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ENDORFY LIV Onyx White Gaming Mouse Review
LIV Onyx White is an affordable, wired mouse from ENDORFY which does sport the PAW3311 sensor for a maximum DPI of 12000, a honeycomb chassis for bringing the weight down to as low as 54 grams without the cable and is also RGB enabled. The software it comes with is easily understandable and we are also getting…
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CHERRY XTRFY M68 PRO 8K Wireless White Gaming Mouse Review
The M68 PRO 8K Wireless mouse from CHERRY XTRFY is meant for the high-end/competitive gaming segment, sporting a lightweight chassis, the proven PixArt 3395 sensor, polling rate up to 8K, while the integrated 350 mA battery can last up to 90 hours while using the standard gaming mode.
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Crucial BX500 4TB 2.5 inch SSD Review
SSD |The BX500 4TB drive behaves as expected for a QLC drive and presents the same shortcomings as the P310 drive, meaning that we have a considerably lower TBW versus TLC NAND and a very low write speed when writing directly to QLC, between 10MB/s and 20MB/s, basically lower than regular HDDs.
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Silicon Power QS58 20000 mAh Power Bank Review
The QS58 power bank from Silicon Power comes in handy when you need to recharge multiple devices from a single source, while being packed with a lot of safety technologies. The remaining charge is displayed via a simple 4-LED display and can be easily taken with you on flights, complying with IATA regulations.
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Patriot Viper Venom 32GB (2X16GB) 7000MT/s Memory Kit Review
Memory |The non-RGB version of the Viper Venom DDR5-7000 memory kit runs great on Intel platforms and compatibility is assured with many motherboards thanks to the inclusion of no less than 3 XMP 3.0 profiles. 32GB of installed RAM is becoming mainstream to be able to handle lots of game launchers in the background, browser tabs and games…
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Deep Silver hasn’t killed off ‘Dead Island 2’
Dead Island’s long-awaited sequel is alive and well despite numerous setbacks after its trailer was revealed way back in 2014. The game’s Twitter account has reassured a fan asking about Dead Island 2 that it’s still in development — the release of…
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Elon Musk’s Thailand cave rescue would use a ‘kid-size’ submarine
Elon Musk is quickly solidifying his offer to help rescue a boys’ soccer team trapped in a Thailand cave, and in just the way you would expect from a technology entrepreneur. He has revealed that the “primary path” for his attempt will involve a “ki…
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DJI’s next Mavic drone might have 360-degree obstacle awareness
Now that DJI has made its semi-pro drone technology more accessible through the Mavic Air, what’s it going to do for operators who prefer the Mavic Pro line? Check off a few of their bigger wish list items, apparently. DroneDJ has obtained a photo…
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Watch VW’s electric racer destroy the Pikes Peak record
When VW smashed Pikes Peak’s all-time record with an electric car, there was one lingering question for those who couldn’t see it live: where’s the footage? You’ve got it now. VW has posted uninterrupted aerial footage of its I.D. R Pikes Peak race…
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An ‘Ingress’ anime series is coming to Netflix
There’s no question that Pokémon Go has overshadowed Niantic’s original augmented reality game, Ingress. The developer may have a clever way of revitalizing interest when Ingress’ major revamp arrives, though: launch a streaming video series t…
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HIV vaccine delivers promising results in human tests
A Harvard-led team of scientists has made important progress in the quest to prevent HIV infections. They’ve had early success testing a multi-strain vaccine in humans — everyone who received the drug produced at least some kind of anti-HIV immune r…
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Thanos subreddit culling is not the typical online fan movement
Online communities are a beautiful thing. Not only are they places for you to squee about beloved characters and plot twists on your favorite shows, but they’re also powerful forces that can change storylines and resurrect beloved franchises. But one…
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More Ryzen 3 2300X and Ryzen 5 2500X details appear
Both are good overclockers
While we have already seen some details, the fresh leak regarding AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 3 2300X and Ryzen 5 2500X SKUs have shown up online, revealing a lot more details as well as an impressive overclocking potential.
