Intel is announced plans to drive large-scale mainstream adoption of Thunderbolt by integrating Thunderbolt 3 into future CPUs and releasing the Thunderbolt protocol specification to the industry next year. Intel has had the fastest consumer level I/O innovation in the last few years with it’s Thunderbolt standard. Now in its third generation In the late 1990s, […]
Thunderbolt 3 provides enough bandwidth to make external GPUs possible. The rather large PowerColor Devil Box dock offers all the connectivity generally found in a docking station but can also handle even the most recently released GPUs. Overclockers Club tested out the effectiveness of the Devil Box with an RX 480, comparing the performance of […]
Apple at its October 2016 Town Hall event announced an entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro that it is positioning both as alternative MacBook Air or for those that need a small but powerful creative notebook. Please note the 13-inch version of the Air remains available to buy for now, while the 11-inch version as been discontinued. The new entry-level […]
LaCie gain a control of the NAB limelight this year with a massive 12-bay RAID . The 12big Thunderbolt 3 features enterprise-class drives and a RAID 5/6 controller capable of serving up to 96 terabytes of data at speeds reaching 2,600 megabytes per second. All this power is squeezed into a tower style setup footprint the […]
We’ve been anxious waiting for full details on the Intel Skull Canyon NUC that we first saw at CES, and we’ve pointed out that the Razer Core external GPU dock was obviously designed with more than just Razer’s own laptops in mind. At GDC, Intel took the wraps off of the NUC, and perhaps the […]
Razer finally announced some long-awaited details about its Razer Core GPU dock, including the supported GPUs, the (ouch, very high) pricing, and availability. The cost is out of the ball park! When Razer first announced the Razer Core along with the Razer Blade Stealth Ultrabook at CES, we here at ToT were hoping for a […]
Nvidia has just released its 361.75 drivers, bringing optimizations just in time for Rise of the Tomb Raider and the beta for Tom Clancy’s The Division. Most interesting though, is the new beta support for Thunderbolt 3 external graphics connectors. External docks for your graphics cards have been something of a trend recently, mainly if […]
With the launch of Intel-based 100-series motherboards around the corner, Gigabyte unveiled some of the standout features that it will be packing on its motherboards. These features range from more elaborate connectivity on the rear I/O and storage, as well as better board designs with changes such as improved networking, audio and power delivery. Do […]
Intel today at Computex 2015 unveiled Thunderbolt 3 with a USB Type-C connector, instead of Mini DisplayPort, and support for USB 3.1, DisplayPort 1.2 and PCI Express 3.0. The new spec’s Thunderbolt transport layer provides up to 40Gbps throughput, double the max bandwidth of Thunderbolt 2, alongside an optional 100 watts of power for charging […]