Digital Storm announced the new Equinox gaming laptop. Powered by a six-core i7-8750H CPU and a GTX 1070 Max-Q GPU along with a 15”, 144Hz, 1080p screen. The firm has been silent in the laptop game lately, so this was a little bit of nice news. The Equinox 15” chassis is only 0.73” thick can have […]
Intel in past microcode update guidance that some older chip architectures going back about a decade would receive updates to address the Spectre vulnerability. However, in a recent microcode revision guidance, the company reversed course. Intel announced that Penryn (launched in 2007), Yorkfield (2007), Wolfdale (2007), Bloomfield (2008), Clarksfield (2009), Nehalem-based Jasper Forest (2010), and Intel Atom […]
Acer announced that its slimmest all-in-one (AIO) desktop PC, the Aspire S24, is now available in the U.S. The previously announced AIO is making its way stateside in the floowing configuration – an Intel Core i5-8250U (Kaby Lake-R) processor with 12GB (1 x 8GB, 1 x 4GB) of DDR4-2133 memory (expandable up to 32GB) and […]
Thermaltake has announced a new RGB fan to its RGB Plus lighting ecosystem. The Pure Plus 12 is a 120mm fan that uses a nine-blade fan rotor and a hydraulic bearing. Thermaltake calls the Pure Plus a radiator fan. Sadly it only packs the maximum static pressure of 1.59mm-H20. As a PWM fan, the Pure […]
Enermax released a new all-in-one (AIO) liquid cooling unit called the LiqFusion. On top of theRGB lighting, which featured around the fans and the waterblock, the LiqFusion includse the built-in flow indicator and tube-mounted pump. Enermax has made the LiqFusion compatible with all motherboard OEMs’ lighting ecosystems. For those without a capable motherboard, the Enermax […]
The rumors of ASRock entering the graphics card market were true. ASRock has launched its Phantom Gaming line of AMD Radeon graphics cards – four cards in total. They are the Phantom Gaming X Radeon RX580 8G OC, RX570 8G OC, RX560 2G, and RX550 2G. All of them feature ASRock’s custom cooling and clock […]
The original Vive headset required an Intel Core i5-4590 or an AMD FX 8350 or better processor, and a Nvidia GeForce GTX 970/1060 or an AMD Radeon R9 280/R9 390/RX 480 or better GPU. The system also requires a USB 2.0 port and a copy of Windows 7, Windows 8.x, or Windows 10. But HTC’s […]
Acer released the Chromebook Tab 10, a Chrome OS-based tablet targeted towards the education market. The 10” tablet packs surprisingly high-end specs, including a near-2K screen and Wacom EMR-based pen input. The Chromebook Tab 10 is merely Acer’s newest addition to this lineup. Starting with the basic specs, the Tab 10 has a 2048 x […]
Thermaltake launched its first copper radiators- the Pacific CL series. These are heavy radiators coming in at 64mm of thickness in 360mm, 420mm, and 480mm sizes. The traditional thought of custom watercooling says one should never let copper and aluminum parts mixed it up in a water loop. Do so, with good planning and knowledge, […]
AMD’s CTO Mark Papermaster released a blog post which both acknowledges the security vulnerabilities first shown by a CTS Labs report last week, while also laying the foundation how they would be addressed. Though the company had already acknowledged the report, and at least one other independent security company validated the claims, we had yet […]