Archive for June 2020


Review: Samsung 870 QVO 2TB SATA3 SSD

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 20

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Samsung Unleashes its 870 QVO series SATA3 SSDs. As the Q in the name indicates, this is all new QLC based NAND. Don't worry, we'll explain it all but the bottom line is that you will see a new value product series that offers more bang for your bucks and an increase in volume sizes.

You can read our review here.

Samsung 870 QVO 2TB SSD review

Memory (DDR4/DDR5) and Storage (SSD/NVMe) 353 Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 20

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Samsung Unleashes its 870 QVO series SATA 6 Gb/s SSDs. As the Q in the name indicates, this is all new QLC based NAND. Don't worry, we'll explain it all but the bottom line is that you will see a new value product series that offers more bang for your bucks and an increase in volume sizes.



Corsair Launches iCUE LT100 Smart Lighting Towers

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 7

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Corsair announced the latest addition to the growing lineup of RGB ambient lighting products in the iCUE Smart Lighting Ecosystem, iCUE LT100 Smart Lighting Towers.



ASRock Launches Radeon RX 5600 XT Challenger Pro 6G OC Graphics Card

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 0

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ASRock, has launched new Radeon RX 5600 XT Challenger Pro 6G OC three-fan graphics card. The Radeon RX 5600 XT Challenger Pro 6G OC features ASRock’s new styled shroud design with upgraded cooling fins, AMD's second-generation Radeon RX 5600 XT 7nm GPU, plus 6GB 192-bit GDDR6 memory and PCI Express 4.0 bus. 


Kioxia Finishes Acquisition of LITE-ON Technology SSD Business

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 0

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And if you say LITE-ON, that's including Plextor.  Kioxia announced today that it expects to complete its acquisition of LITE-ON Technology Corporation's Solid State Drive (SSD) business, Solid State Storage Technology Corporation and its affiliated companies on July 1, 2020. 


AMD Ryzen 7 4700GE Memory Test: Shows Low Latency at 47.6 ns

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 17

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One of the things we always noticed with AMD processor reviews is that the memory latency these days is good but slower than Intel. Currently, we're hitting 67ns, Chinese-based TecLab however posted some photos and screenshots. 


Crytek to show first trailer Crysis Remastered on July 1

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 46

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Anything and everything gets announced these for a bit of media covers, Crytek just announced the first official Crysis Remastered gameplay trailer to be out on July 1st 2020.We will finally have an idea of the graphic and gameplay improvements that this remastering will bring us.


Sabrent Rocket XTRM Q - A portable SSD going for 2700 MB/s

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 3

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Sabrents outs a new portable storage unit with flying speeds dubbed the Rocket XTRM Q. Based on Thunderbolt 3 is can reach read speeds in an excess of 2700 MB/sec with volume sizes running upwards to 8 TB.


TeamGroup Announces T-FORCE CARDEA Ceramic C440 Solid State Drive

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 3

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T-FORCE, the gaming brand of TEAMGROUP, today announces the new CARDEA Ceramic C440 Solid State Drive with latest and ultra-fast M.2 PCIe Gen4x4 interface. It is the first of its kind in the industry to be made with ceramic composite cooling materials. 



ASUS RT-AX55 is an Entry level Router with AIMesh capability

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 0

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ASUS has been paving that road for routers for a couple of years now. New is the ASUS RT-AX55, a cost-effective entry-level Router with AIMEsh capability. It's Wifi6, e.g. AX compatible as well.


ASUS ROG Announces Collaboration with DJ Alan Walker

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ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today announced a new collaboration with acclaimed DJ and music producer Alan Walker to create gaming content, tech and other experiences that will help elevate and bring gaming to a wider audience.



Network issues - June 29 2020 (status solved)

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 6

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Hi all, there is a major malfunction at the data-center (power outage), currently, you are routed towards an offsite tertiary server as the failsafe server is also affected. We hope to have things resolved soon, but that is not under our control. The forums are offline at the moment and you're looking at an older backup of the site. We'll keep you posted and hope things will be restored to normal soon.

Update: The situation has been resolved. The data-center will be investigating the power outage as that may never happen with all redundancies in place, then again there's always Murphy's law. Apologies for the downtime.



GeForceGTX 1650 "Ultra”, based on TU106, starts to appear

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 8

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It's been rumored that new variants of the GTX 1650 based on a TU106 (RTX 2060/2070) would make their way on the market, and today Galax announced the first TU106-based "GTX 1650 Ultra", the card has 896 Shader Cores and 4GB GDDR6, which is rather similar to a normal GTX 1650 GDDR6.



AMD Adds Radeon Software Adrenalin 20.5.1 with Graphics Hardware Scheduling Support

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 14

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AMD has released a new Beta driver, ironically with the same version number Radeon Software Adrenalin 20.5.1 The new version adds Hardware Scheduling Support, which is a feature that only works with Windows 10 May 2020 Update (version 2004) or later. Please note ONLY Radeon RX 5600-series and RX 5700-series GPUs support the new feature.

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Guru3D Rig of the Month - June 2020

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 16

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With the rig of the month, we have seen many things, sometimes from rather familiar people. VBetts is a forum moderator here at the website and finally had the guts to submit his build. Meet Vincent, and his 750 USD build rig called Ultra Instinct

Meet the June edition of the Guru3D Rig of the month 2020, right here.


Intel Rocket Lake 8-core processor surfaces in geekbench

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 6

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Eben though Comet Lake processors (current-generation Intel desktop processors) are hard to get in stores, the following generation already was spotted and benchmarked iN geekbenchG


Download: Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) v18.0.2.6

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 0

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Download Display Driver Uninstaller DDU revision v18.0.2.6 This application is a driver removal utility that can help you completely uninstall AMD/NVIDIA graphics card drivers and packages from your system, incl Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition.

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ASUS Releases VA27DQSB Monitor With Blue Light Coating

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 1

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ASUS VA27DQSB Eye Care Monitor – 27 inch, FHD (Full HD 1920 x 1080), IPS, Frameless, 75Hz, Adaptive-Sync, DisplayPort, HDMI, Eye Care, Low Blue Light, Flicker Free, Wall Mountable.


Microsoft releases Windows File Recovery tool

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 8

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Microsoft outs a file recovery program for Windows 10. Windows File Recovery works on the command line (CMD) and is available in the Microsoft Store for version 2004, currently the latest, of the OS.



New Lucifer malware hits Windows PCs - Security firm warns

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 14

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Researchers at security company Unit 42 discovered the spread of a new strain of malware that is a variant of an old crypto theft code Ransomware. The new variant is used for cryptocurrency mining but can also facilitate distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.


Video compares differences 2018 version of Cyberpunk 2077 with 2020 version

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 21

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Cyberpunk 2077 might become one  of the most anticipated releases of the year. CD Projekt Red already has shown a new gameplay trailer for the game, a new video shows the progress in graphics quality from the 2018 version build of Cyberpunk 2077 with 2020 version.