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Gigabyte Z590I AORUS Ultra Review

Introduction After almost a decade of total market dominance, Intel has spent the past few years on the defensive. AMD’s Ryzen processors continue to show improvement year over year, with the most recent Ryzen 5000 series taking the crown of best gaming processor: Intel’s last bastion of superiority. Now, with a booming hardware market, Intel… Read more

Asus is riding a new wave of compact RTX 3060 cards with this bulky GPU

Unlike most GPUs in the RTX 3000 series, Nvidia’s RTX 3060 graphics cards can be relatively compact. The dual-fan EVGA RTX 3060 XC we reviewed measured just 201.8mm long, for example, making it easy to fit in most gaming cases. But if you want something even smaller, Asus has become the latest to announce a… Read more

Asus Releases Tiny GeForce RTX 3060 For SFF Systems

Home News Phoenix GeForce RTX 3060 (Image credit: Asus) Good things can come in small packages too. Asus has shrunk Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3060 into a compact graphics card, the Phoenix GeForce RTX 3060, that can practically fit into any system. The Phoenix GeForce RTX 3060 (PH-RTX3060-12G) is based on GeForce RTX 3060, meaning you… Read more

Adafruit Demos Tiny RP2040 Board Ahead of Release

Home News (Image credit: Adafruit) Adafruit’s smallest RP2040 board is still coming soon, but in a recent video, Adafruit founder Limor “Ladyada” Fried demonstrated the QT Py 2040, a tiny board powered by the same chip as a Raspberry Pi Pico, using a community Arduino core that enables any RP2040 board to be used with… Read more

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 3 review: a ThinkPad with a twist

The ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 3 is a ThinkPad through and through. It’s got the keyboard nub, the discrete mouse buttons, and the all-black chassis with scattered dots of red. (If you’ve seen its predecessor, the ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 2, you’ll know what you’re getting — the models are identical, with different chips.) But… Read more

Apple iPhone SE (2020) vs iPhone XR vs iPhone 11: What’s the difference?

(Pocket-lint) – The iPhone SE (second generation) is essentially an iPhone 8 externally but with the innards from the iPhone 11. It’s the natural successor to the long-discontinued but very popular iPhone SE from 2016. squirrel_widget_167218 That means you’re getting some flagship features for a mid-range price. Wireless charging and waterproofing stick around, plus the single-camera… Read more

For the Bees: Emtek Launches Miracle GeForce RTX 3060 With Honeycombs

Home News (Image credit: VideoCardz) There are few ways to attract attention to a graphics card these days. One is to equip it with a surplus voltage regulator module (VRM) and increase frequencies of its GPU and memory to their limits, pleasing performance enthusiasts willing to pay a premium. Alternatively, you could just install a… Read more

Klevv Bolt XR DDR4-3600 C18 2x16GB Review: The RGB-Less Commoner

Our Verdict The Bolt XR DDR4-3600 C18 is a memory kit that gels great any processor. If you can find it in your region, it’s worth your attention. For Decent performance Overclocking upside Low-profile, RGB-less design Against Currently unavailable at U.S. retailers Not every piece of computer memory needs to have fancy heatsinks or flashy… Read more

Competitively priced Motorola G100 and G50 offer 90Hz screens and 5,000mAh batteries

Motorola has unveiled the G100 and G50, two midrange phones headed first for European and Latin American markets. Both offer displays with fast 90Hz refresh rates for smooth scrolling and animations, 5G connectivity, and they embrace Motorola’s ethos of “more battery, more better” with huge 5,000mAh cells. The higher-end G100 is poised to compete with… Read more

Modular Mini Computer PocKit Now Powered by Raspberry Pi

Home News (Image credit: PocKit) Building a PC is often compared to assembling a Lego kit. Modular devices extend the comparison by offering hot-swappable components that can be arranged to suit a variety of use cases, and the latest attempt to deliver on this promise is Project PocKit, a work-in-progress Liliputing highlighted after seeing its… Read more

12 of the best Cambridge Audio products of all time

Home Features (Image credit: Cambridge) In the early 1960s, before it became known as ‘Silicon Fen’, the small university city of Cambridge, long a magnet for scientists and engineers, started to attract a new breed of technologically minded entrepreneurs. It was in this stimulating environment, with networks of like-minded people, that a group of young… Read more

Huawei P40 Pro+ vs. Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra: Battle of the super phones

(Pocket-lint) – 2020 was the year of the ultra-premium super phones – among other things – with more than one manufacturer now offering a big, spec monsters. They also started becoming far more expensive than previous generations of flagship. For Samsung, that beast was the S20 Ultra. For Huawei, the P40 Pro+ led the lineup. Unfortunate… Read more

DJI Mavic Air vs DJI Spark: Worth the upgrade?

(Pocket-lint) – The first generation Mavic Air and the DJI Spark were the two smallest drones in the company’s profuct offering when they first launched. They’ve since been replaced by the Mini and the Air 2, but if you’re looking to get into droning with something small and easy, you could still do worse than… Read more

MSI MPG Z590 Carbon EK X Review

Introduction After almost a decade of total market dominance, Intel has spent the past few years on the defensive. AMD’s Ryzen processors continue to show improvement year over year, with the most recent Ryzen 5000 series taking the crown of best gaming processor: Intel’s last bastion of superiority. Now, with a booming hardware market, Intel… Read more

The Black Shark 4 is a high-end gaming phone that doesn’t look like one

Xiaomi’s Black Shark brand has announced its fourth series of gaming phones, the Black Shark 4 and 4 Pro. They improve on the previous series in most of the ways you’d expect them to. There’s a faster processor, moving up to the Snapdragon 870 in the standard Black Shark 4 and the Snapdragon 888 in… Read more