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As promised today is that arrives early Radeon R9 Nano, a variation of the R9 Fury X with which AMD hopes to stand out from the competition by offering for the first time a graphics card up to ultra compact range for mini -PC. The new Radeon she found her niche?

Gradually, NVIDIA disclaims Pascal’s architecture and enhances its line of GeForce GTX 10. First with the GeForce GTX 1070, available for a few weeks, and then with the GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB for stand in the way of the Radeon RX 480. good solutions for gamers? This is what we will check through our full review of the Founders Edition cards that are joined for the occasion by Strix versions of Asus and Phoenix Gainward. As has become tradition, the GeForce GTX 1080 was quickly followed by the GeForce GTX 1070, based on the same GPU GP104 but with specifications revised downward. A more affordable alternative that often attracted many players, as was the case with the GTX 970, despite the controversy that surrounded its special memory subsystem.

Finally ! After Broadwell launched stealthily with months of delays on LGA 1150, the Skylake processors arrive with their share of novelties. Spearheading the range, it is the Core i7-6700K and Core i5-6600K being launched initially. On the menu of this new “tock” found over the Haswell 14nm passage, improved side CPU architecture as iGPU and a new LGA 1151 platform associated Z170 Express chipset.

4GB kits of DDR2 are becoming the staple diet for gamers and enthusiasts – basically those who are heavy multitaskers or power users. While we will be revisiting the rhetorical question of “Is more memory better?” again at a later date, those who already know they want 4GB of memory in their system but are searching for something special will no doubt want to know if Crucial’s recently-released Ballistix Tracer Red is worth a look.

AMD has released this weekend a new version of its graphics drivers. Dubbed 16.8.2, these drivers provide first optimizations for the recently launched space exploration play No Man’s Sky . AMD also announced support of the open beta of Paragon.

28nm GPUs stuck around for a good while – almost five years, in fact. Difficulties in shrinking beyond this level forced both AMD and Nvidia to improve performance and efficiency without the aid of a die shrink and Nvidia undoubtedly did a better job with its super efficient Maxwell architecture than AMD was able to with its refreshed Graphics Core Next products. Finally, however, the industry is moving on. Last month saw the introduction of the 16nm Pascal architecture from Nvidia with the release of the  GTX 1080  swiftly followed by the  GTX 1070 , and now AMD is here with its 14nm Polaris architecture and the first graphics card to use it: the Radeon RX 480.

While some ROG boards have been demoted somewhat to the ROG Strix range, the premium end of things in the die-hard ROG fold is still busy with boards. Two more have joined the fold - the Apex and Code, which add some flare in different departments as well as undercutting the Formula by a fair amount too. At the pinnacle, there's the Extreme, with its amazing water block and equally eye-popping price tag. So where does the Formula fit in? In short, the place it always has - in systems that will be water-cooled, tweaked, tuned, overclocked, and also demand a certain aesthetic prowess from their hardware too. The good news is that the new Formula delivers in droves, for the most part. The bad news is that you'll be paying over £300 for the privilege. There's a lot of plastic on show, but honestly, in person, the board looks fantastic. It has a chunky, weighty feel, and there's a feeling of integration from the water block through to the I/O shield, onboard buttons, and s...

On the occasion of Siggraph, Nvidia decided to unveil the high end of its new Quadro family and launches of new models today. The Quadro represent a very important market for Nvidia, which has a more than comfortable position with market shares that revolve around 90%. With these new Quadro, NVIDIA account consolidate this position to face the threat of AMD FirePro offered with a much more aggressive pricing and a more advanced multi-screen support. So that since early 2001 the range of professional cards Nvidia is represented by brand Quadro FX, Nvidia has decided to change a little by removing the FX suffix. So this is not a Quadro FX 5900 will succeed the current Quadro FX 5800 but a Quadro 6000. It is the same with the Quadro 5000 successor to the Quadro FX 4800 and Quadro 4000 with the succeeding the Quadro FX 3800.

Revealed at CES, the Noctis 450 ROG is a partnership between NZXT and Asus that adds a bit of ROG flair to an existing NZXT chassis design. This isn't the first time we've seen a collaboration between NZXT and a gaming brand, with Razer also having gotten in on the action with a special edition of the H440. The appeal of cases like this are limited by their very nature, but if you were already planning a ROG build it might do enough to pique your interest. The Asus ROG pricing premium applies to cases just as much as any other product, it would seem, as this version of the Noctis 450 retails for a whopping £60 more than the £120 original. So, what's going on that might possibly make this worth an extra 50 percent investment?