The speculation on the Z390 chipset and the 8-core processors kind of gets lost in space eh? We talked Z390 for quite a while now. We know it's paired with at least a Coffee lake based 8-core part. The news today is that three CPU SKUs will be released alongside the chipset. An 8-core, 16-thread CPU (Core i9 9900K); a 6c/12t one (Core i7 9700K) and a 6c/6t part (Core i5 9600K ).
A German web store is listing the upcoming Ryzen Threadripper 2990X processor and does so for a price of just 1509 euros. A lot of money sure, but for 32-cores, I mean that's value even at less than 50 EUR per core.
German Streaming Accessory Maker to Continue as a Separate Brand Within Corsair now that it has reached an agreement to acquire Munich-based Elgato Gaming.
Deepcool Gamerstorm building on the achievements in its previous AIO liquid coolers, today launches a brand new CPU liquid cooling line that comes in 240mm and 280mm sizes- CASTLE 240/280RGB.
The SD Association announced today SD Express which adds the popular PCI Express and NVMe interfaces to the legacy SD interface. The PCIe interface delivering a 985 megabytes per second (MB/s) maximum data transfer rate and the NVMe upper layer protocol enables advanced memory access mechanism, enabling a new world of opportunities for the popular SD memory card.
AverMedia a few weeks ago announced their Live Gamer 4K capture card series that is able to record 4K as well as HDR, the card is now available for around 299 USD. These cards can also record Full HD at up to 240 fps to seamlessly capture every single frame output from today's high-performance game systems.
NetGear is launching new 16-port and 8-port Gigabit Ethernet Unmanaged Switches with the industry’s first flexible Power over Ethernet (PoE) integrated technology.
Storm the beaches of Gallipoli with the Allied forces or defend the Ottoman Empire’s fortifications at Cape Helles. Continue the battle at the Achi Baba hilltop in an intense infantry-focused push.
Lite-On, responsible for several chips, chipsets, and components (e.g. Plextor) claims that component shortages will drive up prices for the next two years. Passive components price hikes due to shortages will sooner or later send end product pricing up, the consumer market will have to make adjustments in the coming two years.
Rockstar will release a DLC for GTA Online, it adds nightclubs. With the Los Santos: Nightclub expansion, players can open their own club to earn income from it. The DLC will be available free of charge in July.
Multi-die chips are what we're talking about to be able to fight off Moore's Law in the future. AMD already is using the technology to connect multiple processors in Threadripper and for servers, Epyc, but also Intel with Kaby Lake-G. However new in research are Chiplets, are parts of chips stacked together on an interposer that form the entire chip.
We're a few days late with this news-release, but AX is a next big thing for WIFI and Quantenna renewed their QSR10GU-AX chipset. The QSR10GU-AX Plus simultaneously supports 8x8 MiMo in the 5GHz WIFI band and 4x4 MiMo in the 2.4GHz band. Devices that do not yet support 802.11ax also perform better thanks what's called SuperTx.
You can now download the Nvidia GeForce 398.36 WHQL driver as released by NVIDIA. The drivers are optimized for the release of The Crew 2 but also include SLI profiles for Dark Souls Remastered, Hand of Fate 2, Need for Speed Payback and Super Mega Baseball 2.
Bethesda Softworks offers a new Welcome to West Virginia Gameplay Video from Fallout 76, the recently announced upcoming installment in the post-apocalyptic RPG series. Check the trailer after the break.
Shuttle’s product family of 1.3-litre PCs has a powerful new addition. As the first model in this format, the DH02U no longer relies solely on the graphics performance which is determined by the soldered-on processor. For the first time, the latter is supported by an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 graphics chip with 4 GB of memory.
Announced a while ago in January, now introduced more secure WPA3 security. There have been a number of flaws with WPA2, last year, for example, the KRACK vulnerability that was patched on many devices. The Wi-Fi Alliance now introduces the successor of the 14-year-old WPA2 protocol, WPA3.
We review the ASRock Phantom Gaming Radeon RX 580 OC with 8GB graphics memory. This two slot cooled mainstream graphics card series will allow you to play your games in both the Full HD 1080P as well as gaming in WQHD (2560x1440) domain. It's ASRock's first series in a graphics card lineup, wanna check it out with me?
Download the Nvidia GeForce 398.36 WHQL driver as released by NVIDIA. The drivers have optimizations for The Crew 2 and a number if SLI profiles.
Roughly a week media should have received a new long-term NDA from NVIDIA. This NDA is an agreement between NVIDIA and the media outlet. The new embargo is, however, stirring up a few things for some websites.
