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Samsung’s 4TB SSD will hold all the Steam games you’ll never play
Samsung is giving you yet another reason to ditch your mechanical hard drive with a new 850 EVO 4TB SSD. A few years ago, you’d be hard pressed to even find SSDs with more than 128GB of storage and...
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New Vulkan patch makes Doom even more gore-some
So you want to run Doom with a much faster frame rate? Well the good news is the game now supports Vulkan, a low-overhead graphics API which will put the FPS (frames per second, that is) pedal to the...
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Nvidia’s GTX 1060 Mini promises big power in a small package
Zotac has revealed a pair of GeForce GTX 1060 cards including a new Mini offering designed to fit in small PC cases. The GeForce GTX 1060 Mini (pictured above) is 6.85-inches long (a tad under 17.5cm)...
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AOC unveils stylish gaming monitors with frame-smoothing tech
AOC has launched new 24-inch gaming monitors that boast fast response times and a choice of anti-stutter technology. The pair of models are the AOC Agon AG241QG and the higher-end AG241QX, although...
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Intel begins shipping Kaby Lake as next wave of CPUs nears
Kaby Lake CPUs, the successor to Skylake and seventh generation of Intel’s Core processors, have now begun shipping. This fact was announced by chief executive Brian Krzanich, as Intel revealed its...
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Gigabyte claims its RX 480 graphics card runs completely silent
Gigabyte has announced its new RX 480 G1 Gaming graphics card, which boasts nifty custom cooling that’s dead quiet, and software that allows for easy overclocking. The card comes in two variants, with...
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Storming-fast Intel Optane SSDs are just around the corner
Intel’s Optane SSDs – which utilize 3D Xpoint tech and promise to be screamingly fast – will be with us before the year is out. Yes, Optane drives will ship before the end of 2016 according to...
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You can now buy the world’s largest SSD for the price of a new car
Remember that 15.36TB SSD Samsung launched a year ago? You can now buy it, for just $9,690 (about £7,400 or AU$13,000), from a couple of US retailers. At £480 (about $630, AU$840) per TB, that’s...
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Leaks show AMD’s Radeon RX 470 owning Full HD gaming
We now have the full specs on the Radeon RX 470 and RX 460 graphics cards, the lesser and more affordable siblings of the already launched RX 480 – assuming the press slides which have been leaked are...
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Updated: What mouse? 10 best mice 2016
Introduction In the fifty-odd years since its invention we’ve seen the humble mouse improve considerably, with the addition of weight systems, laser sensors and masses of buttons and flashing lights....
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The best computer mouse 2016: 10 best mice compared
Introduction In the fifty-odd years since its invention we’ve seen the humble mouse improve considerably, with the addition of weight systems, laser sensors and masses of buttons and flashing lights....
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Core vs Xeon: Which Intel CPU should you choose?
Choosing between a Core or a Xeon processor is not as easy as one would think especially when there are literally hundreds of versions to choose from thanks to Intel convoluted strategy. Sure, you are...
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This 60TB SSD will blow your mind, but don’t forget to backup
There’s been plenty of storage news emerging, due to the fact that the Flash Memory Summit is currently underway in Santa Clara, and Seagate has certainly come up with a headline-grabbing development:...
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Here’s how your next SSD could be much, much faster than your current one
You may recall that when 3D Xpoint was first unveiled – the technology which promises superfast SSDs and system memory – as well as Intel, co-developer Micron said it would make products based on this...
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Interview: Power play: How Nvidia’s Pascal laptops let you game for longer
Introduction Nvidia’s new Pascal GPUs have made their way into at least 10 gorgeous (and incredibly powerful) gaming laptops, with more to come. In addition to letting you dip your toes into 4K...
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New GTX 1060 is the cheapest Pascal-powered graphics card yet
Those of you who want to jump on the Pascal bandwagon and grab one of Nvidia’s latest video cards will be pleased to hear that the company has revealed a new cheaper variant of the GeForce GTX 1060...
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Silicon Week: When is the best time to buy a new CPU or GPU?
When to buy new CPU or GPU Picking the best CPU or graphics card is by no means an easy task. For most, factoring in everything from system temperatures to clock speeds is nothing short of a migraine....
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Silicon Week: 10 CPUs that changed computing
Introduction Processors have come a very long way in a very short time. CPUs have moved from 4-bit to 8-bit to 64-bit processing, and are gaining ever more cores on a single piece of silicon. They...
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Silicon Week: Your PC wouldn’t exist without these 6 historical components
Critical components Deca-core processors and video cards with 12GB of video memory are arguably some of the hottest components of our generation. But, what do you know about the chips that made...
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Silicon Week: What’s in store: The tech that will transform memory and storage
Introduction and 3D XPoint A few months ago, we took an aging laptop and brought it kicking and screaming into 2016. We quadrupled the RAM, swapped the hard disk for an SSD and transformed it from a...
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