Intel will be giving the adoption rate of Thunderbolt 3 technology a boost by integrating it into upcoming 2018 processors. PC and motherboard manufacturers as such will not need to add and purchase additional components. 

Fractal Design released the Focus G series chassis. Armed with a budget price this is a silent, decent looking and compact PC chassis series. The predominantly black and chassis (optional colors) comes with enough cooling options, your average FD design and it will house up-to ATX motherboards. It has an plexi glass side panel and two LED lit fans at the front.

You can read the review right here.
 

Fractal Design released the Focus G series chassis. Armed with a budget price this is a silent, decent looking and compact PC chassis series. The predominantly black and chassis (optional colors) comes with enough cooling options, your average FD design and it will house up-to ATX motherboards. It has an plexi glass side panel and two LED lit fans at the front.

Cryorig is announcing two new CPU cooling projects ahead of Computex 2017. The CRYORIG R5 high-end single tower and the Cu Series of Copper Fin enhanced coolers. The R5 is the second cooler in CRYORIG’s R series of flagship coolers. 

MSI is proud to announce the all-new Z270 GOLDIKE GAMING motherboard. With plenty of world’s first and exclusive technologies such as Killer xTend and the new ASMedia 3142 USB 3.1 Gen2 controller, the new motherboard closely follows the GODLIKE standard.

Okay get this, X299 and X399 motherboards leaked out via ASRock‘s FTP listing for a setup file. That setup file is in plain text and used by the driver disc to install files to a system. This also means it can be read quite easily if opened in notepad and can reveal some surprising information. 

Controversy, EA and DICE will be adding female soldiers to Battlefield 1 with the In the Name of the Tsar expansion. Confirmed in a tweet Russian Army’s scout class would be represented by members of the 1st Russian Women’s Battalion of Death.

Two days ago we already reported about a ROG STRIX X370 motherboard, ASUS however is also adding a more affordable STRIX B350-F Gaming series motherboard under the ROG branding. 

Noctua announced that it will provide users of its NH-L9a and NH-L9i CPU coolers with free mounting upgrade kits for the AM4 socket of AMD’s Ryzen platform. 

The new Surface Pro delivers the most performance and battery life in a laptop that is this thin, light and quiet. The new Surface Pro brings up to 13.5 hours of battery life and is more than 2.5 times faster than Surface Pro 3, and provides versatility and mobility in a lighter, more refined design. 

Media players like Kodi, Popcorn Time and VLC can be used to take control over the computer on which they run through malcious subtitles, security company Check Point states. 

Corsair announced the launch of the Commander PRO and Lighting Node PRO fan and lighting controllers, alongside the new HD140 RGB series of RGB cooling fans.

We review the Cooler Master Cosmos II 25th Anniversary Edition. The chassis with its familiar looks is an Ultra tower, yep 70 cm / 28" in height. It looks, feels and breathes the same stuff same as the 2012 model but now comes with a long requested feature as it is a tempered glass side panel version.

Read the full review right here.

Cooler Master has something to celebrate and as such released the Cosmos II 25^th Anniversary Edition. The chassis with its familiar looks is an Ultra tower, yep 70 cm / 28" in height. It looks, feels and breathes the same stuff same as the 2012 model but now comes with a long requested feature as it is a tempered glass side panel version. This unit houses the biggest big XL-ATX motherboards and comes with brushed aluminum side panels; unlock and swing them open like doors instead of panels. Yeah, the 25^th Anniversary feel is already kicking in, isn't it?

Cooler Master, a leader in design and manufacturing computer components and peripherals, today announced the launch of a new model in the COSMOS line. To celebrate Cooler Master's quarter-century birthday, the brand introduces the COSMOS II 25th Anniversary Edition. A tribute to Cooler Master's original and iconic COSMOS case. 

ASUSTOR announced that it has added two new models to its 70 series NAS devices with the AS7004T-i5 and AS7010T-i5. These two new models utilize powerful Intel Core™ i5 quad-core processors and feature 8GB of built-in memory with mixed capacity expansion support up to a maximum of 16GB for enhanced flexibility. 

ASUS just released an ROG STRIX motherboard for the AMD Ryzen platform. The ROG STRIX X370-F Gaming would be positioned just under the Crosshair VI Hero series. The Motherboard looks great with a rather daunting ROG heatsink.

Colorful will be showcasing its high-end products on TWTC Nangang Exhibition Hall, includes graphics cards, motherboards, Mini PCs, and SSD.

