We are days away from the AMD Ryzen 3000 launch so benchmarks are starting to be leaked. Samples of these CPUs will be with review sites so the accuracy of leaked benchmarks is likely to be high. One such leak, via VideoCardz shows some impressive gains from the previous generation of CPUs. AMD’s Ryzen 5…
Update – The Call for Maker will be extended to the 8th of July in part by popular demand in part because The Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities wants to receive projects on the topic of Cultural Heritage and related technologies. Financial troubles have forced Maker Media, the company behind Make: magazine and…
At the consumer level, Ethernet has been stuck at a gigabit for years, and it is only the past generation or so of motherboards that have started to introduced 10gbe NICs for the higher end models. This is becoming more prevalent with the new AMD X570 motherboards, and with Wi-Fi 6 we are beginning to…
Announced last year in the form of Bose AR, the Bose Frames were a pair of sunglasses that were supposed to offer augmented reality functionality via audio. Between then and the release date they were released as Bose Frames and no AR functionality has been launched. This, therefore, leaves these as a pair of sunglasses…
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…