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It's another 4070 Ti Super with a beautiful white aesthetic - but how good is the cooler?

Crucial looks to be cooking up its fastest PCIe 5.0 SSD yet, with a new Crucial T705 appearing online, complete with a full spec sheet. The SSD will offer up to 14.5 GB/s read speeds and will come available with a black or white heatsink.  The previous model, the T700, …

Intel is expected to reveal its new series of HEDT processors soon. The upcoming line-up of processors will refresh the current Sapphire Rapids chips, featuring slightly lower clock speeds but an increase in core count. Recent leaks by @momomo_us have provided specifications for the upcoming Xeon W3500 and W2500 series …

Recently, MSI quietly released an interesting Beta BIOS update for their Intel 700 and 600 chipset motherboards . This new update allows users to expand memory support beyond 192GB, allowing users to install 64GB memory modules for a total of 256GB of memory across four DIMM slots. The BIOS update …

There's more evidence that Arrow Lake-S CPUs might not have Hyper-Threading. Following previously leaked slides, an entry on Intel test machines with an undisclosed Arrow Lake CPU with 24 cores and 24 threads has been found. Hyper-Threading is a multithreading technique that enables physical cores in Intel CPUs to accomplish …

Earlier this week, Deep Silver announced plans for a brand new Metro game. While this won't be the next major game in the series from 4A Games, it will be an exciting spin-off, bringing the tense world of Metro to VR for the first time. Metro: Awakening is an origin …

The RTX 3050 lives on in 2024 with a new model hitting the market with some rather major spec changes...

When most thought that Intel was done with the LGA 1700 socket after launching the Raptor Lake Refresh (14th Gen), a new report suggests that might not be the case. It seems Intel will extend the LGA 1700 socket for yet another generation that will coexist with Arrow Lake-S. This …

Scythe is updating the Mugen series with a new set of coolers. The new Mugen 6 series will include two models: the Mugen 6 (SCMG-6000) in silver with a single fan and the Mugen 6 Dual Fan Black Edition, sporting an all-black look with dual fans. The Scythe Mugen 6 …

Asus's partnership with Noctua continues. The RTX 4080 Super has officially launched today, with reviews now live across the web, including several of our own, covering the Founders Edition and a few partner cards. Soon, Asus will be launching a new Noctua-cooled version of the RTX 4080 Super.  Asus and …

Following on from an announcement at CES, today AMD is officially launching its new Ryzen 8000G series of desktop processors, ushering in a new generation of powerful APUs.

Corsair has introduced the latest addition to its storage lineup, the MP600 Elite series of SSDs. With up to 2TB of capacity, these high-performance PCIe 4.0 SSDs come with or without a heatsink, making them ideal for desktop PCs, laptops, and even PlayStation 5 consoles. The MP600 Elite series is …

It's the last of the new Super cards, as we check out the £959 RTX 4080 Super

Targeting the £959 MSRP, we put this 4080 Super JetStream OC to the test

Is Gigabyte's RTX 4080 Super Gaming OC an improvement over the Founders Edition?

be quiet! has introduced a new colour option for its mainstream Pure Wings 3 fan series. The Pure Wings 3 White is the ideal PC fan for any application, from workstations to entry-level gaming builds, thanks to its low minimum rpm and high top-end speed. Unlike the Pure Wings 3 …

Samsung and SK Hynix have much to show at the IEEE Solid State Circuit Conference (SSCC). The event, which is scheduled to run from February 18th to the 22nd in San Francisco, will see both companies showing their upcoming memory products, including GDDR7 memory, 16-layer HBM3E stacks, faster LPDDR5T and …

Following on from our initial visit to ASUS HQ in Taiwan and our report from CES, ASUS continues to release details about new products that will hit the market in 2024. We’re now learning more about their upcoming Wi-Fi 7 products for home and business use, as well as new …

During Intel's Q4 2023 earnings call, CEO, Pat Gelsinger, revealed that the upcoming Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake products are expected to provide an impressive threefold boost in AI acceleration compared to Meteor Lake, the first AI-enabled product in Intel's “Core Ultra” range. However, Intel plans to go even further …

Since the release of Half-Life Alyx in 2020, we've not really seen a huge boost in high-quality and widely praised single-player VR titles. We could be heading towards another similarly big release soon though, with a new Metro VR game teased to be in the works.  Half-Life translated very well …

Is this new APU capable of playing games at 1080p? Leo investigates with help from Dark Souls 3

It appears that MSI had a valid reason for withholding the release of a Unify motherboard based on the Z790 chipset. The company has decided to revive its popular MPower series, which was once a go-to choice for overclockers. The MPower line was the first to be ‘OC certified' and …

MSI has a new hardware/game bundle coming up. In partnership with SEGA, MSI is now offering up free PC keys for Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (Yakuza 8), which takes the series from its native Japan to Hawaii for a fresh change in scenery.  From January 26th to February 26th, …

Unfortunately, the MSI RTX 4070 Ti Super graphics card didn't launch on the best terms. As reported by various outlets and confirmed by MSI itself, these cards hit the shelves with a BIOS that wasn't optimal, negatively affecting their performance. Since then, MSI has released updates to the BIOS of …

If you were following the launch of Nvidia's RTX 4070 Ti Super graphics card this week, you will likely have seen something about the MSI Ventus 3X and reports of a sub-par BIOS, with Nvidia themselves suggesting it was performing 5% below expectations. Not one, but two new BIOS revisions were sent to press during the review period, and today we've tested the latest version to see how much difference it really makes...

Intel's recently announced Thunderbolt 5 controller (codenamed Barlow Bridge) was announced back in December. The successor to Thunderbolt 4 comes with significant improvements to the connection standard. Although it's not available on Meteor Lake Core Ultra 100 series laptops, some high-end laptops powered by Raptor Lake-R-HX chips already support the …

Box.co.uk is one of the better known UK-based PC retailers, having been bought out for an impressive £100 million last year. Unfortunately, it seems as though the company has run into legal troubles, forcing them to go into administration. As reported by eTeknix, in the wake of the £100 million …

Does the RX 7600 really need a version with 16GB VRAM? We put it to the test today

With the release of the RTX 4070 Ti Super, Gigabyte has a varied line up of graphics card models, one of which is the Aero OC, featuring the sleek all-white design we've come to expect from this series. We've got one for review as well, so stay tuned for that! …

It looks like some people already have Ryzen 8000G series APUs on their hands. Two of these desktop APUs have been now discovered on Geekbench: the 8-core Ryzen 7 8700G and the 6-core Ryzen 5 8600G...