Well, the rumor mill is already starting on Volta graphics cards. While highly unlikely, a new photo is spreading on the web like wildfire. The card in the photo is hinted to be Volta.

HighPoint launched their SSD7101 drive solutions, using Samsung 960 NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) M.2 SSD’s. The SSD7101 Drive Series delivers transfer speeds 20 times faster than SATA SSDs into a PCIe device the size of your average graphics card.

Ubisoft released a number of Far Cry 5 teasers in which they show the game takes place in the US state Montana. In the creepy videos you can see a church, some electricity cables and somebody being shot, indicating a relatively modern settings. See the videos after the break.

New research describes two vulnerabilities that could affect SSD drives utilizing MLC technology: "program interference" and "read disturb." In the first, an attacker can corrupt data or reduce the lifespan of a drive by writing data with a certain pattern: specifically, the data pattern makes an MLC's programming logic cause 4.9 more errors than usual. 

Much has been said and spoken about AMD’s upcoming consumer release of Radeon RX Vega. The latest news now is that it might take a couple of more months before we see the actual product in stores.

HP released a new model Spectre x2 laptop, the hybrid laptop will get a 3K display with rather unusual aspect-ratio. The resolution of the panel is 3000x2000 pixels, and with an easy conversion, that would be 3:2. Most laptops are setup in a 16:9 configuration.

EK W is releasing several new EK-FC GeForce GTX FE water blocks that are compatible with multiple reference design Founders Edition GeForce GTX 1060, 1070, 1080, 1080 Ti, Titan X Pascal and Titan Xp based graphics cards. A

You can now download the latest Nvidia WHQL driver, release 382.33 brings support for Tekken 7 and Star Trek Bridge Crew as well as it adds a number of fixes.

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Download the Nvidia GeForce GameReady 382.33 WHQL driver as released by NVIDIA. 

Netgear made a change to its policy and now is actively collecting user-end data. This at the very least is happening with their Nighthawk R7000 router series. The company is  collecting Analytics, IP adresses, MAC- and serial numbers.

Square Enix released the benchmark tool for FINAL FANTASY XIV: Stormblood. According to the company, this official benchmark software uses actual maps and playable characters to assign a score to your PC and rate its performance.

Inno3d releases their new Single-Slot edition of the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and 1050. By designing a video card in a thin and elegant form factor, performance that usually finds itself in dual-slot space, you can now get the same experience in smaller PCs that usually were lacking that graphics power.

We review the Plextor M8Se 512GB SSD. Armed with stylish looks, proper cooling and using a fast M2 SSD as basis this new storage unit uses the NVMe express (NVME) protocol and that means storage technology at terrific speeds while remaining competitive in pricing.

Read the full review here. 
 

Armed with stylish looks, proper cooling and using a fast M2 SSD as basis, we review the Plextor M8Se 512GB SSD. This new storage unit uses the NVMe express (NVME) protocol and that means storage technology at terrific speeds while remaining competitive in pricing. 

It might not be much of a graphics card, but this one certainly jumps out due to its small form factor as it follows a Mini ITX size, and is only single slot.

On a recent Asia based presentation related to Computex, gigabte has been showing some products. It seems Gigabyte is expanding theit Aorus luneup with CPU coolers as well.

ADATA announced their newest line of industrial-grade SSDs, the ISSS333. Coming in capacities ranging from 120GB to 1TB, theses slim 2.5-inch SSDs (7mm thick) are built with 3D MLC NAND Flash memory chips, a SATA 6.0 Gbps interface, SMART support, Wear Leveling support, NCQ support, Windows TRIM Command support and an MTBF of 2 million hours.

Microsoft shows a thing or two how digital holography can be used to build novel near-eye displays for virtual and mixed (or augmented) reality. Using the form factor of sunglasses by using a powerful wave-front correction ability. 

These are the ten top selling titles on Steam for the week as reported by Valve:

PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
Dead Cells
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
The Surge
Prey
Cities: Skylines - Mass Transit
Grand Theft Auto V
Alan Wake Bundle (Summer 2012)
H1Z1: King of the Kill
DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2

Square Enix hosted a test for tomorrow’s Letter from the Final Fantasy XIV Producer Live that will be broadcasted from Hamburg, Germany. During the brief broadcast, Producer and Director Naoki Yoshida and Community Manager Toshio Murouchi introduced a brief glimpse on the upcoming expansion, titled Stormblood. Final Fantasy XIV‘s new expansion Stormblood will release on June 20th exclusively for PC and PS4, with the PS3 version of the game getting discontinued.