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The sony playstation's new back button is likely to be a wasted oppurtunity     The accessory is a $30 addition to your existing controller which circles impulse-buy territory. But what does this peripheral do ?     It plugs into the DualShock 4 through the 3.6mm headphone port. There is a headphone port on the back button attachment, so it will still work with headsets and PSVR straight off the bat.     The integrated OLED screen sounds more spectacular than it is - just a monochrome read-out where you can tell which buttons are mapped. Press down on it to light up current settings, press it again to cycle to the next button profile (you can have up to three) and long press it to reassign keys.     Why include an OLED display on this thing as if it tries to catch up with Scuff controllers or the Xbox's-well regarded, but  an expensive Elite controller ? There's some method to this madness. The inclusion means that the Dual shock 4...

Asus ROG Strix Rx 5700 cooling issues     A loose screw is the culprit behind the ROG Strix Radeon Rx 5700 heat issues.     Asus is playing the blame game with its ROG strix Radeon Rx 5700 series of graphics card. Asus states in a post that the product guidelines from AMD recommended a mounting pressure PSI that is too low to properly dissipate heat. Asus will now ship the cards with higher mounting pressure and will offer an upgrade to people that already purchased the card.     The ROG Strix Radeon Rx 5700 series of graphics cards experienced over-heating issues. Asus states that of torqued cards to a mounting pressure of 30-40 PSI "based on AMD's baseline recommendations". This pressure seemed low and following testing from Asus, the company determined that a pressure of 50-60 PSI works better. Here's an extract of Asus post:      "Initial batches of ROG strix Rx 5700        series graphics cards we...