Dell is bolstering its gaming monitor offerings this month with four new displays aimed at high refresh rate gaming on PC as well as next-gen consoles like the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5. Ranging from a flat 25-inch IPS panel to a curved 34-inch VA panel, all new Dell …

In a surprise move this week, AMD released more reference Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics cards in a new ‘Midnight Black' colour scheme. AMD Red Team members were tipped off with an email but as you would expect in the current market, all stock sold out pretty much immediately.  As …

Alienware has recently announced the Alienware m15 R5 Ryzen Edition, marking the return of AMD-powered laptops to its extensive portfolio of gaming PCs. The last laptop Alienware launched with an AMD processor was back in 2007, featuring the now ancient AMD Turion 64 Mobile ML-44. The new Alienware m15 R5 …

The worldwide chip shortage has been obvious to PC buyers over the last six months, but the situation is also having a major impact on other industries too. At this point, there is also a shortage of display drivers, impacting the production of LCD panels and therefore causing delays for …

The new generation of Intel Xeon Scalable processor has officially launched. Based on the Ice Lake architecture, the 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors bring up to a 46% performance uplift compared to the previous generation.

Gigabyte has listed eight new X570S motherboards on the EEC database. According to some sources, this new chipset is linked to the rumoured Zen 3+ refresh, although others claim that this is just a more efficient fanless version of the X570 chipset.  According to a report from VideoCardz, the Gigabyte X570S …

It looks like we'll be getting new Ryzen Threadripper processors in Q3 2021. New reports this week indicate that Ryzen Threadripper 5000 series processors, codenamed "Chagall", will be launching in August. 

After a “driverless” release, Intel has added support for Rocket Lake's iGPU with its latest graphics driver release. The driver supporting Rocket Lake's Xe graphics was issued in early March, but until recently, the description did not mention any support for the newly released Intel 11th Gen Core desktop processors.  …

Back when Nvidia released RTX Voice, some users found a way to get the software working with GTX graphics cards. As it turns out, Nvidia actually quietly rolled out official support for non-RTX GPUs several months ago after pivoting its attention to Nvidia Broadcast, but few have noticed this.  As …

AMD has published a document warning that Zen 3-based processors may be targeted by side-channel attacks. As per its description, this vulnerability is similar to Spectre, which plagued Intel processors three years ago. AMD Zen 3 core architecture features a new technology that improves performance by predicting the “relationship between loads …

AMD is planning to introduce an active bridge chiplet with integrated cache on an upcoming GPU architecture. A new patent filed by the company has been spotted describing the use of the active bridge chiplet, which seems to offer a significant upgrade over the passive bridge chiplet design showed earlier …

Monster Hunter Rise is continuing to make headlines for Capcom. Just one week after its initial launch, the game has now sold over 5 million copies, despite only being available on the Nintendo Switch. This announcement comes just a week after the publisher announced that Monster Hunter Rise sold 4 …

New reports point to a possible refresh of Intel's Tiger Lake-U and H35 series. Unannounced Tiger Lake-U processors have appeared on laptop product pages, we have also seen specifications for unreleased Tiger Lake-H35 processors. Notebookcheck's database has been updated with two new Tiger Lake-H35 processors: the Intel Core i7-11390H and …

It looks like Intel seemingly forgot to release graphics drivers for its new 11th Gen Core “Rocket Lake-S” processors. The Intel UHD graphics 750 drivers and software page is currently empty, although there is a workaround for this using Windows Update. The news was shared by AdoredTV, who noticed the …

This week, Gigabyte has announced a new 43-inch monitor during a special Aorus event held in Vietnam. The Aorus FV43U brings gaming monitor features to a TV-like size, aimed at those looking to take their PC gaming to the next level.  According to the details shared by congngheviet.com, the upcoming …

Phillips is adding two new monitors to its Momentum gaming series. The first is the Momentum 275M8RZ QHD monitor for those looking to play at 1440p, while the second display is the Momentum 345M2CRZ, offering an ultra-wide resolution and aspect ratio.  The Philips 275M8RZ features a 27-inch IPS panel with …

