NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang revealed a new family of Turing-based Geforce RTX graphics cards during an event today at Gamescon 2018 in Cologne, Germany. The new cards announced are part of the RTX 20-series and consist right now of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, RTX 2080 and the RTX 2070. We can’t remember a time that NVIDIA …more

HP SSD S600 – A Good DRAM-less SATA Budget Drive? Upgrading from a hard drive to an Solid-State Drive (SSD) is one of the best ways to boost performance in an aging notebook or desktop PC. At one point in time upgrading to an SSD was a costly venture, but prices have drastically fallen in …more

Threadripper 2990WX – Pushing The Limits With 64-Threads Today, AMD introduced the first 32-core desktop processor for the consumer market with the Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32-core, 64-thread behemoth. This processor is the successor to the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X 16-core, 32-thread processor that was released just last year. In just one year we are witnessing …more

Intel SSD 660p – 1st PCIe QLC SSDs for Mainstream PCs Today we will be looking at the world’s first consumer SSD to feature QLC (Quad Level Cell) NAND Flash. QLC  NAND Flash once seemed so far away, but Intel is rolling out the SSD 660p drive series today. The Intel SSD 660p features an SMI …more

Using a dash cam in your car has been popular in many parts of Asia and Europe for years, but they are starting to catch on here in North America in recent years.  Dash cam footage could protect you from someone trying to file a false insurance or accident claim against you or make you the …more

Intel Optane SSD 905P – Fast Storage For Enthusiasts When Intel released the Optane SSD 900P series in Q4 2017 they really upped the ante in the enthusiast storage market with a high-end 3D Xpoint-based drive. The 900P series was aimed at enthusiasts and workstation users that are looking for unmatched performance for desktop PCs. …more

A couple months back, Samsung introduced the Samsung PRO Endurance microSDHC/microSDXC memory cards. This new series was designed for use in devices that have continuous video recording such as surveillance and security cameras, body cameras and dash cams. The Samsung PRO Endurance microSD cards are available in 32GB, 64GB and 128GB capacities and have a 1080P endurance rating of 17,520 …more

Most review sites don’t cover the RMA process, but trying to get a consumer electric device repaired or replaced under warranty can truly be a painful experience and is something we like to cover. We recently had a Netgear Nighthawk X8 AC5300 Smart WiFi Router give up the ghost when it got stuck in a …more

When our friends over at MyDigitalSSD asked if we wanted to review their Pocket Vault eXpress (PVX) Thunderbolt 3 Portable SSD we said send it on over! It boasts wicked fast transfer speeds up to 1,600 MB/s read and 1,000 MB/s write, so if you want blazing file transfer speeds on a super portable drive look …more

Just over six months ago, Corsair launched the first closed-loop liquid cooling solutions that use the 6th Generation of Asetek’s cooling technology. The two new models introduced were the H150i Pro, a 360mm closed-loop liquid cooling solution for $159.99 and then the smaller H115i Pro 280mm liquid cooler at $129.99. Both of these liquid CPU coolers use …more

Intel recently celebrated 40 years of the x86 instruction set by releasing the 8th Gen Intel Core i7-8086K processor and it can be picked up for $389.00 shipped. Intel introduced the first x86 series processor on June 8, 1978 with the 8086 microprocessor and changed the modern world. The 8086 was a screamer back in the …more

Charter Communications recently doubled the download speed of Spectrum Internet in a handful of areas from 100 to 200 Mbps at no additional costs to customers. To get the faster 200 Mbps some existing Spectrum Internet customers will need to swap out your older DOCSIS 1.1 or 2.0 cable modem to a newer DOCSIS 3.0 …more

HP Goes After The Portable SSD Market If you are looking for a portable drive that will quickly transfer large files between different devices a portable SSD (Solid-State Drive) is what you need here in 2018. SSDs are a must have inside your PC since they are faster and more reliable than traditional spinning hard …more

Adata XPG Spectrix D40 DDR4 RGB Memory Years ago picking out memory was fairly easy, as long as it was compatible with your motherboard you were good to go.  Now there are many things to take into consideration, such as the heatsink, speed, timings, overclockability and design.  The recent trend is to put RGB LEDs …more

Kingston UV500 Self-Encrypting Drive Protecting data has always been important, but over the past year the general public and most any business have become security-conscious. Self–Encrypting Drives (SEDs) have been on the market for years, but very few people actually fully utilize these drives. Like the name implies, a self-encrypting drive uses an encryption engine built …more