If you are interested in cryptocurrencies and want to start mining alt coins you can do so without breaking the bank. Most all the coverage on mining focuses on high-end desktop discrete graphics cards since Continue reading “Budget Mining On The Radeon RX 560, Radeon RX 550 and GeForce GTX 1050 Ti”. …more
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Feb. 23, 2018 at 2:34pm
Samsung Electronics Begins Mass Production of Industrys Largest Capacity SSD 30.72TB for Next-Generation Enterprise Systems New ‘PM1643’ is built on latest 512Gb V-NAND to offer the most advanced storage, featuring industry-first 1TB NAND flash package, Continue reading “Samsung PM1643 SSD Available In 30.72TB Capacity With 40GB DRAM!”. …more
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Feb. 20, 2018 at 2:30pm
AMD Raven Ridge APUs Arrive AMD launched a new pair of APUs this week that pair the Zen CPU and VEGA GPU micro architectures together to bring more value to the entry and mainstream desktop Continue reading “AMD Ryzen 5 2400G and Ryzen 3 2200G CPU Reviews – Raven Ridge”. …more
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Feb. 14, 2018 at 2:40pm
The AMD Ryzen Processor with Radeon Vega graphics (codename ‘Raven Ridge’) came out today and hopes to change the desktop PC market by paring quad-core processors with up to 8-threads and strong Vega GPUs that Continue reading “AMD Ryzen 5 2400G Mining Performance with NiceHash and XMR-STAK”. …more
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Feb. 12, 2018 at 2:04pm
Crucial MX500 Arrives With 64-Layer 3D TLC NAND When the Crucial MX300 series came out back in June 2016 it was a big deal as it was their first drive with Micron 3D TLC NAND Continue reading “Crucial MX500 500GB and 1TB SATA SSD Reviews”. …more
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Feb. 9, 2018 at 9:14pm
AMD announced the desktop Raven Ridge APUs featuring Radeon RX Vega graphics at CES 2018 and now we are just days away from them hitting the market. On February 12th, 2018 you’ll be able to Continue reading “AMD Raven Ridge Unboxing – Ryzen 5 2400G and Ryzen 3 2200G”. …more
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Feb. 8, 2018 at 5:39pm
Two Different Brands With Same Internals Featuring BiCS 3D NAND Are you wanting to purchase a brand new SATA SSD with the latest in 3D NAND technology, capacities up to 2TB and sequential speeds up Continue reading “WD Blue 3D NAND and SanDisk Ultra 3D 1TB SSD Reviews”. …more
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Feb. 7, 2018 at 4:11pm
The cryptocurrency market might be down 50% from all-time highs due to tougher regulation in a handful of countries, but miners are still making profits by processing outstanding transactions into blocks and adding them to Continue reading “Mining On The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X Processor With Nicehash”. …more
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Feb. 5, 2018 at 6:18pm
Samsung Electronics manged to beat Intel as being the worlds biggest chipmaker by revenue, a claim that Intel has held since 1992. On Tuesday, Samsung reported 2017 chip sales of $69 billion, easily beating Intels Continue reading “Samsung Becomes Largest Chipmaker By Revenue – Intel’s First Defeat Since 1992”. …more
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Jan. 31, 2018 at 5:20pm
Crucial BX300 Features 3D MLC NAND With Budget Prices If you are looking for a budget 2.5-inch SATA SSD you’ll quickly find that many are using TLC NAND Flash memory. TLC NAND has come a Continue reading “Crucial BX300 480GB SSD Review”. …more
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Jan. 31, 2018 at 5:05pm
Samsung SSD 860 PRO Arrives With New 64-Layer MLC NAND and MJX Controller Samsung released the 850 PRO way back in July 2014 (our review) and the series was quickly found to be an ideal Continue reading “Samsung 860 PRO SSD Review – 2TB Drive Tested”. …more
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Jan. 23, 2018 at 5:54pm
Legit Reviews finally managed to pick up an NVIDIA TITAN V graphics card and have been putting it through a number of tests in recent days. NVIDIA says that this $2,999 graphics card is capable Continue reading “Ethereum Mining On The NVIDIA Titan V Graphics Card”. …more
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Jan. 17, 2018 at 11:09pm
AMD processors arent affected by the Meltdown Speculative Execution CPU issue, but the quick fix for Meltdown and Spectre by AMD is apparently causing issues with a number of AMD processors from before 2009. The Continue reading “Windows 10 Updates Are Bricking Systems With Older AMD CPUs”. …more
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Jan. 10, 2018 at 6:23pm
be quiet! was showing off a pair of new CPU coolers at CES 2018 that looked pretty sweet. Those two coolers would be the Dark Rock 4 and the Dark Rock Pro 4. The Dark Continue reading “be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 and Dark Rock 4 CPU Coolers Debut At CES 2018”. …more
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Jan. 10, 2018 at 6:21am
Today at the CES 2018, Intel unveiled its first M.2 2280 SSD in the Optane family; the Intel Optane 800P. The Intel Optane 800P SSD will initially available in 60GB and 120GB capacities in February Continue reading “Intel Optane 800P M.2 SSDs Show Up At CES 2018”. …more
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Jan. 10, 2018 at 3:51am