We’ve had Ryzen 5000 series processors available for quite some time now, but we have yet to see the launch of AMD’s next-gen Ryzen 5000G APU series. It looks like we won’t have to wait much longer, however, as the product data sheet containing the specs for AMD’s upcoming APUs …

MSI has introduced its new Summit E Flip series of business laptops. Featuring Tiger Lake-U processors and up to an RTX 3050 laptop GPU, the series consists of two thin convertible laptops: the E13 Flip Evo and the E16 Flip.  The MSI Summit E13 Flip Evo is a compact laptop …

A new leak has surfaced, giving us more early details for Nvidia's upcoming RTX 3050 and RTX 3050 Ti GPUs for laptops. A new report this week is claiming details on specifications and more importantly, performance, with comparisons between the RTX 3050 and other Nvidia laptop GPUs.  According to Notebookcheck, …

Both Intel and AMD have been using different standards to name their process nodes. At first glance, Intel's 10nm process node might seem inferior to TSMC's 7nm, leaving Intel looking like it has a less advanced node when both have a similar density. To avoid these comparisons, Intel is planning …

Yesterday, Nvidia began rolling out a fairly major GeForce driver update, bringing a bunch of new gaming-oriented features and optimisations. One new feature wasn't mentioned though – this driver also adds beta support for GPU passthrough on GeForce GPUs. With this, users can utilise a physical GPU to run games on …

AMD has submitted a new patch to AMKFD revealing the L1, L2, and L3 cache specifications of the Navi 23 GPU, the upcoming Ryzen “Van Gogh” APUs, and the “Aldebaran” Compute Accelerator. The last note added by AMD to the AMKFD (via @Kepler_L2), a Linux HSA kernel driver for AMD …

Mushkin is in the headlines this week with two new SSD lines. With its Gamma series, Mushkin is the latest storage manufacturer launching PCIe 4.0 SSDs with maximum read speeds above 7,000MB/s. Additionally, the company also launched the Delta SSD series, offering a supposedly cheaper PCIe 4.0 SSD solution while keeping …

Back in February, we learned that Samsung was planning two new tablets to launch over the Summer – the Galaxy A7 Lite and the Galaxy Tab S7 Lite. While we still don't know much about the cheaper Tab S7, reports this week have revealed the specifications for the Galaxy A7 …

The latest BIOS update for Gigabyte's B560 Aorus motherboards has shipped and there is good news for prospective 11th Gen Core i9 buyers. Gigabyte Aorus B560 motherboards will support 5.1GHz all-core boost on the Core i9-11900K and KF, as well as memory speeds up to 5300MHz.  Typically, Intel B-series motherboards …

The first time Gigabyte submitted RTX 3080 Ti cards to EEC was in December 2020, back when the rumoured specifications of the SKU pointed to it featuring 20GB of VRAM. Since then, Nvidia has changed the specifications of the RTX 3080 Ti, leading Gigabyte to submit the cards once again …

Nvidia confirmed it would enable ResizableBAR support on all RTX 30 series graphics cards by late March. While we've yet to have an official update on availability, board partners are beginning to release their own vBIOS for custom RTX 30 series GPUs with ResizableBAR support enabled.  Unlike the AMD Radeon …

Finalwire has recently launched a new beta update for AIDA64 Extreme introducing support for multiple unannounced Nvidia RTX 30 series and AMD Radeon RX 6000 series SKUs.  As per the patch notes of AIDA64 Extreme 6.32.5659 Beta, this version added information on the RTX 3050 laptop GPU and the desktop …

Intel's 11th Gen Core Rocket Lake-S processors aren't releasing for another day, but overclockers already have their hands on a few of them. The first major overclock for the Core i9-11900K was revealed over the weekend, pushing the chip over the 7GHz mark at a whopping 1.873V.

Thermalright has introduced a new dual-fin stack CPU cooler – the Frost Commander 140. Equipped with a 120mm fan and a 140mm fan, the new Thermalright cooler was designed to offer better RAM clearance than other dual-tower CPU coolers. By using a 120mm fan to cool the first fin-stack, Thermalright's …