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Noctua Confirms Free Mounting Upgrades for Intel LGA1700
Noctua has confirmed that it will provide free-of-charge mounting upgrade kits for Intel’s upcoming LGA1700 processor platform, enabling customers to keep using existing CPU coolers on the new 12th generation Intel Core CPUs (Alder Lake-S). Additionally, most of Noctua’s current multi-socket cooler models will soon include LGA1700 mounting hardware and…
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Nintendo Confirms Switch Owners Can ‘Upgrade’ Their Dock
After essentially years of speculation, Nintendo finally confirmed earlier this week that they would be releasing their newly revised Switch OLED console before the end of the year. Essentially representing a very moderate upgrade on the original system, while there are certainly more than a few quality of life changes…
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Microsoft Flight Simulator to Spark Billions in Hardware Upgrades?
With Microsoft Flight Simulator being around a week old now, while there are clearly still a few little bugs and glitches to work out, the game/simulator has widely been praised for its amazing visuals and stunning levels of accuracy. It does, however, bare note that to get the best graphically…
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RAM Prices May Be Set for a Further Drop in Q3 2020
With not much better to do during the COVID-19 lockdown, many PC owners decided to apply their time in giving their systems a bit of an upgrade. And, when it comes to upgrades, one of the most obvious options available is buying more (and/or better) RAM. If you have been…
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MSI Offers $50 in Steam Credit if you Upgrade to Z490
If you currently planning to make the move to Intel Comet Lake-S, then you’re probably already eyeing up some of the Z490 models as part of that transition. If you do, however, already own an Intel motherboard then you might want to pay attention. As part of their latest ‘trade-in’…
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After 35-Years MIDI is Finally Upgrading to 2.0
Anyone who has any technical experience in music will undoubtedly have encountered the MIDI file format. Come to think of it, you’ve probably also encountered it if you’re old enough to have owned a Windows 95 PC. Either that or you can remember the remarkably crude early days of the…
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XFX 5700 XT THICC II Owners Can Apply For a Free Upgrade
I think many would agree that out of all of the custom AMD RX 5700 XT graphics card releases, the ‘THICC II’ model by XFX is one of the best looking. With its sleek black/silver design along with the very distinctive ‘grill’, it looks more than a little impressive. We…
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Windows 7 Pro Users Can Expect End of Support Notifications
As much as many of you might still be stubbornly clinging onto the Windows 7 operating system, you’re going to have to make some very difficult decisions in the very near future. Yes, official support (beyond the realms of business use) of the operating system is coming to an end…
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Recent Switch Owners may be able to Upgrade to the New Model
Nintendo has seen a lot of success following the release of their Switch console in early 2017. Since late last year, however, there have been rumours that a newer updated version was on the cards. It isn’t, after all, unusual to see different models of (essentially) the same console hit…
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New Nvidia Shield Update Takes A Step Closer To Release
There have been rumours for quite some time now that Nvidia was working on an updated/upgraded version of their Shield gaming/streaming platform. It has, after all, been two years now since the last update was released and, while it is still a perfectly excellent system, it is perhaps time that…
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Analysts Predict RAM Prices Could Drop by 40% This Year
For many years, RAM represented one of the most inexpensive means of squeezing some extra performance out of a PC. Over the last 5 years, however, RAM prices have been regularly increasing to a point where, comparatively, doubling your system memory could cost at least twice as much as it…
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Tesla May Release Self-Driving Upgrade to Older Cars
In terms of car brands, I daresay that if you had free reign to pick any car (that was mostly practical) you’d probably go for a Tesla. Admittedly, I’d probably go for one of those nice reconditioned DeLoreans, but then I’m still mostly stuck in the 80s. If you did,…
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Research Firm Confirm Graphics Card Sales Are Falling
Graphics Card Sales Are Down! Towards the end of 2018, Nvidia released their highly-anticipated 20XX series of graphics cards and, at the time of writing now, I think it’s fair to say that the market is still not entirely convinced about them. Oh, don’t get us wrong! They are excellent…
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RAM Prices Could (Finally) Be Set To Drop
RAM Prices Could (Finally) Be Set To Drop Over the last 2 years, we have slowly but surely seen RAM prices continue to increase. Given that RAM was traditionally one of the least expensive ways of upgrading your system, that is anything but the case these days. Personally, I think…
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ASUSTOR Upgrades AS3102T and AS3204T and Calls Them V2
ASUSTOR Makes the AS3102T and AS3204T Even Better It has been three years since ASUSTOR released the first generation of the AS3102T NAS, and it’s still a great device today. Still, there is room for improvement everywhere. So ASUSTOR went back to the drawing board and came up with some…
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