AMD already released some of the SKUs in its Ryzen 2000-series lineup but budget-oriented buyers are still waiting for two key SKUs, the Ryzen 3 2300X and the Ryzen 5 2500X, and it appears these will be quite interesting chips, offering great value for money as well as come with a rather impressive overclocking potential, at least according to a fresh leak from XFastest.com site.
XFastest.com managed to get their hands on each of these CPUs confirming mostly all the specifications as well as putting them both under air and LN2 cooling for some overclocking action.
The Ryzen 3 2300X is a quad-core chip without AMD simultaneous multithreading (SMT), so it is stuck with only four threads. It works at base 3.5GHz clock with Boost of up to 4.0GHZ and comes with 10MB of total cache (2MB L2 + 8MB L3). The Ryzen 5 2500X is a bit more interesting as although this is also a quad-core 65W TDP SKU, it comes with enabled SMT for eight threads and works at slightly higher 3.6GHz base clock with the same 4.0GHz Boost. It also comes with 10MB of cache (2MB L2 + 8MB L3).
Since these are AMD’s 2nd generation chips based on 12nm manufacturing process and AMD’s improved Zen+ architecture, they both should support XFR2 and Precision Boost 2 technologies.
XFastest also had a chance to overclock these two SKUs hitting a maximum clock of 4.3GHz under air. This is a good 300MHz overclock which should significantly improve performance and it is quite an important deal in that part of the market, where the value is important and buyers are squeezing out the last possible drop of performance.
Under LN2, these two SKUs are even more impressive, hitting a bootable clock of 5.65GHz, so extreme overclockers will have a blast with these two SKUs.
AMD did not give out a specific date for the launch of these two SKUs but they should start appearing in retail/e-tail sometimes in the next few months, alongside the new B450-chipset motherboards which have already started to list in some shops.
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EA’s Anthem gets new 20-minute gameplay trailer
From the same E3 demo
Electronic Arts and Bioware have released a new 20-minute gameplay trailer for the upcoming Anthem game, showing a bit more details with some of the features explained by game’s lead producer, Ben Irving.
The new 20-minute gameplay is taken from the same E3 demo that we saw earlier and shows four Freelancers completing the “Scars & Villainy” mission, as well as gives a bit more details on combat, traveling mechanics, as well as teamwork.
The video is narrated by Ben Irving, game’s lead producer, which gives a bit more details about all the features of the game and what to expect when it launches, on February 22nd, 2019.
EA has previously confirmed that there will be no loot boxes or pay-to-power microtransactions, but will rather stick to just cosmetic ones. EA also noted that there will be a big focus on singleplayer, something that was plaguing the Destiny game.
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Adidas brings Yeezy reservations to its main app
Since 2015, Adidas has been letting customers reserve highly coveted sneakers (like Kanye West’s Yeezys) through its Confirmed app. But that’s about to change in the coming weeks. According to a message the company is displaying in Confirmed, the app…
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Gigapixel timelapse captures a day in the life of London
There’s a real chance you’ve seen gigapixel city shots before, but they’ve rarely had a dynamic element — you’ve had to be content with that one sliver of time. Now, there’s something a little livelier. Lenstore, Nikon and Canary Wharf have partne…
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MoviePass (was) down and out on a summer Friday night
For the past couple of hours MoviePass was experiencing an outage on a Friday night in the summer. It also happens to be the hottest day so far this year in many parts of the country and would otherwise be a perfect time to hit air-conditioned theate…
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TwitchCon 2018 tickets are now on sale, starting at $89
This year’s TwitchCon is moving north from Long Beach, California, to the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, and if you’re planning to make the trip to the annual gathering of Twitch creators and fans this October, you can now snap up your tickets….
