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We're here in sunny San Jose California for the return of an event that's been a long-time coming: NVIDIA's in-person GTC. The Spring 2024 event, NVIDIA's marquee event for the year, promises to be a big one for NVIDIA, as the company is due to deliver updates on its all-important datacenter accelerator products – the successor to the GH100 GPU and its Hopper architecture – along with NVIDIA's other professional/enterprise hardware, networking gear, and, of course, a slew of software stack updates. In the 5 years since NVIDIA was last able to hold a Spring GTC in person, a great deal has changed for the company. They're now the third biggest company in the world, thanks to explosive sales growth (and even further growth expectations...
MSI’s 49” Optix Curved Display and Oculux 25” High Refresh Monitors Announced
While MSI may be best known for motherboards and laptops, the company is making a big play at the monitor market as well. And this is in a quite...
16 by Joe Shields on 6/6/2018Dell updates Inspiron line with 2nd Gen AMD Ryzen Processors
In another Dell gaming announcement today, they have announced the Inspiron Gaming Desktop 5676 that now adds 2nd Generation AMD Ryzen processors, an update over the 5675 that used...
4 by Joe Shields on 6/6/2018Seagate Shows Off 14 TB Exos HDD, Promises Consumer 14 TB Drives in Q4
Seagate is among many companies that do not announce a new stack of products at every trade show because design-in cycles of modern storage devices are fairly long and...
10 by Anton Shilov on 6/6/2018Lian Li Launches Strimer RGB PSU Cable
Modern enthusiast-grade PCs can have RGB LEDs in almost all components — from motherboard, to memory modules, to SSDs. Meanwhile, one of the things that is not RGB-lit in...
6 by Anton Shilov on 6/6/2018EVGA Goes Budget Part 2: H370 Stinger, with 10 PCB Layers
In light of the B360 Gaming already being shown to us at EVGA’s suite at Computex, cue another interesting surprise in the H370 Stinger. The key headline for this...
6 by Ian Cutress on 6/6/2018HP Announces ProBook x360 440 G1 Notebook: Slim and Secure Convertible
HP introduced the new HP ProBook x360 400 G1 they say is designed to adapt to the way growing business and on-the-go professionals work both inside and outside of...
2 by Joe Shields on 6/6/2018AMD Reveals Threadripper 2 : Up to 32 Cores, 250W, X399 Refresh
One of the surprises from AMD’s first year of the newest x86 Zen architecture was the launch of the Threadripper platform. Despite the mainstream Ryzen processors already taking a...
205 by Ian Cutress on 6/5/2018AMD Computex 2018 Press Event: A Live Blog (10am Taiwan, 2am UTC)
Ready to follow along for another press event? AMD is here, with all the senior faces coming on stage. Follow our live blog to hear what is being announced.
17 by Ian Cutress & Anton Shilov on 6/5/2018We Got a Sneak Peek on Intel’s 28-Core: All You Need To Know
This week at Computex, we saw two big CPU related announcements. The first was the launch of the Intel i7-8086K, a six-core limited edition processor at 5 GHz that...
66 by Ian Cutress on 6/5/2018Realtek Demos RTS-5260 SD 6.0/UHS-III Controller & Card Reader Prototype
Realtek demonstrated its first controller compliant with the SD 6.0 spec and supporting the UHS-III transfer rate of up to 624 MB/s at Computex. The device seems to be...
3 by Anton Shilov on 6/5/2018EVGA X299 Micro2: A Refresh of the X299 Micro
Intel has stated that the next generation of HEDT processors is coming later this year. We fully expect these processors to be motherboard compatible with current Skylake-X processors on...
5 by Ian Cutress on 6/5/2018Geil Announces Super Luce RGB SYNC Series TUF Gaming Alliance Memory
Geil has announced the Super Luce RGB SYNC Series TUF Gaming Alliance memory adding to the existing RGB SYNC series SKUs. Geil’s RGB SYNC series has been around for...
9 by Joe Shields on 6/5/2018TEKQ Shows Off Rapide TB3 SSD, Preps More TB3 Storage Devices
The Thunderbolt 3 technology has gained ground on the markets of premium as well as special-purpose hardware and is enjoying its dominance there. Yet when it comes to more...
2 by Anton Shilov on 6/5/2018EVGA’s New BIOS Interface, with Built-In Stress Testing
One of the criticisms over the years is that EVGA has not been on par with the major motherboard manufacturers when it comes to their BIOS/UEFI interface and feature...
7 by Ian Cutress on 6/5/2018MSI B450 AM4 Motherboards at Computex
AMD's 2000-series Ryzen processors represent an incredible step forward even though they are based on a revamped architecture, but much like Intel's Coffee Lake launch, the company only released...
9 by Joe Shields on 6/5/2018EVGA Goes Budget: B360 Gaming Motherboard Coming Soon
For as long as EVGA has made motherboards, they have focused almost exclusively at the high-end market. For users that want a product that is full of engineering that...
4 by Ian Cutress on 6/5/2018Going BIG: EVGA’s SuperNova 2000W G+ Power Supply
For the systems that run many big PCIe accelerators, multiple processors, and also power a small heating system, EVGA is producing the power supply for you. Coming in at...
6 by Ian Cutress on 6/5/2018MSI Prestige PS42 Laptop: Made For Business
When thinking of MSI laptops, one probably picture the company's powerful gaming rigs. However, the company that makes heavy-hitting notebooks, with names like the Titan and the Dominator, is...
4 by Joe Shields on 6/5/2018EVGA Roboclocker: A Water Cooling Loop for LIQUID NITROGEN
One of the more esoteric elements of the technology industry are the extreme overclockers. Much like what drag racing is for cars, extreme overclocking is to computers: trying anything...
14 by Ian Cutress on 6/5/2018EVGA Next-Gen Power Supply for SFX: Supernova 650 GM
Also on EVGA’s Power Supply list was this little 80 PLUS-rated Gold unit. The aim here for a super small set of power supplies for 450W, 550W, 650W. Obviously...
1 by Ian Cutress on 6/5/2018