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G.SKILL MX780 RGB, Gaming mouse with good price quality

G.SKIL, the manufacturer we are used to seeing manufacturing PC components, specially RAM memories, has been devoting some time to create peripherals offering the highest quality with medium grade materials at an attractive price. Today we will speak about the MX780RGB mouse, a gaming mouse with 8200 DPIs, it is configurable and meets perfectly all expectations.

Value for money

Despite its simple packaging, the box design attracts your attention. It also allows you to see the content via its front cover, ie, the mouse itself, two weights of 4.5 grams each, two broad sides (For left or right handed) and a height control key for the mouse itself. Also in the box we find some of the features offered by the product.

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Is iPad Pro good for Business or Working?

Introduction

Apple has tried to compete with some PC concepts, especially with Microsoft’s Surface Pro, with a more capable version of their flagship tablet. We have tried the latest version, the one with the 9.7” screen, and this is what we experienced in terms of its usefulness for work and other work related tasks.

We have focused on our personal experience and on our daily working needs so a lot of you surely won’t agree with our final thoughts. However, these are ours and they have been reached after two weeks of heavy usage.

Hardware and software

I think it’s important to briefly talk about the iPad Pro’s hardware, specifically the 9.7” model, in order to focus on the options and storage capacities it can offer. We’re talking about a medium sized tablet which features a retina display with the standard retina resolution. However, the screen on this model has better color capabilities than the traditional iPad models. The display offers more color depth, less glare and is also much brighter. True Tone technology makes it one of the market’s most capable display, giving it the ability to adapt perfectly to ambient light via a four channel sensor.

iPad Pro

The screen also includes a stylus called the Apple Pencil, which will be sold separately for more than 100 Euros. Inside lies an Apple A9X processor with two high performance cores and a graphics processor, making it one of the most powerful SOCs available. It comes with 2GB of RAM and a minimum of storage capacity of 32GB, but also available are a 64 and 128 GB versions.

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The best switches for mechanical keyboards: Cherry MX blue, brown, red, black and clear

Cherry MX

Today we will begin analysing a feature that belongs, in a crucial way, our mechanical keyboard that the gaming passionate already know it very well: I am talking about the switches MX blue, brown, red, black and clear that are all products on a large-scale coming from the Cherry company that owns the rights of them.

The major part of us could consider the differences between the different types of mechanical switches meaningless, but who uses keyboard for working typing in for many hours a day has different thought about it.

These people are well aware about how much these little precautions can improve the comfort when typing and, inevitably, this mainly depends on the type of switches that are used.

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What is the best antivirus for Windows 7?

Windows 7 is still the most widely used operating system in the world, and it is expected to hold that position at least another year. However, as the news tend to give account of what is new, perhaps it is often left aside. Well then, today on Softzone we’ll make an exception and talk about what is the best antivirus available for Windows 7.

Windows 7 was launched on 2009, so it is currently in its seventh year of life. And the truth is it’s still in very good health, showing that, until proven otherwise, Windows 7 is still the best operating system in history.

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PS4 Pro, PS4 and Xbox One S, what’s the difference? Which console should you choose?

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With the arrival of the Xbox One S and the announcement of the PS4 Pro, the market has gotten fairly complicated and a lot users are confused. If you are thinking about buying one but have questions don’t worry, this article will answer a very direct and clear question, which console should I buy?

Before we begin, we must understand that there isn’t a universal answer, in other words, there isn’t a console that is completely superior to another one and that we can say is the best choice, instead, this will depend on different factors which we will explore in this article.

Without further a due we will dive into it, but as always I invite you to leave any questions or comments in the comment section, I will do my best to answer all of them.

Previous thoughts

In this section we will closely evaluate some points that need to be made clear right away. The first one is that Sony as well as Microsoft have clearly stated that these new consoles won’t affect the life cycle of the original ones, so you can forget life cycle as something to consider when choosing one or the other.

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Guide for Building a Cheap Gaming PC with a RX480

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Like we mentioned a few days ago, AMD has released the RX480, the graphics card with the best price/performance ratio to date, and there were a lot of you who asked us about what the perfect combination of components would be. Ok then, we’ll try to shed some light on this.

One of the biggest concerns is if this new line of GPUs from AMD are as CPU dependent as previous graphics cards from the red giant, well, we are sorry to inform you that this is still the case.

