Patriot Viper VP4300 Lite 1TB M.2 PCIe Gen4 x4 Gaming SSD Review

Storage/SSD by stefan @ 2024-05-12 read/post comments(0)

The MaxioTech MAP1602A along with YMTC Xtacking 3.0 NAND combo performs well even when dealing with lower capacity drives as the Patriot Viper VP4300 Lite 1TB, succeeding write rates over 900MB/s even when the pSLC cache has been fully filled. It makes use of HBM instead of DRAM caching, while the heatspreader does help with heat evacuation to permit operation in environments with less than ideal airflow, such as the PS5. read more

Silicon Power XPOWER Zenith RGB 2x32GB DDR5 6000MHz Memory Kit Review

Memory by stefan @ 2024-05-07 read/post comments(0)

The XPOWER Zenith RGB DDR5-6000 64GB memory kit from Silicon Power does impress regarding total capacity, tighter timings used for both XMP and EXPO profiles but also with the fact we can overclock the modules further in order to obtain some extra performance. The RGB lighting offered by the modules is not tied to a specific platform, but supports most known motherboard utilities: BIOSTAR was not listed as compatible, but their utility could control the modules just fine! read more

AQIRYS ALYA 2.0 Wireless Gaming Headset Review

Audio/Others by stefan @ 2024-05-05 read/post comments(0)

After fully charging the headset, we started listening to different YouTube videos, watched a couple of movies but also played a couple of sessions in NFS Unbound, Fallout 4, Minion Masters and Dead Island Definitive Edition; we have noted an improvement regarding high and mid frequencies, which resulted in clearer voices, while maintaining a good representation of bass, ideal for a gaming headset! The battery capacity has been also doubled with the new revision, allowing up to 50 hours of usage from a single charge, while the 4-hour charge time remained the same, which is great! read more

Crucial 64GB Kit (2x32GB) DDR5-4800 SODIMM Memory Kit Review

Memory by stefan @ 2024-04-28 read/post comments()

After a rather long initial boot time for training purposes, our Lenovo Legion Pro 5 16IRX8 laptop loaded Windows OS successfully and the test results were surprisingly good overall, in many cases exceeding the performance of the previously tested Silicon Power kit. The capacity is the main highlight for the Crucial DDR5-4800 64GB SODIMM kit, allowing for complicated and memory-intensive processes to be ran at the same time, such as virtual machines, encoding and rendering tasks and so on. read more

GravaStar Sirius P5 Combo Earphones Review

Audio/Others by stefan @ 2024-04-21 read/post comments(0)

After connecting the Sirius P5 set to our Samsung S24 smartphone, we started listening to various TV shows via Plex, YouTube videos but also listened to some music: the earphones sound really good, with an impressive amount of bass for such small drivers, while the voices are delivered with clarity. The capacitive controls on each earbud do allow actions such as answering phone calls, audio track skipping, play/pause, volume control or we can also activate the voice assistant. If we are playing games, there is also a mode which minimizes latency to about 48ms, which is great! read more

Crucial Pro Overclocking 32GB Kit (2x16GB) DDR5-6000 Review

Memory by stefan @ 2024-04-18 read/post comments(0)

The new Pro Series Overclocking kits from Crucial do function with tighter timings for obtaining a better performance overall versus the regular SKUs. Thoroughly tested for both Intel and AMD platforms, these can be considered as plug-and-play, by only activating the necessary XMP/EXPO profile; if the platform we are using is not exactly mainstream-to-high-end, we can still utilize the kits with the compatibility profiles, which is great! read more
Others/Mice & Keyboards CHERRY KC 200 MX Mechanical Keyboard Review by stefan @ 2024-04-14
Others/Mice & Keyboards AQIRYS LIBERTAS Gaming Keyboard Review by stefan @ 2024-04-07
Memory Silicon Power 2x16GB DDR5 4800MHz CL40 SODIMM Memory Kit Review by stefan @ 2024-04-03
Storage/SSD KIOXIA EXCERIA PLUS G3 NVMe Gen4 2TB SSD Review by stefan @ 2024-03-31
Memory ANACOMDA Eryx Tataricus RGB 4x16GB DDR5 6000MHz Memory Setup Review by stefan @ 2024-03-27

Hardware or Gadgets/Multimedia news

Corsair iCUE Link RX120, RX120 RGB, RX140 RGB Cooling Fans Review @ APH Networks

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Description: The Corsair iCUE Link RX120, RX120 RGB, and RX140 RGB are quality cooling fans that provide a great balance between airflow, static pressure, and noise. Go To Full Article