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Netflix user reviews weren’t useful anyway
Earlier today, we reported Netflix is getting rid of user reviews, which has been a mainstay of its platform from day one. According to the company, the decision was made because of declining usage. But that discounts the fact that Netflix hasn’t exa…
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Just Cause 4 GMG Flash Deal – 27% Off
Just Cause 4 is having a pre-sale over at Green Man Gaming. 27% off with pre-purchase benefits. For a limited time, receive the following with your purchase: 24H early access only applicable to Digital Deluxe Edition and Gold Edition purchases – Deathstalker Scorpion Pack
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NASA put Kepler to sleep to preserve its remaining fuel
NASA announced today that the Kepler spacecraft, which has been searching for distant Earth-like planets near Sun-like stars, is running very low on fuel. So much so, that it has decided to put Kepler in a sleep mode to preserve fuel over the next fe…
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I’m giving ‘Pokémon Go’ another try
I’ll be the first to admit that I am not a serious Pokémon player. I don’t know a Kanto from a Johto, and really have no clue where an Alolan Exeggutor comes from. Still, when Pokémon Go came out for mobile two years ago, this almost 50…
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Intel Pentium Gold G5600 3.9 GHz @ TechPowerUp
Intel’s Pentium Gold G5600 processor features HyperThreading, which turns its two cores into four threads. The result is one of the most affordable entry-level CPUs that’s fit for gaming. Tough competition comes in form of the AMD Ryzen 2200G, which is similarly priced, but offers four real cores.
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The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective
It’s a bit of a slow news week in technology this week due the US celebrating Independence Day this past 4 July, so Ars decided to repost this article about BFS, and I’m nothing if not a sucker for BeOS content, so here it goes.
The Be operating system file system, known simply as BFS, is the file system for the Haiku, BeOS, and SkyOS operating systems. When it was created in the late ’90s as part of the ill-fated BeOS project, BFS’s ahead-of-its-time feature set immediately struck the fancy OS geeks. That feature set includes: A 64-bit address space Use of journaling Highly multithreaded reading Support of database-like extended file attributes Optimization for streaming file access A dozen years later, the legendary BFS still merits exploration – so we’re diving in today, starting with some filesystem basics and moving on to a discussion of the above features. We also chatted with two people intimately familiar with the OS: the person who developed BFS for Be and the developer behind the open-source version of BFS.
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GIGABYTE Launches CMT4030-Series PCIe 3.0 x8 and PCIe 3.0 x16 SSD Risers
GIGABYTE B2B has launched two PCIe riser cards for M.2 SSDs designed to build ultra-fast storage sub-systems consisting of multiple M.2 drives. The CMT4030-series risers will be available through B2B channels, hence, to makers of servers, workstations, and high-end PCs rather than to DIY enthusiasts.
Neither of the GIGABYTE CMT4030-series cards use any PCIe switches and therefore rely on PCIe bifurcation supported by CPU or PCH (i.e., they will not work on cheap systems that have limited PCIe bifurcation capabilities) as well as on software RAID technologies supported by the platform. Both risers support M.2-2280 and M.2-22110 drives, they are equipped with their own thermal sensors and advanced VRMs to ensure quality power supply to SSDs.
GIGABYTE’s CMT4032 is a low-profile PCIe 3.0 x8 riser card that supports two M.2 drives and comes with an aluminum heat spreader. This card may be used inside higher-end consumer systems to build high-performance storage systems featuring two SSDs as well as a 6.5 GB/s throughput.
The CMT4034 low-profile PCIe 3.0 x16 riser card carries four M.2 drives on two PCBs that also has a passive cooling system. This riser is officially aimed only at GIGABYTE’s Purley generation servers, so their work on systems based on other Intel platforms (X299, X370, etc.) is not guaranteed. As for performance, maximum throughput supported by a PCIe 3.0 x16 slot is around 15.75 GB/s.
Pricing of GIGABYTE’s CMT4032 and CMT4034 SSDs risers is unknown, but since we are dealing with B2B products, it will vary depending on volumes and negotiations. The manufacturer plans to offer its 4-way Aorus PCIe x16 M.2 SSD riser for high-end desktops at some point in the future, but details are unclear.