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Although the headset sits nicely on your head and ears, the problem starts the second you move. Small, slow movements cause the Force H3X headset to wobble all over the place and this is where they go from being comfortable to annoying. Part of the wobbling is caused by a design feature that is meant to make the headset fit better. Each cup can tilt a few degrees in any direction, which is great for improving the fit on a range of different head shapes, but without proper support it creates the wobble effect....

I have active Gmail, Yahoo and Outlook accounts as well as three IMAP accounts from my start-ups. I used Outlook (desktop client) to manage all these inboxes. The problem was that spam became uncontrollable, specifically for my three IMAP accounts and for Yahoo. I tried putting spam assassins at the server level; local filters at the local level; all for naught. I continued to get abused by Viagra pills, Nigerian despots, lonely women and all the other clever variations spammers use....

There is also an even easier method that doesn’t require a legacy optical drive thanks to a tool called Web Assistant which helps guide you through the installation process without having to use a CD. With the declining use of optical drives, Synology needed to find a more modern approach and it has. The Web Assistant is launched by typing “find.synology.com” in your web browser and this will locate any and all DiskStation devices on your local network....

Here we’ve quickly found the DS216+ and this first menu gives us the option to check the device info or simply proceed with the setup. After initiating the setup we arrive at the DSM menu that lets us manually install a version previously downloaded or auto-download and install the latest version simply by hitting the ‘install now’ button. We did the latter. Before proceeding with the setup the web assistant will ask you to confirm that you are aware this will wipe any data on the disk(s)....

System Shock is a remake of the 1994 classic by the same name. Nightdive Studios acquired the rights to the franchise in the mid-2010s and launched a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2016 to fund a remake. The game was originally scheduled to arrive by the end of 2017, but the project was put on hold in early 2018 when CEO Stephen Kick realized the scope of the game had grown too large....

Following the past few years of chip shortages caused by pandemic shutdowns and geopolitical turmoil, more and more governments are trying to create local chip production industries. Many of them are turning to Taiwanese companies to help them set up their factories. This is because Taiwan is crucial to the global semiconductor supply chain, accounting for a 26% market share of the total semiconductor revenue in 2021, ranking it second worldwide....

As was the case towards the end of last year there’s been an increasing focus on devices with fast SSD storage, slim profiles, long battery life, and a price that won’t break the bank – basically, everyone’s answer to the MacBook Air. Intel is putting a lot of weight behind the Ultrabook concept, expecting it to be the main driver of PC market growth in the short term, and we’re finally starting to see some real interesting products emerge....

The DS3612xs’s sequential read and write performance in CrystalDiskMark was amazing. When using RAID0, the unit achieved a write throughput of 951.5MB/s and a read speed of 582.2MB/s, while the TS-879 Pro was about 30% slower with a write rate of 675.8MB/s and a read speed of 420.2MB/s. The DS3612xs RAID0 configuration had a strong showing again with between 35% and 55% more performance than the TS-879 Pro, though both devices were considerably faster than Gigabit units....

Power consumption is typically one of the biggest drawbacks of running multiple GPUs, as gamers will need to spend quite a bit of money on their power supply to ensure power is delivered under heavy load. Take the Crossfire R9 390X cards above, for example. We see that they are approaching a total system load of nearly 600 watts. This calls for at least an 800-watt power supply and a quality one at that....

2016 will have to produce some truly special games to match last year’s offerings, and so far, it’s not doing too badly. Even though we’re still in the first quarter, we’ve already had some memorable titles in The Witness, Dragons Dogma: Dark Arisen, Rise of the Tomb Raider and the brilliant XCOM 2. But there’s still plenty more games to come, and here are our top 10 most anticipated titles....

It’s taken a tremendous amount of time, but we now have basically every single X670 and X670E motherboard, all said and done we’ve tested 22 boards: 4 from Asrock, 4 from Gigabyte, 4 from MSI and 10 from Asus (not sure why but Asus has so many more boards than others), but that’s the situation. Asus is the only brand to offer a Mini-ITX X670E board, and they’re also the only brand to also offer a MicroATX X670E board....

