Oh on 10/23/2017MSI Launches Fanless Cubi 3 SFF PCs with Kaby Lake-U
MSI has introduced a new family of its ultra-compact form-factor Cubi PCs, based on Kaby Lake-U processors. The Cubi 3 Silent and Cubi 3 Silent S use an entirely...
16 by Anton Shilov on 10/23/2017G.Skill Announces DDR4 SO-DIMM Kits up to DDR4-3800: Ripjaws for SFF
G.Skill has announced its new family of Ripjaws DDR4 SO-DIMM kits designed specifically for Intel’s Core X processors. The current number of consumer motherboards supporting SO-DIMMs is limited: only...
7 by Anton Shilov on 10/23/2017ASUS VivoBook Flip 14 TP401 Convertible Launched: $549 with Core m3
ASUS has started to sell its new entry-level convertible laptop, based on an Intel 7th generation Core m3 processor (Kaby Lake-Y) SoC. Convertable in this case means the rotation...
39 by Anton Shilov on 10/23/2017GIGABYTE Launches the AORUS X9 Gaming Laptop: GTX 1070 SLI and i7-7820HK
GIGABYTE has announced a powerful all-new extreme gaming laptop in the AORUS X9. The X9 comes with a 7th generation Intel i7-7820HK overclockable processor, two GTX 1070s in SLI...
30 by Joe Shields on 10/19/2017ASRock’s X299E-ITX/ac Motherboard Now Available: Up to 18 Cores in Mini-ITX
ASRock formally introduced its X299E-ITX/ac motherboard at Computex earlier this year and attracted a lot of attention to the product that was (and still is) the only Mini-ITX mainboard...
28 by Anton Shilov on 10/19/2017Samsung’s 8LPP Process Technology Qualified, Ready for Production
Samsung this week announced that its 8LPP fabrication process, which it formally introduced earlier this year, had passed qualification tests. The manufacturing technology will be used to produce advanced...
35 by Anton Shilov on 10/19/2017Intel Documents Point to AVX-512 Support for Cannon Lake Consumer CPUs
A new update to the Intel document for software developers indicates that the company will begin to introduce various AVX-512 instruction set extensions to its consumer CPUs soon. This...
50 by Anton Shilov on 10/19/2017Biostar Announces Z370GT7 and Z370GT6 Motherboards for Coffee Lake CPUs
Not willing to be left behind at the starting line, Biostar has announced its entries into the rapidly growing Z370 motherboard market. At the time of publication, Biostar is...
20 by Joe Shields on 10/18/2017