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Samsung Odyssey Neo G8 4K UHD 240Hz

SAMSUNG ODYSSEY NEO G8 240Hz 4k Curved Gaming Monitor Review

The Odyssey Neo G8 is the first gaming monitor to combine a curve with a 4K resolution and a 240Hz refresh rate, and the impressive specifications don’t stop there – the G8 also uses a 10-bit VA panel with advanced backlighting. The 4K resolution keeps the image crisp, the 1000R curve is immersive and the …

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Kingston IronKey Vault Privacy 80

KINGSTON IRONKEY VAULT PRIVACY 80ES External SSD Review

The Kingston Ironkey Vault Privacy 80ES is a solid-state USB storage device with password-protected XTS-AES 256-bit hardware encryption. So far, so relatively commonplace. However, what makes this device particularly interesting is that instead of requiring software to unlock the drive, it relies on a built-in touchscreen that lets you key in your PIN or password, …

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INTEL CORE i9 12900KS

INTEL CORE i9 12900KS Alder Lake CPU Review

In some ways, Core i9-12900KS is Intel’s answer to the Ryzen 7 5800X3D’s gaming performance – it’s essentially a cherry-picked Core i9-12900K with a massive peak boost frequency of 5.5GHz. Cherry picking never comes cheap, though. Speed binning only results in a small number of chips that are capable of having all their parts enabled …

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INTEL CORE i9 12900k

INTEL CORE i9 12900K Alder Lake CPU Review

It’s no secret that Intel struggled to match AMD’s 16-core mainstream desktop CPUs with its previous mainstream offerings and had to completely rethink its approach to CPU design to beat the likes of the Ryzen 9 5950X. The answer was to mix different types of cores to boost lightly threaded and multi-threaded performance. By combining …

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Intel Core i7 12700k

INTEL CORE i7-12700K Alder Lake CPU Review

With the advent of Intel’s Core i9 brand, Intel’s Core i7 CPUs have often struggled to find their place, and we initially thought the Core i7-12700K would find this tricky, given the awesome performance of the cheaper Core i5-12600K. With its various mixes of performance-focused P-Cores and energy-efficient E-Cores, though, Intel has more ways to …

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