Amp Up Your Audio This Black Friday With These Razer 2.0 Speaker System Deals (33% & 20% off)

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Speaker systems these days seem few and far between when it comes to PC gaming. Yeah we get it, most of the time you don’t want to annoy your relatives, and with the incessant sound of clacking mechanical keyboards, and frantic GPU fans trying to render 200 frames a second it can be hard to justify investing in a dedicated set of bookshelf speakers for your rig too.

That said, if you did want to, we may have found not one, but

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Corsair Nightsword RGB Gaming Mouse Review: Weight-Adjustable FPS Fun

Our Verdict

The Nightsword will likely take some getting used to, but its unorthodox shape works surprisingly well, particularly in shooters. It's not without its flaws, though.

For

  • Great for whip aiming
  • Adjustable weight
  • Tons of RGB zones
  • Scalloped left and right-click buttons feel great

Against

  • Indent pattern collects grime
  • Some buttons feel wobbly
  • Sniper button is located very far forward
  • Divisive looks

Corsair's aims its Nightsword RGB squarely at FPS and MOBA players. It features a whole lot of RGB, adjustable weights and a pretty unusual

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Light Up Your Black Friday With Razer’s Goliathus Extended Mousemat (33% off)

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Let me be the first to say how critical I was when Razer first launched its RGB Firefly mouse-mat many moons ago. In fact, I absolutely despised it, the hub at the top continually got in the way of my mouse, and coupled with the price it drove me to the brink of insanity. I scored it 3/10 at the little PC magazine I was working with at the time, and Razer was not happy (understandably).

That said, a

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Black Friday Headset Deal: SteelSeries Arctis 3 On Sale For $45 (35% off)

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Finding the perfect headset is often a challenge. After all, all of us have different tastes, different shaped heads, and different preferences on sound. When you’re on a budget, trying to factor all these variables in can lead to a headache. That said, in our opinion we believe Steelseries’ Arctis 3 is one of the best budget headsets around, it may not be as flashy as the Arctis Pro , or as a low-grade as super cheap as the Arctis

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Sphero RVR Deal: Ultimate Pi-Powered Car is $50 Off

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If you're into robots or Raspberry Pi , chances are that you've either already built or want to build some kind of robot vehicle. Amazon is filled to the brim with robotic car kits that you can build yourself and power with a Pi or an Arduino board. However, most of these kits are a little flimsy and definitely not made to work outdoors.

Enter the Sphero RVR. I've been testing this robotic car for a couple of weeks now and will soon

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Our Favorite 1TB SSD Is at its Lowest Price Ever

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The Adata XPG SX8200 Pro is at the top of our best SSDs list for good reason. This M.2 NVMe SSD holds its own and, on many workloads, outperforms much more expensive drives like the $1,300 Intel Optane 905P and the $297 Samsung 970 Pro.

In our tests, the 1TB capacity of the SX8200 returned sequential read and write rates of 3

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Report: Intel Looking to Sell Connected Home Chip Division

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Intel is reportedly looking to sell its connected home unit, which makes chips for home Internet devices like routers, Bloomberg reported this week. The story, which cites anonymous sources, says that the company has a financial adviser on hand and is searching for buyers.

The company declined to comment to Bloomberg, but the connected home division has annual sales of roughly $450 million, per the report.

In July, Intel sold its 5G smartphone modem business to Apple in a $


Phanteks AMP Series 550W Power Supply Review

Our Verdict

The Phanteks AMP model with 550W achieves high performance and has a fairly quiet operation.

For

  • Full power at 47 degrees Celsius
  • High build quality
  • Satisfactory performance
  • Dead silent
  • Fully modular (with 2x EPS connectors)
  • Compact dimensions

Against

  • Low 5VSB efficiency
  • Transient response at 3.3V
  • Small distance between the 4-pin Molex connectors
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Samsung UR59C 4K Curved Monitor Review: Premium Image, Budget Price

Our Verdict

The Samsung UR59C leaves out a few features to achieve its budget 4K price. But it makes up for that with stunning image quality and solid gameplay when driven by a fast graphics card.

For

  • Stunning picture
  • Accurate after calibration
  • Quality build
  • Effective curvature

Against

  • No G-Sync or FreeSync
  • No USB ports
  • Needs calibration
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Radeon RX 5700 XT GPU Deal Shows Up at $350 Ahead of Black Friday

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Black Friday is almost here, and we're already seeing a discount on the latest AMD Navi graphics cards. On Newegg, the AsRock Radeon RX 5700 XT Challenger is down to $349.99 (with a $20 mail-in-rebate).

That's down from selling around $400 and then a drop to $379. This is one of the lowest prices for an AMD Radeon RX 570

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