Comet Lake-S – More Cores  and Hyper-Threading For All We’ve been talking about Intel’s 10th Gen Core series of processors for a numbers of weeks. Our initial coverage gave you the basics of the new Comet Lake-S architecture used on the 10th Gen processors. It also covered how Intel has moved to Socket LGA1200, so …more

AMD Ryzen 3 3300X versus 3100 – Which One To buy? If you are a gamer on a budget and are looking at building a new gaming PC, the AMD Ryzen 3 3100 and Ryzen 3300X  have likely managed to grab your attention. We already covered general CPU performance in our launch review, but we …more

AMD Ryzen 3 Beats Intel Core i5 For Less Money Entry-level processors often don’t get as much attention as they deserve, but today we will be spending some time with the brand new AMD Ryzen 3 3100 and Ryzen 3 3300X processors. These quad-core processors are the latest addition to the 3rd Gen Ryzen series …more

Intel NUC 10 Performance Review – NUC10i7FNH Intel’s NUC (Next Unit of Computing) was first shown off at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) back in 2012 powered by 3rd Gen Core ‘Ivy Bridge’ processors. It is hard to believe that the Intel NUC series has been around for nearly eight years, but the NUC series …more

If you happen to have an existing Intel LGA1151 motherboard for one of the 9th Generation Core processors and want to upgrade to the 10th Generation processors you’ll be needing a new motherboard. The new 10th Gen Core ‘Comet Lake’ processors feature a new socket called LGA1200 and you’ll find that on motherboards running Intel …more

KeySmart Pro – Never Lose Your Keys Again! This year, Mother’s Day falls on Sunday, May 10th — and there is a pretty good chance that shopping for a holiday gift this year will be tougher than years past. When the folks over at KeySmart reached out to see if we could review the KeySmart Pro, a compact smart key …more

Lexar NM610 – Budget NVMe SSD Put To The Test! Lexar introduced the NM610 M.2 2280 NVMe SSD series back in August 2019 with the release of 250GB, 500GB and 1TB capacities. While this PCIe 3.0 x4 drive is over half a year old, it seems to be getting more attention right now as Lexar …more

ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 Gaming Laptop We first noticed the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 during CES 2020 as it claimed to be the world’s most powerful 14-inch Windows 10 Pro gaming laptop. Our inner geek really wanted to try out the AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS 8-core, 16-thread processor that has been paired with the NVIDIA GeForce …more

Modular Computing Meets Intel NUC During CES 2020, Intel was showing off the NUC 9 Extreme Kit (code named Ghost Canyon) for the very first time. The NUC 9 Extreme Kit is the first Intel NUC to come to market that was designed from the ground up with gamers in mind. The NUC 9 Extreme Kit tips …more

Corsair Dark Core RGB Pro SE Wireless Gaming Mouse Corsair introduced the original Dark Core RGB Wireless mouse, along with the Qi-charging capable SE counterpart, in mid-2018. While the original Dark Core RGB looked to be a Logitech G502-esque wireless offering and garnered my initial interest, I wasn’t a fan of the side button layout …more

ADATA Ultimate SU750 2.5″ 1TB SATA III Solid-State Drive Tested If you are looking for a 2.5-inch SATA III SSD the ADATA Ultimate SU750 is one of the many drive series that you’ll find widely available on the market. This series is rated to have speeds of up to 550/520 MB/s read/write and is capable …more

XPG Invader Gaming Case For $79 ADATA recently decided to enter the PC chassis market with a focus on cases for PC gamers under the XPG brand line. A daring decision that some companies have attempted and eventually failed at. Xtreme Performance Gear (XPG) was established by ADATA years ago with the idea of providing …more

Corsair K95 RGB Platinum XT Gaming Keyboard Arrives With more people tuning into streaming, Corsair has released a new flagship keyboard to allow gamers to stream their games with ease. The K95 RGB Platinum XT has many of the same features as its predecessor along with a few improvements. It features genuine Cherry MX switches …more

MyDigitalDiscount Offers Micron 5100 MAX At Low Prices The Micron 5100 MAX series of data center drives came out in 2017 and was designed specifically for write-intensive applications. This series features built-in AES-256 bit encryption, TCG enterprise protection, and FIPS 140-2 validation. Back in 2017 when the Micron 5100 MAX was released a 1.92TB model of one of these …more

Lexar Professional SL100 Pro Portable SSD Micron stopped using the Lexar brand in 2017 and sold the Lexar branding and trademark rights later that year to Longsys, a Shenzen, China-based flash memory company. The Lexar brand was then re-launched in 2018 with the introduction of new memory cads, card readers, SSDs, and USB flash drives. Legit …more