Asus duly obliges the bigger-is-better crowd with a package that’s 300mm long, 127mm wide and 52mm thick. That’s big, but its Strix brother is 20mm longer, 13mm wider and 5mm thicker. Asus says Gaming TUF OC is a 2.7-slot card, but you can ignore that and assume the hulking cooler obscures three slots.
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Gaming X Trio might not be the sexiest card, yet it’s got it where it counts. The thermal design, dubbed ‘Tri Frozr 2,’ incorporates a trio of Torx Fan 4.0 blowers promising a 21 per cent increase in static pressure, as well as a full-length heatsink interspersed with a series of a thick heatpipes. Ideal for taming the 320W underlying GPU and MSI doesn’t skimp on the finer details.
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Today we’re able to lift the veil on even more Ampere-based goodness. On tap for you here, we have a custom GeForce RTX 3080 from Palit, specifically the GeForce RTX 3080 GamingPro OC. This card looks nothing like NVIDIA’s Founder’s Edition – it’s bigger, uses standard PCIe supplemental power feeds, has RGB lighting, and the oversized cooling solution is packing three fans …
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The RTX 3000 series graphics cards are finally here! This time NVIDIA is really pulling out all of the stops! With the RTX 3000 series it appears that NVIDIA is really bringing value to consumers, pricing their RTX 3080 at only $699 and saying the performance will be up to 2x that of the RTX 2080!
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Tastes vary, but I have to say, the new industrial design from NVIDIA for the RTX 3080 Founders Edition is as good as any consumer computer product I’ve ever seen. It’s a solid, futuristic design that weighs in at a solid 3.0 lbs. You may not agree, but I think an in-person demo might convince you.
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The Z490 Steel Legend motherboard comes all of ASRock’s renowned featured such as SuperAlloy, Dr.MOS,10 Phase Power Design, PCIE steel slots, 6 x SATA ports, 2 x Ultra M.2 slots for SSDs (with 2 full coverage M.2 heatsink). There’s also 2 x USB 3.2 Gen2 (Rear Type-A+C), 7 x USB 3.2 Gen1 (4Front, 2 Rear, 1 Front Type-C), 7.1 HD audio, and of course the Polychrome RGB, and well as Dragon 2.5 GB/s LAN.
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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang officially unveiled the GeForce RTX 30 series based on the company’s Ampere architecture a couple of weeks back, to much fanfare. According to Jensen, who owns more spatulas than any human realistically should, the GeForce RTX 30 series represents the greatest generational leap in the company’s history.
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Meet the Gigabyte B550 Vision D motherboard. This product from the Vision series (which includes also a Z490 motherboard) is an AMD AM4 socket product targeted at creators. Built-in the ATX form-factor, the design resembles GB’s Designaire models. Make no mistake, this is a high-end prduct.
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Well today we are taking a look at one such B550 motherboard that might not exactly fit that criteria as it comes in at $299. It is ASRock’s B550 Taichi, which sits as a premium offering in the B550 space with a 16-phase digital VRM, 2.5G LAN, WiFi 6, USB 3.2 Gen 2, and possibly one of the best board designs we’ve seen from ASRock. Does it live up to its premium price? Read on as we find out!
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The TONOR Q9 uses a cardioid condenser capsule which is ideal for calls, voice-overs, and other spoken word, but can be used for music recording as well. It features a 16mm diaphragm, adequate 20Hz to 20KHz response, and an integrated sound chipset.
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