Category: Hardware

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti launches

The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti officially launched March 10, 2017 at a MSRP of $699. This is the latest Nvidia graphics card in the GeForce 10 series based on Pascal microarchitecture. It uses a cut down chip from the TITAN

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Ryzen 7 1800X, 1700X, and 1700 CPUs launch

Ryzen 7 1800X, 1700X, and 1700 processors were released March 2nd. These are the latest high-performance processors released by AMD based on the Zen microarchitecture. Hardware manufacturers also launched new motherboards equipped with AM4 sockets and new chipsets to take

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BLU R1 HD is the best Android phone of 2016 for price & features

The BLU R1 HD is the best Android phone of 2016 for price and feature set. Specs include a 1.3 GHz quad-core MediaTek processor, 2 GB RAM, 16 GB of internal storage, 4G LTE all behind a 5-inch Gorilla Glass 3 display.

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AMD announces Ryzen processor based on “Zen” architecture

Yesterday AMD announced Ryzen, their latest generation high-performance processors, at the “New Horizon” fan event. This is the first CPU based on “Zen” microarchitecture which has been under development for the last four years. Besides new silicon chips, AMD also

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Apple releases new iPhone 7 sans headphone jack

Apple released it’s new phones but unlike past versions the iPhone 7 is designed without the headphone jack. The decision to drop the 3.5 mm headphone jack is part of Cupertino’s overall design aesthetic of making devices smaller at the

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AMD brings unified Linux driver stack with “AMDGPU”

Last month at the XDC2015 conference AMD detailed plans for their Linux driver stack dubbed “AMDGPU”. At the center of AMDGPU is a new open-source Kernel driver that interfaces both closed and open source user-mode drivers (UMDs) unifying it’s driver

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Intel Core i7-6700K available at Newegg & TigerDirect

Computer system builders rejoice you can buy the Intel Core i7-6700K from Newegg & TigerDirect without a bundle or hassle. That’s right the allusive i7-6700K is in stock and available to purchase in the US! I recently wrote about the

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i7-6700K available at Newegg as combo only

I wrote about the availability of Intel’s Core i7-6700K in the United Stats recently and noted it was not available at any of the major US computer parts retailers. Today, Newegg does have it in stock with one catch: you

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Intel’s Skylake Core i7-6700K availability still low in the US

August 5th was the official launch of Intel’s new 6th Generation processors codename Skylake. Two new chips were released: the Intel Core i5-6600K 6M Skylake Quad-Core 3.5 GHz and the Intel Core i7-6700K 8M Skylake Quad-Core 4.0 GHz but at

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GeForce Windows 10 Driver update for The Phantom Pain

NVIDIA released a new GeForce Game Ready WHQL driver Monday August 31st 2015. This driver coincides with the release of the game Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, which NVIDIA offers for free with the purchase of a new

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