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ASUS ROG Claymore II: The keyboard with removable num pad is wireless

The first version of the ROG Claymore with its removable num pad was already a remarkable keyboard. As the ROG Claymore II, it is now also wireless and has the opto-mechanical ROG RX switches. With the ROG Claymore II, ASUS wants to appeal to players who actually like a compact one Using a keyboard without… Read more

Contract manufacturers on the rise: TSMC's sales and profits continue to grow

TSMC has published its figures for the fourth quarter 2020 and for the entire past year. According to the published figures, sales increased by 13% compared to the same quarter of the previous year, but only by 4.4% compared to the three months immediately before. The profit makes a jump of 23%. Business at TSMC… Read more

ASUS Laptop BR1100: A daily companion for homeschooling

With the laptop BR 1100 ASUS took part in the digital CES 2021 presented an ultraportable, but very robust notebook, which in times of the corona pandemic is primarily intended to appeal to and support teachers and students in homeschooling. Not even 300 Euros are called for it. The ASUS Laptop BR 1100 has a… Read more

ASUS VivoBook S14: Noble ultrabook with Evo certification

Also the latest generation of the ASUS VivoBook S 14 can come up with a compact and elegant housing and powerful hardware. As part of the digital CES 2021, the new edition has now been presented, which has even earned Intel’s Evo certification. The new ASUS VivoBook S 14 (S 435) is an elegant, light… Read more

Synology presents the RackStations RS1221 + and RS1221RP +

Synology now has RackStations RS 1221 + and RS 1221 RP + presented to the public. The 2U rack storage servers have a total of eight slots and, according to the manufacturer, were developed for smaller companies. The RS 1221 + and RS 1221 RP + are the first RackStation models according to Synology, equipped… Read more

Aqua Computer is also working on a water-cooled backplate

As part of the EK EXPO, EK Water Blocks also showed current plans to bring water coolers onto the market which, in addition to the front of the graphics card, also actively cool the back using a water cooling circuit. In the comments we were pointed out that EKWB is of course not the first… Read more

GeForce RTX 30 series: MSI shows Sea Hawk series with hybrid cooling

In the run-up to the CES, MSI published a teaser that is based on the new Sea Hawk cards of the GeForce RTX – 30 – series indicated. The assumption at the time that MSI would again enter into a partnership with EK Water Blocks or Corsair, however, has not been confirmed, because MSI is… Read more

MSI announces its own PCI Express SSDs

Hardly any manufacturer has positioned itself as broadly as MSI in recent years. A few years ago the company was mainly known for its graphics cards, motherboards and notebooks, but the product portfolio now also includes numerous other gaming components. These include housings, input devices, headsets and even monitors. As part of the digital CES… Read more

Star Wars: Ubisoft develops open world Star Wars game

Disney recently breathed new life into the Lucasfilm Games brand. At the same time it was announced that Bethesda was working on an Indina Jones game at Machine Games, and now the next surprise follows. As the news portal Wired reported, Ubisoft has apparently succeeded in securing the licenses for the production of an open-world… Read more

ASUS ROG SWIFT PG32UQ: 32-inch display with 4K, 144 Hz and HDMI 2.1

With the ROG SWIFT PG 32 UQ has a new ASUS 32 – inch monitor with UHD resolution ( 3. 840 x 2. 160 pixels) and 144 Hz refresh rate announced. Particularly noteworthy is the HDMI 2.1 support. With this new HDMI standard, the PG 32 Let UQ be used optimally in connection with the… Read more

Lenovo has given the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 and X1 Yoga Gen 6 a 16:10 display

Lenovo has thoroughly refreshed its premium business models ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 and ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 6. It is particularly noticeable that it is the first time 16: 10 – Displays received. With this, Lenovo is turning away from previously used 16: 9 format from. The jump to 15: 10 is not quite… Read more

Gaming latecomers: ASUS presents the TUF Gaming Dash F15

With the ROG Flow X 13, the ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE or the new Strix devices were presented by ASUS yesterday as part of an online live stream for the CES 2021 a variety of new gaming notebooks. Today the embargo on TUF Gaming Dash F 12, a completely new serial member of the… Read more

ASUS ZenBook Pro Duo 15 and 14: Hardware and secondary display improvements

After ASUS devoted itself to its ROG gaming notebooks yesterday and, among other things, its first 2-in-1 gaming convertible or the new edition of the popular ROG Zephyrus G 14, the ZenBook family was the focus of the digital CES today 2021. The new ASUS ZenBook Pro Duo 11 OLED and the ASUS ZenBook Duo… Read more

Graphics card availability: NVIDIA and AMD dampen expectations for new shipments

Although a few months have passed since the official sales start of the new generation of graphics cards, it is still hardly possible to buy an NVIDIA RTX – 3000 – graphics card or an AMD Radeon RX 6000 – GPU at a reasonable price. Now the two companies have commented on the shortage and… Read more

AMD makes Ryzen Threadripper Pro processors available to everyone

The move to make the Ryzen Threadripper Pro processors not only accessible to a few OEMs and SIs has long been suspected and has now been confirmed by AMD. AMD announced at CES that the workstation processors with 112 instead of 64 PCI Express 4.0 lanes and eight instead of four storage channels, end customers… Read more