Archive for March 2017

Mad Catz Files For Bankruptcy

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 31

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Mad Catz, know for its famous gaming hardware like R.A.T mouses filed for bankruptcy. The company was looking for alternative options, but opted for this final solution. This have not been going well for them for a long time now, last year they fired a third of their staff.


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ELSA to release Geforce GTX 1080 Ti S.A.C

Published by Aritra Das 1

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Japan based company ELSA is known for their S.A.C  series which are semi custom designed cards, which mean that they offer a reference PCB design with custom cooler. ELSA has redesigned the cooler for their new S.A.C cards to offer a better thermal solution for the flagship card from NVIDIA.


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AMD Fixes More Ryzen Issues with New BIOS Firmware Microcode

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Performance keeps on improving in games with Ryzen, that would be the generic message AMD is evangelizing in a new Blog post. It seems that AMD has made good progress on the software side of things. Yesterday we already reported on the Ashes update with a very significant performance boost. Today Dota 2 is getting that TLC. More importantly there is a microcode update planned that will improve memory latency, and thus again 1080p game performance.


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ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Review

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We review the final retail board of the ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB, and not the engineering samples you have seen reviewed two weeks ago. This GeForce GTX 1080 Ti comes all customized with a brand new cooler and RGB Headers on-board of the card to attach RGB LEDs. 


Guru3D Rig of the Month - March 2017

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The March edition of the Guru3D Rig of the Month 2017 is here. The turn goes to Ben Whittle who decided his dinner table and a big sheet of plywood could be transformed into PC, guess what? He succeeded alright.

Check out this ROTM here.
 

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Apacer to debut innovative dual-PCB miniature SSD SDM7-M DP

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Apacer is showcasing the SDM7-M DP (SATA Disk Module 7Pin MLC DP) – a miniature SSD. The SDM7-M DP is compact, thin and light, simplifying the system structure for design flexibility. Supporting SATA3 (6Gb/s), it can reach up to 525MB/s and 350MB/s in read/write speed, making it the fastest miniature module in the industry. 


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Witcher 4 - An Option Open For Discussion?

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CD Projekt Group hosted its 2016 financial results conference, and provided some interesting information about its franchises. First of all, we hear about the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077. Development progress is 'quite advanced.' The developer’s biggest team is working on the game, and it’s several hundreds of people (over 300). 


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ASUS VG245Q 24-Inch Full HD Gaming Monitor With FreeSync

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ASUS outs a new 24-inch Full HD gaming monitor, the VG245Qoffers AMD FreeSync technology to eliminate screen tearing and choppy frame rates. The new 24-inch TN LED-backlight monitor supports a native resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels and provides 75Hz refresh rate, 100,000,000:1 contrast ratio (ASCR).


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Twitch Adds 1080p/60fps Video Support

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It surely took them long enough, Twitch.tv has added 1080p/60fps streaming capabilities to their service by increasing the allowed ingest bitrate to 6000 kbps. This will allow for much more fluid video playback on channels where it has been enabled. 


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ADATA Outs Ultimate SU700 SSD

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ADATA launches their Ultimate SU700 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s SSD. The SU700 delivers high-grade 3D NAND and uses an all-new Maxiotek controller. Performance goes up to 560 MB/s read and 520 MB/s write, with up to 960 GB capacity is offered.


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GALAX GeForce GTX 1080Ti HOF Spotted

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Galax is teasing their new overclocking focused flagship GTX 1080Ti HOF Edition by thrashing the current 3DMark Timespy single GPU record with the card clocked at 2235 MHz.


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AOTS Gets AMD Ryzen CPU Optimizations - Benchmarks

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One of the game titles that we had not benchmarked in our Ryzen review is Ashes of the Singularity. It was only afterwards that I learned this title probably took the biggest hit at 1080p gaming with reported performance differentials of even 50%. 


