Hardware

By Marco Chiappetta @ Hot Hardware

Los Angeles-based Nixeus has been working with AMD on FreeSync since the project’s inception. Nixeus was among the first companies to offer an affordable, Full-HD FreeSync monitor with a wide adaptive-sync frequency range and one of Nixeus’ monitors was used in AMD’s initial FreeSync demos all the way back in 2014. Now the company is readying a brand-new FreeSync-compatible display, the Nixeus EDG 27, that features an IPS panel, 2560×1440 WQHD resolution, and a price point that undercuts competing offerings.

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Check out these latest hardware announcements for today from around the web. Also included are some hardware news bits, and on some days, a few rumors tossed in for good measure. Click on the links below to read the official press release, visit the products web page, or to an independent news source.

• XIGMATEK Launches the Whiz CPU Cooler
• EK Releases Water Block for MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Graphics Cards
• Rapoo Announces the VPRO V720S Mechanical Gaming Keyboard
• First ASUS Mining-P106-6G for Cryptocurrency Mining Spotted
• Creative Unveils All-New Sound BlasterX AE-5 Audiophile-Grade Gaming Sound Card
• Be Quiet! Launches the Shadow Rock TF2 CPU Cooler
• Plextor Intros the S3 Series Value SATA SSDs
• LG Releases 34UC89G 34in 21:9 UltraWide Full HD GSYNC Curved IPS Display
• Team Group Creates Colorful Experience with Dazzling T-Force NIGHT HAWK RGB Memory
• Iiyama Introduces New 1080p Screens with Free Sync
• Mushkin Intros Reactor Armor3D Series SATA SSD
• AMD Ryzen Threadripper Could Launch on July 27

Check out these latest hardware announcements for today from around the web. Also included are some hardware news bits, and on some days, a few rumors tossed in for good measure. Click on the links below to read the official press release, visit the products web page, or to an independent news source.

• Logitech Announces G903 and G703 LIGHTSPEED Wireless Mice Along with POWERPLAY Charging System (VIDEO)
• ID-Cooling Intros Auraflow 240 AIO Liquid CPU Cooler
• EK Water Blocks Releasing a New AM4 Monoblock for MSI® X370 XPOWER Gaming Titanium!
• MSI Announces Infinite A Gaming Desktop
• Samsung Announces the CHG70 and CHG90 QLED Monitors: HDR and FreeSync 2
• Logitech G433 7.1 Gaming Headset and G233 Prodigy Gaming Headset Announced
• MSI X299 Breaks DDR4 Memory World Record With 5500-DDR4 Speeds
• ViewSonic Releases VP2768 27-inch WQHD IPS Monitor

By Thomas Soderstrom @ Tom’s Hardware

I’m not much for long product names, but Trident Z RGB doesn’t seem too excessive. Add the DDR4-3600 to it, and it’s getting slightly lengthy. Oh, and there’s the CAS 16 rating. Fortunately, G.Skill makes its model numbers a little easier to read than many of its competitors, as the “4” stands for DDR4, 3600 is the data rate, C16 is the latency, the Q means quad-DIMM, 32 is the gigabytes of capacity, and GTZ is the style. Unfortunately, R stands for RGB on its black-and-gray heat spreaders, where G.Skill uses the same letter on other modules to denote the color red. And with that, model F4-3600C16Q-32GTZR is born. So much for the decoder ring. On to the details.

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By Daniel Dobrowolski @ HARDOCP

It’s been years since we’ve reviewed an ASUS ROG offering that was designed for AMD CPUs. That’s not to say that those haven’t existed, those just weren’t worth a look as the AMD side of things has not been compelling for the better part of the last decade. Thanks to AMD Ryzen, we have a reason to take the ASUS Crosshair VI Hero for a test drive and tell you how it fared in the tumultuous sea of AM4 motherboards.

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Source: TechPowerUp!

NVIDIA today released the latest version of their GeForce graphics drivers. Version 382.53 of their drivers is a special, Game Ready release that provides the optimal gaming experience for DiRT 4 and Nex Machina. In addition, NVIDIA has added/updated SLI profiles for Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition, Little Nightmares, the phenomenon PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, and Transformers Online.

