This year, Asus will be stepping into foldable screen laptop territory. The company is no stranger to experimenting with novel and exotic hardware concepts, and this time it no different. Among Asus’ many CES 2022 announcements is the introduction of the Zenbook 17 Fold OLED, a 17.3-inch clamshell with a foldable OLED screen that will become available later this year. Just like foldable phones, the whole idea of using a foldable display in a laptop is to give you more screen real estate to work with while keeping the overall footprint of the device small enough to maintain portability....

This is unfortunate and takes a great deal of value away from the Radeon HD 5570, as we imagine its core would easily reach 800MHz without much trouble. While testing the Radeon HD 5830 we encountered the same overclocking limitations but with a broader headroom, which allowed us to increase the core frequency by 100MHz, while the memory got a 300MHz bump. This mild overclock helped boost performance by a respectable margin....

Although we finished off with a 25% core and memory overclock, it came far from easy using a beta version of the Catalyst drivers. After what seemed like endless stuffing around we achieved a stable overclock with the core running at 900MHz and the memory at 1250MHz. Overclocking improved the 3Dmark Vantage score at 2560x1600 by 20% as the Radeon HD 5970 was awarded 11099pts. This made the Radeon some 65% faster than the GeForce GTX 295, which was the next fastest graphics card tested....

The mATX motherboard tray comes with eight pre-installed standoffs that help speed up installation. The tray has a large cutout that grants rear access to the motherboard’s CPU socket for easy installation of large aftermarket coolers. BitFenix has included a few small holes in the motherboard tray for routing cables, there are three in total and they feature rubber grommets which help protect the cables that are routed through them....

On Sunday, Xbox and Bethesda hosted Game Showcase 2022 with trailers and news on upcoming Xbox titles. Among the updates, Activision Blizzard had a release window for Diablo IV to reveal. The much-loved hack-and-slash series will continue when the game launches sometime in 2023 on PC, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S. In addition to a time frame, Blizzard provided a lot of new information about Diablo IV....

BMW has just announced its first all-electric luxury sedan, the i7 xDrive 60. It’s built using BMW’s CLAR platform, which means the i7 can be produced on the same manufacturing line as its ICE and PHEV siblings. The downside to that is that this EV doesn’t have a frunk. The pair of electric motors powering the i7, which provide torque-vectoring all-wheel drive, combine for a power output of 536 horsepower and 549 lb-ft of torque, allowing it to accelerate from 0-60 mph in 4....

A coalition of robotics companies led by Boston Dynamics published an open letter addressed to the rest of the industry and the public, lamenting the risk that “general purpose” robots could soon become a cheap and very effective weapon of mass destruction. An outlook to avoid, the letter says, because the very future of robotic technology could be jeopardized as a result. The Open Letter to the Robotics Industry and our Communities is signed by Boston Dynamics, Agility Robotics, ANYbotics, Clearpath Robotics, Open Robotics, and Unitree Robotics, emphasizing the benefits brought by modern robots to society....

TechSpot’s first SSD review was published in early 2009, a roundup no less. Back then we tested Intel’s first generation consumer-level solid state drive, the X25-M. The first-gen OCZ Vertex also made the cut, along with drives from G.Skill and Super Talent. These last three were companies that had a background on selling computer memory (RAM) but that sought the opportunity of entering the performance flash-based storage market. But of course, the major issue with SSD adoption over the past few years has been price, the astronomically high price when you are counting in hundreds of gigabytes....

Keep in mind the Xeon E5-2670 processor(s) are utilizing modestly clocked DDR3 memory, whereas the 5960X is armed with DDR4 memory, and of course the newer Core i7 processors feature a vastly superior memory controller. As a result, a single E5-2670 looks a little soft compared to the 5960X, with a throughput of 31.7GB/s, but that’s still not bad at all when compared to the modern mainstream desktop processors. However once we add the second E5-2670, the bandwidth performance increases dramatically to 55....