Ghost of Tsushima Lets You Use DLSS 2 and FSR 3 Frame Generation Together

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The latest update of Ghost of Tsushima lets you use DLSS 2 super-resolution and FSR 3 Frame Generation simultaneously, so you have the unique benefit of having the NVIDIA DLSS 2 handle super resolution and image quality, while letting the… Go To Full Article

PNY RP60 1TB Portable SSD

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" ... The PNY RP60 is a compact light-weight portable SSD that offers fast read/write performance thanks to its USB 3.2 Gen2x2 Type-C interface. Featuring IP65 water/dust resistance, it's a great external storage device for gamers and content creators who… Go To Full Article

COLORFUL Introduces the new EVOL G Series Gaming Laptops

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Colorful Technology Company Limited, a leading brand in gaming PC components, gaming laptops, and Hi-fi audio products, proudly introduces the new EVOL G Series gaming laptops powered by the 13th Generation Intel Core processors and NVIDIA RTX 4060 graphics. The… Go To Full Article

Sapphire unveils Radeon RX 7700 XT Pure Frostpunk 2 Edition

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Sapphire has unveiled its newest Radeon RX 7700 XT Pure Frostpunk 2 Edition graphics card which comes as a collaboration with 11 Bit Studios, a developer behind the latest Frostpunk 2 game. The card will carry the Frostpunk theme, and… Go To Full Article

AMD releases new AMD Software Adrenalin Edition 24.5.1 WHQL driver

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AMD has released its newest AMD Software Adrenalin Edition 24.5.1 WHQL driver which adds support for Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut, Senua's Saga: Hellblade II, and F1 24 games, as well as new HYPR-Tune support for a couple of games,… Go To Full Article

Winamp to “open up” its source code

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Winamp will open up its code for the player used on Windows, enabling the entire community to participate in its development. This is an invitation to global collaboration, where developers worldwide can contribute their expertise, ideas, and passion to help… Go To Full Article

OpenAI strikes deal to put Reddit posts in ChatGPT

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OpenAI and Reddit announced a partnership on Thursday that will allow OpenAI to surface Reddit discussions in ChatGPT and for Reddit to bring AI-powered features to its users. The partnership will “enable OpenAI’s tools to better understand and showcase Reddit… Go To Full Article

TSMC to Expand Specialty Capacity by 50%

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With all the new fabs being built in Germany and Japan, as well as the expansion of production capacity in China, TSMC is planning to extend its production capacity for specialty technologies by 50% by 2027. As disclosed by the… Go To Full Article

Grand Theft Auto 6 will arrive in fall 2025

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“Our outlook reflects a narrowing of Rockstar Games’ previously established window of Calendar 2025 to Fall of Calendar 2025 for Grand Theft Auto VI,” Take-Two Chairman and CEO Strauss Zelnick wrote in the earnings report. “We are highly confident that… Go To Full Article

ASUS Leaks its own Snapdragon X Elite Notebook

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Courtesy of ASUS Vietnam (via @rquandt on X/Twitter), we now have an idea of what ASUS' first Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite notebook will look like, but also what the main specifications are. It will share the Vivobook S 15 OLED… Go To Full Article

Noctua NH-D9L & NH-D12L chromax.black CPU Coolers Review

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Description: Both the NH-D9L and NH-D12L are not just award-winning compact CPU coolers by Noctua, they’ve also recently joined their chromax.black ranks. Go To Full Article

What is Tandem OLED and How Does It Work?

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Apple a new iPad Pro for 2024 that features the new M4 chip, an ultra-sleek profile, and what Apple is calling "Tandem OLED" technology. So what exactly does this mean? Is it just another fancy Apple marketing term? Let's find… Go To Full Article

HBO’s upcoming MoviePass documentary is a must-watch for fans of tech trainwrecks

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The rise and fall of MoviePass is one of those stories just begging for the documentary treatment and, well, HBO has got you covered. The platform just set a premiere date of May 29 for MoviePass, MovieCrash, a documentary helmed… Go To Full Article

Western Digital Unveils World's Highest Capacity 2.5" Portable HDDs

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With the explosion of digital content, people need bigger and more robust solutions to help access and preserve it all. Western Digital today is introducing a portable HDD expansion across its WD, WD_BLACK and SanDisk Professional product lineups, boasting the… Go To Full Article

What to expect from Microsoft Build 2024: The Surface event

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If you can't tell by now, just about every tech company is eager to pray at the altar of AI, for better or worse. Google's recent I/O developer conference was dominated by AI features, like its seemingly life-like Project Astra… Go To Full Article

