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Earlier this week, AMD officially announced the Ryzen 5000G series of processors with integrated Radeon graphics. For now, these processors are only going to be available to OEMs making pre-built PCs, but later this year, the DIY market should be able to get their hands on them too. Following on …

Nvidia announced the CMP 30HX series in March and while we knew AiB partners would be working with Nvidia on this, partners didn't announce their cards straight away. That changed this week, with Gigabyte becoming the first AiB partner to introduce its own CMP 30HX mining processor officially. Based on the …

Patriot's latest PCIe 4.0 SSD doesn't use a Phison controller - it's from Innogrit instead

This week, G.Skill is launching a new series of DDR4 memory – Trident Z Royal Elite, which not only looks lavish but is also blazing fast with clock speeds up to 5333MHz. The Trident Z Royal Elite series updates the shroud design with a “uniquely sculpted crystaline pattern”. Available in …

Shortly after the launch of the Oculus Quest 2, a software update enabled Oculus Link, allowing the headset to be hooked up to a PC to play VR games. Now, Oculus Link is getting another upgrade, removing the need for a cable at all. Today Oculus has announced Air Link …

Mortal Shell has been on Nvidia's list of upcoming ray-tracing and DLSS supported titles for quite some time now. This week, the game's RTX update is officially dropping and Nvidia has a new Game Ready driver in preparation for it. Aside from that, we also have some new upgrades to …

Resident Evil 7 on PlayStation VR proved that the franchise can translate really well into virtual reality. While RE7 only ever released for PlayStation’s VR headset, it would appear as though more Resident Evil titles could be coming to VR – and might be announced at tomorrow’s event. Capcom will …

We put Nvidia's Resizable BAR feature to the test with RTX 3080 and RTX 3090

Nvidia always does well financially but it looks like Q1 2021 is going to be particularly big for the company. Previously, Nvidia told investors that it expects to make $5.3 billion during the first quarter, but due to an uptick in crypto-mining sales and the launch of CMP graphics cards, …

Back at CES 2021, AMD confirmed that the Ryzen 9 5900 and Ryzen 7 5800 (non-X) will be coming this year for OEMs. As it seems, PC makers are finally starting to receive those processors, with Alienware being one of the first to include them as a configuration option. The …

After months of various leaks and rumours, today AMD has officially announced the Ryzen 5000G series of processors. These are APUs with integrated Radeon graphics cores alongside Zen 3 CPU cores for a better all-in-one solution for gaming without a dedicated graphics card.

The team over at be quiet! is expanding its power supply range this month. Today, the company announced the new Pure Power 11 FM series, consisting of fully modular power supplies with 80 PLUS Gold efficiency. The Pure Power range is all about dependability, which is why every unit in …

It has been a while since we last had some big VR games to look forward to, but that will be changing soon. This week, Oculus announced its first games showcase, during which we'll see new footage for anticipated VR games like Lone Echo 2, as well as some new …

Nvidia will expand its RTX A workstation series with two new desktop GPUs and four laptop GPUs. During GTC, the company also revealed two entry-level mobile GPUs based on the Turing GPU architecture without RT or Tensor cores. Up to now, the Nvidia RTX A6000 was the only desktop workstation …

Last night during Jensen's GTC 2021 keynote, Nvidia announced a new ARM-based CPU. Known as "Grace", Nvidia's latest CPU utilises ARM core architecture and aims to deliver 10x more performance for systems training AI models and other high-performance computing workloads.

With GTC just a few hours away, details on an Nvidia 'Atlan' SoC have appeared, combining next-gen CPU and GPU technology.

In August 2020, we came across an alleged AMD roadmap introducing multiple new architectures, such as “Warhol” and “Cezanne”. Over time, these names have been revealed as official, bringing some legitimacy to last year's leak. Now in an updated roadmap, we also have some details on an upcoming “Raphael” series …

GPU virtualisation is officially exclusive to some Nvidia data centre and professional graphics cards, but a group of modders have been working on changing that. Through some tweaking, developers have managed to enable GPU virtualisation on GeForce and Quadro graphics cards.  Nvidia GeForce gaming graphics cards have always had the …

Arctic is back with some brand new case fans for 2021. Unlike most case fans, Arctic's new P12 PWM PST 0dB fans include a 0-decibel mode, allowing you to make your PC as quiet as possible. There are two versions of this fan, one with analogue RGB lighting and one …

The Ryzen 5000G series is closer to launch than ever. Last week, the AMD's upcoming APU line-up was leaked and now, we appear to have some performance data to go along with those leaks. Someone has managed to get their hands on the upcoming Ryzen 7 5700G, releasing the benchmarks …

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The Graphics Technology Conference is coming up soon and once again, Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huang, will be hosting his annual keynote from his kitchen. The first time Jensen hosted a conference from his kitchen was GTC 2020, as part of the new socially distanced, digital approach to GTC to stay …

Back at CES 2021, MSI announced plans to enter the SSD market by showcasing a PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD. Things have been quiet since then, but EEC listings suggest that MSI's first SSDs will be launching quite soon.  The EEC listing spotted by u/denzop shows that the company plans to …

We appear to have a new look at AMD's roadmap for the next two years. The leaked slide claims to show AMD's plans through 2022, including the first AMD APUs based on the Zen 3+ core architecture and support for DDR5 memory. The same leaker also shared some information about …

The first images have emerged of Lenovo's RX 6900 XT Legion graphics card. Set to be used in the company's pre-built gaming systems, this custom card is a thick unit, with a triple-slot cooler and an overall design that is highly reminiscent of AMD's Radeon VII. As reported by VideoCardz, …

Alphacool has today introduced four new radiators to its lineup. Most eye catching is the NexXxos 1080 Nova, with a 60mm thick core that takes 9x 120mm fans. Alphacool claims this can cool ‘more than 1000W of excess heat', all while maintaining ‘extremely quiet' fan speeds. NexXxos 1080 Nova: Starting with …

It seems the next generation of AMD Radeon Pro graphics card is getting ready to hit the market. A leaker has posted pictures of an undisclosed engineering sample of an AMD Radeon Pro workstation graphics card, showing what seems to be the first workstation card powered by the RDNA2 GPU …

After Intel's Ice Lake announcement, it's time for Sapphire Rapids to come into the spotlight. A detailed leak about the upcoming data centre platform has just emerged, suggesting that Sapphire Rapids will be quite the upgrade compared to Ice Lake, with the upcoming Xeons set to feature 64GB of HBM2 …

Pictures of an engineering sample of Intel's Xe-HPG with 512 EUs have emerged, alongside some of the GPU's expected specifications. In terms of rumoured performance, the leaker behind these images has said that the Xe-HPG with 512 EUs "should be treated like an RTX 3070 Ti"...