Chassis Upgrade Time? The Phanteks Evolv ITX Glass Is on Sale in the UK With 15% Off

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Are you ready to move to the world of ITX? Well if you are, we may have the perfect deal for you. The Phanteks Evolv ITX Glass in white, is available now for just £70 , that’s £15 off its average retail price, and it’s well worth a look for anyone toying with the idea of migrating their form factor to the world of the super-small.

The Phanteks Evolv ITX Glass is a slight evolution on the original

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AMD Epyc, Intel Foveros Score Analyst Choice Awards

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AMD and Intel were among the winners of the 2019 Analysts’ Choice Awards by The Linley Group for second-generation Epyc processors and Foveros packaging technology, respectively. Habana, Arm and Huawei also won awards.

The Linley Group, a leading supplier of technology analysis in computing, revealed the winners of its Analysts’ Choice Awards on Monday. The awards are meant to recognize the top semiconductor and processor IP of the year. The group selects winners based on the merits of those


This Gigabyte Aorus 7 Gaming Laptop Is on Sale Now With £200 off the Perfect Allrounder

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There's no such thing as a truly cheap gaming laptop. But this Gigabyte Aorus 7 Laptop certainly delivers some seriously good value. This 17 inch model features a sleek chassis, packing an impressive Intel mobile CPU, an Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti GPU and a 144Hz IPS panel, all for just under £1,300.

Specifically here, we're talking about I ntel's Core i7-9750H ,

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Asus ROG Strix X299-E Gaming II Review: Adding Polish for 10th Gen Core

Our Verdict

This board is a clear step forward for Asus compared to their last-gen design. However, given the price tag, unless this board is being pushed to the limit, there are better equipped or cheaper boards available which leave this shy from an editor’s choice.

For

  • Robust design for overclocking
  • Consistent ROG aesthetic
  • Good performance across the board (lol)

Against

  • Not well suited for older processors
  • Overbuilt compared to the competition
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CEO Sundar Pichai Wants the Government to Regulate Google's AI Efforts

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai joined the growing list of tech executives calling for regulators around the world to put sensible limits on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in an opinion article The Financial Times published on Sunday.

Pichai trumpeted Google's efforts to use AI to help doctors spot breast cancer, assist meteorologists with their forecasts and bolster Lufthansa Group's efforts to keep flights running on time. The company's also used AI to improve its product offerings.

But that doesn't mean regulators


UltraRAM Is 'Universal Memory' That Brings RAM-Like Speed to Non-Volatile Storage

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Researchers at Lancaster University in the UK have invented a new form of “universal memory” that works as both storage and RAM . The technology, called UltraRAM and detailed in a research paper this month, looks to change how existing computers, smartphones and other devices work.

Two Types of Memory in One

UltraRAM combines the benefits of flash storage and DRAM into one. While storage technologies, such as hard disk drives (HDD) or solid state drives ( SSDs ) store data much cheaper than


Noctua's All-Black NH-L9a-AM4 Chromax.Black Is Possibly the Sleekest SFF AM4 Cooler

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Noctua's NH-L9a CPU cooler isn't new, having been available in the vendor's traditional brown and beige color scheme for some time. But today Noctua announced that it's finished giving the unit its all-black treatment and released the NH-L9a-AM4 Chromax.Black. This is a very thin small form-factor (SFF) cooler aimed for use in PCs with the AM4 CPU socket (for AMD CPUs )

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MSI's 17-Inch, GTX 1660 Ti-Equipped Gaming Laptop Is on Sale for $380 Off

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If you're shopping for a gaming laptop , one of the best tech deals available to you right now is in the MSI GS75 Stealth. In our MSI GS75 Stealth review in March, we appreciated its awesome sleek design, stellar performance and bright display. The more mainstream variant with a Max-Q version of  GTX 1660 Ti graphics is currently available on Amazon for $1,419 .

At this price, you'

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AMD Ryzen 7 4700U Early Benchmarks Show Strong Zen 2 Performance

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Geekbench results for the recently announced AMD Ryzen 7 4700U were posted today. The chip is a member of AMD's Renoir family of mobile APUs targeting laptops , of which the first ones should be arriving this quarter with over 100 systems expected to land throughout 2020.

The Ryzen 7 4700U is based on the Zen 2 microarchitecture and sports eight cores without Simultaneous Multithreading , meaning there are also

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118 Countries Have Cheaper Broadband Internet Than the US Right Now

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UK-based broadband comparison website Cable.co.uk has published its annual global broadband pricing information and put the U.S. in the 119th spot in terms of pricing for consumer Internet access, as spotted by TechSpot . Last year, the U.S. didn't fare much better and ranked 104th.

That's not to say that prices for broadband in the U.S. are going up. Rather, the year-on

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