HyperX came out with double shot PBT keycaps for mechanical gaming keyboards in 2019. The HyperX Double Shot PBT keycaps featured a translucent “Pudding” dual-layer style to complement RGB lit gaming keyboards. So, for around $25 you can improve the looks of your keyboard while enjoying the textured and oil-resistant double shot PBT caps with legends …more
ORICO might not be the first brand name that you think of when it comes to storage, but they have been making computer peripheral products since 2009. For more than a decade, ORICO has been selling SSDs, portable SSDs, HDD enclosures, HDD docking stations, USB3.0 hubs, USB chargers and a ton of other products. The …more
I, like many of our readers, use portable SSDs to move around movies and photos for family. Having a handful of movies and pictures on a portable SSD is great when you have kids as you can quickly access them at home and on the go. Most enthusiasts will likely build a small server for home-media …more
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