Earlier today new benchmarks of the AMD Vega Frontier Edition have surfaced. This round Ekin at Linus Tech in combo with PC Per got their hands on a Vega Frontier Edition, and in a live broadcast session they outted game performance numbers. 

In this new article we review the new MSI flagship graphics card, the mighty GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Lightning Z edition. This GTX 1080 Ti comes customized with high-factory clocks, a triple fan and cooler and a very impressive RGB setup.

Read the full review here.
 

Dell is outing a new IPS based monitor, and it is going to be an UltraWide one at a whopping 3840 x 1600 pixels, the model name is the U3818DW. Typically you'd end at 3440 x 1440 resolution on a 34” 21:9. This puppy has a 37.5” curved screen.

The OnePlus 5 seems to be plagued by what is now called the Jelly Scrolling effect. OnePlus claims its a 'natural' effect. But that almost looks like laggy low FPS non-vsync scrolling. When you scroll through content it seems to stretch, and it's not officially known what the cause of it is.

At Computex 2017, MSI launched a new desktop gaming series, called “Infinite”. The MSI Infinite A gaming desktop is inspired by gamers that have a never-ending desire to GAME. With Infinite possibilities to play the way you want. The Infinite series comes with a Gaming series Graphics card. The graphics card is installed vertically, supported by its motherboards Steel Armored PCI-E slot which ensures stability and endurance during transportation. 

This 24-inch display, by license partner for Philips monitors, is a new USB docking monitor. Especially suitable for ultra-book type devices with limited connectivity, flex work places, and dynamic users, this display transmits video, audio, and connects to the Internet or Intranet – all through a single SuperSpeed USB cable. It also gives access to all peripherals which are connected to the monitor through a USB hub with three USB 3.0 ports. 

Microsoft is working on a new security feature against ransomware in a test build of Windows 10 which they call ‘Controlled Folders’ which works by monitoring user specified folders and blocking suspicious behavior.

It seems like a lifetime ago that Watch Dogs 2 announced they would be incorporated four-person multiplayer into the open world action, third-person action game, but looks like Ubisoft is finally putting up. And right in time for Independence Day. Best of all - the update is free to everyone with the game.

We just updated MSI Afterburner 4.4.0 to Beta build 12. This new update adds labels for OSD graphs. The new build also includes an updated RTSS Guru3D statistics server RTSS 7.0.0 beta 26.

You can now download the Nvidia GeForce 384.76 WHQL driver.This Game Ready Provides the optimal gaming experience for Lawbreakers “Rise Up” Beta. Game Ready VR Provides the optimal gaming experience for Spider-man: Homecoming VR.

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AMD is announcing another tier of its business and enterprise processor portfolio with the release of Ryzen PRO desktop processors. Ryzen pro will become available after the summer with mobile parts in early 2018.

We'll have a look at the June 2017 state of Ryzen with AGESA 1006. Over the past two months a number of things have changed. AMD issued firmware updates to increase memory compatibility mostly. We'll check that out. But the the trivial question remains, is 1920x1080 performance increasing? It sure as that responsibility is to be found by the software developers.

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As you have been able to notice from my reviews, the X299 platform has massive challenges in overclocking (and other segments as well). Pro-overclocker Der8auer now states that the X299 Platform a “Disaster” for tweaking. 

ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) announced the availability of the ROG Zephyrus, a gaming laptop powered by a GeForce GTX 1080 GPU that includes a 120Hz Full HD G-SYNC display, and a 7th Gen Core i7 processor. 

Samsung is embarking on a strange move, they will bring back the Note 7 in the form of a refurbished “Fandom Edition” model, not Founders Edition or Frontier Edition - oh come on easy pun :)

Dell launches its Alienware 25 series monitor. The 24.5 inch full HD LCD screen manages 240 Hz  at 1 ms. In Asia these screen just went on sale at 49,800 Yen which is roughly 399 usd / euro. 

ASUS is excited to launch the XG-C100C, an all-new affordable network adapter designed to enable ultra-fast 10Gbps network access for desktop PCs, so you can easily handle the most data-intensive workloads in your office or at home.