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04 Nov 2020

TechShot: Big Navi. How big is it?

Big Navi was officially announced by AMD last week, and oh boy was it BIG... though, not quite as literally as my hilarious colleagues would have you believe...

18 Sep 2020

TechShot: Stock is out and benchmarks are in - how does NVIDIA's RTX 3080 really stack up?

When NVIDIA announced the upcoming release of their new 3000 series of GPUs, they were boasting some very impressive paper specs that had an immeasurable number of people boarding the hype train.

04 Sep 2020

TechShot: Lian Li's Daisy-Chain Case Fans

Lian Li recently announced their new 120mm daisy-chain case fans, a unique model offering high build-quality, an interesting and innovative approach to RGB (with no LEDs visible from either sides of the fans), and up to 1900RPM.

02 Sep 2020

TechShot: What's Jensen been cooking this time? Apparently, it's an RTX 3090...

The #UltimateCountdown is over, and with it, NVIDIA have announced their latest series of GPUs. As it turns out, they really are quite the gamechanger, if what the paper specs is proposing are true...

24 Jun 2020

Techshot: B550 Motherboards

The arrival of the B550 motherboards has caused somewhat of a broad discussion in the online tech community as to whether these mobos will in fact be the direct replacement for our beloved B450 boards. From a generational standpoint, they are the direct equivalent of the B450 but the biggest problem with the new B550 boards comes from their strange situation in the current motherboard market...

19 Jun 2020

Techshot: AMD's 3000 series processors get a refresh

When we first heard that AMD were intending to release a refresh of their latest 3000 series of processors, many people were rightly excited, thinking it could have been a hidden Ace waiting to flush out any remaining competition they might have had from Intel's latest 10th Gen series of processors.

03 Jun 2020

Techshot: Z490 Motherboards

With the release of Intel's latest line of processors, we've of course seen the new motherboards on which to mount them - the Z490 series is here and there's quite a few options. From MSI to Asus and Gigabyte to ASRock, we've seen a wide array of sexy looking LGA1200 boards arrive on the market, with prices starting at as little as £129.98.

01 Jun 2020

Techshot: NVIDIA's new DGX-A100 dwarfs its DGX-1 predecessor by an unprecedented margin

This is datacentre tech at its finest, and it's designed to power deep learning, a form of Artificial Intelligence designed to analyse and learn from vast amounts of data. Under all those gold-plated heatsinks lies 8 of NVIDIA's A100 GPUs, boasting the all new 7nm Ampere architecture we've all been waiting to see. These have all been paired up and geared to go using their signature NVLinks, twelve of them to be precise, alongside 6 of their NVSwitches and 8 Mellanox ConnectX-6 NICs, with Dual 64-core Rome EPYC 7742s from AMD, making for a whopping 128-cores and 256 threads. There's also 1TB of RAM, 15TB of NVMe storage, and the whole thing operates on PCIe 4.0.

12 May 2020

TechShot: The Ryzen 3 3100 & 3300X

It's the first time we've seen a "flagship" quadcore since 2017, but soon the latest Zen 2 CPUs from AMD will be hitting the shelves, and likely with quite the left-hook.

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