Giving Red a performance punch in the arm.Introduction Storage giant WD splits its eponymous internal solid-state drives (SSDs) into six recognisable families. Performance is taken care of by ...

The final GeForce RTX 3080 to grace the labs is from Nvidia stalwart EVGA. Part of a five-strong line-up, the XC3 Ultra Gaming slots neatly into the middle of the stack, above the regular XC3 and ...

Greenlit for 7GB/s. Introduction AMD's adoption of the PCIe 4.0 interface for M.2 storage has provided the necessary boon for vendors specialising in cutting-edge drives. Intel is moving over to ...

Jumbo all-in-one coolling. Introduction Arctic has served as a go-to provider of no-nonsense coolers for the best part of two decades. The firm's traditional CPU heatsinks are renowned for ...

EVGA is best known for its high-quality range of Nvidia graphics cards, and with over two decades of experience, that reputation is well deserved. The firm's custom cards typically rank high in ...

Introduction AMD's newest desktop GPU, Radeon RX 6600 XT is an impressive piece of engineering hamstrung by the twin evils of a subjectively high SEP and lack of availability. On the plus side ...

Radeon RX 6900 XT Analysis The table summarises the many similarities between the 6000 Series line-up. This most powerful of Navi products uses the same 26.8bn transistor die but in a fuller form ...

The latest BIOS, meanwhile, implements Adaptive Boost Technology (ABT) for the test Core i9-11900K chip. Activating it pushes the all-core frequency up from 4.8GHz to 5.0GHz... along with a rise ...

MSI isn't reinventing the wheel here, and neither should it attempt to. Few companies have the necessary expertise to build modern NVMe PCIe M.2 SSDs from scratch. Spatium M480 uses a tried-and ...

This important point is made clearer by a brief look into the cost of purchasing either Core i5 or Ryzen 5 today. The table shows in-stock banding for various processors, and while the latest ...

A report published by Taiwan's Commercial Times newspaper provides an interesting glance at the future, with a list of TSMC N5 and N5+ customers plus their respective chip designs. TSMC's N5 node ...

Introduction Graphics card launches have moved into top gear as Nvidia and AMD flesh out the premium end of the market with a slew of boards based on Ampere and Navi technology, respectively. The ...