Sony’s new smartphone could entice shutterbugs away from Apple and Google

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Sony used to be a fairly major player in the smartphone space, but its offerings never quite made a splash in the US. Despite that, the company has been pumping out yearly refreshes of its Xperia line of smartphones and… Go To Full Article

EA Sports' dormant College Football will reemerge, cicada-like, on July 19

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Michigan running back Donovan Edwards, Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers and Colorado wide receiver/defensive back Travis Hunter are the cover stars. College Football 25 will include thousands of current athletes and feature 134 schools in the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision… Go To Full Article

Meta's Threads gets its own Tweetdeck clone

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People who are part of the test can set up to “pinned columns” that will track updates around specific topics, tags, accounts or search terms. Users can also opt to have these columns automatically refresh with new content. For now,… Go To Full Article

Activision forms a studio to develop a brand-spanking new IP

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The team is headquartered in Warsaw, which is where CD Projekt Red cooks up The Witcher and Cyberpunk games, with assistance from a smaller US-based group. The company hasn’t given one ounce of detail regarding the IP itself, just saying… Go To Full Article

PPSSPP App Brings PSP Emulation to iPhones

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The age of emulation on iPhones has officially kicked off, thanks to Apple's relaxed rules on the App Store. Delta is the most known one, allowing for emulating several Nintendo consoles, but we also got Gamma, which can emulate the… Go To Full Article

Introducing ORIGIN PC's new EON16-SX, NSX-16, NSL-14, and NSL-16 Laptops

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ORIGIN PC, a leader in custom high-performance systems, today launched their latest laptops - the EON16-SX, NSX-16, NSL-14, and NSL-16. For gamers, the EON16-SX offers powerful 40-Series performance and the latest in processing efficiency with an Intel Core Ultra processor.… Go To Full Article

XFX Launches Phoenix Nirvana Series Radeon RX Graphics Cards in White

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XFX earlier this month debuted the Phoenix Nirvana line of premium custom-design Radeon RX 7900 series graphics cards with the China-exclusive RX 7900 XTX Phoenix Nirvana. The company is expanding this lineup with two new models, both of which are… Go To Full Article

Silverstone Shark Force 120 mm Fan @ TechPowerUp

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The Silverstone Shark Force 120 is a performance-optimized 120 mm fan with minimal frills and a clean look backed by good build quality. It offers a zero RPM mode as part of a long RPM control range and pushes a… Go To Full Article

Ampere Scales AmpereOne Product Family to 256 Cores

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Ampere Computing today released its annual update on upcoming products and milestones, highlighting the company's continued innovation and invention around sustainable, power efficient computing for the Cloud and AI. The company also announced that they are working with Qualcomm Technologies,… Go To Full Article

8Bitdo's Ultimate Controller with charging dock is back on sale for $56

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8BitDo makes some of our most beloved third-party game controllers. They work with just about everything and they’re well-built. Right now, you can scoop up a bundle with an 8BitDo Ultimate Controller and a charging dock for $56 via Amazon.… Go To Full Article

ASUS ROG Ally X Gets a Memory Upgrade to 24 GB

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The ROG Ally X handheld gaming console ASUS plans to unveil on June 2, has not just a fixed microSD card slot, and a 40% larger battery, but also an upgraded main memory, MysteryLupin, a reliable source with ASUS leaks,… Go To Full Article

Philips Announces Evnia 49M2C8900L QD-OLED Ultrawide Monitor

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This new Evnia gaming monitor is stacked with visual power. Philips Monitors introduces its latest addition to the premium Evnia 8000 monitor series. The Philips Evnia 49M2C8900L is jam-packed with powerful features like a 48.9-inch (124.3 cm) QD-OLED panel, a… Go To Full Article

EK Unveils New EK-Quantum Momentum² Quad RAM Module Set D-RGB For DDR4 and DDR5

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EK, a leader in premium liquid cooling solutions, proudly unveils the EK-Quantum Momentum² Quad RAM Module Set D-RGB, an advanced cooling solution meticulously designed for effective thermal management of DDR4 and DDR5 memory modules. This comprehensive set includes a water… Go To Full Article

The Arctic Cooling Freezer 36 ARGB CPU Cooler Review

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As modern high-performance CPUs generate more heat, there's been a noticeable increase in the demand for powerful air coolers capable of managing these thermal challenges. Traditional stock air coolers, while sufficient for regular use, are typically designed to be cheap… Go To Full Article

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