MSI has launched a range of RTX 40-powered laptops this year. Now, the entry price is lower than ever, with the first sub-£1000 RTX 40 series laptops on the market. MSI is currently offering a range of deals for its gaming laptops in the UK. If you are after one …
Read More »EVGA ends partnership with Nvidia
For many years, EVGA has been one of Nvidia’s biggest and most popular board partners. However, over the years, it seems the relationship between the two companies has soured, to the point where EVGA is abandoning the GPU market completely. In an interview this week with Gamers Nexus, EVGA CEO, …
Read More »Big restock brings down RTX 30 and RX 6000 graphics card prices
In recent months, we have been seeing a downward trend in GPU prices, as well as an uptick in retail availability. At this point, Nvidia's RTX 30 series graphics cards are readily available here in the UK, as well as competing cards from the AMD Radeon RX 6000 series. Alongside …
Read More »Nvidia RTX LHR mining ‘unlocker’ turned out to be malware
Just a few days ago, we learned about an upcoming piece of software claiming to be capable of completely unlocking the hash rate on Nvidia RTX 30 series graphics cards. As it turns out, the tool was nothing more than malware in disguise. The LHRUnlocker tool was made available through …
Read More »AMD and Nvidia GPU prices continue to fall in Europe as availability improves
The final five months of 2021 saw continued GPU price increases across Europe. In January, the tides started to turn, with prices for both AMD and Nvidia GPUs beginning to drop, and that trend has continued into February.
Read More »Truckload of EVGA RTX 30-series GPUs stolen
Ever since the launch of RTX 30 series graphics cards, we've faced numerous issues with stock. Scalpers and cryptominers were quick to buy up early stock, then supply chain shortages kicked in, keeping retail stocks low and waiting lists long. Now, we're seeing examples of straight up thievery, with a …
Read More »Nvidia bundles Guardians of the Galaxy with RTX 30 systems
Nvidia is back with another game bundle. This time around, those buying select RTX 30-series powered desktops or laptops will get a free copy of Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy with their purchase, so they can jump right in and see ray-tracing and DLSS in action. While typically we would …
Read More »Nvidia is bundling Battlefield 2042 with RTX 30-powered PCs and laptops
Last week, Nvidia board partners began advertising an upcoming bundle, which will see Battlefield 2042 given away with purchases of RTX 30-powered PCs. Now just in time for Gamescom, Nvidia has officially announced the bundle, which is ‘available' as of today. At the moment, getting hold of a graphics card …
Read More »DLSS brings up to 45% extra performance at 4K in Red Dead Redemption 2
Earlier this month, Rockstar Games announced that it would be bringing Nvidia's DLSS technology to Red Dead Redemption 2 and Red Dead Online on PC as part of an upcoming update. That update has now arrived, and it looks like RTX graphics card owners will be getting up to a …
Read More »Nvidia has no plans to update Founders Edition RTX 30 cards with LHR GPUs
Yesterday, Nvidia confirmed that it is releasing 'Lite Hash Rate' versions of the RTX 3080, RTX 3070 and RTX 3060 Ti with anti-mining measures in place. Some more information has since come to light - LHR versions of these GPUs will be shipping to third-party board partners only, meaning we won't be getting LHR 'Founders Edition' cards.
Read More »Nvidia confirms ‘Lite Hash Rate’ RTX 3080, RTX 3070 and RTX 3060 Ti
Back in February ahead of the launch of the RTX 3060, Nvidia announced its new anti-mining measures to make GeForce graphics cards less desirable to crypto mining farms. We've heard through leaks and rumours that this tech would eventually transition over to the rest of the RTX 30 series line-up and today, Nvidia is making that official.
Read More »MSI announces new laptops powered by Intel 11th Gen Core CPUs and RTX 30 graphics
Today, MSI is launching a new line-up of laptops for gaming and creative professionals, packing the latest Intel 11th Gen Core H-series processors and Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 series graphics. MSI's new laptops promise to deliver a 30 percent performance upgrade over the previous generation, as well as improved features …
Read More »Asus confirms Nvidia GPU supply dropped in Q1
While many had hoped that the graphics card supply situation would improve over Q1 2021, it seems that things actually got worse. During a recent investor conference call, ASUS confirmed that it received less shipments of Nvidia GPUs in Q1 than it did in the previous quarter.
Read More »Nvidia bundling free copies of Outriders with RTX laptops
While getting hold of an RTX 30 series graphics card is still very difficult six months after launch, finding an RTX GPU powered laptop is much easier. For anyone looking to buy an RTX laptop, Nvidia is sweetening the deal with a free copy of Outriders. For a limited time, …
Read More »Nvidia confirms changes to Max-Q laptop GPU branding
Update (22/01/21): Earlier this week, Nvidia began changing some of the messaging around Max-Q, planning to drop the GPU differentiating moniker for the upcoming RTX 30 GPUs for laptops. Nvidia already got in touch with us once to explain this, stating that Max-Q has grown “beyond only GPU optimisations”. Now …
Read More »UK MPs call for legislation to crack down on console and PC component scalping
We've had a few big launches ruined by scalpers this year, starting with Nvidia's RTX 30 series graphics cards and eventually impacting the Xbox Series X/S and PS5 launch. Now it would seem that politicians in the UK want to crack down on these practices. As reported by Video Game …
Read More »ASUS and EKWB team up for water-cooled RTX 30 series graphics cards
ASUS and EKWB are collaborating on a new set of water-cooled RTX 30 series graphics cards. These new water-cooled cards aim to deliver an out-of-the-box solution for custom liquid-loop systems. ASUS and EKWB will be releasing water-cooled versions of the RTX 3070, RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 graphics cards, all …
Read More »Nvidia teases big reveal coming in August
Earlier this morning we examined the latest rumours surrounding Nvidia's upcoming next-gen GeForce GPU announcements. As luck would have it, just a few hours later, Nvidia officially began teasing its next big announcement, hinting at a late August unveiling. At 2PM this afternoon, the NVIDIA GeForce twitter account published the …
Read More »Two thirds of KitGuru readers are waiting on Nvidia
We regularly like to check in with our readers for their thoughts on upcoming tech. Recently, we did a heat check on Nvidia and AMD, seeing whether our readers are planning to buy AMD’s upcoming RDNA 2 GPUs or Nvidia’s next generation of GeForce RTX graphics cards. Having had over 3,300 responses in just one day, we now have a good idea of which way KitGuru readers are leaning.
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