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G.SKILL DDR4 Memory Breaks 6GHz in New World Record
Although DDR4 RAM technology is hardly new, we have in recent years seen significant steps forward in the speeds achievable on the current platform. Admittedly, while most consumers tend to operate within the remits of 2666MHz to 3200MHz with the help of some extreme levels of overclocking this can, of…
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Gigabyte Sets 11 World Records with AMD EPYC 7002 CPUs
With the recent release of the AMD EPYC 7002 Series “Rome” server platforms, it was likely that we would start to see some pretty impressive performance figures emerge. It is, after all, no secret that AMD’s server market is doing very well as Intel struggles to compete on both price…
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MSI Sets New DDR4 Memory Overclocking World Record
It is perhaps quite surprising when you hear that DDR4 RAM has (more or less) been on the market now for 5 years. Given that length of time, you may have been forgiven for thinking that in terms of its potential (specifically in overclocking) it may have been pushed as…
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New Punch-Out World Record Set After ‘Exploit’ is Found
There are few games as iconic as the NES classic Punch-Out. As such, based on the nature of how it works, it’s also one of the most popular games in the speedrunning community. With the current record having stood for over a year, however, you would’ve been forgiven for thinking…
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Overclocked AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Breaks Its Own World Record
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X With the upcoming release of the 3rd-generation Ryzen processors, it seems pretty clear that in terms of performance these are going to be some big hitters. None, however, is more interesting than the AMD Ryzen 9 3950X to which there has already been a pretty significant…
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Record Breaking Hardcore Minecraft Run Ended By Baby Zombie
Hardcore Minecraft Record Is Ended There are generally two ways in which you can choose to play Minecraft. You can go for the ‘sandbox’ mode which essentially allows your imagination to run wild or you can go for the survival mode where death is a risk you take in your…
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EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti KINGPIN Sets Port Royal Record
EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti KINGPIN When it comes to graphics cards, it’s pretty clear that at the time of writing the Nvidia 2080 Ti is about as good as it gets. Featuring the latest Nvidia Turing architecture and RTX specific features such as ray tracing and DLSS, it is,…
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9900K Pushed to 7511.11MHz on LN2 with Supermicro SuperO Board
Supermicro at the Top of the OC LN2 Leaderboards The highest frequency achieved on the Intel i9-9900K using LN2 cooling now belongs to Superm from Taiwan. Pushing 7511.11MHz on a Supermicro SuperO C9Z390-PGW motherboard. Along with the Z390 motherboard, Superm used Corsair CL15 DDR4 with Seasonic 1200W Platinum PSU. This…
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Bloodhound SSC Land Speed Vehicle Gets Funding!
Bloodhound SSC Well, it’s certainly been a bit of a rollercoaster in terms of the development of the Bloodhound SSC throughout the latter part of 2018. For those of you who have absolutely no idea what I’m talking about, for around 2 years now, a brand new car has been…
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Bloodhound SSC 1,000MPH Project Scrapped
Bloodhound SSC 1,000MPH Project Scrapped In September 2017, we had our first look at the Bloodhound SSC. A car that was looking exceptionally likely to be the first in over 20-years to set a brand new land speed record. With it reportedly being capable of reaching speeds in excess of…
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Top PlayStation Trophy Holder Gets 300 Platinum’s A Year!
Top PlayStation Trophy Holder Gets 300 Platinum’s A Week! There are a number of people out there who take game achievements very seriously. Personally, I’ve never cared much about them. Hakam Karim, however, is someone who takes this to a whole new level. Since Sony launched the Trophy achievements on…
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Bloodhound SSC 1000MPH Car Project Faces Shutdown
Bloodhound SSC 1000MPH Car Faces Shutdown Throughout 2017, we were eagerly following the progression of the Bloodhound SSC. A British designed car that, for the first time since 1997 was looking to be a realistic competitor to break the land speed record set by the Thrust SSC 2. Despite that early…
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World Record Pace GTA Run Ruined By Accidental Cheat Code!
Speedrunner Fails World Record GTA Run By Accidentally Cheating! Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was a great game. Since the series switched to the 3D style (that we know all so well today) this was, arguably, the first game that got it really right. While the game is more than a…
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Mike Tyson’s Punch-out Blindfolded Speedrun Smashes Record
Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out Beaten In Record Time While Blindfolded I think there are few of us who owned a NES back in the day that didn’t play Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out. Perhaps one of the most popular boxing games of all times, it gained fame not just for its insane marketing…
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