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New Nvidia Goodies: RTX 3070Ti and 3080Ti Gaming Laptops
Gaming on the go just got a whole lot better with new RTX 30 Series laptops. How? They feature RTX 3070Ti and 3080Ti graphics cards now. Take powerful gaming with you! Built with Nvidia Ampere architecture, these compact gaming laptops are brimming with the innovations of the GeForce RTX 30 Series. Enjoy second-gen RT cores for impeccable ray tracing and third-gen Tensor cores for hyper-realistic shading. All from a sleek package, too. https://youtu.be/W1YafbWbT6s RTX 30 Series Features Nvidia’s Ampere architecture is packed with amazing features…
The Latest Tech Gimmick or the Future of Gaming: 8,000Hz Polling Rate
With new hardware comes great innovations. Peripherals have always been about the lowest latency, the fastest gaming performance, and that oh-so-sweet tactile click under your fingers. The latest development coming to our keyboards and gaming mice is an ultra-polling rate. For a while now, the industry standard has been a 1,000Hz polling rate, with certain mice allowing you to scale it down. Now, we have mice and keyboards from the likes of Endgame Gear, Corsair, Glorious, and Razer boasting polling rates of 8,000Hz. That’s an…
NVMe Hard drives – Are we Done With SATA?
Seagate unveiled the industry's first native NVMe hard disk drive (HDD) at 2021's Open Compute Project global summit. This announcement might confirm a future for HDDs which have been becoming less popular as SSD's and NVME M.2 drives decrease in price and increase in storage capacity. The newly presented HDDs are connected with NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) via PCIe 3.0 instead of a traditional SATA (Serial AT Attachment) connection. Whilst hard drives are slower than SSDs and even slower than NVMe M.2 SSDs, they will…
Embrace The Geek: 2021’s Best Gaming Tech So Far
When Busted travelled to the year 3000, they were too busy chatting up their own great-granddaughters to take a sneaky peek at the tech available. Except of course, the boyband maker, but nobody wants one of those. However, I am convinced that some of the world’s tech giants must have tagged along for the ride, because some releases so far in 2021 have been seriously futuristic. From wireless charging to neural interfaces for gaming mice, we truly are living through some revolutionary developments. Let’s embrace…
It’s Coming… Home? Gaming Tech From England’s Last Final
In a surprising turn of events, the men’s England football team have reached the final of a major cup tournament for the first time in 55 years. That’s right, our last appearance in a final was that final. The 1966 World Cup. Since then, mobile phones have been invented, we started a new millennium, and flying cars are looking like they might actually be a thing. This really makes you think about how different life was back then, as well as how much technology has changed.…
Quake at 25
July marks the 25th anniversary of the release of the original Quake (id Software's first true 3D FPS). Whilst Doom was id’s breakout success, Quake remains a fan favourite, successful enough since launch to spawn three sequels and countless mods. Even retaining a cult following to this day, such an influential game calls for a suitable thorough retrospective, so here we go. Earth-shattering success The initial concept for Quake had been kicking around for some time - with some oblique references even appearing as far…
Award-Winning Five Years on the Trot – noblechairs are Truly Iconic
On Monday 31st of May, the European Hardware Awards winners were announced for 2021. Taking its place among the champions once more, the noblechairs ICON Series Gaming Chair has been crowned best of the best. For the fifth year running, it is time to don our party hats and celebrate this award-winning gaming chair! At the moment, noblechairs are going from strength to strength. In this week alone, they have launched a new special edition chair as well as receiving multiple awards for their innovative…
AMD Ryzen 5000 Processors: A CPU Guide
AMD’s Ryzen Zen CPU architecture has allowed the company to rise to new heights with competitive processors in the server, desktop and mobile markets. Lisa Su took to the stage on October the 8th to announce the latest groundbreaking Zen 3 architecture, which represents one of the largest improvements for AMD’s desktop processors. During the launch which included plenty of useful information, AMD announced the lineup of Ryzen 5000 processors. Overclockers UK has already listed the full range and here’s what we know about the…
Get Ready for Ampere: Guide to Supported PC Cases
To help you get ready for Ampere we’ve used our expert knowledge of hardware to put together all the information you’ll need to ensure your PC is ready for a new Nvidia graphics card. In this article, we cover compatible PC cases so you can ensure you have enough room to upgrade or buy the correct computer case for your RTX 3000 powered build. Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang invited us to his kitchen on the first of September to what the company has…
Second consecutive win for the EPIC Series
Overclockers UK would like to congratulate noblechairs for their win at this year's European Hardware Awards. The EHA have just awarded the EPIC Series Best Gaming Chair 2020. Victory at the EHA is no stranger to noblechairs with the EPIC series having won Best Gaming Chair in 2017, 2019 and now 2020 but being pipped to the post by the ICON series in 2018. Once again Overclockers UK congratulates the team at noblechairs for their ongoing success and wishes them all the best for the…
noblechairs Reveal Bethesda Softworks Partnership
Bethesda Softworks has been around since the dawn of video gaming and the company published it’s first title back in 1986. In the past 30+ years, they’ve created many huge blockbuster franchises such as The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein, Dishonoured, Prey and Rage. It’s safe to say if you’ve owned a gaming PC or Console you’ve likely played and fallen in love with at least one of their games. With such epic titles it’s only natural you might want to take your appreciation…
The Superflower Leadex III Series: Reliability & Power!
The Leadex series marks the manufacturer's successful entry into the true high-end segment: With outstanding performance at low noise levels, the Leadex family has been setting the benchmark for performance power supplies since the end of 2013. With the brand-new Leadex III series Super Flower is now following up and renewing the fully modular 80PLUS gold series of power supplies. Both the optics and the technology under the hood have been further improved to set the gold standard in the performance segment in the future.…