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PSA: Satellite Reign is free today at the Humble Store by Zak Killian — 4:15 PM on April 20, 2018 It's Friday, gerbils, and some of you probably have plans this weekend. Others might be looking for something to do, so why not play Type: News story Tags: Gaming	1
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	7
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	7
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
Motorola unwraps its latest Moto G6 and E5 handsets by Wayne Manion — 2:45 PM on April 19, 2018 Flagship Android phones might get all the press these days, but not everyone has $800-and-more burning a hole in their pocket. That fact didn't escape... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing	27
National Hanging Out Day Shortbread by Colton Westrate — 1:45 PM on April 19, 2018 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	10
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 teases PowerColor's take on the elusive Vega Nano by Jeff Kampman — 10:13 AM on April 19, 2018 AMD's second-generation Ryzen processors weren't the only thing we got to see at a press event in New York recently. The company had a... Type: News story Tags: Graphics	14
G.Skill's Trident Z RGB and Sniper X kits for AMD get even faster by Zak Killian — 9:30 AM on April 19, 2018 As Jeff remarked in his review, second-generation Ryzen parts more readily support speedy memory than their predecessors. That's a good thing, because system performance... Type: News story Tags: Memory	1
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	283
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
WD's Ultrastar DC HC530 puts PMR to good use in 14 TB by Zak Killian — 2:46 PM on April 18, 2018 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	15
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
PSA: Nvidia has Founders Edition GeForces in stock at MSRP by Zak Killian — 11:24 AM on April 18, 2018 Listen up, gerbils. If you've been clamoring for a new build but you're disgusted at marked-up graphics card prices, scrabble on over to Nvidia's... Type: News story Tags: Graphics	40
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