CRUCIAL 16GB DDR4

If you’re trying to save some cash on your X99 build, Crucial has you covered        So, here it is. This is DDR4. Side-loaded into the new high-performance Intel X99 platform comes the next generation of system memory – and it’s a bit underwhelming on our desktop PCs. In the server space though it’s a different matter, because that’s where DDR4 gestated.       The main benefi of DDR4 over...

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INTEL CORE i7 5960X

More threads than a David lynch mini-series and just as powerful There sure is a lot of silicon given over to the graphical components of most of today’s processors. Intel’s standard Haswell architecture throws millions of transistors at its HD graphics component, and AMD’s latest Kaveri chips are only a couple of percentage points from being a complete half-and-half split between processor and graphics.       For us enthusiast-type...

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SCAN 3XS X99 CARBON

      The X99 Carbon has tipped up with an overclocked Intel Core i7 5820K, running at a decent 4.25GHz. This is the bottom rung of the Haswell-E ladder, but it’s arguably the most exciting and intriguing of the lot. Traditionally this position was held by an uninspiring quad-core chip, offering depressingly little over the non-enthusiast class Core i7s below it. The Core i7 5820K though is the cheapest six-core processor...

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Roccat Kone Pure Military Edition

      Roccat has already proved itself on the gaming peripheral battle ground with its Ryos MK Pro Gaming Keyboard, which won our gaming keyboard group test some weeks ago. This time, though, we’re looking at its newest range of gaming mice, in particular the Kone Pure series.       The Kone Pure is a series of immensely impressive gaming mice. The base edition, the Kone Pure, has enough features...

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BioWare’s Body Horror?

Plug & Play       It takes a certain amount of faith to spend several years in medical college, only to leave and set up a fledgling games studio, but that’s precisely what Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk  did back in 1995. The good doctors are now best known as the founders of BioWare, among the most respected developers currently active; with such games as Baldur’s Gate, Dragon Age and Mass Effect among their key...

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BORDERLANDS : THE PRE-SEQUEL

      Like a robot wearing a m an’s face,Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel neither one thing nor another.It iterates and improves on the series like all good sequels should, but story wise it slots into the gap between the first two games, charting the descent of a more humanized Handsome Jack. He’s kind of like the Star Wars prequels’ Anakin Skywalker, if he were intentionally rather than accidentally funny.      ...

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PATH OF EXILE : FORSAKEN MASTERS

Take a master class in monster-slaying.     spare a thought for the losers of of ExileThey slay the same monsters as everyone else. They run the same’s action-RPG loot lottery.Path dungeons and take out the same bosses, only to come out the other side with a rusty trowel and bargain-bucket plate mail.       In a random system, some will find themselves on the wrong end of every dice roll. Producer and lead...

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