Today, at the Intel Innovation event, 13th Gen Core Raptor Lake was announced as we covered earlier. This is the final step before full technical reviews in the next few weeks and we are now allowed to stop teasing you with partial coverage that we prepared under NDA. Today we take a closer look into Raptor Lake itself...
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Today during Intel Innovation, the company officially unveiled its line-up of unlocked “Raptor Lake” processors. The initial line-up focuses on desktop, offering K-series and KF-series options, headlined by the new Core i9-13900K. With its 12th Generation “Alder Lake” CPUs, Intel introduced the new hybrid architecture, combining performance cores with efficiency …
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Over the past year, reports have insisted that Konami has multiple Silent Hill games in development as part of an effort to revive a few key video game franchises. Now, we may have our first legitimate piece of evidence, as South Korea's game rating committee has listed an unannounced Silent …
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Read More »Spider-Man: Miles Morales gets PC trailer ahead of Fall launch
Over the Summer, Sony announced plans to bring both of its Spider-Man games to PC for the first time. We've already had high praise for Spider-Man Remastered and soon, Miles Morales will be dropping too. Spider-Man: Miles Morales is not a full sequel to Spider-Man Remastered. It is more of …
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Read More »Seasonic launches new ATX 3.0 power supplies just in time for new-gen graphics cards
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Read More »Intel Core i9-13900K tops PassMark single-thread performance ranking
PassMark has a new processor at the top of the single-thread performance chart. The new chip is none other than the Intel Core i9-13900K with a whopping 4,833 points, putting it above the runner-up by almost 10%. PassMark (via APISAK) has already updated both single-and multi-threaded performance charts with the …
Read More »Intel Arc A770 embargo reportedly lifts on October 5th
It has been months since Intel unveiled the Arc A770 and A750 graphics cards and we have yet to see an official launch date. However, new reports indicate that Intel is finally ramping things up. Apparently, the first A770 unboxings will go live from Friday, while the first reviews will …
Read More »Leo Visits Intel: The Israel Travel VLOG!
Leo spent a week in Israel with Intel learning all about their 13th Gen Raptor Lake Core processors. We have already posted some Intel news however the deep dive technical briefings are under NDA until next week. To tide you over we present a travelogue that could be titled 'Leo Eats His Way Around Israel'...
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I was recently invited to attend an event with Intel in Israel. While KitGuru is under NDA and unable to publicly discuss many of the topics highlighted at the event, we were able to record Isic Silas, Corporate VP in the Client Computing Group discussing certain topics. We found his …
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It has been one week since EVGA announced that it is ending its partnership with Nvidia and will be exiting the GPU market. As many enthusiasts will know, EVGA would previously work with overclocker ‘Kingpin' to release ultra high-performance graphics cards. Now, with EVGA pulling out of GPUs, Kingpin seems …
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Earlier this year, we began hearing whispers about a Destiny mobile game, which Bungie is apparently working on in collaboration with NetEase, a company you'll all know and love following the launch of Diablo Immortal. Now, new patent filings suggest Bungie is indeed working on bringing Destiny to mobile in …
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Earlier this year, the group known as ‘LAPSUS$' was found to be responsible for cyber attacks on Microsoft, Nvidia and Samsung. After some investigation, a group of teenagers from the UK were arrested in connection with the attacks. Now, it appears that another UK member of this cyber group has …
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As a video game platform, Steam has been one of the most open in the industry, giving players a great deal of data thanks to open APIs and general sense of transparency. The platform holder has now taken this one step further, announcing the launch of real-time and weekly Steam …
Read More »Noctua will offer free mounting kits for those upgrading to Socket AM5
We are just days away from the launch of AMD's new Ryzen 7000 series processors. The new chips have a new IHS, but coolers with support for Socket AM4 should work nicely with the new AM5 socket too. If you are using a Noctua cooler, you'll be able to get …
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