What does this mean? That a CPU will be used more if we use an AMD graphics card than one from NVidia, which will cause it to reach its limit earlier with an AMD, which will give us less frames per second. Now, this shouldn’t worry us if we have an Intel CPU newer than the sandy bridge models or an FX83xx or superior, but if you have an FX6300 or something less powerful, your graphics could be limited.

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What’s the Difference Between WiFi 2,4 GHz and 5 GHz?

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Some of the most recent wireless routers and WiFi modem-routers are dualband, that is they let you set up two wireless independent networks that work on completely different frequency spectrums. The two WiFi networks, 2,4 GHz and 5 GHz, can generally work at the same time, so much so that each one have a different SSID with which it appears on mobile nearby devices.

Acronym for Service Set Identifier, the SSID is the name with which a WiFi network appears to its users. By doing a scan through a software like inSSIDer or even air-cracking, you’ll get the list of the SSIDs corresponding to the wireless networks available nearby, along with their features. By default, many routers use the name and the model of the device itself as SSID: it’s highly suggested to change it, even if it’s actually superfluous to block its spread across the ether (broadcasting) because the SSID of an hidden network could be found in a pretty simple way.

But what’s the difference between WiFi 2,4 GHz and 5 GHz?

The introduction of the 5 GHz band solves, firstly, the problem about the crowded wifi networks. In densely populous areas, apartment buildings, in areas with large presence of offices and commercial activities is actually something common, to find lots of WiFi networks, especially if you consider both the ones that reveal their SSID and the ones that hide it.

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Top 10 most attractive ultrabooks on the market

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Ultrabooks are one of the most attractive categories of personal computers and next to the 2-in-1 laptops and gaming dedicated computers, they are the ones pushing a market that’s been going downward in recent years. Ultrabooks stand out for their focus on mobility, with thin and light designs; some in convertible formats; use of premium chassis materials such as aluminum, magnesium or carbon fiber; great battery life; HD displays with sizes between 12 and 14 inches; SSDs for storage and sufficient processing and graphics card power. Today we dedicate our article to the most interesting models for sale and -thanks to the presentations at IFA 2016- others that will arrive starting this month. Attractive but not cheap, they require a minimum investment that stands at the barrier of 1,000 dollars and upward. (The numerical position is random and does not respond to any selection criteria)

HP Spectre

HP Spectre

Labeled as the “world’s thinnest laptop” with a thickness of 10.4 mm, it uses an 13.3” ISP borderless display and it weighs 1.1 kilograms with a hybrid two piece battery for 10 hours of battery life. It uses Intel Skylake processors and it includes a hyperbaric cooling system by Intel. It features three USB Type-C connectors with Thunderbolt support, ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.2, Displayport 1.2 output and HDMI 1.4, Bang & Olufsen stereo speakers with HP’s Audio Boost technology.

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AMD Radeon RX 480 8GB vs Radeon RX 480 4GB Benchmark Comparison

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The launch of the Radeon RX 480 has been disastrous: the reference model overclocks very mildly and its cooling system is no good,custom models can’t also overclock much,and of course,these custom models,the most anticipated, are not even for sale yet, but if something can still save the name of AMD is the Radeon RX 480 …

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Nvidia GTX 1060 vs GTX 960 vs GTX 970 vs GTX 980 vs GTX 1070 vs AMD RX 480 vs R9 390: Specs and Benchmark Comparison, which model should I choose?

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Just a few weeks after the launch of AMD’s affordable Radeon RX 480, Nvidia counters with its proposal for the mainstream market. The new GeForce GTX 1060 is more expensive than the two Radeon RX 480 models and loses two gigabytes of VRAM compared to AMD’s 8GB, but Nvidia promise to compensate with more power, and performance levels like those of a GTX 980. A couple of years ago that meant an investment of almost six hundred euros. Today, thanks to this new card, just a little more than three hundred. It is an interesting offer, but does the GTX 1060 meets all it promises?

Based on the new GP106 chip using Pascal architecture, Nvidia processor has much in common with its equivalent of the previous generation, the GM206. The company took the model that uses the current top performance and reduced its CUDA cores by half, putting it at 1280 shaders. This gave us a good product (Though not a great one) with the GTX 960, but Nvidia has taken measures this time to improve performance, and as our tests show the leap is considerable.

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