Regardless of what you’ve been hoping for, whether you’ve been interested in Skylines because of the developer’s pedigree (they made the excellent Cities In Motion) or to fill a Maxis-sized hole in your library, I’ve got some news. Mostly, it’s good. The Good News Good news first! If you play city-building games to, well, build cities, this is the best you can get. Never before have I felt like I could just walk up to an enormous tract of land, open up some tools and just…build whatever I wanted, however I wanted....

Jack Bayliss runs Aftermarket Arbitrage, a subscription service where members pay £30 (~$40) per month to be notified when high-demand items such as the PS5 and XBSX are back in stock. The 24-year-old told Sky News he earns around $61,000 each month from the 1,500 scalpers who have signed up to his scheme, the majority of whom are “very young.” Bayliss said the thought that families weren’t able to purchase a games console due to his business hadn’t bothered him, yet he was “very in tune with my moral compass, as a person....

With that massive cut out in the motherboard tray providing rear access, we installed the motherboard first. Next in went the CPU and then the massive Thermalright SilverArrow SB-E Extreme heatsink standing 165mm tall, the maximum supported CPU cooler height. Next, we installed the OCZ ZX Series 850w modular power supply and a few storage devices – specifically a pair of Seagate 3TB NAS hard drives and two OCZ 256GB SSDs, which were fitted behind the motherboard tray....

The Core i3 540 and Phenom II X3 720 processors delivered similar results, though the Core i3 540 was a single frame faster. Finally the Phenom II X2 555 was able to match the Core 2 Duo E8500, while the E7500 was the slowest processor tested. The x264 HD Benchmark 3.0 is used to measure the performance of a 2-pass 1280x720 encoding, again displaying the results in a frame per second format....

The tables turned when measuring sequential writes as the m4 was 24% faster than the 510 Series and it maintained its 16% lead over the RealSSD C300. Performance leveled out a bit in the random 512K benchmark as the m4’s 318.6MB/s read rate matched the 510 Series and was only 6% higher than the C300’s. None of them came close to the Vertex 3, however, which delivered a throughput of 435....

One of the world’s largest crypto exchanges has apparently suffered a security breach in which an estimated 4,600 Ethereum tokens valued at more than $14 million were stolen. Crypto.com on Twitter said a small number of users experienced unauthorized activity in their accounts. The exchange added that all funds are safe, but out of an abundance of caution, they are requiring everyone to sign back into their accounts and reset their two-factor authentication....

Since early November, the government of the Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu has been offline due to a cyberattack. Details on the nature of the attack are still unclear, and only around 70 percent of government services have been restored after a month. Vanuatu’s newly elected government started noticing problems with official computer systems on the first day of its term on November 6. Eventually, all government computer services were disabled....

Crazy radioactive looking slots and connectors aside, the LANParty UT X58-T3eH8 is a pretty aggressive looking motherboard, largely thanks to a massive cooling design. We suspect that someone at DFI got the Intel Core i7 processor and Intel X58 chipset TDP (Thermal Design Power) rating a little mixed up. The cooling solution featured on this motherboard looks as though it could tackle today’s fastest processors. The north bridge heatsink for example measures 11cm long, 4....

Blizzard has just announced that Diablo Immortal will launch on June 2 on Android, iOS, and, surprisingly, PC. Diablo Immortal was announced at BlizzCon 2018, being met with a very negative response from fans. Many players expressed skepticism towards the mobile-only nature of the game, with some likening it to a reskin of other NetEase games. One attendee asked the developers if there was a chance for a PC release, leading to the crowd booing when the answer was negative....

Those gaming at 1080p who are hoping to use the ‘Ultra’ quality settings are in luck, as Doom is surprisingly easy going. For smooth gameplay I found a minimum of 40fps was required and this means the old Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition will work well. Likewise, the modern low-end to mid-range GeForce GTX 960 and Radeon R9 380 performed very well, and the 960 started to push 60fps. For a minimum of 60fps+ gamers will require a Radeon R9 290/390 or GeForce GTX 780 Ti/Titan....