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During the 2021 Thermaltake Expo June Virtual Exhibition, the PC components manufacturer has introduced new colour variants to some of its most popular products and new real leather gaming chairs. Anyone thinking about getting a Tower 100 mini chassis can now choose between three additional colours. The Tower 100 mini …

The beginning of the DDR5 era is just before us. ADATA has just announced plans to launch its first DDR5 modules in Q3 2021. The modules will come with up to 32GB capacities each and clocked at 7,400MHz, but Adata claims they can be overclocked up to 12,600MHz. The new …

Today at Computex, Nvidia announced the RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti graphics cards. Alongside these new GPUs, the company also announced a number of games getting RTX feature support, including the likes of Doom Eternal, Red Dead Redemption 2 and Rainbow Six Siege.  This follows on from rumours …

Let's see how this Gigabyte Aorus Z590 board deals with the i9-11900K

Today at Computex 2021, Nvidia officially announced the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card, Nvidia's new gaming flagship. Up against the last generation RTX 2080 Ti, the 3080 Ti is said to be 1.5 times faster in games.  The jump to the Ampere architecture brought about 2nd Gen RT Cores …

AMD has been working on FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) for quite some time now. Now, Radeon's open source alternative to Nvidia's DLSS is ready to go, promising up to 2.5x higher performance in some titles...

AMD is kicking off Computex with new GPU announcements. Today, AMD is launching the Radeon RX 6000M series of mobile GPUs, featuring RDNA 2 architecture, Infinity Cache and support for features like Smart Access Memory, SmartShift, Radeon Chill and the FidelityFX tool suite. This launch is part of a new …

The latest report on Intel Xe-HPG graphics cards includes a lot of new details about the upcoming GPU family. The PCB Intel is using for its flagship DG2 desktop graphics card has also leaked, giving us our best look yet at what to expect from Intel in the graphics card …

The next generation of AMD Ryzen Threadripper processors is on the way. Previous reports claimed an August launch, but sources now say that this is the announcement date, which will be followed by availability in September.  The rumour was shared by STH Forum member “lihp”, who also posted information about …

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In a completely unexpected move, Intel added four new processors based on the Tiger Lake architecture to its product database. What is even more surprising is that all of them are for desktop, marking the launch of the first 10nm processors for desktop from Intel. The new processors were initially …

A new report has revealed the PL values of the upcoming Alder Lake-P and Alder Lake-M mobile processor architecture. While Alder Lake-M comes with rather conservative values maxing at 30W, Alder Lake-P goes well beyond that, reaching up to 115W. Intel's hybrid processor architecture should be more efficient as it's …

We may still be a long way from getting our hands on Ryzen 8000 series processors, but leaks and rumours have already started to surface. Recently, a roadmap showing Strix Point was posted on social media, giving away the codename of the new Ryzen series — Granite Ridge. The roadmap …

Earlier this month, Nvidia confirmed plans to re-introduce the RTX 3060, RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 with ‘Lite Hash Rate' GPU revisions to reduce crypto-mining performance and get more graphics cards into the hands of PC gamers. Now, these LHR graphics cards are starting to land in the hands of …

As the expected date for the RTX 3080 Ti launch comes closer, the first benchmark results have started to appear. Besides the results, there's also confirmation on most of the specifications of the new GPU thanks to GPU-Z validation. The GPU-Z validation of RTX 3080 Ti has finally come out …

Out with the old, and in with the new - KitGuru is changing how we test GPU power draw

Nvidia posted a small video with some kind of liquid (Titanium?), announcing an upcoming event scheduled for May 31st at 10:00 PM PST. Although the company didn't specify what will be shown or announced during the event, given the timing, it's very likely that Nvidia will be introducing the RTX  …

Western Digital isn't only announcing new storage gear for the gaming market today, the company has also unveiled SanDisk Professional, a new brand of premium storage solutions for creative professionals. Professional content creation requires reliable storage, as content is captured, saved, transferred, shared and archived. To harmonise this process, SanDisk …

Western Digital is amping up its WD_Black Gaming SSD range this week. During today's Flash Perspective event, WD announced three new WD Black SSDs, including the new WD_Black SN750 SE and a pair of WD_Black D30 Game Drive SSDs for next-gen console storage expansion.  We'll start off with the PC-focused …

A known leaker recently posted some new information about AMD's upcoming AM5 platform, which will apparently bring about a change from PGA (pin grid array) socket design, where the processor features the connection pins, to an LGA (land grid array) socket platform, where the pins are featured on the motherboard. …

Cooler Master and Murata have partnered up once again. This time, instead of a PSU, both companies have co-developed the world's thinnest heat dissipator for electronic devices — a 200μm vapour chamber. As electronics evolve, the power consumption and heat generated by chips tend to increase, making cooling an important …

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Gregory Bryant has recently announced that Intel has taped in its 7nm Meteor Lake CPU architecture, which means that the designing phase has been completed. From now on, Intel will start working on the production phases, leading to the release of Intel's first 7nm processor. The executive VP and GM …

A new report detailing the size of Intel's new socket V (LGA1700) claims that the new socket will have a lower height and feature a more rectangular hole pattern, strengthening the rumours about Alder Lake processors coming in a rectangular shape, although it may come at the cost of cooler …

Now that Intel has confirmed it is refreshing the Tiger Lake-U line-up with the Tiger Lake-R SKUs, laptop manufacturers are getting ready to launch the first laptops featuring these new processors. For now, only MSI has laptops equipped with Intel's refreshed Tiger Lake processors up for pre-order, but other manufacturers should …

We check out PNY's latest XLR8 PCIe 4.0 SSD, also using the Phison E18 controller

A new report detailing the upcoming AM5 platform has surfaced. Instead of using a PGA socket like the AM4 platform, the upcoming platform will reportedly feature an LGA socket — the LGA1718. The report further tells us that the AM5 platform will “only” support PCIe 4.0 connectivity and dual-channel DDR5 …

Nvidia has yet to officially announce the RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti, but that hasn't stopped listings popping up from some partners. Over the weekend, both unannounced GPUs appeared on Razer's website as an option for pre-built PC orders.  The listings, spotted and shared by @harukaze5719, show that Razer …

Besides Gigabyte, it looks like Asus is also working on new fanless X570 motherboards. New ROG Crosshair and ROG Strix fanless X570 motherboards are expected some time during Q3 2021.  When the first X570S motherboards were spotted, there were two major claims about them. Some thought they were linked to …

At this point, leakers all seem to be in agreement that the RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti will be announced later this month, but when will the first cards be available to buy? According to sources, the RTX 3080 Ti will be hitting the market in the first week of June...