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HP Omen 30L Review: A sleek 4K gaming tower with a modern design
When it comes to tower PCs, you have two camps: those who insist on the superiority of building your own and those who want something out of the box that works. The new HP Omen 30L falls into the latter category, but HP, like other PC makers, borrows from the DIY crowd with success. Yes, it's a pre-made system, but its new one-button toolless entry, pre-wiring for expansion, and multiple RGB li ... Read more
2020-12-23 03:59:53
Intel NUC 11 Performance to arrive with up to a Core i7-1165G7 and in three chassis variants
Intel is supposedly due to announce the NUC 11 Performance this month, according to Fanless Tech. However, @9550pro has already revealed the full details of the device, and it has also been spotted on UserBenchmark. Intel will offer the NUC 11 Performance with a choice of three Tiger Lake processors, the leaked slide states, ranging from the Core i3-1115G4 to the Core i7-1165G7. All are 28 W proce ... Read more
2020-12-23 03:53:55
Lenovo ThinkPad L14 Review: AMD Does It Again
The Lenovo ThinkPad L14 is successor to last year’s 14-inch ThinkPad L490. During last year’s review, we noticed that neither the display nor the CPU performed particularly well despite what turned out to be an overall decent package. This year, for the first time in the history of Lenovo’s L-series, you can choose between an Intel and an AMD processor. Lenovo’s L-series sits right in-between the ... Read more
2020-12-23 03:53:55
Windows 10 command line tool will help you keep track of all your storage
Microsoft has added a new built-in command line tool called DiskUsage to Insider builds of Windows 10 that reports how much disk space folders use. As first reported by BleepingComputer, the news outlet discovered the new utility when testing Windows Insider builds 20277 and 21277. DiskUsage is capable of scanning entire drives or specified folders and reporting how much drive space each folder i ... Read more
2020-12-17 02:42:28
ASROCK B550 TAICHI RAZER EDITION REVIEW
Since the debut of ASRock’s Taichi brand, we’ve been fans of its quality blend of price, performance, and features. It’s also one of few sub brands that doesn’t go all in on a ‘gaming’ theme, which is something many people appreciate. I know I do. With the Razer influence, however, that’s changed somewhat here. The traditional yin/yang and cog machinery aesthetic has been left off with the release ... Read more
2020-12-17 02:38:57
AMD Ryzen 7 5800H CPU destroys predecessor and could worry Intel in leaked benchmark
A benchmark of AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800H has allegedly leaked on Geekbench, with some positive results. The benchmark was posted to Twitter by well-known leaker ASPIK (@TUM_APISAK) and can be compared against its predecessor, the Ryzen 7 4800H, and also the existing Comet Lake-H CPUs from Intel. As ever, treat any leak with caution, but if this benchmark score is a genuine reflection of performance the ... Read more
2020-12-17 02:38:57
Intel Debuts 'World's Fastest SSD,' the PCIe 4.0 Optane SSD P5800X
Intel is taking Optane to the next level with its SSD P5800X, which it bills as the fastest SSD in the world. The next-gen Optane SSD leverages the PCIe 4.0 interface, second-gen Optane media, and a new SSD controller to deliver truly astounding performance and endurance specifications. Compared to the first-gen Optane DC P4800X, Intel says the 5800X offers an impressive 3X performance improvemen ... Read more
2020-12-17 02:32:43
New leaked Microsoft Surface Pro 8 details confirm memory configurations and LTE support
The Surface Pro 8 has already leaked plenty of times, but now Roland Quandt has revealed the memory configurations of Microsoft's upcoming 2-in-1. So far, we know that the design of the Surface Pro 8 will remain unchanged from its predecessor, which featured an outdated design itself. The Redmond-based company will switch the Surface Pro to Intel's Tiger Lake-U platform though, which should bring ... Read more
2020-12-17 02:32:43
MSI RTX 3060 TI GAMING X TRIO REVIEW
While we all wish we could afford an Nvidia RTX 3090 or AMD RX 6900 XT, us rank and file PC gamers are more interested in more affordable and worldly options such as the RTX 3060 Ti. We've already checked out the Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition card here at PCG and were impressed by its generational performance uplift and general characteristics. There’s always room for improvement though, a ... Read more
2020-12-16 03:05:00
Standard DDR5 memory speeds 'will surpass those of overclocked DDR4' when it arrives in 2021
The first consumer DDR5 memory kits will arrive in 2021, presumably just in time for Intel Alder Lake and AMD's Zen 4. This year will come to a close without any consumer platforms supporting DDR5 memory modules, but next year will likely see at least two of them—Intel's Alder Lake and AMD's Zen 4 architectures. In preparation, Team Group says it has developed consumer-grade DDR5 memory, and clai ... Read more
2020-12-16 03:02:59