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AMD Drops the MSRP of RX 470 and RX 460
After the recent launch of NVIDIA’s GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti cards, AMD has fired back. Not with new cards (although that may be coming too…), but with a couple of price cuts on their RX 470 and RX 460 product lines. In addition to this, AMD has been sending out media packs showing what they say …
NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti and 1050 Announced
The long-awaited 75W Pascal cards are almost here, with today’s announcement of the NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti and GTX 1050. These new cards fill out the previously missing entry-level of NVIDIA’s Pascal-series product stack. AnandTech has a great overview of the new cards but unfortunately there are no actual reviews yet. The retail release date is next week …
ASRock Z170M-PIO2 Motherboard Announced
The PIO (Parts-In-One, basically a DIY All-In-One) motherboard form factor is still fairly rare, but over the last year or so several models from various manufacturers have popped up, at least in pictures and product pages. All the PIO boards so far (that I’m aware of) have used the lower-end Intel chipsets, but ASRock now has an …
Samsung’s SSD predictions 2016
At the recent Samsung Global SSD Summit 2016 in Seoul Korea, Samsung showed off new products like the 960 PRO/EVO but they also made some predictions about the future of the solid state market over the next few years. Tom’s Hardware has a great overview of the presentation. Most of it is the typical talk about how …
Reeven Brontes – Another Eye on Performance
In Greek mythology, Steropes, Brontes and Arges are three siblings decended from Gaia and Uranus (stop giggling, you in the back). They were the blacksmiths to Zeus, Poiseidon, and other gods. In this case, however, Brontes is a 59mm tall CPU cooler from an relatively unknown brand – Reeven. REEVEN is a newly established international manufacturer …
Reeven Steropes – One Eye Towards Performance
In Greek mythology, Steropes, Brontes and Arges are three siblings decended from Gaia and Uranus (stop giggling, you in the back). They were the blacksmiths to Zeus, Poseidon, and other gods. In this case, however, Steropes is a 60mm tall CPU cooler from a relatively unknown brand – Reeven. REEVEN is a newly established international …
Samsung Announces the 960 PRO and 960 EVO
The Global SSD Summit is currently in progress and Samsung has kicked it off with a bang, announcing the 960 PRO and 960 EVO M.2 drives. AnandTech has a great overview of the new drives, but basically they’re both smoking fast PCIe NVME drives, with the 960 PRO clocking in at 3500MB/s sequential read and 2100MB/s …
OEM AM4 Motherboard Makes an Appearance
In the ongoing, agonising, wait for Zen, Bristol Ridge will be an appetiser. With OEMs already building systems based on the platform, it was only a matter of time until we saw the first board make an appearance. That has happened today, with HP’s ‘Willow‘ board. As you can see above, the board is sort …