Western Digital's 18TB Hard Drive Breaks Cover With $648 Price Tag

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The WD Gold 18TB (WD181KRYZ) is one of the biggest hard drives on the market right now. Although the hard drive has yet to be spotted on U.S. soil, it's already listed at an overseas retailer, along with the 16TB (WD161KRYZ) variant.

The WD Gold 18TB belongs to Western Digital's Gold family. It comes in the 3.5-inch

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Our Favorite Gaming Monitor Is Cheaper Than Ever

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Dell’s excellent 32 inch S3220DGF HDR gaming monitor, our number one pick on our Best Gaming Monitors list is now on sale for a record low of $359.99 . That’s $90 off its typical $449.99 price with an additional checkout option to add on a Logitech MK540 wireless keyboard and mouse combo at a discounted $30.

The Dell S3220

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macOS 11.0 Big Sur Brings Redesign, Support for Apple's CPUs

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We've finally moved beyond macOS 10 (or OS X, if you're a traditionalist).

At its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) today, Apple announced macOS 11.0 Big Sur, the latest version of its desktop operating system (OS). It's likely to release this fall alongside new Macs.

Perhaps the biggest feature of Big Sur is that it will be natively compatible with Apple Silicon , the company's own Arm-based processors that

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Apple Will Move Macs to Custom Silicon, Details Transition From Intel

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Apple is transitioning its Mac computers to its own custom chip designs based on Arm. The company is detailing its transition away from Intel's processors at its annual WWDC  (Worldwide Developers Conference). Apple calls the new chip 'Apple Silicon.'

Apple's Johny Srouji, head of the company's chip design, said Apple's CPUs are often more powerful than PC laptops. He said he wants Apple Silicon to be more powerful while consuming less power.

Srouji said the

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Raijintek Launches Gigantic GPU Air Cooler For AMD Navi, Nvidia Turing GPUs

Raijintek Morpheus 8057

Raijintek Morpheus 8057 (Image credit: Rajintek)

If you think air cooling is dead, think again. Raijintek (via @FanlessTech ) has unleashed the high-end Morpheus 8057 cooler that's been tailored for the latest AMD Navi and Nvidia Turing graphics cards.

On AMD's end, the Morpheus 8057 is compatible with the Radeon RX 5600 , RX 5700 and their corresponding XT variants. The list of supported Nvidia graphics cards is a

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Adobe Prepares To Pull The Plug On Adobe Flash Player

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Adobe announced three years ago that the company planned to retire Adobe Flash on December 21, 2020. The plan still stands with Adobe making all the necessary preparations for the multimedia software platform's retirement.

During its lifetime, Adobe Flash had been an important part of website, application and game designs. However, it's way past its prime, and Adobe also acknowledges that there are now better alternatives out there, such as HTML5, WebGL or WebAssembly.


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How I Overclocked Core i9-10900K to 7GHz and Set World Records

Overclocking Intel Core i9-10900K
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Intel's latest and greatest consumer chip, the Core i9-10900K has been criticized, including in our review, for its massive power consumption and all the heat it generates. But this new 10-core chip is an absolute overclocking beast, if you have the right equipment and you know how to use it, as I did when I set several world records, getting a clock speed as high as 7,083

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Mysterious Nvidia GPU Has 30 Percent Lead Over 2080 Ti

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Rumors are ablaze about Nvidia's upcoming Ampere graphics cards for gamers, with the most recent being about their stock cooler . Now, hardware detective Rogame has posted benchmark results of a new, unknown Nvidia graphics card, which appears to deliver a healthy performance lead over the RTX 2080 Ti, Nvidia's current flagship.

The graphics card looks to have a core clock of 1935 MHz and memory clocked in at 6 GHz, which reward it with a

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MSI Is Building Its New Gaming Desktops in America

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MSI today unveiled a new lineup of gaming desktops that it will build in the United States. The company, which typically manufactures its prebuilt machines in Taiwan, has a new series, the MIA Gaming Desktop, which stands for “Made in America.”

That nomenclature isn’t 100% correct, however. The desktops, which will feature Intel’s latest 10th Gen Core CPUs and Nvidia’s RTX or GTX Super graphics cards , will be assembled


Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 GX550 Review: Two-Screen Cool

Our Verdict

It’s far from cheap, but Asus’ dual-screen ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 gaming laptop adds a handy, eye-catching second screen while improving cooling and keeping fan noise down in the process. If it weren’t for the awkward input devices and the lack of a webcam, this would be a near-perfect portable gamer.

For

  • Attractive sci-fi style
  • Nice 4K display
  • Second screen lifts up for improved cooling and viewing angles

Against

  • Awkwardly displaced input devices
  • No webcam
  • Only one Thunderbolt
Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 GX550
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