MSI Goes 165Hz With Its Curved Optix G27C5 Gaming Monitor

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If you're on the lookout for a gaming monitor that's big, curved, has decent picture quality and a high refresh rate but isn't too taxing on your graphics card or wallet, MSI's new Optix G27C5 might be a decent option. The display is an update of last year's Optix G27C4 and, for the most part, keeps things exactly the same.

That may not be a terrible thing. In

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The Disco Pixel PC: Building a Flashy, Formidable Mid-Tower in InWin’s 309 Case

From the moment I first saw InWin’s 309 mid-tower case back at Comptex 2019 , I was intrigued by its unique 144-pixel front panel and slick-looking GLOW2 software that lets you design your own light show

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Toshiba Outs its List of Hard Drives With Slower SMR Technology

Toshiba P300 Hard Drive

Toshiba P300 hard drive (Image credit: Toshiba)

The hard drive world has upturned two weeks ago, when we learned that big-name manufacturers, such as Western Digital , Seagate and Toshiba , were not being totally transparent about the fact that some of their hard drives were fabricated with shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology.

Western Digital came clean and released a list of WD hard drives that leverage the slower technology . Toshiba is now following Western Digital's footsteps and put out a list of its

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AMD Posts Record Quarterly Revenue and Notebook Sales, Zen 3 and RDNA 2 On Track

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Amidst the turbulent waters of the coronavirus pandemic, AMD posted record first-quarter 2020 revenue as the company raked in $1.79B in revenue, a 40% year-over-year increase, but 16% decline from the prior quarter. The company posted record notebook chip sales driven by the new Ryzen 4000 series processors, a key growth segment that comprises more than two-thirds of the addressable consumer market.

AMD also says

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AMD Posts Record First Quarter, Revenue up 40% YoY, Zen 3 and RDNA 2 On Track

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Amidst the turbulent waters of the coronavirus pandemic, AMD posted record first-quarter 2020 revenue as the company raked in $1.79B in revenue, a 40% year-over-year increase, but 16% decline from the prior quarter.

AMD also expanded its gross margins to 46%, the twelfth straight quarter of growth (and the highest mark in eight years). That equated to profits of $222 million in the

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Build Your Own Portable Wii with the G-Boy Kit

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Made available for pre-order last week on the BitBuilt console modding store, the G-Boy Rev III is a $325 DIY kit for converting a Wii into your own handheld, Game Boy shaped console, and the first product of its kind to hit the market. Aimed at providing beginners with an entry point into console modding, this kit includes a 3D printed case (with all required screws, parts and contacts), as well as a 3.5”


Chinese DRAM Maker CXMT Signs Patent Deal With Rambus

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ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) announced that it signed a patent license agreement with Rambus to get access to a wide variety of DRAM patents. The details of the deal remain a mystery except that it's a long-term agreement, suggesting it's a cooperation that will last for a few years at the very least.

In a matter of four years, ChangXin Memory Technologies has risen to become China's largest DRAM manufacturer. The chipmaker is a crucial piece in the domestic

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Asus 4K Gaming Monitor With FreeSync Drops to $270

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Asus' 28-inch 4K monitor, which is fit for gamers with AMD FreeSync and its 1ms response time, is currently $70 off on Newegg, for a total of $269.99 . That’s 21% off its usual $339.99 price.

The Asus VP28UQGL is also VESA wall-mountable, comes with both DisplayPort 1.2 and HDMI 2.0 hookups (we compare the

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This Raspberry Pi Spotify Boombox Tells Time With Nixie Tubes

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Boomboxes are outdated, and even alarm clocks are facing heavy competition from smartphones. But this alarm clock, better known as the Ultimate Nixie Internet Alarm Clock (UNIAC), puts a modern tech twist on more classic technology. Recently shared online by a maker who goes by TheJBW , it's a Raspberry Pi -powered boombox and working alarm clock that can stream music over Wi-Fi from Spotify. Keeping things retro, Nixie tubes also display the current time.

In an effort to

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AMD Reportedly Embraces DDR5 and USB 4.0 For Next-Gen CPUs In 2022

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AMD Ryzen Threadripper (Image credit: AMD)

Gamers Nexus has received an internal roadmap from an insider in the tech industry that purportedly outlines AMD's plan to support DDR5 memory and the USB 4.0 interface starting from 2022.

Roadmaps are great as they tell us what we to expect from a company in the near future. However, we should still approach them with a bit of caution since not everything that's inside the roadmap is written in stone. Companies often modify their roadmaps as