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Gaming laptops typically make no bones about price points and usually command a premium, due to their more powerful components on board. Either that, or some machines pack potent components inside somewhat lack-luster skins, leaning into their inner mojo to attract gamers. With its G Series, Dell set out to appeal to price-conscious mobile gamers that still want good firepower, in addition to a quality, good-looking chassis design. Lower cost gaming notebooks often sacrifice on materials and build quality in an effort to drive cost down. However, in a follow-on to its successful Inspiron Gaming line of machines, Dell decided to take aesthetics up a notch, while also capitalizing on some...
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In this latest episode of HotHardware's Two And A Half Geeks, Marco, Chris, and Dave chat about what's new with Intel's seriously fast Optane memory, the Monster 32-Core Threadripper that's inbound, Corsair's swank K70 RGB and Strafe RGB MK.2 mechanical keyboards, Microsoft's Surface GO tablet, Intel's Core i7-8086K anniversary chip, and Cooler Master's Pay-It-Forward PC Master Race gaming rig giveaway system that we want to build! Show Notes: 03:25 - Intel Optane Memory Update: Making Hard Drives Perform Like Fast SSDs 13:29 - Corsair K70 RGB MK.2 And Strafe RGB MK.2 Gaming Keyboards Review: Killer Decks 24:48 - Microsoft Unveils Surface Go 10-Inch Tablet Starting At $399, Fanless And Light...
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In this episode of HotHardware's Two And A Half Geeks podcast, Marco, Chris and Dave talk about NVIDIA’s next GeForce GTX called Turing and its potential use of MIcron GDDR6 memory, Alienware’s beastly Area-51 R5 all liquid cooled gaming PC with 18 core Skylake-X, Netgear’s Cable Orbi mesh router and cable modem kit, AMD’s 7nm Vega and Zen 2, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 1000 and new low power Qualcomm Snapdragon 429, 439 and 632 chips for mainstream phones... Show Notes: 03:42 - Micron Ramps Production Of GDDR6 Memory For NVIDIA GeForce GTX 20 Turing GPU Series 08:39 - First Look: NVIDIA Next Gen Turing GeForce GTX Prototype Card Spotted 15:25 - Alienware Area 51...
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In this latest episode of HotHardware's Two And A Half Geeks podcast, Marco, Chris and Dave kick around breaking news and tech reviews headlines like AMD’s 2nd Gen Threadripper 32-core beast, LG’s punchy, potent G7 ThinQ phone, Huawei’s sleek and sexy MateBook X Pro laptop, ADATA’s snappy SX8200 NVMe SSD, Intel’s first discrete GPU, AMD Ryzen 7 2700 and Ryzen 5 2600 value CPUs, and the gaming rig we gave away last month that you just have to see for an idea of what we might give away next! Show Notes: 03:30 - ADATA SX8200 NVMe SSD, Blistering Storage Media 13:47 - LG G7 ThinQ Review: Punchy Display, Big Audio, Smart AI 29:38 - AMD Ryzen 7 2700 And Ryzen 5 2600 Review:...
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It took a little longer than we would have liked, but we’ve finally got the AMD and Corsair sponsored Raven Ridge giveaway system built up and ready to ship off to the winner! We put together a short video of the build process for those of you that would like to see how the rig came out. As you’ll see, with all of that beautiful Corsair gear and a streamlined AMD Raven Ridge APU setup, the system is super clean and tidy... The complete parts list for the system included: APU: AMD Ryzen 5 2400G Motherboard: ASRock AB350 Gaming K4 PSU: Corsair RM750X PSU Case: Corsair Crystal Series 570X Memory: 16GB Corsair Vengeance RAM Storage: Toshiba TR200 SSD Keyboard: Corsair K70 Rapidfire Mouse:...
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In this latest episode of HotHardware's Two And A Half Geeks podcast, Marco, Chris and Dave talk about AMD's 2nd Gen Ryzen Threadripper 32-core beast, Intel's 28-core Core-X powerhouse, Maingear's incredible F131 gaming desktop PC, Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 850 for thin and light all-day, always-connected Windows 10 PCs, ARM's next-generation mobile processor cores, and we’re looking for ideas on what we should give away next! Show Notes: 07:50 - AMD Demos Beastly 32-Core 2nd Gen Threadripper, 7nm Vega With 32GB HBM2 15:57 - Intel Demos 28-Core, 56-Thread 5GHz Monster Core-X CPU, Available In Q4 2018 28:12 - Maingear F131 Review: A High Performance Gaming PC Masterpiece 40:53...
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In this episode of HotHardware's Two And A Half Geeks, Marco, Chris and Dave kick around some breaking news and tech review headlines like Intel and Micron’s new Quad-Level Cell (QLC) NAND SSDs, Razer's hot new Blade 15 and Core X, ARM’s Project Trillium Machine Learning aspirations, Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 3, NVIDIA G-Synch HDR 4K 144Hz monitors, the Sony PS5 powered by Ryzen, AMD Ryzen Pro with Radeon Graphics, and we’re looking for ideas for our next giveaway! Show Notes: 02:11 - Micron And Intel Announce Shipment Of Industry First Quad-Level Cell (QLC) NAND Solid State Drives 09:23 - Razer Unleashes Blade 15 Gaming Laptop With Coffee Lake-H, GTX 1070 And...
