Everything that involves NAND flash memory has grown to what is today a huge business and throughout the past few years the big names such as Samsung, Micron and SK Hynix have been investing heavily in research and development. One of the results of this is that today we have consumer SSDs with up to 2TB capacity due to 48-layer 3D NAND flash chips. So far it looks like Samsung is perfectly on track to soon launch the next generation of SSDs due to 64-layer 3D NAND with even higher capacities.

Microsoft has released the system requirements for Forza Motorsport 7 and it looks like compared to Forza Horizons 3 it won’t be that heavy on the hardware anymore. This is pretty good news for the more casual gaming community out there.

According to the latest rumors from our friends over at Videocardz, the next generation of AMD graphics cards, which will be based on the upcoming Vega architecture has been spotted in a retail shop. AMD's Radeon Vega cards may be amongst the most anticipated product family of the year. According to Scan UK and SabrePC in the USA, the Vega Frontier Edition should cost $1199 US.

During Computex 2017, MSI has shown their first batch of X299 motherboards for Intel's Basin Falls platform. Meanwhile we have taken several pictures of the upcoming X299 Gaming Pro Carbon AC which should be one of the more competitively priced models from MSI regarding Intel X299 chipset. Compared to the predecessor, which goes by the name X99A Gaming Pro Carbon, we see a similar color scheme - as the name suggests - but a reworked layout and a new design for all the heatsinks.

Today we have another build from Tran Tan Dat for you. In the past we’ve shared several of his builds and as you might know they always look exceptionally good. Since we don't know what there is under the hood you will not find any specification.

Although the acclaimed launch date will be somewhen during the upcoming weeks news leaks related to Threadripper are making it through almost every day. This time wccftech jumped the gun and they have found some leaks in the Geekbench database. The results are pretty similar to AMD's existing Ryzen CPUs.

These days, Bitcoin is experiencing another hype as currently the price for 1BTC skyrocketed to a whopping $2'460 US. That means the value of one Bitcoin tripled within just a few weeks. As it always is with Bitcoin mining a big hype kicks in when the exchange rate explodes - as it just did. A few weeks ago we have seen rumors about upcoming mining GPUs and maybe rather sooner than later NVIDIA is going to introduce something that is geared towards that purpose.

EK Water Blocks announced that they are working on a new water block for MSI’s GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card. The block is going to look similar to the models EK produced for the non-Ti version.

Dell has expanded its InfinityEdge series with a new monitor which features a 38-inch panel and 3440 x 1440 resolution. Furthermore the monitor comes with a KVM switch and USB Type-C port. According to Dell the display covers 99 percent of the Adobe RGB and sRGB color spectrum and a few other color standards.

Today we have another build from GGF Lan Party for you. In the past we’ve shared several of his builds and as you might know they always look exceptionally good. Since we don't know what there is under the hood you will not find any specification.

During Computex 2017, Fractal Design has shown several PC cases and we are going to do a quick roundup of all the products. Fractal has recently released the Focus G series and during Computex they have shown different colors like white, red and gunmetal grey, moving away from the traditional black design. Furthermore the manufacturer has presented the Celsius liquid cooling kits.

NVIDIA has announced that from today, June 13th, until June 27th they will be bundling both a copy of Destiny 2 and guaranteed Beta access to the game with the purchases of selected GeForce GTX GPUs and NVIDIA based gaming PCs.

Toshiba announced their Tecra X40 notebook, which is based on the 7th generation of Intel Core processors and a 14-inch 1920 x 1080 multi-touch display. The Tecra X40 is supposed to offer 13 hours of battery life. In addition to the standard configurations, Toshiba will also offer a wide variety of build-to-order options.

Alienware has expanded its monitor lineup with another model, featuring a 25-inch VA panel with 1920 x 1080 FullHD resolution. The grey-to-grey response time is 1ms and the refresh rate is up to 240Hz. Apart from that this monitor will be available with either Nvidia G-Sync (AW2518H) or AMD FreeSync, (AW2518HF) support built-in.

With all the onboard audio chips you can find on today’s motherboards it could seem that soundcards have been a thing from the past. Apparently Creative thinks different as they’ve just released a new Sound Blaster add-in-card.

Today we have another build from JP Modified for you. In the past we’ve shared several of his builds and as you might know they always look exceptionally good. Since we don't know what there is under the hood you will not find any specification.

Dell has revealed their new Alienware Area-51 gaming desktops based on the latest high performance AMD and Intel processors. As the name suggests, the Alienware Area-51 Threadripper Edition is a pre-built system which is going to be equipped with AMDs Ryzen Threadripper CPUs

During Computex 2017, Cooler Master has shown several PC cases and we are going to do a quick roundup of all the products. Next to the redesigned Cosmos and HAF cases, Cooler Master has unveiled three models based on the new MasterBox Q series. While the first two models are mid-towers, the MasterBox Q series comes with a smaller footprint.

A few weeks ago AMD announced their Ryzen Threadripper series of processors. As we all know meanwhile these chips will feature even more cores than the currently available Ryzen 7 CPUs and on top of that they will be based on a new AMD high-end desktop platform. According to the latest rumors AMD is to launch RYZEN Threadripper on July 27th.

During the pre-show days at the PC Gaming Show E3, Intel has revealed the launch date for its Core X series of CPUs. The first Kaby Lake-X and Skylake-X chips will go on pre-order by June 19 and the first units are going to be shipped the following week. At lunch everything from the four core Core i5-7640K chip all the way up to the ten core Core i9-7900X processor is going to be available.