Archive for June 2017

AOC Launches 90 Series Pro - five new IPS Monitors

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AOC today send around a press release indicating that they launch five new IPS monitors with thin bezels. The magic five are all IPS based and hare sized 23.8 up-to 27 Inches. The first four models are 1920x1080, the 27" model is a 2560x1440 resolution display.


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Intel 6-core Coffee Lake Surfaces in GeekBench (again)

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An Intel upcoming 6-core Coffee Lake generation processor has surfaces in GeekBench (again). This CPU scored 4,619 points on a single thread and 20,828 on multi-threading. A comparable slightly clocked Ryzen 5 1600X (also 6-cores) scores 4,574 in single-core performance and 20,769 for the multi-core.


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Gigabyte Launches Two Liquid Cooled GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Graphics Cards From AORUS

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Okay so we already have shown these in-depth in the news, but Gigabyte now officially announced them. They are the AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Waterforce Xtreme Edition 11G, featuring an all-in-one, closed-loop liquid cooler, and the AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Waterforce WB Xtreme Edition 11G, an open-loop solution fitted with a custom-designed full-cover water block.


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MSI Releases Clutch GM60 and GM70 Mouses

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MSI is proud to present two brand new additions to its Gaming Gear lineup. With a strong focus on ergonomic design, the Clutch GM70 and Clutch GM60 offer two different pairs of side grips and an extra top cover to allow gamers to find their most comfortable fit. 


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be quiet! Launches Silent Loop 360mm AIO cooler

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Be quiet! is introducing the newest addition to the Silent Loop family, Silent Loop 360mm. Built out of high-quality materials, Silent Loop’s whisper-quiet reverse-flow pump design ensured the product line made an impact in the water cooling market.


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Cougar Conquer Chassis Certainly has the looks

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Conquer is based on COUGAR’s outstanding and consistent design DNA with truss aesthetics, aluminum framing and military style. Through the innovative aluminum alloy frame to forge an all new ultimate and stylish masterpiece.


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First AMD Radeon RX Mining cards Surface Online

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The hype in crypto-currency mining is something the Radeon board partners jump onto. See below the first Radeon Mining Edition cards from Sapphire. The models are available in RX 470 and RX 560. Should the bubble burst, most cards to not have any resell value as they do not have display outputs.


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Gigabyte X299 Aorus Gaming 3 motherboard review

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We review the Gigabyte X299 Aorus Gaming 3 motherboard. A nice motherboard in dark accents that sits in a bit more wallet friendly segment. This X299 motherboard can house Kaby-Lake-X and Skylake-X processors.


NetGear launches NightHawk S8000 Switch

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Same stuff, differentlooks is what Netgear is going for. That and an added price premium I am sure. NetGear launches its NightHawk S8000 Switch, which offers 8 ports at 1 Gigabit. The Netgear S8000 itself has the appearance of other Nighthawk series products, which are targeted towards the gaming community.


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HIS Launches Radeon RX 560 GREEN iCooler OC 4GB

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HIS announces the release of their new Radeon RX 560 graphics card the "HIS RX 560 GREEN iCooler OC 4 GB" (model number: HS-560R4SCNR) which will be available on July 1. The card does not need any auxiliary power and has a lenght of just 183 mm.


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MSI Adds Radeon RX 550 2GT LP OC

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And the LP in there would be for low Profile. The entry level card is based on Polaris 12 and has 512 Shader processors.  These cards feature a 128-bit bus, require no external power connectors, and will be available in 2GB and 4GB models.


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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition vs Nvidia Titan Xp

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The guys at PCWorld posted an article on the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition (air-cooled) vs Nvidia Titan Xp. They focus on two compute-heavy tests, SPECViewPerf 12.1 and Cinebench R15 (OpenGL) Vega seems to outperform the TITAN Xp.


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10 Great Deals From Steam Summer Sale 2017

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With the Steam Summer Sale now active, Here are ten of the best deals available from the Steam Summer Sale, in no specific order, and which should easily turn around heads unless you already own the game in question.


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X2 releases ECLIPSE ADVANCE 900 series CPU coolers

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ECLIPSE ADVANCED 900 series CPU coolers by X2 are universal heat-pipe coolers ideally suited for those who require more performance and reliability. One of the amenities of this series processor coolers is the universal build which enables it to be compatible with all processors such as the AMD, AM2, AM3, AM4, FM1, FM2 and the Intel LGA775/i3/i5/i7 and LGA2011 models.


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Steam Top Ten Selling PC games June 26th 2017

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These are Valve's reporting of the best selling titles on Steam for last week. It never fails to amaze me that GTA-V just remains in there, like forevere.

PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
Grand Theft Auto V
NieR:Automata
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Game of the Year Edition
Dishonored 2
H1Z1: King of the Kill
Fallout 4
Hollow Knight

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MSI Afterburner 4.4.0 Beta 11 gets OSD hardware monitoring graphs

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Yesterday we updated MSI AfterBurner towards 4.4.0 Beta 11, this binary download however only was intended for a bit of feedback in our beta test forums. The information however went public and viral, which happens more often with nice new featrues. In the latest Beta we have added the ability to plot graphics on-screen. Meaning frame-rates, frametimes, FPS, Voltages  .. whatever can be monitored, can be plotted as a graph on your monitor.


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Galaxy Note 8 will retail for 999 euro

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Reports indicate that the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is going to cost a whopping 999 euro. It seems year after year prices keep going upwards, in the end people simply keep buying such expensive smartphones in significant volumes. The Note 8 would be released in September.


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