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PCIe SSD rising as mainstream, to grab 50% market share in 2019
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 Driven by sharp price falls for NAND flash chips, global shipments of SSDs are estimated to surge 20-25% in 2019 from 200 million units seen in 2018, and PCIe SSDs are expected to emerge as a new mainstream offering by the end of 2019 with a market share of 50% on a par with SATA SSDs, according to industry sources.
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Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB Review
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Samsung has updated its hugely popular SSD 970 EVO series with the company’s latest 5th generation V-NAND TLC memory to produce the 970 EVO Plus. Does it make any difference to real world performance, and is it worth the £240 asking price?
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AVerMedia GC573 4K Capture Card & Live Streamer Mic
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AVerMedia has been around for quite a while, providing different ranges of products mainly targeted at content creators. Aiming to compete directly with Elgato, AVerMedia launched its 4K capable, HDR compatible PCI-express capture card that is priced at £249.95. Alongside our review of the GC573 Live Gamer 4K HDR Capture Card, we also take a look at the Live Streamer Mic 133 as well. This unidirectional condenser microphone has an MSRP of £69.99 and has DLSR, Android/iOS, and Mac/PC compatibility.
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ASRock Phantom Gaming Alliance System Build (8700K + RX 580)
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ASRock has recently created the Phantom Gaming Alliance brand as a way to help various manufacturers fine tune their products. By doing so, they can guarantee compatibility, reliability, and performance. This should allow them to better deliver a top of the line gaming experience to all users, and in this regard, I can say they exceeded my expectations considering the system's more entry-level focus.
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FiiO M6 Portable High Resolution Music Player Review
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Although not quite on par in audio performance with the M7 the brand new M6 Portable Hi-Res Music Player by FiiO comes very close, is more compact, features WiFi connectivity and is priced rather aggressively.
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Crucial MX500 250GB SSD Storage Review
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We have had the Crucial MX500 250GB for a few months now and so it’s about time we got round to reviewing it. Crucial sent this over to us a while ago and ever since we have been running the MX500 250GB SSD for a long period of time, allowing us to understand its day to day performance, and by the performance, we don’t just mean test results. We have used it as an external drive, a spare drive, and OS drive and it’s currently installed in a doc as a MacOS Time Machine back up drive.
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ASUS ROG Maximus XI Hero (Wi-Fi) Z390 Motherboard Review
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Positioned towards the upper end of the Z390 market, ASUS is targeting deep-pocketed enthusiast gamers with its most affordable ATX ROG Maximus offering. Sporting features you’d expect from a premium Z390 offering, including dual heatsink-cooled M.2 slots and an eye-catching design, ASUS takes the standard ROG Maximus XI Hero and adds a 2×2 MU-MIMO 802.11ac Wi-Fi adapter.
The aptly named ASUS ROG Maximus XI Hero (Wi-Fi) hits the shopping basket at around £280 – a territory that ensures stiff competition from ASRock’s Z390 Phantom Gaming flagship in addition to well-equipped Gigabyte and MSI offerings.
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AMD Ryzen Memory Tweaking & Overclocking Guide
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Memory overclocking has a significant impact on performance of AMD Ryzen powered machines, but the alleged complexity of memory tweaking on this platform, largely fueled by misinformation and lack of documentation, has kept some enthusiasts away from it. We want to change this.
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ROCCAT Vulcan 100 Mechanical RGB Keyboard Review
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" We have used the keyboard to write several documents and run a few games; the new Titan switches have a similar feel to MX Brown and thanks to the low profile design and the 1.8mm actuation point, the Vulcan 100 can keep up even during intensive gaming sessions. The keyboard is not as silent as we would have wanted (for that you’d better go with a Cherry MX Silent variant or LP Speed), but during LAN parties this aspect is not that important. "
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Aukey KM-G6 Mechanical Keyboard
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Aukey effectively replaces their excellent value for money KM-G8 keyboard with the new KM-G6. It keeps the same Outemu Blue mechanical switches and doubleshot-injected keycaps, while adding multi-color backlighting with many lighting effects and onboard controls at that same attractive price point.
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Titan RTX, Galaxy S10+, AMD Navi Rumors, Alienware Area-51m Preview
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In this episode of HotHardware’s Two And Half Geeks, Marco, Chris, and Dave will be diving in deep on NVIDIA’s beastly Titan RTX 24GB GPU, Samsung’s hot new Galaxy S10+, AMD 7nm Navi GPU rumors, Alienware’s beastly Area-51m desktop replacement laptop, Intel CPU shortages and more!
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