Archive for December 2017

Review: Crucial MX 500 1TB SSD

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 26

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Crucial announced their new MX500 series SSD, we put the 1TB model to the test. At 25 cents per GB, these units are all about value for money. But they do not compromise on performance, no Sir. The MX500 remains very fast and very effective for the money you put down on that counter. You can read the full review here.


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AMD 400 Series Chipset Shows Up In PCI-SIG registration

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AMD will support the AM4 socket until at least 2020, which is great news for the upcoming Ryzen 2 platform if you just migrated to a new moatherboard. That doesn't mean though that there won't be any new chipsets, and the "integrators list" of the PCI-SIG just confirmed that.


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Star Citizen Alpha 3.0 is available

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Some news for  Star Citizen backers as Alpha 3.0 is currently available on the Public Test Server to everyone. This basically means that everyone who has backed up this project will be able to test the alpha 3.0 version of the game. 


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Intel Core i7-8709G with Vega M Graphics

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 26

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A video surfaced on the web today, in it a System information scan from Futuremark and showing, a quad-core and eight threaded Intel Core i7-8709G with Vega M Graphics. And according to chatter on the web, a six-core part assisted by a Vega IGP is also in the works.


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NVIDIA Ends Driver Support for 32-bit Operating Systems

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NVIDIA issued a number of knowledgebase updates, and a number of things are going end of life. Nvidia is working on the 390 series drivers, and from the looks of it will be halting 32-bit support drivers. Whether this is just the professional series or also the consumer end-user drivers is a little unclear. But I assume both.


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Crucial MX500 1TB SSD review

Memory (DDR4/DDR5) and Storage (SSD/NVMe) 378 Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 26

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Just in time for Christmas, this week, Crucial announced their new MX500 series SSDs. These units are all about value for money. But they do not compromise on performance, no Sir. The MX500 remains very fast and very effective for the money you put down on that counter. We review the new 1 TB model, the most price-competitive mainstream SSD with up-to high-end class SATA3 performance.


Cougar Releases Surpassion Gaming Mouse With LCD at the bottom

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Cougar are happy to announce the arrival of a new gaming mouse, Surpassion. With a Pixart PMW3330 sensor and an LCD screen-based system that allows users to engage in tweaking without drivers.  Cougar is confident this will be one of the most interesting choices for FPS fans in 2018. 


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The Steam Winter Sale 2017 is now in effect

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Valve started its Steam Winter Sale, which will run up-to January the 4th. The Steam Store home page will show you many discounts on smaller and big games. Currently, Middle Earth Shadow of War shows 30% off. Other games in the top selection such as Prey show discounts of 90 percent off.


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Phanteks Glacier Series R160 and R220 Reservoirs

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Phanteks announces two premium liquid cooling products to the Glacier Series. Inspired by the creation of water distribution plates in the modding community, the R160/R220 are developed to showcase and highlight the liquid element of your build.


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