Archive for March 2017

ASUS officially introduces its GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

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ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today officially announced its Strix GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. Powered by the latest NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics processing unit (GPU) the ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 Ti delivers up to 5 percent faster performance in 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme and 5.7 percent faster gaming performance in For Honor.


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TP01 Thermal Pads from SilverStone should cool M.2-SSDs the cheapo way

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Many M2 SSDs these days get hot under long duration load, especially the high-end SKU NVMe ones. The result is that the controller can react on the heat and starts to throttle down performance. There are several solution for that already, but Silverstone believes they have the answer, a sticky thermal pad.


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Thermaltake New Core P1 Tempered Glass Edition

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Thermaltake  officially releases a new member to the Core P series, the new Core P1 Tempered Glass Mini ITX Wall-Mount Chassis. The Core P1 TG (Tempered Glass) edition makes a stunning display for liquid cooling PC systems without sacrificing performance and taking up too much desk space.


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ZOTAC Shows Some New Kit at CeBIT

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ZOTAC is pleased to announce that we will be introducing a new series of innovations in CeBIT. A full line up of next generation products including ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and ZBOX Mini PC with Intel Kaby Lake CPU await with brand new opportunities. 


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Nintendo Switch Houses a Nvidia Tegra X1-SoC

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Analysis from Chipworks shows that the Nintendo Switch makes use of a Nvidia Tegra X1 SoC, much like the one used in the Shield that we reviewed yesterday. The usage of this SoC is not a surprise but never was openly admitted by Nvidia and Nintendo. Many assumed the unit would use a custom designed SoC.


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Retail Design Radeon RX VEGA caught on camera?

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AMD has been hosting a technology summit in Beijing, China and Lisa Su made the official introduction of Ryzen 5 process family. From that event some weird screen grabs have been made. It could be a revamped retail VEGA card.


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New processors will only work with Windows 10

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The Verge has an interesting news item today, Microsoft has announced a change to its support policy that lays out its plans for future updates to its older operating systems, and the new rules mean that future PC owners with next-generation Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm processors will need to use Windows 10.


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Seagate going for 18TB HDDS next year

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Seagate will be expanding their HDD line with an 18 Terabyte model, and would be doing so next year. To reach this incredible storage volume they would make a move towards SMR, TDMR and HAMR technologies.


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Review: NVIDIA Shield Android TV 2017

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Nvidia has released the 2017 version of the NVIDIA Shield TV, the new model is smaller and houses a few new features. The Android TV box based unit is a little streaming box that allows for a multitude of functionality as it properly takes over your Smart-TV experience, but can also function as a streaming game console. And yes, if you install Kodi, you'll have a fully fledged Ultra HD HDR10 ready media player with Dolby Atmos support as well.

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NVIDIA Shield Android TV 2017 review

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Nvidia has released the 2017 version of the NVIDIA Shield TV, the new model is smaller and houses a few new features. The Android TV box based unit is a little streaming box that allows for a multitude of functionality as it properly takes over your Smart-TV experience, but can also function as a streaming game console. And yes, if you install Kodi, you'll have a fully fledged Ultra HD HDR10 ready media player with Dolby Atmos support as well.


MSI releases new Z270 MPOWER GAMING TITANIUM

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MSI announces availability for its latest TITANIUM model, the Z270 MPOWER GAMING TITANIUM. This motherboard is set to deliver the best experience in audio, when gaming online and when using VR. Next to this, MPOWER is designed to deliver the best performance as well as the top-level overclocking.


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Free AM4 Kit for Liquid Freezer available from ARCTIC

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Retention module allows to upgrade all-in-one-water coolers to AMD's Ryzen AM4 socket For the all-in-one water coolers Liquid Freezer 120, Liquid Freezer 240 and Liquid Freezer 360, ARCTIC now offers a retention ring for the new AMD Ryzen processors with AM4 socket.


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