5G is finally here, EE was the first company to launch it in the UK and this is being followed up by Vodafone on the 3rd of July and Three sometime in the near future. So after so many years of hype is it worth it and what is the best phone to get 5G…
If you are on the lookout for a new laptop this year then the Intel Core i7-1065G7 CPU is shaping up to be the perfect option. Intel’s new 10nm Ice Lake CPU will be found in premium laptops such as the Dell XPS 13 7390 2-in-1 which is due to launch by the end of…
I have recently been on a mission to set up an affordable gaming PC that can be located in my living room and act as an all in one gaming and media PC. While I would like a high-end rig using one of the RTX based cards, I can’t quite justify its expense, nor would…
Not only is the Xiaomi Redmi K20 Pro one of the most affordable flagship phones on the market, but it is now the fastest, according to AnTuTu benchmarks. Manu Kumar Jain, Managing Director of Xiaomi India, has put out a tweet revealing that the Redmi K20 Pro smartphone has scored 388,803 points in the AnTuTu…
Following my Gigabyte GTX 1650 review, I have also been trying out the Zotac GeForce GTX 1660 with the aim to build an affordable gaming PC that can sit in the living room, which is also a capable media PC with Plex server and hardware transcoding. Following a recent eBay 15% off voucher, I impulse…
An eagle-eyed Reddit user noticed that Danish retailer Komplett has listed the pricing of the latest Ryzen 3000 CPUs & X570 motherboards early. The prices include the 25% sales tax in Denmark, so it is possible that direct currency conversion is accurate. For example, they have the AMD Ryzen 7 2700X as 2.499DKK which is…
I have recently been wanting to build an affordable gaming PC that can sit in the living room, which is also a capable media PC with Plex server and hardware transcoding. Following a recent eBay 15% off voucher, I impulse bought the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1650 Windforce OC 4G, which is about the bottom rung…
With the new AMD Ryzen CPUs launching in a few days, most people are excited about what the new generation of AMD chips have to offer and if they can deliver on the claimed 15% IPC claims. However, the Intel 10nm Sunny Cove ’10th Gen Ice Lake’ CPUs have recently been announced for laptops, and…
With the launch of both the 12-core 3900X and 16-core 3950X CPUs, the differences between the HEDT are becoming blurred and the trend looks set to continue. References towards another premium chipset, the X590, have been spotted by Computerbase which indicates more PCIe lanes and higher prices. The speculation arose from a Twitter user, 1usmus,…
There is no denying that our lives are running at a fast pace and we too are running to keep it balanced. In our fast moving life, we are mostly using our phones, laptops, tablets, etc. to continuously be active with our work. Since these gadgets are so important in our daily life; can we…
The Xiaomi Redmi K20 Pro is arguably one of the best phones of the year thanks to its low prices and superb specs. Sadly for UK users, there is no word on the Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro yet, though the none pro Snapdragon 730 Mi 9T variant has launched and is available from Amazon.es. Redmi…
With the 7nm fabrication process, AMD has been able to double their core count on the mainstream Ryzen line-up using the AM4 socket. With the announcement of the Ryzen 9 3950X, the current 2950X Threadripper looks redundant. So it will probably come as no surprise that the new Threadripper chips will continue the trend of massively…