Archive for June 2020

Review: Samsung 870 QVO 2TB SATA3 SSD

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 20

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Samsung Unleashes its 870 QVO series SATA3 SSDs. As the Q in the name indicates, this is all new QLC based NAND. Don't worry, we'll explain it all but the bottom line is that you will see a new value product series that offers more bang for your bucks and an increase in volume sizes.

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Samsung 870 QVO 2TB SSD review

Memory (DDR4/DDR5) and Storage (SSD/NVMe) 378 Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 20

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Samsung Unleashes its 870 QVO series SATA 6 Gb/s SSDs. As the Q in the name indicates, this is all new QLC based NAND. Don't worry, we'll explain it all but the bottom line is that you will see a new value product series that offers more bang for your bucks and an increase in volume sizes.


ASRock Launches Radeon RX 5600 XT Challenger Pro 6G OC Graphics Card

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ASRock, has launched new Radeon RX 5600 XT Challenger Pro 6G OC three-fan graphics card. The Radeon RX 5600 XT Challenger Pro 6G OC features ASRock’s new styled shroud design with upgraded cooling fins, AMD's second-generation Radeon RX 5600 XT 7nm GPU, plus 6GB 192-bit GDDR6 memory and PCI Express 4.0 bus. 


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Kioxia Finishes Acquisition of LITE-ON Technology SSD Business

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And if you say LITE-ON, that's including Plextor.  Kioxia announced today that it expects to complete its acquisition of LITE-ON Technology Corporation's Solid State Drive (SSD) business, Solid State Storage Technology Corporation and its affiliated companies on July 1, 2020. 


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Crytek to show first trailer Crysis Remastered on July 1

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Anything and everything gets announced these for a bit of media covers, Crytek just announced the first official Crysis Remastered gameplay trailer to be out on July 1st 2020.We will finally have an idea of the graphic and gameplay improvements that this remastering will bring us.


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ASUS ROG Announces Collaboration with DJ Alan Walker

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ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today announced a new collaboration with acclaimed DJ and music producer Alan Walker to create gaming content, tech and other experiences that will help elevate and bring gaming to a wider audience.


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Network issues - June 29 2020 (status solved)

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 6

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Hi all, there is a major malfunction at the data-center (power outage), currently, you are routed towards an offsite tertiary server as the failsafe server is also affected. We hope to have things resolved soon, but that is not under our control. The forums are offline at the moment and you're looking at an older backup of the site. We'll keep you posted and hope things will be restored to normal soon.

Update: The situation has been resolved. The data-center will be investigating the power outage as that may never happen with all redundancies in place, then again there's always Murphy's law. Apologies for the downtime.


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GeForceGTX 1650 "Ultra”, based on TU106, starts to appear

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 8

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It's been rumored that new variants of the GTX 1650 based on a TU106 (RTX 2060/2070) would make their way on the market, and today Galax announced the first TU106-based "GTX 1650 Ultra", the card has 896 Shader Cores and 4GB GDDR6, which is rather similar to a normal GTX 1650 GDDR6.


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AMD Adds Radeon Software Adrenalin 20.5.1 with Graphics Hardware Scheduling Support

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 14

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AMD has released a new Beta driver, ironically with the same version number Radeon Software Adrenalin 20.5.1 The new version adds Hardware Scheduling Support, which is a feature that only works with Windows 10 May 2020 Update (version 2004) or later. Please note ONLY Radeon RX 5600-series and RX 5700-series GPUs support the new feature.

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Guru3D Rig of the Month - June 2020

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With the rig of the month, we have seen many things, sometimes from rather familiar people. VBetts is a forum moderator here at the website and finally had the guts to submit his build. Meet Vincent, and his 750 USD build rig called Ultra Instinct

Meet the June edition of the Guru3D Rig of the month 2020, right here.


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Microsoft releases Windows File Recovery tool

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Microsoft outs a file recovery program for Windows 10. Windows File Recovery works on the command line (CMD) and is available in the Microsoft Store for version 2004, currently the latest, of the OS.


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New Lucifer malware hits Windows PCs - Security firm warns

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Researchers at security company Unit 42 discovered the spread of a new strain of malware that is a variant of an old crypto theft code Ransomware. The new variant is used for cryptocurrency mining but can also facilitate distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.


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