Archive for April 2018

Review: Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic

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We review the Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic. Lian-Li parts from being aluminum outfitted, and overhauled the chassis design combining it with a left-side and front-side mounted tempered glass panel. Will this PC case will set a new standard in the industry?

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Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic review

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We review the Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic. Lian-Li parts from being aluminum outfitted, and overhauled the chassis design combining it with a left-side and front-side mounted tempered glass panel. Will this PC case will set a new standard in the industry?


Graphic card makers see shipments decline by 40% in April

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Yep, that's what happens when you do not release new graphics cards for way too long and keep relying on mining sales. Taiwan-based graphics card makers including Gigabyte Technology, Micro-Star International (MSI) and TUL are expected to see their shipments for April plunge over 40% on month.


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AMD Is Relisting 1st gen Ryzen Procs In Lineup

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Remember that observation we made last week? Being AMD removing several Gen1 Ryzen processors from the AMD listing shortly after the release of Ryzen Gen2 processors? Well, they have now relisted the missing Gen1 processors again and issued a statement about it.


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Windows 10 Spring 2018 Update Now Launches May 9th

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Microsoft will now be releasing the Spring update of Windows 10 in may, two weeks ago it canceled the update due to what was described as a blocking bug that they discovered, which could have an effect on a small group of people, but was a serious one. 


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AMD Zen Designer Keller Is Moving to intel

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Jim Keller, ex AMD designer and Chief Architect of the ZEN Architecture left AMD roughly a year ago to join Tesla. Now, it seems he is leaving Tesla where he worked on AI and Autopilot, he now has reached his final destination, Intel.


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EK Releases Fluid Gaming A360G kit with 360mm radiator

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Remember the all Aluminum CPU and GPU EK kit we tested a while ago? That was our EK Fluid Gaming A240G CPU & GPU Liquid Cooling review. The sole purpose of these kits is to offer proper performing and looking liquid cooling, at a price level that everybody can grasp. EK today released the 360 radiator kit, the EK Fluid Gaming A360G kit.


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Corsair Pursuing the Gaming Monitor market

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Corsair has been widening their product portfilio extensively over the past few years, anything you can connect and insert into a PC basically they want to be able to deluiver, e.g. they would like to provide you the entire PC infrastructure.


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Z390 and X399 Chipset Confirmed through Intel

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A new leak, this time Intel itself has confirmed the existence of the Z390 chipset. We've talked and heard quite a bit about the Intel Z390 chipset, would it ever be released, and if so when? New info appeared, this time from Intel, including an X399 chipset as well.


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Download: MSI Afterburner 4.5.0

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Hello everybody, today we have released MSI Afterburner 4.5.0, in this version we further extend on the OSD graphs, the ability to plot graphics on-screen including frame times, FPS, Voltages but also introduce a number new features and fixes. Also the hardware monitoring module has been improved.


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Download: Nvidia GeForce 397.31 WHQL drivers

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Nvidia just released a new Game ready WHQL driver, This driver offer optimizations for "BattleTech and FrostPunk". This is the first release where Nvidia halts support for 32-bit operating systems and Fermi GPU based graphics cards.


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EVGA Adds Color Options for GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2 GAMING

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Most people will agree with me that the graphics card industry came to a grinding halt like half a year ago. There's no new stuff or designs, likely until the summer. So as an AIB you need to spice up things a bit here and there. EVGA as such is releasing two new color options for their GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2 GAMING.


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Review: Samsung 970 EVO M.2 500GB m.2.SSD

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 18

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Samsung today releases the new 970 EVO and PRO models M.2. SSDs, these offer even faster perf than the 960 series and come with increased TBW values as well. The new M.2 EVO units will be the most popular ones, now with 5-years warranty for the desktop end-users and can be purchased in volume sizes up-to 2TB.

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Samsung 970 EVO M.2 500GB NVMe SSD review

Memory (DDR4/DDR5) and Storage (SSD/NVMe) 369 Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 18

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Samsung releases the new 970 EVO and PRO models M.2. SSDs, these offer even faster than 960 series perf and come with increased TBW values as well. The new M.2 EVO units will be the most popular ones for the desktop end-users and can be purchased in volume sizes up-to 2TB. NVMe Storage technology is advancing with extremely fast paces and steps.


AMD Ryzen 5 2600 CPU Gets Delidded And Tested

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So before you go like huh wait a minute, didn't Ryzen have a soldered heat spreader on the die that cannot be removed? Yes, you are right, but of course, you can melt the Indium solderm as when it reaches 175 Degrees C, you can delid.


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Samsung Releases 970 PRO and EVO m.2. SSDs

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Before we begin with the press release, our samples are delayed in shipment, I expect to post the first review within the next 24 hours. Samsung today announces their Samsung 970 PRO and EVO, the third generation of its industry-leading consumer solid state drive (SSD) lineup. 


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inSpectre Download v8

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This freeware download offers you the Free inSpectre, this tool tool checks Windows computers for Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities. Besides checking whether the system is vulnerable to the Spectre and Meltdown attack, the tool also checks whether performance of the computer has been decreased.

Cooler Master Announces MasterLiquid ML240R RGB and ML120R RGB

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Cooler Master introduces its first addressable RGB AIO liquid CPU coolers to be certified by ASUS, MSI and ASRock with MasterLiquid ML240R RGB and ML120R RGB. Featuring the dual chamber pump technology to provide performance it is equipped with addressable RGB MasterFan MF120R ARGB.


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Nvidia: AI Reconstructs Photos with Realistic Results

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Researchers from NVIDIA, led by Guilin Liu, introduced a state-of-the-art deep learning method that can edit images or reconstruct a corrupted image, one that has holes or is missing pixels. The method can also be used to edit images by removing content and filling in the resulting holes. This is pretty cool to watch actually.

 


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