There have been a number of trends in the SSD arena this year, 64-layer 3D NAND, QLC and NAND controllers based on NVMe are on the rise. Samsung, Marvell and Silicon motion already have some excellent controllers, you can add to that list Realtek with the new RTS5762 and RTS5763DL controllers, these reach 3.5 GB/sec.
On Reddit a photo of what appears to be an engineering card from Nvidia surfaced. The interesting part is that if you zoom in at the memory modules, you'll notice it has Micron GDDR6 memory. Since no existing GPU can work with GDDR6, this has to be a next-gen board.
Got a few tenners to spare? ASRock Rack is showcasing its latest cloud, datacenter and HPC solutions including the 3U10G-F/C621 high-density 3U GPU server platform that supports up to ten NVIDIA Tesla V100 32GB Tensor Core GPUs with PCI-E on a single root complex and the new single-AMD EPYC based 2U4G-EPYCD8 GPU server which are optimized for artificial intelligence, deep learning, and HPC applications.
WiSpear is a security company, and they claim they can hack a fully patched Apple iOS or Google Android smartphone from up to 500 meters. The company claims it’s specialized in “long range Wi-Fi surveillance”, they even developed their own special surveillance truck called SpearHead 360 for this.
Square Enix has just released the free prequel to Life is Strange 2, called The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit, an original narrative experience set in the Life is Strange universe that contains links to the brand new story & characters of Life is Strange 2, and some choices and actions will link to your Life is Strange 2 experience.
It seems the big guns are back at the top spots, here are the ten top selling titles on Steam for the week as reported by Valve:
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
Event Pass: Sanhok
Grand Theft Auto V
Jurassic World Evolution
FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION
ARK: Survival Evolved
Fallout 4: Game of the Year Edition
Jurassic World Evolution
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition
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BIOSTAR unveils its newest solid-state drive featuring 3D TLC NAND flash – the M500 M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD. The BIOSTAR M500 uses the compact M.2 2280 form factor that is compatible with latest-generation motherboards, laptops, and mini PCs.
Micron today announced volume production on its 8GB GDDR6 memory. Built on experience and execution for several generations of GDDR memory, GDDR6 - Micron's fastest and most powerful graphics memory designed in Micron's Munich Development Center - is optimized for a variety of application including graphics processing units (GPUs).
It's been topic of long debate and discussion. In Q1 2018 rumors surfaced that ASRock would be releasing graphics cards. Then all of the sudden we started to see a few teasers from ASRock, slowly word got out that the new series would be called Phantom gaming, but would it be for miners, gamers or both?
In this review, we look at the MSI GH70 Gaming Headset. MSI has a fairly wide variety of headsets on offer, and the GH70 sits proudly right at the top of that list. But is it any good, well let's find out.
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In this review, we look at the MSI GH70 Gaming Headset. MSI has a fairly wide variety of headsets on offer, and the GH70 sits proudly right at the top of that list. But is it any good, well let's find out.
From the looks of it, that new 8-core Coffee lake CPU, might work fine on the Z370 chipset. So Intel, while still releasing Z390, might simply be rebranding the Z370 and allow motherboard manufacturers to pair some 3rd party controllers with it for more features.
So, over the weekend two things happened. First up, it was Alan Turing's birthday, the man behind cracking the Enigma code, the one mathematical name in the industry looking to be the codename to be used by NVIDIA for their GPUs. And guess what?
You can check the system requirements for the remake of RESIDENT EVIL 2. It's going to be a DX11 title with a minimum of a Core i5-4460, 2.70GHz or AMD FX-6300 and for graphics, recommended is a GeForce GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 480.
Thermaltake is working on a Engine 17 1U Low-Profile CPU Cooler. It features a 17mm height with a compact size 60mm PWM fan, for small form factor applications. The metallic structure (metallic blades and fins) with copper base guarantees extremely quiet, yet powerful operation.
EK released a monoblock for the MSI Intel X299 Chipset based MSI X299M GAMING PRO CARBON AC (Intel LGA-2066). The EK-FB MSI X299M GAMING PRO CARBON RGB Monoblock has an integrated 4-pin RGB LED strip which makes it compatible with MSI Mystic Light.
Specs and details for the unannounced Qualcomm Snapdragon 1000 SoC have surfaced. The SoC is intended for use with Windows 10 and with a size of 20x15mm it will certainly not end up in a smartphone, likely they'll end up in notebooks and convertibles.
If you watched the Computex live stream, AMD announced their 2nd gen Threadripper based on ZEN+ with up-to 32-cores and 64 threads. In that live presentation, they showed a video introducing the new series. That 'Heavy metal' teaser video is now online to watch (if you wanted to do so), here you go.
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