EK Fluid Gaming line offers turn-key liquid-cooled PCs 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 |
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Acer Predator Orion 9000 locks and loads with GTX 1080 Tis 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 |
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der8auer and Asus took a Ryzen 7 2700X to 6 GHz 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 |
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National Hanging Out Day Shortbread Tuesday was epic. Hanging out seems pretty lame. Sorry, I'll stop now. PC hardware and computing Intel NUC7i7DNHE (Dawson Canyon)... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread |
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Thursday deals: huge monitors at cheap prices and more 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 |
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![]() 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 |
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Lenovo's ThinkPad 485 and ThinkPad 585 put Ryzen APUs to work 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 |
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WD's Ultrastar DC HC530 puts PMR to good use in 14 TB It wasn't all that long ago that hard drives still beat SSDs for physical density. That's not the case anymore (as proven by these... Type: News story Tags: Storage |
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MSI updates its gaming desktops with eighth-generation Core power 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 |
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Haiku Poetry Day Shortbread Bigger plans there were. Alas, I ran out of time. Maybe next year, though... PC hardware and computing ECS... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread |
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Tuesday deals: a WD Black 512 GB for $170 and more 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 |
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Intel Accelerated Memory Scanning eases anti-virus CPU load 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 |
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![]() 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 |
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Rumor: Intel partner docs add to eight-core Coffee Lake CPU chatter 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 |
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Kingston's UV500 drives offer extra security over common SATA SSDs Savvy gerbils already know this, but once you're in the realm of solid-state storage, performance differences between similar drives become less relevant than feature sets.... Type: News story Tags: Storage |
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Lian Li and der8auer spiff up the PC-O11 Dynamic ATX chassis Lian Li released its PC-O11 E-ATX chassis just a couple of months ago, but that case's blend of tempered glass, rectilinear styling, and jumbo-size... Type: News story Tags: Cases Cooling |
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Acer's Chromebox CXI3 mini-desktops give Chrome OS a good home Google's Chrome OS has been reaching its tentacles out to new form factors over the last couple of weeks. As if to prove... Type: News story Tags: Systems Operating systems |
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ASRock gears up for the X470 onslaught A new CPU and chipset launch wouldn't be complete without ASRock at the party. The company is known for its unique designs, for better... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards |
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PSA: Satellite Reign is free today at the Humble Store | 13 |
I got up this morning and retested the Intel system with DDR4-2666 memory. I'm not going to type up all the results here, but I will note that there i... | +20 |