Author: Jacob Ridley
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Liquid cooling company EK allegedly facing financial difficulties with suppliers, partners and employees claiming they’re bearing the brunt of it
EKWB is the subject of a new report from Gamers Nexus claiming the liquid cooling component and prebuilt PC company is struggling to pay its bills, suppliers and employees. The report arrives off the back of a LinkedIn post by a former employee alleging various issues around the company’s conduct. EKWB is a well-known liquid…
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Roccat is gone, replaced by Turtle Beach: ‘We felt that time and resources would be best spent focusing under a single brand’
Roccat is no more. The peripheral brand out of Germany, bought by Turtle Beach in 2019, is being retired and all of its existing product lines will be shifted over to Turtle Beach branding. “We want to bring a greater level of integration to our family of products across console, PC and simulation,” a statement…
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There are few easy ways to get across the incredible complexity required to build a modern computer chip: this photograph is one of them
Chipmaking is tough. Like really tough. Just how tough? An engineer could spend many hours talking about the intricacies of just a single step in the lithographic or packaging process and you’d come away wiser but moderately terrified about the scale of the accomplishments required to create any and all computer chips. But a photograph…
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Cherry Xtrfy K5V2 review | PC Gamer
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Cherry’s switches are dependable, unwavering, and the standard by which many of us judge all other switches. So, what happens when Cherry changes them? You get the new MX2A Red switches inside the Cherry-made Xtrfy K5V2—a new and improved version of the Cherry MX Reds we’ve come to know well over the years. The MX2A…
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Gaming PCs with no visible cables are the boldest design change I’ve seen in a decade of building computers
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Jacob Ridley, cable hater (Image credit: Future) This month I’ve been testing: Ultra-high polling rate gaming mice, to see what all the fuss is about; and trying to figure out what makes the best PC fan.This month I have been playing: a bit of Baldur’s Gate 3, but mostly I’ve been caught up in Helldivers…
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Here’s a portable PS1 built from the remnants of an actual console and it only took folding the motherboard ‘like a book’
Is it just me or are these DIY builds starting to look like a shippable product? This is the PS Hanami, from @YveltalGriffin on X, and it’s a portable PS1 made out of the parts of a real PS1, only quite heavily modified (read: snapped in half) for a compact form factor not much bigger…
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US promises Samsung $6.4B to build more chips on US soil, which only increases the chance of a Made in USA GPU at some point
The US government has announced it will hand $6.4B to Samsung, in a bid to get more advanced chips produced on US soil. The company, headquartered in South Korea, is currently in the process of building chipmaking facilities, including a fab and packaging plant, in Taylor, Texas and this big influx of cash hopes to…
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Major Taiwan earthquake temporarily halts production at Nvidia and AMD chipmaker
A ~7.4 magnitude earthquake that struck Taiwan on Wednesday morning has left many injured and at least seven dead in official reports. The earthquake, one of the strongest to hit the island in decades, also led to TSMC, the largest manufacturer of computer chips in the world, closing its doors temporarily. TSMC, the primary manufacturer…
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Man tries to smuggle seven-year-old AMD graphics cards through Chinese airport customs—all 44 of them
With the US ramping up bans on sending high-performance PC parts to China—and China now returning the favour—you’d think there would be a degree of interest in smuggling high-end PC parts into the country. This is not that. This is the case of a smuggler trying to move 44 AMD Radeon RX 580 graphics cards…
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Intel’s future multi billion dollar mega-fab is set smack-bang on top of multiple neolithic burial sites
Right now, Intel’s Magdeburg mega-fab in Germany is little more than a field with a few holes in it. Though those holes are of significant historical importance. Within them, archaeologists from the State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt have discovered the remains of multiple burial mounds, including a chariot burial, which date back…