Best Value Desktop CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 No surprises here, the Ryzen 5 1600 is without question this year’s best value desktop processor. AMD slapped their most affordable 6-core/12-thread CPU with an MSRP of $220, though you’ll rarely have to pay more than $200 these days for one. The R5 1600 is a real all rounder, there’s no game it can’t deliver perfectly smooth performance in and we expect it to be good for many years to come, many many years....

The FX-8320E was 26% slower than the Intel processors in Company of Heroes and while the overclocked allowed for 19% more performance, the 4.6GHz FX-8320E was still 13% slower than the i3-4360. Despite offering 26% less performance than the Intel processors, the FX-8320E consumed 17% more power to reach a system draw of 309 watts. The overclocked configuration hit 381 watts which was 44% more than the Intel chips....

The Crew is primarily an online multiplayer game, but it does have a single player component that offers roughly 20 hours of gameplay. The game has been designed for the latest generation consoles and PCs, though the former are capped at 30fps frames and a resolution of 1080p while our preferred platform ought to look and feel better with a 60fps cap and a higher res. The Crew has been built using the Babel game engine along with developer Ivory Tower’s proprietary tools....

The 128GB drive is well positioned at $80, though I find that model less appealing, in part because I no longer find 128GB to be enough for my boot drive. Between that and the huge hit in write performance, the 128GB model seems like it’s worth skipping. The attractive pricing wouldn’t matter much if the drives were slow, and while the MX100 won’t set any new speed records, it proved very fast across tests – particularly in application performance, one of several similarities we saw with Plextor’s M6 SSDs....

The annual video game awards ceremony debuted in 2014 after gaming journalist Geoff Keighley parted ways with Spike. The network had hosted a video game awards show annually from 2003 to 2013 that Keighley had been a part of, but the company planned to scale back operations for 2014 by moving the show from broadcast television to streaming only. Keighley branched out and with the blessing of Spike, he created The Game Awards....

The Setup Wizard is currently at v2.0.4 (released February 8) and can be found on the supplied CD or downloaded from Thecus website. The Setup Wizard automatically detects all Thecus storage devices on your network, after which you can move on to setting an admin password, host name and IP address. Those wanting to avoid using the software can rely on the LCD controls. The up, down, enter and escape buttons can be used to configure the N3200XXX and the same options are available using this method....

The Ryzen Threadripper 3970X is a 32-core, 64-thread processor with a massive 128MB L3 cache, it runs at a base frequency of 3.7 GHz with a boost frequency of 4.5 GHz. It’s priced at $2,000 making it AMD’s most expensive desktop CPU ever. It’s also currently the most expensive desktop CPU on the market. If that’s a tad too rich, maybe the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X which costs $1,400 is more the go: the 24-core, 48-thread CPU packs the same 128MB L3 cache and clocks anywhere from 3....

Keeping Intel’s flagship Core i9-12900KS from thermal throttling isn’t an easy task, as seen in our review. That’s why YouTube tech channel LinusTechTips set out to delid the $740 processor. For the uninitiated, delidding a CPU involves removing the IHS from the top of the processor and replacing the thermal interface material underneath. While this is nothing new, it has become a lot harder to do since Intel started soldering the heatspreader to the CPU die a few generations ago....

Netgear recently introduced a USB adapter that makes Windows PCs compatible with Wi-Fi 6E networks. The attachment could significantly boost bandwidth and connection reliability while everybody waits for Wi-Fi 7, which tech companies have only recently started demonstrating. The Netgear Nighthawk AXE3000 is a USB 3.0 (USB-A) dongle that can reach speeds beyond 1Gbps, depending on network bandwidth. When paired with a Wi-Fi 6E router like the RBKE960 mesh router system Netgear released last year, the AXE3000 can hit 3Gbps....