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It’s no secret that NVidia’s 1000 series, Pascal GPUs has been one of the most exciting launches in recent history. The MSI Gaming GTX 1070 was one of the first board partner cards to feature a custom PCB, and the difference shows. With its custom PCB sporting a 10-phase power delivery, can this GTX 1070 really trade blows with the likes of the Titan X. Will it be able to inch out the Founders Edition 1070? Join me as I run the MSI GeForce GTX 1070 GAMING 8G through my gauntlet of benchmarks. Let’s see how the MSI GTX 1070 GAMING 8G holds up!
Need a speedy and compact media card reader? With tday's demand for faster and smaller data storage, SD cards and micro SD cards are becoming more common in terms of storage data for many different devices from smartphones to action cameras and others in between. It would be handy if you have a card reader with you every time for a faster file transfer from your media card to your computer. If that's what you need, Kingston got just one for you! Check out the Kingston MobileLite G4 Card Reader which we will be taking a look at today.
PowerColor has released a brand new video card in the Red Devil RX 480 8GB GDDR5. It is based on AMD’s latest GCN 4 architecture designed for GloFo 14nm FinFET that delivers premium VR capability, increased level of performance, smooth VR, seamless support for next-gen gaming monitors, and CPU-free game streaming or recording. Furthermore, the model also supports AMD’s newest technologies such as Direct 12® and Vulkan™, FreeSync™, and Liquid VR.
Team Group has been around for quite some time since the 1997. Established in Taiwan, Taipei, Team Group is known for their memory modules and flash products such as SD cards and flash drives. Today we will be looking at one of their newest memory module, the Delta DDR4, which was created in partnership with Avexir. This low-profile LED-lighted module looks cool indeed and are perfect for red-themed gaming rigs. How well will this perform and overclock compared to other memory kits out there? Let's find that out today.
With the smaller form factor PCs being all the rage these days, more and more people are switching to using media center PCs for watching TV and movies. However, the smaller the case, the more heat it must dissipate. Depending on the setup, this could cause more ambient noise than one would want while trying to relax and binge on Game of Thrones or nap while their wife watches some random romantic comedy. What if there was a completely silent chassis? One where you didn’t have to worry about fans and noise. We’d like to thank the good people over at Streacom for providing us with the FC9 Alpha fanless chassis for this review as well as the 150 watt Nano Power Supply. But can this chassis really offer great cooling and a completely silent experience? Let’s find out!
Originally demoed as a prototype at the 2015 Taipei Computex, The Enermax Ostrog Advance chassis kept fans clamoring for a final version until it was finally released more than 6 months later at the 2016 CES Convention in Las Vegas.
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