If you stopped to look at the price of this PC before reaching the first few lines of this review, you may already be in shock. An £ PC is much more expensive than our usual review models, but we know from your emails that many readers might consider spending this much on a PC … Read more
The latest addition to Samsung’s Galaxy Book range of laptops is this second-generation model. It’s an attractive laptop-tablet, with a touchscreen that can open like a laptop with the keyboard in front, be folded further back into a tent position for watching movies and TV, or flipped right back on to itself to work in … Read more
THERE’S A quiet revolution happening in the productivity space. Well, I say quiet—it’s actually the click-clack of mechanical keyboards making their way back into the offices that they left 30-or-so years ago. At least that’s the plan according to Razer and now Logitech, who have both recently released work-based takes on the mechanical keyboard. Both keyboards … Read more
THE BEST FREE ANTIVIRUS PRODUCT AVAILABLE, BUT YOU WILL NEED TO LIVE WITH THE ANNOYING NAGS If you don’t trust Windows Defender to keep you safe from nasties – and, as we discuss later, that might be wise – then Avast is an attractive alternative. It has a few key strengths that set it apart … Read more
If you prefer your motherboard to be free from RGB bling, and with a decidedly dark and moody theme, then you’re in luck, as there’s not an ounce of built-in lighting on the MEG Z690 Unify. You do get some RGB headers, including two 3-pin, one 4-pin and a single Corsair connector for hooking up … Read more
If you dip below when buying an overclockable motherboard, it’s unlikely to be an Intel model, simply because only pricey motherboards based on Intel’s Z270 can take advantage of its K-series unlocked processors. However, AMD’s budget-focused B350 chipset allows you to overclock AMD’s Ryzen CPUs, providing scope to build cheap, overclockable systems. The micro-ATX Gigabyte … Read more
When Intel’s Broadwell-E CPUs were released a year ago, they didn’t offer anything particularly new, aside from the 10-core Core i7-6950X, along with its ridiculously expensive price that broke the £1,500 barrier. Charging that much money for a 10-core desktop CPU isn’t wise now though. This year, March saw the introduction of AMD’s Ryzen CPUs, … Read more
We’re usually fond of Asus’ flagship motherboards, but while they’re usually dripping with features to make any enthusiast drool, very few people can afford them. Imagine, then, that both of those factors were multiplied several times over and combined in a wallet-crushing feature-fest of a motherboard. That’s essentially what Asus has done with the Maximus … Read more
If you’re keen on lighting up your PC, you probably have a few sets of LED strips or cold cathodes in a drawer somewhere. The trouble is that as soon as you change PC cases or hardware, these lights invariably end up clashing with your new parts’ colours. Similarly, standalone kits usually have limited lighting … Read more
SUPPLIER www.overclockers.co.uk Rumors of a multiplier- unlocked Core i3 processor generated a lot of excitement with enthusiasts at the end of 2016, and it turns out that the Core i3-7350K was indeed a part of Intel’s 14nm Kaby Lake plans, but is it all we anticipated? Sadly, the current exchange rate and rising costs have … Read more
The slow comparatively cheap Ryzen 7 17000 has slower stock frequencies than the Ryzen 7 1700X and 1800X, and the lack of an ‘X’ in its name signifies that it’s been less favorably binned in terms of overclocking too. Thankfully, it not only costs less than the Ryzen 7 1800X, but it also sports a super-low TDP … Read more
While ASRock’s X299-ITX/ac is the undisputed king of small form factor high-end desktop (HEDT) motherboards, micro-ATX still offers a handy space-saving size with the benefit of more ports and, unlike the ASRock board, the MSI X299M Gaming Pro Carbon AC can house full-sized DIM Ms in its quad-channel memory slots. It’s also over cheaper than … Read more