Sadly we did not get the announcement for the desktop AMD 3000-series Ryzen chips at CES. However, AMD is launching the first parts of the Ryzen 3000-series of processors, focused around the Ryzen Mobile 2nd Gen family for both the general 15W market as well as the high-performance 35W market. The new range of processors are based…
Razer was the first company in recent years to build a phone dedicated to gaming (I had a Sony Xperia Play just 7 years ago), but it appears they have sparked a trend. Possibly due to the saturated market of samey looking and specced phones, building gaming phone phones allows them to differentiate themselves from…
While it probably won’t see the mainstream success of phones like the Galaxy S9, Huawei Mate 20 Pro, and OnePlus 6, the ASUS ROG Gaming phone is one of the more exciting phones of the year, purely for the fact that it is a little different. The ROG Phone is designed for high-end gaming, with dedicated…
I posted a few days ago about how Zodak had developed a double height double capacity memory DDR4 module. Now G.Skill has officially announced their Double Capacity DDR4 Trident Z RGB DC RAM which will be available on a limited number of ASUS motherboards. Consumer boards have been limited to using 16GB per DIMM since the launch…
Nvidia has finally announced the hotly anticipated RTX 2000 range, which is the first line of graphics cards to introduce ray tracing which is a technique used to produce photorealistic graphics with true-to-life lighting and shadow formations. It could be the biggest breakthrough in consumer graphics cards for years, but it is dependant on developers implementing this…
We are seeing lots of new products come out from ASUS this year at Computex 2018. With the most interesting being the new ASUS ROG Phone which has some mighty impressive specs which put the Razer phone to shame. ASUS claimed to have developed the phone using speed-binned Snapdragon 845 SoC making it run at 2.96Ghz compared to the…
Nvidia and their OEM partners ASUS and Acer announced a new range of monitors / TVs at CES this year. The Big Format Gaming (BFG) Displays have an impressive specification with an enormous 65-inch screen a resolution of 4K, HDR support and a maximum refresh rate of 120Hz, G-Sync and an Integrated Nvidia Shield Android TV. At…
As much as we like to yearn for ultra-wide high refresh rate or 4K monitors, in reality for most of us, this is beyond our budget, both in terms of the monitor price and the PC required to run it. If you are a gamer on a budget, then 1080p is still your best bet,…
We saw 3 phones officially launched at MWC that are powered by the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 system on chip. This chip is the latest high-end SoC from Qualcomm and will be the chip powering most of this year’s flagships. With the Snapdragon handling the vast majority of the functions, it is interesting to see…
I have just left the Asus event where they announced this years line up of new phones. There are 3 versions of the Asus Zenfone 5. The budget option is the Zenfone 5 Lite which packs four cameras, two of them with a 120-degree wide-angle field-of-view, one on each side. The main rear camera is…
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Intro” _builder_version=”3.0.91″ background_layout=”light”] Whether you are a PC gamer, console gamer or part of the hybrid master race it has been an excellent year for gaming. The Switch has arrived and been an enormous success; both the PS4 and Xbox have been updated to new powerful versions allowing for 4K content. Then…
After having read the glowing review of the Asus ROG Strix B350-F Gaming motherboard by Bit-Tech I had my heart set on the board for my new PC build. Now, this review won’t be your normal motherboard review you get on most PC-centric sites, I don’t have enough components to regularly test and benchmark things….