SSD prices are quickly falling, but we’ve noticed that portable SSD prices aren’t dropping nearly as quickly. That means you can build your own wicked fast portable SSD enclosure for less than buying an actual portable SSD. The review that we have for you today is on a pair of ORICO NVMe M.2 SSD enclosures. …more
Legit Reviews Gets To Benchmark 10nm Ice Lake Intel recently invited a small number of hardware reviewers out to Santa Clara to be the very first to get a chance to do some hands-on testing with 10th Gen Intel Core mobile processors. Legit Reviews just happened to be one of those sites and we eagerly …more
Corsair Nightsword RGB Gaming Mouse Review Along with the Corsair M55 RGB Pro gaming mouse, Corsair has released their Nightsword RGB PerformanceTunable optical gaming mouse to compete with some of the high-end gaming mice in the market. It has the 18,000 DPI PMW3391 optical sensor, four zone RGB illumination, a comfortable contoured body design, and …more
Can Ryzen 5 3600X For $250 Steal The Show? Today we’ll be taking a closer look at the AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 6-core, 12-thread desktop processor. This chip will more than likely be one of the most sold Ryzen 3000 series processors due to its rather affordable price point of $249. Under the hood the …more
RTX 2080 SUPER Brings More Cores and Speed The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER just launched moments ago and so has our embargo on the performance numbers for this new desktop graphics card model. The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER is replacement for the original RTX 2080. The good news is that the RTX 2080 SUPER Founders Edition …more
$250 Will Get You 6-core 9600K CPU As we wait for our AMD Ryzen 5 3600X processor to arrive for testing we wanted to and take a look at its main competitor, the Intel Core i5-9600K 6-core processor. The Intel Core i5-9600K is currently priced at $249.89 shipped, which is slightly lower than the $279 …more
Corsair M55 RGB Pro Gaming Mouse Review The M55 RGB Pro optical gaming mouse is a new entry-level gaming mouse from Corsair. It includes standard features like RGB illumination and software customization via the Corsair iCUE software. It also has the PMW3327 optical sensor with a DPI range of 200 – 12,400. With its ambidextrous …more
CORSAIR Force MP600 Gen4 PCIe x4 NVMe M.2 SSD The wait is finally over, PCIe Generation 4.0 has arrived thanks to AMD’s X570 motherboard chipset. Intel has been dominating CPU and next generation peripherals advancement for so many years that frankly, was completely unexpected for AMD to leapfrog its competitor. PCIe Gen 4 What …more
Most of our readers know that the vast majority of PC games are designed for your mainstream 4-8 core processors. As the processor manufacturers have been rapidly increasing core counts that hasn’t directly translated into better performance. When AMD first introduced their Ryzen Threadripper series of processors in 2017 with up to 16-cores and 32-threads …more
I noticed a number of sites and channels are reporting that the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-core, 24-thread processor can be run at full clock speeds with just 1.00V on the CPU VCore. That sounds pretty damn impressive and I just had to give it a try here to see if that is possible and …more
AMD Goes 7nm on Ryzen 3000 Series CPUs Last week AMD Ryzen 3000 series desktop processors based on the Zen 2 architecture finally came to market. AMD launched six new desktop processors of which five are available today. Of the processors that are out today they range in price between $199 to $499. The six model …more
Radeon RX 5700 XT Aims To Destroy The RTX SUPER The all new Radeon RX 5700 Series graphics cards based on AMD’s 7nm Navi GPUs are finally here to do battle against NVIDIA’s SUPER lineup of Turing RTX graphics cards. The AMD Radeon RX 5700 Series is comprised of the RX 5700 ($349), RX 5700 XT …more
GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER and GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER The leaks ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 SUPER launch were pretty insane, but the embargo has been lifted and we can finally talk about the new GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER and GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER models. For starters these two cards are priced at …more
Thermaltake Level 20 RGB Titanium Edition Gaming Keyboard Review Thermaltake has added a new keyboard to their Premium product series, the Level 20 RGB Titanium Edition gaming keyboard. This keyboard is a combination of outstanding build quality with the ability to synchronize lighting effects across a variety of TT RGB Plus compatible devices. Along with …more
QLC vs TLC NAND Flash – Sponsored By Western Digital If you are looking for a Solid-State Drive (SSD) you’ve likely seen that some of the newest models on the market feature QLC NAND Flash memory. Quad-Level Cell (QLC) is the latest and greatest type of multi-level cell memory technology and SSDs using QLC NAND …more