So some folks are have been playing around with eight NVMe M2 SSDs in RAID on X399 Threadripper. See, NVMe RAID support wasn't supported up-to the 25th of this month. I have not seen the new driver myself but some folks have been able to create a RAID array of eight NVMe SSDs. 

You can now download the Download AMD Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.9.3 driver, optimized for War: WARHAMMER II and Forza Motorsport 7 as well as holding a number of fixed. More info on the download pages.

Download here.

Download AMD Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.9.3 WHQL driver.

A while ago there was already word out on the street that the USB Focus group would be announcing a new draft for upcoming USB 3.2, that has now been finalized and published. To keep things really simple, we're doubling thing up once again.

AMD spoke with its partners and plans to launch in February 2018 an upgrade version of its Ryzen series processors built using a 12nm low-power (12LP) process at Globalfoundries.

Shuttle releases their DH270 with H270 chipset. The unit includes HDMI 2.0 and is ready for socket LGA 1151 desktop processors. 

The Ataribox, a new console from the Atari game company, will be launched in spring 2018. The device will be offered through a crowd-funding campaign for roughly 250 to 300 dollars (~240 euros).

Meet the September edition of the Guru3D Rig of the month 2017. The turn goes to Thomas aka Tutanchamun who built something pretty cool. He shows his great looking build with only minor mods / tweaks.

Read the article here.
 

Meet the September edition of the Guru3D Rig of the month 2017, right here. 

EA shared more details on its Star Wars Battlefront 2 system requirements in regards to their open beta.

Gigabyte announces its new AERO 15 black series: AERO 15 X gaming laptop PCs. This 1.9cm thick unit houses GeForce GTX 1070 shoehorned into a frame with near-borderless 5mm bezels.

Roughly 200 games developed by Silicon Echo Studios, which Steam users have criticized for selling low-quality shovelware made to peddle trading cards, have been removed from the PC storefront: these were often given away in either free or low-cost bundles. 

So have you ever seens something like that? Yeah it is a mouse alright. DELUX is launching their newest ergonomic wired mouse namely the M618 PLUS RGB. 

Nvidia's Xavier based SoC for automotive purposes will be released in 2018. Xavier is based on Volta architecture and intended for autonomous cars, drones and industrial robots. 

NVIDIA announced the ‘Forge Your Army’ Bundle. For a limited time, gamers can get Middle-earth: Shadow of War for free when they buy a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti or GeForce GTX 1080-based graphics card, system, or notebook. 

Corsair annunced its RGB-lit DDR4 memory, Vengeance RGB White. Clad in a sleek new white heat spreader, Vengeance RGB White’s RGB LED-lit lightbar appears brighter than ever, bringing a vivid burst of customizable color and a distinctive new look.

On a newly leaked roadmap slash set of media slides some new info on AMD Vega 20 and Ryzen 5 Pro Mobile have exposed itself. Let's have a peek at them.

A new review of a Core i7 8700K has leaked onto the web, in Asia it is EXPreview who posted some benchmarks of the 8700K versus the 7700K and 7800X. 

With Coffee Lake procs announced and being available next week, the prices now have surfaced into the webshops. Here in the the Core i3 8100, Core i5 8400, Core i5 8600K, Core i7 8700 and Core i7 8700K have surfaced, bringing a good indication of the actual street prices.

HyperX is now shipping its next generation gaming headset – the HyperXTM Cloud Alpha – to casual gamers and pro teams around the world. Cloud Alpha offers a range of new and enhanced features, including HyperX Dual Chamber technology for better sound and less distortion. 

Gigabyte released their second model of the External Gaming Box, this round it was fitted with a GTX 1080. The external box is intended for laptops with mandatory Tunderbolt 3 link. The unit also feeds of its own power supply.

According to Activision, the PC open beta of Call of Duty: WWII will support native 4K resolutions, framerates up to 250fps, as well as controllers, G-Sync monitors, Ultra-Wide monitors and high-resolution mouse.

ID-Cooling announced SE-207 Twin Tower Air cooler, featuring a black nickel plated Top Cover, twin tower heatsinks and two cooling fans included. The full cooler is made of 7pcs of heatpipes soldered to the copper base, two sets of aluminum fins, which all covered by a nickel plated top cover, and decorated by uniquely designed heatpipe caps.

Samsung announced that it is introducing the industry's first embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS) solution for use in next-generation automotive applications. 

Creative announced that its Sound BlasterX Katana, now supports USB audio connectivity with all Sony PS4 console variants. The updated support allows PS4 users to enjoy cinematic audio performance via USB delivered by the Katana for all their gaming content.

Gigabyte unveiled the new Z370 AORUS motherboards based on the Intel Z370 chipset. These motherboards are equipped with a server-grade digital power design which fully support 8th generation Intel Core processors.

Pro-overclocker Der8auer did his trick on the new 18-core Core i9 7980XE. He applied LN2 cooling on Intel's most expensive consumer proc, and was able to reach a tweak to 6 GHz, that however did results into a power-consumption of a scary 1000 Watts :-)

I have re-published our ASUS Radeon ROG RX Vega 64 STRIX 8GB review. The review is similar to what it was a few weeks ago, yet with some foot-notes. ASUS did not offer a new BIOS, yet did offer a driver which didn't help the product either As such the product is what it is and is what it was. More info in the review.

You can read the article here.

Intel is announcing the availability of its 14-, 16- and 18-core processors – Intel® Core i9-7940X, Intel Core i9-7960X and Intel Core i9-7980XE processors – which begin shipping to ecosystem customers today.

We review the ASUS Radeon ROG RX Vega 64 STRIX 8GB Gaming. ASUS finalized it's all custom product, we'll take you through the product, its architecture and the performance numbers. Will custom cooling make all the difference?

If you noticed last week’s driver release, you might have been a bit puzzled about the fact that the word Crossfire has not been used, while the driver itself was exactly about bringing that to Vega. As it turns out, there have been a number of changes.

Colorful announced the introduction of three new PCIE SSD models and are the world’s first to feature the latest SiliconMotion controller 2262/2263/2263XTL: announcing the CN600 DRAM-less Series, CN600 DRAM series and CP600 iGame Series. All of the new SSDs will be available in volumes of 240GB up to 2TB.

Misery Development has released a brand new version of its Misery mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call Of Pripyat. FYI, Misery is a full concept modification of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

It is time for a new overview of the ten top selling titles on Steam for the week as reported by Valve, PUBG is still holding strong at the number 1 position:

PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
Divinity: Original Sin 2
Stellaris: Synthetic Dawn Story Pack
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Total War: WARHAMMER II
Stellaris
NBA 2K18 - Pre-order
Grand Theft Auto V
Stellaris: UtopiaDead by Daylight

Asia based Expert Oriented announced a new GeForce GTX 1060 OC in its line-up. Codenamed GF-GTX1060-E6GB/OC2/DF, this VR-ready graphics card is packed with 1280 CUDA Cores, a 192-bit memory interface, a core base clock of 1518MHz (reference 1506MHz), a core boost clock of 1733MHz (reference 1708MHz) and a 6GB of GDDR5 memory set @ 8008MHz.

Intel today announces its eight Core generation of desktop processors with two Core i3 quad-cores, two Core i5 hexacores without HyperThreading and two Core i7 hexacores with HyperTreading.