Archive for August 2020

Free to grab: A Total War Saga: TROY

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Inspired by The Iliad – Homer’s sweeping tale of romance and bloodshed – A Total War Saga: TROY focuses on the historical flashpoint of the Trojan War, bringing the conflict to life as never before.


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Review: AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G (Renoir) APU

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 27

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There is a new hybrid processor in town, meet the AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G. The uniqueness of this event is that the processor series announced and released a few weeks ago should not have got into the retail. However, thanks to East Asia, these processors got onto the retail and e-tail markets and can very simply be ordered and purchased.

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AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G Renoir APU review

Processors 213 Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 27

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There is a new hybrid processor in town, meet the AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G. The uniqueness of this event is that the processor series announced and released a few weeks ago should not have got into the retail. However, thanks to East Asia, these processors got onto the retail and e-tail markets and can very simply be ordered and purchased.


Ex-Intel employee outs dirt on Intel - Talks about Internal Difficulties

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 18

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This one is a bit unusual even awkward to spot, but we mentioned twitter user Retired engineer a couple of times already.  He now has found (in an unnamed forum) where some ex-employees from intel out their experiences with their former employer. Retired Engineer translated the text accurately into English and published them on Twitter.


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QNAP Offers Single-port 2.5 GbE PCIe Card for NAS and PC

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 6

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QNAP today launched the QXG-2G1T-I225 PCIe network card. Providing single-port 2.5GBASE-T connectivity that supports 2.5G, 1G, 100 Mbps and 10 Mbps network speeds, the QXG-2G1T-I225 is a PCIe 2.0 x1 card that can be installed in a QNAP NAS or a Windows /Linux PC.


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Review: CORSAIR iCUE LT100 Smart Lighting Towers

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 23

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Today we're presenting the Corsair iCUE LT100 Smart Lighting Towers. We must admit that Corsair has a real passion for RGB LEDs. RAM modules have them, as well as AIOs, chassis, headphones, and other accessories, like the iCUE LS100 Monitor Backlighting Kit, led strips. All of this can be controlled and synchronized through iCUE software.

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MMD brings the new Philips 279C9 UHD IPS monitor to the market

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MMD announces the new Philips 279C9 LCD display, a 27” (68.47 cm) monitor. The Ultra HD Philips 279C9 monitor features a Zero Bezel design, which eliminates the surrounding frame resulting in an expansive picture and simultaneously enables seamless multi-monitor set-ups


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AMD Ryzen 5000 ZEN3 based APU already spotted (Cezanne)

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 25

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Man, a lot of stuff surely leaks through the SiSoft database. This round we can spot an APU from AMD that is not yet released. AMD just released their PRO series Ryzen 4000G APUs based on a Renoir architecture. Spotted now is Cezanne and yes that would be ZEN3.


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SoftBank now also confirms it is exploring to sell ARM

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We've written that NVIDIA is eying the purchase of ARM, several other parties already have shown interest as well. The one company that has remained silent about it all is the owner, Softbank. And they've just confirmed that ARM indeed is for sale. 


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Review: Asus ROG Strix XG27UQ (UHD - HDR - DCS 144 Hz)

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 86

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In this review, we look at the ROG Strix XG27UQ, and what a wonderful product we test today. In specifications and quality I mean, as the ROG Strix XG27UQ is a 27" Ultra HD slash HDR rated monitor. This 3840x2160 pixels monitor can handle 144Hz combined with GSYNC and is a DCS monitor, and that means no chroma subsampling issues.

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Review: Gigabyte B550 Aorus Pro

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B550 Chipset based motherboards are among us, and there are some pretty interesting ones available. We review the B550 Aorus Pro that offers 2.5 GigE Ethernet and two M2 NVMe slots. The board price sits at roughly 179 USD and offers all the defaults you need, and a bit more.

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Gigabyte B550 Aorus Pro review

Mainboards 338 Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 2

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B550 Chipset based motherboards are among us, and there are some pretty interesting ones available. We review the B550 Aorus Pro that offers 2.5 GigE Ethernet and two M2 NVMe slots. The board price sits at roughly 179 USD and offers all the defaults you need, and a bit more.


TEAMGROUP Launches T-FORCE VULCAN G a Gaming SSD

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TEAMGROUP today announced the T-FORCE VULCAN G Gaming Solid State Drive. With SATA interface and 3D NAND flash memory, the read and write speeds can reach up to 550MB/s and 500MB/s, which offers 4 times faster read/write speed than traditional hard drives. It also supports SLC caching and Windows TRIM optimization commands.


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Dell Announces Latitude Chromebook Enterprise

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The new Latitude 7410 Chromebook Enterprise, a 14-inch premium business laptop or 2-in-1 from Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL), boosts productivity with on-the-go power, sophisticated security and fast connectivity features employees need.


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