MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X Trio Review and more

A listing of current prices for all AMD Radeon RX 550 graphics cards available on the market today.

I have had the pleasure to build with many products from Corsair, such as the H100i, Graphite 700T, Carbide 600T, Vengeance memory, HX750 and many more. So I was thrilled to have the opportunity to review the SPEC-04 TG, a new version of the budget SPEC-04 with a tempered glass side panel. In this article for Benchmark Reviews, we’ll look at the features offered by this mid-tower design before doing a quick build and delivering a final conclusion.

I don’t think there is a brand that has taken over the PC and gaming market quite like Corsair did. If you didn’t know Corsair started our mainly making memory. Now they are one of the top brands for PC cases, power supplies, all-in-one liquid CPU coolers, and gaming accessories. If you’ve built your own PC in the past few years it is very likely that you have a Corsair part in there somewhere. When it comes to their gaming keyboards their current flagship is the K95 RGB Platinum, which is jam-packed with features. This full-size keyboard can be loaded out with Cherry MX mechanical key switches, has six dedicated macro keys, per-key RGB backlighting as well as a RGB lightbar at the top of the keyboard, a large wrist rest, dedicated multi-media and volume controls, and all of this on an aircraft-grade aluminum frame. Is this the ultimate gaming keyboard? Read on as we find out!

The Enermax Ostrog Lite is an inexpensive, entry-level, mid-tower chassis with great looks and some high-end features. The Enermax Ostrog Lite is an entry-level, mid-tower chassis that, despite its budget friendly price tag, still offers great looks and some features normally found on higher-end chassis. It features an all steel construction, with the exception of the plastic front panel, and is painted black inside and out (also available in grey). The case measures 194 x 440 x 460mm (W x D x H) and weighs just over 10lbs.

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) is a wildly popular ‘battle royale’ and really fun game to play, but recently the numbers of cheaters and hackers has gotten pretty bad. Just one week ago BattlEye, the third-party anti-cheat solution used by PUBG, announced that as of October 12th that 322,000 cheaters have been banned from PUBG and then followed that up by saying 42,000 accounts were banned in one day just over a week later! PUBG Corp. is doing their best to ban cheaters and on top of BattlEye banning an average of 6,000-13,000 accounts per day and they also recently added in a custom cheat detection tool on top of that. According to Steamdb, the most recent figures show that sales have topped 18.7 million, so based on the numbers released it would be safe to assume that right around half a million or 3% of PUBG game owners have been busted for cheating thus far.
Despite PUBG’s anti-cheat system doing some serious banning, we’ve still ended up with cheaters in a good number of the solo, duo and squad matches that we have recently played. Reporting someone as a cheater in PUBG after you are killed by them doesn’t instantly get them flagged for banning like one might think. That is just a statistic that PUBG Corp. uses internally and won’t actually lead to someone getting banned.

The last years more and more manufacturers make the switch to graphics cards with a triple-fan cooler. Recently introduced graphics cards do not have the tendency to become more efficient, while nobody wants a lot of noise coming from their fans. MSI managed to keep pace with the competition with their dual-fan Twin Frozr-coolers, but now they also make the switch to three fans with the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X Trio. We tested the youngest MSI graphics card extensively. 

The *NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti* remains the desktop gaming king after taking on, and obliterating its *AMD Radeon RX Vega 64* and *Vega 56* challengers!

Five years on from the release of the original Tiamat 2.2, Razer is back with a successor – rather unimaginatively named the Tiamat 2.2 V2. The ‘2.2’ moniker is important as that means each ear cup features a dedicated sub-woofer, meaning there are a total of four 50mm drivers in the headset as a whole. What does this sound like, and is it good for gaming? Let’s find out.

Professionals looking to equip their valuable NAS with the highest capacity, fastest and most durable HDDs in the market today should look no further than the brand new IronWolf 12TB model by Seagate.