Case Mod World Series 2020 Winners Showcase Cyberpunk Mantis Blade PC, A ‘Floating’ Tower

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When times get tough, modders get modding, and 2020 was no different. Today, the winners of Cooler Master’s Case Mod World Series 2020 modding contest receive their crowns , rewarding some of the most remarkable mods created in a challenging year.

The 2020 contest saw 90 entries from enthusiasts across 23 countries. Mods were equally judged on craftsmanship, aesthetics, functionality and innovation, with judges including Cooler Master, professional modders,

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MSI Secretly Launches New GeForce RTX 3080 GPUs With Tiny Retouches

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MSI (via VideoCardz ) has added the GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming Z Trio 10G and GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming Trio Plus 10G to its existing lineup of custom GeForce RTX 3080 (Ampere) graphics cards.

If you think you've already seen the two graphics cards before, you're not crazy. The new offerings are almost identical replicas of the GeForce RTX

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Dell G15 Gets Glittery Redesign, RTX 3000 in China

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Dell is refreshing its 15-inch gaming notebook, the Dell G15, with a new design and refreshed specs. Today's announcement is for China, where the laptop is available now, and will come to the rest of the world "later," likely this year.

The company is being surprisingly coy on specs for a laptop that is actually going on sale today, albeit in a single market. What we do know is that Dell will offer three options,

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Intel

RAM Benchmark Hierarchy: Fastest DDR4 Memory Kits for AMD and Intel

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RAM (Random Access Memory) is often overlooked, but our RAM benchmark hierarchy will help you find the fastest memory kit for your system. Memory is one of the most important pieces of hardware of any system. The right or the wrong memory kit can have a big impact on your system's overall performance in gaming, productivity, and (if you don't have enough of it) overall sluggishness. So it's always best to reference


Asus TUF Dash F15 Review: RTX 3070 Meets Intel H35

Our Verdict

The Asus TUF Dash F15 is an attractively thin gaming clamshell with an eSports-ready screen. But you can squeeze more frames out of other RTX 30-series laptops.

For

  • Decent battery life
  • Fast screen
  • Successful software-based noise cancelling

Against

  • Frame rates could be better
  • No webcam
  • Flat keyboard
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Doubling Down: RTX 3070 Modded with 16GB of VRAM

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Modder and YouTuber "VIK-on" completed his project on modifying a Palit RTX 3070 with 16GB of video memory, doubling the card's VRAM capacity from its original 8GB specification. In his video detailing the mod, VIK-on shows us the installation process of the memory modules, and his experiences using the card.

This isn't the first time this has happened. We've previously covered VIK-on's memory mod on an

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This RTX 3060 Uses a Massive 3080 Cooler, With Impressive Results

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MSI's new RTX 3060 Gaming X Trio is one of the coolest, yet strangest, Nvidia graphics cards we've ever seen. As discussed by YouTube channel BPS Customs , the card comes equipped with an RTX 3080 cooler. That allows this RTX 3060 to reach the lowest temperatures we've seen out of any factory-built Nvidia GPU in a very long time.

Guru3D reports that the Gaming X Trio features a 1

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Apple Silicon

Supermicro 1023US-TR4 Review: Powerful Performance in a Slim 1U Package

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Supermicro's 1023US-TR4 is a slim 1U dual-socket server designed for high-density compute environments in high-end cloud computing, virtualization, and enterprise applications. With support for AMD's EPYC 7001 and 7002 processors, this high-end server packs up to two 64-core Eypc Rome processors, allowing it to cram 128 cores and 256 threads into one slim

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Raspberry Pi Controls Ceiling Fan with Radio Waves

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Some of the most fun Raspberry Pi projects come with a warning label and this is one of them! River's Educational Channel recently shared a project in which a Raspberry Pi is used to control a ceiling fan using radio waves. This is an impressive project from beginning to end but be cautious if you choose to remake it yourself at home. Certain radio frequencies may be illegal to use without a proper license.

After capturing the fan remote's signal and decoding

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StreamPi: The Raspberry Pi Stream Deck App for Online Gamers

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Streaming online doesn't have to cost a fortune with DIY systems like StreamPi. Using a Raspberry Pi , you can create a custom stream deck experience totally catered to your streaming needs.

It's a cross-platform, open-source application designed to integrate with common platforms used by streamers, and it's triggered with touchscreen buttons. The StreamPi website lists Samuel Quinones and Debayan Sutradhar as its primary developers.

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