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Thecus Announces new 2-bay Home NAS N2350

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Thecus today unveiled the N2350. An upgraded version of the N2310, this 2-bay full-featured file server brings stalwart security and effortless connectivity to the vital digital data of home and office users. At a superior price to performance ratio, increasing your productivity and controlling your data has never been easier.


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NEC Teases NC3541L Ultra HD 35000 Lumen Projector

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It is probably the holy grail of projectors, an Ultra HD 35K Lumen Laser Phospor Digital Cinema projector and a 2000:1 contrast ratio. The  NC3541L – a 4K digital cinema projector that features cutting-edge red and blue laser phosphor technology, which delivers richer and brighter colors.


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Microsoft officially announces Windows 10 Creators Update

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Microsoft officially announced that the Creators Update for Windows 10 will be rolled out to users staring the 11th of April. Yesterday a tool appeared online that allowed users to update before the official released (the company pulled it today).


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Radeon RX 570 and 580 Smile On Camera

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Photos of the Radeon RX 570 and 580 leaked on the web. There even is a GPU-Z screenshot displaying specs. It seems, the RX 570 will make use if the same PCB as Radeon RX 480/470 series. 


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MSI GTX 1080 Ti GAMING X Review

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With the reference boards being reviewed, the AIB partners from Nvidia now have their custom boards ready. In this article we'll look at the fastest graphics card your money can get you, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti based on Pascal architecture. Armed with 11GB of GDDR5X graphics memory.


Samsung Announces Galaxy S8 and S8+

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Samsung introduces the Galaxy S8 and S8+ to the world. Available in 5.8-inch Galaxy S8 and 6.2-inch Galaxy S8+. They feature a new design in which the "infinity display" wraps around the device, meaning that the large screen takes up almost all the front of the phone.


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EK introduces EK-CryoFuel coolants

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EK launches CryoFuel, the most chemically stable coolant that provides enthusiasts and gamers with the best possible level of performance, color stability, and thermal efficiency.


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Roccat Offers 3D Printed Addons for the Roccat Sova

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The ROCCAT Sova is the partner for PC gaming in the living room. Ergonomics meets detail oriented solution for an optimized gaming from your couch. Its four-meter-long break away cable, exchangeable mousepad, and two USB port slots, offer the most comfortable PC gaming living room experience.


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Intel Shows 28-core processor die-shot

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During its Technology and Manufacturing Day Intel has shared a slide of a server-processor with 28 cores. The die-shot as such must be the Skylake-SP series of products in the Xeon Platinum range.


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Review: Gigabyte AX370 Gaming 5

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The Gigabyte AX370 Gaming 5 motherboard sits in the Aorus gaming line of products. pop a Ryzen 7 1700 in there and with a bit of cooling you'll have a pretty amazing and fast PC for not a lot of money. The X370 motherboard is seated in the high-end Ryzen motherboard spectrum. A motherboard with a black and white design with gorgeous looks and some extras.

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Gigabyte Aorus AX370 Gaming 5 review

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In this review we check out the Aorus AX370 Gaming 5 from Gigabyte. This motherboard is incredibly nice looking and perhaps a perfect match for your Ryzen series 5 or 7 processor. The X370 motherboard is seated in the high-end Ryzen motherboard spectrum. A motherboard with a black and white design with gorgeous looks and some extras.


Intel Launches Kaby Lake Xeon E3-1200 v6-processors

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Intel updated its Xeon processor line by adding new four core models, the new processors are all based on Kaby Lake architecture. The E3-1200 v6-family of products have slightly higher clock frequencies and are a notch better on power efficiency.


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NVIDIA Adds GeForce GTX 1060 to Prepare for Battle bundle

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NVIDIA is adding the GeForce GTX 1060 GPU to their Prepare for Battle GeForce GTX bundle, which already includes GeForce GTX 1070, 1080 and 1080Ti GPUs. Gamers can get a free copy of either For Honor or Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands with the purchase of a GeForce GTX 1060-based graphics card.


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