Introduction Every year seems to pass faster and so do pc components. Asking ourselfs which components are best for gaming is a topic that gets discussed almost every week here at Techjunkies.nl. Not physically on our blog but just that people ask me in person doubting about their hardware of Lees verder…
Okay, I think we reached the point where if you want you could RGB everything in your pc. From Motherboards to Power cables, to PSU’s and GPU’s. Lately we see more NVMe SSD’s that also feature RGB lighting as for example the recently introduced Gigabyte Aorus RGB M.2. Today Patriot Lees verder…
Mushkin well known for it’s DDR memory products released the Helix-L M.2. drive. A direct competitor for Intel’s 660P and Kingston’s A2000 NVMe drives costing around the € 120,00 mark for a 1TB drive. The Mushkin Helix-L is available in 250GB, 500GB and 1TB capacities featuring an (Silicon Motion) SM2263XT Lees verder…
Today Intel introduces the Intel 665-P NVMe SSD with 1TB and 2TB capacity. The 665-P-SSD is the predecessor of the popular Intel 660P SSD and features the same SM2263 Controller and 256MB DDR3 cache. Furthermore, we find the same QLC-Nand memory on the 665P that features 4 bits per cell Lees verder…
Earlier this year Seagate introduced the Firecuda 510 m.2 NVMe with pci-e 3.0 connectivity. Seagate is following the example of Gigabyte, Corsair, XPG and Patriot and decided it was time to upgrade the Firecuda with a pci-e 4.0 interface and named it Seagate Firecuda 520. The Firecuda 520 is fitted Lees verder…
Micron claims to have the worlds fastest SSD commercially available. The Micron X100 as it is called features 3D XPoint technology able of reaching speeds up to 9 GB/s and 2.5 million IOPS via the standard NVMe protocol and a 16x PCI-E interface. In comparison the new consumer PCI-E Gen Lees verder…
Are you looking for a NAS drive with a large ammount of storage? Western Digital has its 8TB and 10TB variants in the RED series line-up. These helium filled drives are especially developed for NAS systems with multiple drives in RAID configs. How do they hold up against their competition, Lees verder…
The use of Thunderbolt 3 devices is becoming more and more popular. TB 3 is becoming a standard issue in new iMACs, motherboards, laptops and finds its way to MAC/PC monitors, not only to transfer data but also serving as a 4K and 5K display cable. But why should you Lees verder…