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In this latest episode of HotHardware's Two And A Half Geeks podcast, Marco, Paul and Dave chat about the new Intel Optane SSD 905P and WD Black NVMe SSDs, LG’s G7 ThinQ Android phone, Dell’s Inspiron Gaming desktop PC, a killer new custom-built gaming desktop from Maingear, NVIDIA putting a bullet in GPP, and reveal the winner of our AMD and Corsair Spring Fling Gaming System Giveaway! Show Notes: 03:10 - Intel Optane SSD 905P Review: Seriously Fast Storage For Enthusiasts 12:26 - WD Black NVMe SSD Review: Affordable With Great Write Speeds 21:22 - Hands-On LG's G7 ThinQ: AI-Infused With A Super-Bright Display And Big Sound 33:02 - Dell Inspiron Gaming Desktop 5680 Review:...
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In this episode of HotHardware's Two And A Half Geeks, Dave, Marco and Chris run down Tech's biggest headlines from the last week or so, including AMD's 2nd Gen Ryzen processors, Dell's new Gaming Notebooks and the monster new config of the Alienware Area-51, LG's G7 ThinQ super-phone, Samsung's hot new SSD 970 Pro and SSD 970 EVO NVMe drives, news about the forthcoming Windows 10 April Update, and details or our killer AMD Raven Ridge gaming PC giveaway... Show Notes: 03:35 - AMD 2nd Gen Ryzen Review: 2700X And 2600X Deliver More Performance Per Dollar 13:16 - AMD Ryzen 7 2800X Rumored Ready To Counter Incoming Intel 8-Core Coffee Lake-S 19:55 - Fully Liquid Cooled Alienware Area 51 Game Streaming...
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Dell’s XPS 15 2-In-1 is a unique hybrid convertible, premium ultrabook in a couple of respects, partly because of its high quality Dell XPS series machined aluminum and hybrid carbon fiber construction, along with its beautiful 15-inch, 400 nits, near bezel-less Dell Infinity Edge display. However, the machine is also powered by a unique processor that marks the first collaboration of its kind by two archrivals in the PC processor arena, both Intel and AMD. Otherwise known as Kaby Lake G, the new Intel 8th Gen Core Series with integrated AMD Radeon RX Vega M graphics is a potent hybrid chip that offers discrete graphics horsepower and 4GB of HMB2 memory, coupled with Intel quad-core...
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ASUS boss Jerry Shen went on record saying to expect the company to release a gaming smartphone at some point in the future, though as to when exactly it will materialize and what specific features it will have, he did not offer up any further details. That's okay, because just knowing that ASUS is getting into the gaming phone space is interesting, as it underscores a growing segment. Granted, mobile gaming is not a new thing by any means. However, there have only been a handful of attempts to release smartphones specifically aimed at gamers. More recently, they include the Razer Phone, which marries a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 system-on-chip (SoC) to a 120Hz display panel, the Xiaomi-backed Blackshark...
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In this episode of HotHardware's Two And A Half Geeks, Marco, Chris, and Dave discuss g a major departure from AMD’s Executive team, EVGA’s first ever mechanical gaming keyboard, the Z10, the sights sounds and systems of PAX East 2018, Dell’s potent Latitude 7390 2-in-1, and go over the details of our AMD Raven Ridge Gaming System GIVEAWAY... Show Notes: 04:40 - EVGA Z10 Mechanical Keyboard Review: A Unique, Full-Featured Gaming Deck 15:50 - The Sights, Sounds And Systems of PAX East 2018 19:13 - Nintendo Switch Impresses With Wolfenstein 2 Gameplay At PAX East 21:55 - Hands-On Dell’s Coffee Lake-H Powered G-Series Gaming Laptops At PAX 26:19 - AVA Direct Rocks...
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In this episode of HotHardware's Two And A Half Geeks, Marco, Chris, and Dave discuss Intel's barrage of Coffee Lake CPUs that arrived this week, including Core i9 6-core chips for laptops, Dell's great new XPS 15 2-in-1 with its Intel/AMD hybrid processor, Intel's Hades Canyon Gaming NUC, Lenovo's 6th Gen ThinkPad X1 Carbon, a monster supercomputer from NVIDIA powered by a bunch of Volta GPUs, and details of a new killer AMD Raven Ridge PC gaming rig we’ll be giving away... Show Notes: 03:21 - Intel Unleashes Salvo Of Coffee Lake 8th Gen Core Laptop And Desktop Chips, Core i9 Mobile CPU And 300 Series Chipset 14:45 - Gigabyte H370N WiFi Intel 300 Series Coffee Lake Motherboard Sneak...
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At CES earlier this year, Dell strutted out a few new products, including its XPS 15 2-in-1 with a 360-degree hinge. It is the first XPS 15 to adopt the convertible 2-in-1 form factor, providing customers with flexible use case scenarios, like folding the display all the way back onto itself to become a tablet, or propping it up in tent mode as a kitchen counter companion. While not groundbreaking in 2018, it's a welcome upgrade to one of the more desirable and premium laptops on the market. What is groundbreaking, however, is what lies inside this laptop in terms of processing engines. Dell's new 15-inch convertible wields Intel's 8th generation Kaby Lake G processors with Radeon RX Vega graphics....
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