This release also features updated 3D Vision profiles for Tekken 7 (Fair); DiRT 4 (Not Recommended); Nex Machina (Not Recommended) and Quake Champions (Good).

You can download the new GeForce 382.53 WHQL drivers from GeForce Experience and GeForce.com.

Source: TechPowerUp!

AMD released the Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.6.1 drivers. The drivers come with optimization for “DiRT 4,” including an AMD CrossFire profile, and up to 30 percent improvement in frame-rates with 8x MSAA cranked up. The drivers also improve performance of “Prey” (2017) by up to 4 percent, as tested on a machine with a Radeon RX 580 8 GB graphics card.

The drivers also fixed a number of issues, including virtual super-resolution (VSR) not correctly enabling on certain Radeon RX 400 and RX 500-series GPUs; HDR not correctly enabling on certain WQHD or higher-resolution displays; flickering noticed on some WQHD or higher-resolution displays connected via HDMI; fast mouse movements causing a frame-rate drop in “Prey” (2017); “Mass Effect: Andromeda” noticing a stutter with multi-GPU systems; and a system hang noticed on Radeon R9 390 series GPUs with the memory overclocked using a third-party application.

You can download the Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.6.1 drivers here.

By Hilbert Hagedoorn @ Guru3D

EK Water Blocks today releases three new models CPU & GPU Liquid cooling kits. Good stuff as we certainly are always interested whenever EK released new gear. Today we test their new EK Fluid Gaming A240G CPU & GPU liquid cooling kit. With this series EK introduces a totally new line of products aimed at a gaming audience that wishes a little more than a heatpipe or LCS cooler, yet will want something affordable.

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Check out these latest hardware announcements for today from around the web. Also included are some hardware news bits, and on some days, a few rumors tossed in for good measure. Click on the links below to read the official press release, visit the products web page, or to an independent news source. Including more coverage from Computex 2017.

• EK Water Blocks Announces New Brand for PC Gamers - EK Fluid Gaming
• Computex 2017: Aerocool Quartz and Quartz Pro Cases Pictured
• Computex 2017: Lian-Li To Offer a Raw Copper Liquid Cooling Kit
• Computex 2017: Raijintek Announces Four New PSU Lines
• Computex 2017: XIGMATEK Refract S1 Chassis Pictured
• DeepCool Showcases Four PC Cases on Computex 2017
• Computex 2017: Noctua Chromax Edition Fans and Heatsink Covers Detailed
• Computex 2017: InWin’s New Cases Now With 100% More…Wood?? – VIDEO
• AMD Trims Prices of the Ryzen 7 1700 and 1700X

Check out these latest hardware announcements for today from around the web. Also included are some hardware news bits, and on some days, a few rumors tossed in for good measure. Click on the links below to read the official press release, visit the products web page, or to an independent news source. Computex 2017 at Taipei, Taiwan kicked off today, so we have bonus coverage from the event!

• MSI Promises the Next Gaming Dimension at COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2017-  X299 Mobos, Much More!
• Computex 2017: New ASUS Republic of Gamers Products Unveiled
• Cooler Master Brings Legends to Life at Computex 2017
• Computex 2017: Nanoxia Special NNV DC Brushless Fan Pictured
• Intel Announces Core X Line of High-end Processors, Including New Core i9 Chips
• AORUS Raises Its Game at COMPUTEX 2017
• Computex 2017: GIGABYTE Unveils the X299 AORUS Gaming Motherboards
• CORSAIR Launches Dust and Spill Resistant K68 Gaming Keyboard
• Computex 2017: Toshiba Launches XG5 NVMe Client SSD With 64-Layer BiCS Flash
• EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti K|NGP|N Coming Soon
• Computex 2017: Cooler Master Coolers (and an UFO)
• Computex 2017: be quiet! Shadow Rock Slim, Shadow Rock TF2, Silent Loop Coolers Pictured
• Computex 2017: Corsair Unveils Concept Curve, SYNC it and Liquid Cooling Options
• Computex 2017 Scoop: ASRock X299 Motherboard Galore
• Computex 2017: Colorful Shows X299 Boards and Many GeForce Cards
• Alphacool Eisblock Full-coverage VGA Block for GP102 Boards Pictured