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Lian Li’s Awesome O11D Mini Is Getting an EKWB Distroplate

Home News (Image credit: EKWB) Lian Li’s O11D Mini came out at the end of last year (our review here), and thanks to its incredibly modular internals, it’s honestly one of the most fun cases 2020 had to offer. Now, EKWB already has a distribution plate ready for it, and call me weird, but I… Read more

LGA RIP: Modder Turns Old Intel PC Into Cute Coaster for Coffee

Home News (Image credit: Cass Designs YouTube) As you can see in the video below, creator Cass 3D Designs turned his old PC motherboard into a coaster, with its LGA 775 socket and Intel chip front and center. When I retired my old PC from my student times, I cleaned it out and rebuilt it… Read more

Asus’ WRX80 Motherboard for AMD’s Threadripper Pro Is Surprisingly Cheap

Home News (Image credit: Asus) AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper Pro CPUs for workstations are prohibitively expensive due to their exclusive capabilities and positioning. Asus this week announced the pricing of its AMD WRX80-based motherboard, and unlike the processors, the platform isn’t too costly by today’s standards. In Europe, it will carry a price tag that is significantly below a psychologically… Read more

How to Buy a Motherboard: A Guide for 2021

Home Buying Guides Choosing the best motherboard is in many ways the most integral part of your PC build, although choosing the best graphics card and best CPU often get more attention. Every part of your PC plugs into the motherboard you choose. Its form factor dictates the size of your computer and how much you can plug into… Read more

Cytron Announce Raspberry Pi Pico Beginner Breakout Board

Home News (Image credit: Cytron) Malaysian manufacturer Cytron are working on their first Raspberry Pi Pico accessory and so far it looks like it could be a winner. The Maker Pi Pico is a carrier board for the Raspberry Pi Pico which breaks out all of the GPIO pins, along with a few extra features,… Read more

The best SSDs and hard drives 2021 Top portable external drives for your Mac or PC

(Pocket-lint) – With more and more laptops and devices being equipped with flash memory, that often means it becomes too expensive to get a good amount of storage built-in. And, with so many more of us travelling around for work, working from home or needing to use more than one machine, it’s more important than… Read more

Mad Catz F.R.E.Q. 4 Review

Introduction Recently, I reviewed the Mad Catz F.R.E.Q. 2 (reviewed here), a $40 analogue gaming headset with excellent value for the money. The F.R.E.Q. 4 is only slightly more expensive, coming in at $53 if you’re buying it in the US. For European customers, the price gap is currently wider as the F.R.E.Q. 2 goes… Read more

Gigabyte Aorus 17G Review: Ampere and a Blazing Screen

Our Verdict The Gigabyte Aorus 17G pushes out solid RTX-30 series performance while offering a mechanical keyboard. For 300 Hz Screen Physical Mechanical Keyboard Against Not much faster than prior-gen laptops Slightly dim screen Slightly low color gamut Ampere has finally landed on laptops, with Gigabyte’s 2021 refresh of the Aorus 17G in particular representing… Read more

Alienware m15 R4 Gaming Laptop Review: RTX 30-Series Performance, Eye-Popping Color

Our Verdict The Alienware m15 R4 packs plenty of RTX 30-series performance in an attractive design with an amazing screen. For Sleek design Strong performance Snappy Keyboard Vibrant optional OLED Screen Against Warm temperatures Relatively short battery life Nvidia’s RTX 30-series “Ampere” graphics cards have been burning up the desktop market since they launched last… Read more

MSI GP66 Leopard review: substance over style

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. If you’re looking for a gaming rig that’s a step above the budget price point but still more affordable than the flashiest PCs on the market, you’re looking for MSI’s Leopard line. With a starting price of… Read more

MSI’s GS66 Stealth proves the RTX 3080 can handle QHD just fine

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. I had hoped that MSI’s GS66 Stealth for 2021 would look and feel a little different than last year’s model — not that the 2020 version was particularly busted in any major way. In fact, the previous… Read more

LTC MoshPit WHM-01 Review

Introduction Equipped with PixArt’s PAW3335 sensor capable of 16,000 CPI, the LTC MoshPit WHM-01 essentially is a budget Logitech G Pro Wireless. The MoshPit WHM-01 not only has a very similar shape and mostly similar weight (87 g), it also comes with magnetic side buttons on both sides that can be removed if not needed…. Read more

Aorus Adds Quad Slot GeForce RTX 3090 Master To the Family

Home News (Image credit: Gigabyte) If you thought Gigabyte was done making new RTX 3090 SKUs, you’d be wrong, Gigabyte has just released a new RTX 3090 model to the family, the Aorus Master: a huge quadruple slot card with a beefy triple-fan heatsink. Specs-wise you get the RTX 3090 GPU we all know, GA102… Read more

Gigabyte Aorus RGB Memory DDR4-3600 C18 2x8GB Review: Unexpected Strong Performer

Our Verdict Gigabyte’s Aorus RGB Memory DDR4-3600 C18 is a very nice memory kit that’s thwarted by a high price tag and limited availability. For Excellent performance Faster than the similarly-specced competition Against Too expensive Little room for overclocking Lighting requires proprietary software In today’s world, computer hardware vendors have to venture into new markets… Read more

Adafruit Planning Tiny Raspberry Pi Pico Board With USB-C

Home News (Image credit: Future) Adafruit are not resting on their laurels and they are pressing on with their range of RP2040 ‘Pi Silicon’ based boards which use the same chip as the recently released Raspberry Pi Pico. In a recent tweet Adafruit have announced their latest prototype, the QT Py RP2040 a version of… Read more