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Cryorig C7 Cu puts a hunk of copper in small spaces by Wayne Manion — 2:44 PM on April 20, 2018 Copper is an excellent material for heatsinks, but its high cost when compared to aluminum means it's sparingly used in heatsinks and other cooling components.... Type: News story Tags: Cooling	1
EK Fluid Gaming line offers turn-key liquid-cooled PCs by Wayne Manion — 12:31 PM on April 20, 2018 Building a basic computer these days is as easy as it's ever been. Building a custom-cooled high-end gaming system is a bigger challenge than many... Type: News story Tags: Systems Gaming	6
Thermaltake's Iris Optical gaming mouse polls at 2 KHz by Zak Killian — 10:50 AM on April 20, 2018 Dragging windows around or even simply moving the mouse pointer feels smoother and clearer on a high-refresh display. However, refresh rate is only one piece... Type: News story Tags: Input devices	5
Acer Predator Orion 9000 locks and loads with GTX 1080 Tis by Wayne Manion — 9:15 AM on April 20, 2018 The last time we wrote about Acer's Predator Orion 9000 gaming desktop line was when the company showed off prototype units in Berlin... Type: News story Tags: Systems Gaming	10
der8auer and Asus took a Ryzen 7 2700X to 6 GHz by Zak Killian — 4:15 PM on April 19, 2018 Champion overclocker der8auer has done it again. This time around, he's been using and abusing one of AMD's Ryzen 7 2700X CPUs, and... Type: News story Tags: CPUs	18
Thursday deals: huge monitors at cheap prices and more by Bruno Ferreira — 12:28 PM on April 19, 2018 Hello, gerbils! Jeff's been hard at work on the review of AMD's latest Ryzen 2000-series processsors. It's safe to say that the company delivered... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Storage Displays Mobile computing	5
AMD's Ryzen 7 2700X and Ryzen 5 2600X CPUs reviewed by Jeff Kampman — 8:00 AM on April 19, 2018 After a busy year of desktop CPU launches from the entry level to the high end, AMD is back with a second generation of mainstream... Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs	276
Lenovo's ThinkPad 485 and ThinkPad 585 put Ryzen APUs to work by Wayne Manion — 4:59 PM on April 18, 2018 As nice as it might be for AMD to have countless enthusiasts building custom PCs among its customer base, having major laptop makers like Dell,... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Mobile computing	12
AOC AG322QC4 boasts FreeSync 2 and DisplayHDR 400 certificates by Wayne Manion — 1:00 PM on April 18, 2018 When it rains, it pours. Today, the drops from the sky take the form of new displays conforming to AMD's FreeSync 2 adaptive-refresh-rate specifications.... Type: News story Tags: Displays Gaming	15
MSI updates its gaming desktops with eighth-generation Core power by Wayne Manion — 10:47 AM on April 18, 2018 When it comes to desktop computers, most gerbils have a strong preference for rolling their own from components rather than buying something off the shelf... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Gaming	5
BenQ EX3203R is a colorful HDR display with FreeSync 2 support by Zak Killian — 9:05 AM on April 18, 2018 The product page for BenQ's latest gaming display just showed up on its global site. The new EX3203R appears to be an update of the... Type: News story Tags: Displays	29
Cooler Master ML120R and ML240R let RGB LED fans take control by Zak Killian — 4:15 PM on April 17, 2018 The whole point of all this PC personalization that folks do these days is to express their individuality. Colored case lighting goes a long way... Type: News story Tags: Cooling	5
Tuesday deals: a WD Black 512 GB for $170 and more by Bruno Ferreira — 10:55 AM on April 17, 2018 Finally! Folks, this week I'm finally getting some sunshine! Sure, it's going to be miserable in the weekend, which is certainly not ideal, but... Type: News story Tags: Power Storage Mobile computing	4
Intel Accelerated Memory Scanning eases anti-virus CPU load by Zak Killian — 9:15 AM on April 17, 2018 Contemporary anti-virus products don't have the same impact on system performance that they did back in the single-core days, but they can still eat a... Type: News story Tags: CPUs	31
Aerocool's P7-L240 closed-loop liquid CPU cooler reviewed by Jeff Kampman — 6:00 AM on April 17, 2018 In a world dominated by closed-loop liquid coolers from Asetek, Aerocool's P7-L240 dares to be different with a custom pump design. RGB LEDs in this... Type: Feature article Tags: Cooling	10
Intel's NUC8i7HVK "Hades Canyon" gaming PC reviewed by Jeff Kampman — 5:19 PM on April 16, 2018 Intel's NUC8i7HVK, code-named Hades Canyon, is the first desktop system with the blue team's blend of Kaby Lake CPU cores and Radeon graphics on one... Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Graphics Systems Gaming	43
Sony packs eight million pixels into the Xperia XZ2 Premium by Wayne Manion — 4:34 PM on April 16, 2018 Samsung dual-wields its popular Galaxy S and Galaxy Note handsets to defend its dominant position in the realm of high-end Android smartphones. That one-two punch... Type: News story Tags: Displays Mobile computing	27
Rumor: Intel partner docs add to eight-core Coffee Lake CPU chatter by Wayne Manion — 2:46 PM on April 16, 2018 The rushed release of Intel's eighth-generation Core Coffee Lake processors late last year was almost certainly a reaction to the splash that rival AMD... Type: News story Tags: CPUs	47