Although liquid cooling AIOs are more affordable and usually easier to mount, some people still prefer the reliability and lifespan of tower CPU coolers. To be honest, we use a Noctua twin tower coolers for most of our CPU benchmarks since they don't require any addional support or bracket (for radiators for example). According to Scythe, the Ninja 5 cooler can deliver exellent performance.

ASUS has expanded its monitor lineup with a new model measuring 32-inch diagonally and featuring a 3840 x 2160 pixel IPS panel. Furthermore the ProArt PA32UC is the first 32-inch display compatible with HDR400 standard. According to ASUS, the new ProArt PA32UC professional is supposed to be used in the office environment.

Following the leak of AMD Ryzen 2000 slides, more details are coming up again. This time it's related to AMD's plans for the high-end desktop market. The leaked slides are courtesy of the Spanish website Informatica Cero. The documents show also some information regarding upcoming HEDT products.

According to a Taiwanese PC industry sources, ASRock might enter in the graphics card market as well. The Taiwanese electronics company, currently owned by Pegatron, is producing motherboards, barebones systems, servers and even network products. Since ASRock is producing already several hardware components, it's not a surprise if they would join in GPU market as well.

According to a rumor which has its roots in the the GFXBench database, Intel might release quite soon more Coffee Lake processors. The CPU's name breaks Intel's naming schemes since it comes as Core i7-86xx. At the moment the 86xx prefix is used for Core i5.

TechPowerUp has come across a few interesting slides on the Spanish website Informatica Cero. One of them actually shows a CPU roadmap for AMD's next generation of Zen processors. Pinnacle Ridge, which is the successor's code name, is supposed to be manufactured using 12nm technology instead of the current 14nm node.

EK Water Blocks announced that they are working on a new water block for the ASUS ROG STRIX RX Vega 64 graphics card. The block is going to looks similar to the model EK produced for the reference version.

In our hardware roundup we post all reviews from the hardware sites around the globe we can find. Apparently we wish you a lot of fun browsing the lists and we hope you're going to enjoy those reviews.

During the last year we have seen a massive cryptocurrency boom and plenty of people trying to take advantage of it. For example the UK government site has been hacked to mine, nuclear russian scientists tried to use super computers for mining and several torrent websites had Javascript-based cryptocurrency miners loaded.

A few days ago, we have spotted the first benchmarks about the upcoming Ryzen 2000 series based on the Zen+ architecture. Meanwhile, the benchmark comparison site Hardware Battle has posted some benchmarks of what appears to be the upcoming Ryzen 7 2700 CPU. At the moment all the informations are behind a password but VideoCardz re-hosted the relevant information.

NZXT has announced the expansion of its Kraken X series with a new flagship model. With the Kraken X72 AIO, NZXT adds a 360mm AIO to the lineup. According to the company, the upcoming Kraken X72 should deliver pretty solid performance.

If you are looking for a mid-tower case which is compatible with high-end graphics cards, ATX motherboard as well as watercooling setup, Corsair's Carbide 275R enclosure might be just what you've been looking for. Carbide 275R is available in two colors, four versions and it's an improved version of the Carbide 270R.

According to the latest Steam hardware survey, NVIDIA is still holding the crown, when it comes to graphics card market share. No less than 85 percent of the users on Steam own a system where the graphics department is powered by a GeForce graphics card.

EK Water Blocks have announced that their new EK-FC GeForce GTX FE RGB full-cover water block is available and ready for shipment. As usual EK's full-cover blocks directly cool the GPU, RAM and VRM.

AMD has released the latest update to their Radeon GPU drivers, the Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.3.1 WHQL. This new updated adds day-one support for a couple of upcoming AAA games like Final Fantasy XV and Warhammer: Vermintide II.

A few years ago, the first version of the A4-SFX mini-ITX case from DAN Cases has gone live on Kickstarter with only 1500 samples available. The goal has been reached in just few hours and, a few months ago, the company has released a second version. During the last days, we have spotted the third generation of this little gaming PC that is available for pre-order.

One of the biggest complains about Coffee Lake processors and their 300-series chipset is the lack of compatibility with older Intel 200-series and 100-series chipset motherboards. Despite this fact, a group of modders have managed to make things work together.

Although liquid cooling AIOs are more affordable and usually easier to mount, some people still prefer the reliability and lifespan of twin tower CPU coolers. To be honest, we use twin tower coolers for most of our CPU benchmarks since they are more compact and they don't require any radiator support. According to Cooler Master, the MasterAir MA620P cooler can deliver the performance of a liquid AIO cooler.

Last year, Intel and AMD made a collaboration in order to launch the first chip packing an Intel CPU with an AMD graphics chip. With Kaby Lake-G, Intel packs a quad core CPU together with a RX Vega M GPU with HBM2 memory. A few weeks ago, during CES 2018, we have seen the first processors based on this collaboration and now, finally, there are the first benchmarks.

EK Water Blocks have announced that their new EK-FC Radeon Vega RGB full-cover water blocks are available and ready for shipment. As usual EK's full-cover blocks directly cool the GPU, RAM and VRM. This water block is compatible with both RX Vega and Vega FE series.