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A new leak detailing some specifications of the Intel Xe-HPG (DG2) graphics card line-up has surfaced. As per the leak, the Intel Xe-HPG series will feature 6 models, starting with a 96 EU GPU with 4GB of GDDR6 memory, up to a 512 EU GPU with 16GB of GDDR6 memory. This …

Lenovo has presented its own custom Radeon RX 6800 XT and RX 6900 XT graphics cards. It's unclear if Lenovo will launch this graphics card in the retail market, but in the announcement, the manufacturer stated that the Radeon RX 6800 XT and RX 6900 XT Legion Edition graphics cards will …

Back when Mark Cerny revealed the PlayStation 5 hardware for the first time, we learned that the console would support third-party M.2 SSDs, just as long as they meet certain performance criteria. The PS5 has now been out for several months now, but this additional storage support has yet to …

Nvidia has added support for Resizable BAR on RTX 30 series laptop GPUs and RTX 3060 desktop graphics cards. Support for the remaining Nvidia RTX 30 series cards will come in late March. Owners of RTX 30 series laptops and RTX 3060 desktop graphics cards will have to install the latest Game …

Gigabyte is expanding its portfolio of CPU cooling solutions with Aorus Waterforce X Series AIO liquid coolers. Capable of handling AMD and Intel flagship processors, this series of water coolers will consist of three different models: the X 360, the X 280, and the X 240. Designed to withstand the heat …

AMD and Samsung have been working together on a mobile GPU for quite some time. Earlier this year, Samsung gave an update on the development of this GPU, stating that it would feature in the next flagship Exynos SoC, but it didn't detail how it would be used. Back then, …

Intel Rocket Lake-S processors will reportedly be available for pre-order starting on the 16th of March, with the first units set to ship to customers two weeks later. Additionally, Intel’s chief performance strategist stated that the Rocket Lake-S flagship processor will offer 11% faster storage performance than the Ryzen 9 5950X. According …

Gigabyte is about to launch its Aorus RTX 3060 Elite featuring a “Neonpunk” design, a triple-fan cooler, screen cooling, and dual BIOS. This is set to be Gigabyte's fastest Aorus RTX 3060 in terms of factory overclock. The triple-fan cooling system consists of 3x 80mm fans lubricated with graphene nano …

RTX 3060 has arrived and we test the Gigabyte Gaming OC model. How fast is this GPU?

AMD confirmed it will be presenting new RX 6000 graphics cards on the 3rd of March at 16:00 PM GMT. During the announcement, we expect to see AMD detailing the Radeon RX 6700 series GPUs, including specs and pricing. 

We all saw it coming - but is the Meshify 2 Compact any good?

bequiet! is launching three new Dark Power 12 power supplies. Available with 750W, 850W, and 1000W, the Dark Power 12 PSUs feature an 80 PLUS Titanium certification, a 135mm cooling fan, modular design, and a switch to change between multi-rail and single-rail. Unlike the Dark Power 12 Pro models, the Dark Power …

The RTX 3060 is just a couple of days away from launch and as a result, early performance benchmarks are being posted fairly frequently. The latest tests show RTX 3060 performance in Ashes of the Singularity, giving us a glimpse at how the new card compares to its predecessor, as …

The latest Rocket Lake-S benchmark leak has arrived. This time around, a new Geekbench 5 entry was found for the Intel Core i5-11400, which appears to have a whopping 35 percent single-core performance improvement over its 10th Gen equivalent.  As shared by @BenchLeaks, the Geekbench 5 database entry for the …

Ever since the announcement of the PS5 console, we've been expecting an accompanying VR headset to follow. Today, Sony broke its silence on the future of VR, revealing a new PlayStation VR headset, which will offer “dramatic leaps in performance and interactivity”.  The next PlayStation VR headset will work with …

Some users are reporting that their USB devices are getting random disconnects when connected to 500-series motherboards. AMD has acknowledged these issues and is now looking for help from the community to solve them. The u/AMDOfficial post on AMD's subreddit has already been commented on by multiple users reporting their problems …

AMD is allegedly preparing to launch two variants of the Radeon RX 6700 XT. Expected to release at the same time, the two variants of the card will feature different TGPs and presumably clock speeds. An April launch date is also hinted at. 

Synology has released two new enterprise-grade M.2 NVMe SSDs for data caching and two high-bandwidth NICs to increase the performance of its NAS storage solutions.  Available with 800GB of storage capacity both the SNV3400-800G and the SNV3500-800G are used for caching large data sets, increasing the performance of HDD-based arrays …

Nvidia had a fairly big announcement this week, revealing plans to limit the mining hash rate of the RTX 3060 to discourage cryptominers from buying up GeForce GPUs intended for the gaming market. At the time, we knew that this limit would be introduced in the RTX 3060 drivers, but …

Until now, the only Rocket Lake-S processors spotted on benchmark databases have been Core i7 and i9 processors, but that has changed this week with the first Core i5 entry appearing on Geekbench 5. The new entry details the Intel Core i5-11600K, giving us some early performance numbers to compare against the competition. 

Were we wrong to use the side fans as exhausts?

During Lian Li 2021 Digital Expo, the case manufacturer presented us with four new cases, the new UNI FAN AL120 and AL140, the O11D Mini Snow Edition, a new O11D Mini bundle including SFF power supplies, and pricing and availability details of the Odyssey X chassis. Starting with the Q58, this …

It looks like the next batch of Radeon GPUs are launching in one month's time...

As we all know, graphics cards are in very short supply right now. In the case of Nvidia's RTX 30 series GPUs, some launch-week pre-order customers are still waiting to get their card due to long queues, meanwhile, much of the stock being made is going out to crypto mining …

Sapphire Toxic is back - and this 6900 XT has a 360mm AIO built in

During a streaming event, MSI has shown the MSRP of the upcoming B560 and H510 motherboards. Aimed at  themid-range and entry-level markets, the new motherboards will support both Intel 10th Gen Core and 11th Gen Core processors.  According to what was shown on MSI Insider Show, the B560 motherboards will be …

Samsung has announced a new type of HBM. Named HBM-PIM, this is the world's first High Bandwidth Memory integrated with artificial intelligence processing power. Featuring a processing-in-memory design, HBM-PIM is aimed at data centre use, HPC systems, and AI-enabled mobile applications.

Nightdive Studios has been quietly working away on System Shock 2: Enhanced Edition for a couple of years now alongside a complete remake of the original System Shock. One of the big bonuses coming with System Shock 2's remaster is VR support, which the developers have now confirmed after initially …

We are still quite far away from the launch of Intel Alder Lake CPUs, but early leaks keep coming. The latest leak comes from an alleged Intel presentation slide, detailing that Alder Lake CPU cores will feature a "20% single-threaded uplift" in performance compared to some previous architectures. Alder Lake also apparently boasts double the multi-thread performance of Tiger Lake-U. 

New statistics show that SSDs outsold traditional hard drives for the first time in 2020. While SSDs may have sold more units though, HDDs still take the crown for total storage.  According to the statistics from Trendfocus (via Storage Newsletter), SSD sales have increased by almost 21% in 2020 (333.12M) …