Hardware

Seagate Barracuda Pro 3.5-inch 4TB
11 Feb

Seagate Barracuda Pro vs WD Black: Hard Drive Performance Review

For larger hard drisk drive (HDD) needs and general purpose use, I wanted to see how the Barracuda Pro compared against the Western Digital Black series and the Seagate FireCuda SSHD drives. I did a full review of both gaming and productivity usage to see which drives provides the best value and performance overall.

AMD Radeon VII
07 Feb

AMD Launches Radeon VII Flagship 7nm GPU

AMD has launched their NVIDIA RTX 2080 rival, named Radeon VII based on second-generation Vega and built as the worlds first 7nm GPU.

Threadripper Second Generation
13 Aug

AMD Threadripper 2nd Generation Release

AMD releases another milestone in the high-end desktop (HEDT) market pushing cores to 32 and threads to 64 with their Threadripper 2 2990WX, 2970WX, 2950X and 2920X processors.

Seagate FireCuda vs WD Black
24 Jul

Seagate FireCuda vs WD Black: Hard Drive Performance Review

Are SSHD a horrible idea? How does the FireCuda SSHD perform compared to the high performing WD Black series HDD? We took the time to see if Seagate's SSHD FireCuda drive can even compete.

DEEPCOOL Tristellar SW
23 Jul

DEEPCOOL Tristellar SW: Review

Looking for a great showcase battlestation? DEEPCOOL has you covered with the uniquely styled Tristellar mITX compatible case. We did a build review to see how this case stacks up against the rest.

Seagate FireCuda 2.5-inch 2TB
14 Jul

Seagate FireCuda 2.5 SSHD: Review

Unhappy with the information available on the Seagate FireCuda 2.5-inch SSHD, I decided to do a deep dive to determine how well it delivers on Seagate's promises. Let's see if this drive is a suitable replacement for your Xbox, PS4, Laptop, or external drive!

Intel 9th Generation Coffee Lake Refresh
03 Jul

Intel Reveals 9th Generation Coffee Lake Refresh

Intel releases specification information for 9th Generation Coffee Lake refresh. We dug through the specifications document to pull the details of each mainstream desktop processor.

Intel Spectre Hardening Microcode
03 Jul

Intel Releases Spectre Hardening Microcode Update

On the heels of additional Spectre and Meltdown based exploits, Intel releases new microcode hardening information dating back to first Intel Core series Westmere.

ASRock Phantom Gaming Vega 64
03 Jul

ASRock Launches RX Vega Graphics Cards

As the market becomes flooded with graphics cards (GPUs), we get additional options with the high quality ASRock RX Vega 64 and RX Vega 56 reference cards. This should help further stabilize the pricing and allow gamers to pickup Vega series cards closer to MSRP.

Vega 56 Nano
23 Jun

PowerColor Launches AMD RX Vega 56 Nano

PowerColor has taken the Vega series a step further with the launch of Vega 56 Nano Edition. Looking to make the most of your mITX build, Powercolor has you covered!