Hitman (3) is back and made its way towards the PC. With improved graphics and completely new scenery, we'll look at the game PC graphics performance in a PC gamer way. We'll test the game on the PC platform relative to graphics card performance with the latest AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards. Many graphics cards are being tested and benchmarked.

Updates:  frametime results | CPU threading utilization | Updated charts with Radeon Adrenalin 21.1.1 drivers | read the review here.

Hitman is back and made its way towards the PC. With improved graphics and completely new scenery, we'll look at the game PC graphics performance in a PC gamer way. We'll test the game on the PC platform relative to graphics card performance with the latest AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards. Many graphics cards are being tested and benchmarked. 

Intel's senior vice president of graphics products division, Raja Koduri, commented in a Tweet about the launch date of the DG2 graphics card; it will be manufactured by TSMC at a 6nm process and will employ the Xe-HPG architecture, which supports Ray Tracing natively.

A new trailer on Atomic Heart has been revealed, this round its tech trailer driven by NVIDIA to show of their Raytracing and likely DLSS capability. This isn’t the first time the game was shown with ray tracing, either. Atomic Heart seems to have been part of Nvidia’s process of developing and marketing RTX.

Download the Nvidia GeForce 461.33 hotfix driver, as released by NVIDIA. This release fixes several issues in regards to Adobe Premiere Pro, Detroit: Become Human and Assassin's Creed Valhalla.

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Download the Nvidia GeForce, 461.33 hotfix driver, as released by NVIDIA. This release fixes several issues in regards to Adobe Premiere Pro, Detroit: Become Human and Assassin's Creed Valhalla.

Chatter on the web indicates that the GeForce RTX 3060, to be released next month, will only be released by NVIDIA board partners. NVIDIA would not have any plans to release its Founders Edition for this model.

Once Intel has released its 14nm Rocket Lake-S series desktop processors, the focus will shift fast towards the next-gen processors series, Alder Lake-S, with its big-little design CPU cores.

COUGAR has released the USB interface gaming headset "Phontum Pro Prix" . It is a product that supports 7.1ch virtual surround, and can be used with consumer game consoles such as PS5 as well as PCs.

And, of course, it's still a Full HD screen. The display is FreeSync Premium compatible with a response speed of 0.5ms and sits in their Nitro series.

The compound series has taken legendary forms by now, as everybody recognizes it. However, previously undiscovered Arctic MX-5 thermal paste has been spotted, and it seems a new revision is to be released soon in the form of MX-5.

The touchscreen device features a Full HD webcam and blazing-fast Intel Wi-Fi 6, providing students with everything they need to succeed in interactive or virtual classrooms that make heavy use of media-based teaching materials. Ultimately, the Acer TravelMate Spin B3 is a reliable device that strives to provide protection against common accidents, allowing parents and teachers to focus on what matters most: learning.

Tew technology and extensive functions of the desk include electric height adjustment control, anti-collision safety sensor, cable management space, and a built-in full surface RGB mouse pad for users to customize their own battle colors.

Our sample got delayed due to shipments from the UK (yes actually Brexit-related), ergo no review today, but Samsung today announced the release of 870 EVO SSD (SATA3).

A few days ago Intel announced that Bob Swan, the current CEO of Intel, will leave his position on February 15 to be succeeded by Pat Gelsinger, Oregonlive now reports that the new CEO stands to collect well over $100 million at his new job.

Biostar announces the launch of their latest Z590 VALKYRIE series motherboard range engineered to run Intels 11th gen Rocket Lake-S processors.

The current market trend is that M.2/NVMe drives are the preferred option because they usually offer better performance, with fewer cables needed. But there’s a place for SATA drives as well. They are still 4-5x faster than HDDs, which they will eventually replace in most PCs. 

Read the review here.

The current market trend is that M.2/NVMe drives are the preferred option because they usually offer better performance, with fewer cables needed. But there’s a place for SATA drives as well. They are still 4-5x faster than HDDs, which they will eventually replace in most PCs. Some of the other advantages include the lack of noise and lower power consumption (usually up to 2 Watts). TeamGroup CX2 is a range of SSDs that can be the first choice for installing an entry-level PC. 

Yesterday we posted a story about G-Sync Ultimate versus the wording that NVIDIA now uses on the required HDR specification in G-Sync Ultimate.

Samsung today introduced its latest 108-megapixel (Mp) mobile image sensor, Samsung ISOCELL HM3. With a wide spectrum of advanced sensor technologies, the HM3 can capture sharper and more vivid images in ultra-high resolution with faster auto-focus and extended dynamic range.

AOC in Asia is listing a new 31.5" screen (AG323QCX2) on its website, the VA panel is based on a WQHD resolution (2560x1440 pixels), a refresh rate of up to 155 Hz and 1500 R curvature. 

Equipped with a maximum 16,000dpi sensor, equipped with 8 buttons that support a total of 48 macros. ARGENT M5 Wireless RGB is a 3-way interface gaming mouse that supports dual wireless of 2.4GHz wireless and Bluetooth 5.0, and also allows wired USB connection. It is equipped with PixArt's optical sensor "PMW 3335" and supports a maximum resolution of 16,000 dpi.

Dell announced a new high-end gaming PC "Alienware Aurora Ryzen Edition R10" compatible with AMD Ryzen 9 5950X and GeForce RTX 3090.

An interesting observation was made today, a crafty contemporary change in the text on Nvidia’s website seems to indicate that NVIDIA has downgraded the requirements for the top of the line G-Sync Ultimate certification. The VESA DisplayHDR 1000 requirement changed to ‘lifelike HDR’.

Intel's soon the be announced Rocket-Lake-S series desktop processors have created a lot of excitement in the processor market. Z590 motherboards will be released soon; the procs, however, should see a release in March.

MSI (and all other brands) is going to release the latest AGESA COMBO PI V2 1.2.0.0 BIOS for AMD 500 series and 400 series motherboards, including MAX and non-MAX models.

Some eight years after the last AMD-based Mini-PC from Shuttle, a second processor manufacturer is once again being incorporated into the company’s own product line. As an initial model to revive this segment, Shuttle is supplying a robust 1.3-liter PC for AMD Ryzen processors with socket AM4.

While we expected the first DisplayPort 2.0 compatible monitors announced at CES, they seem to have been further delayed due to the pandemic. The DisplayPort 2.0 standard was finalized mid-2019.

Creative is re-rereleasing its Sound Blaster Z. This special edition (SE) sound card has a few extra features, new gaming profiles, extra microphone presets and equalizer presets.

Samsung Electronics announced that it is combining innovative new gaming features with exciting industry partnerships to create a groundbreaking gaming experience with 2021 Neo QLED and QLEDs. 

Antec announced a new mid tower PC case tagged the "DF700 FLUX", it uses an airflow design that guides front and side intake to top and rear.

We reported about these last week already, but some new info and photos just arrived. The "EK-AIO Basic" series is an all-in-one water cooling unit featuring an all-black design that drops any RGB lighting function. So this is RGB free.

Kingston is starting pre-orders for the HyperX "Pulsefire Haste" gaming mouse, which has achieved an ultra-light weight of only 59g (excluding cables) due to the honeycomb shell design. The release date is scheduled for February 1.

The Optane products have been both impressive and disappointing ever since the beginning. Impressive for the sheer performance it offers, and disappointing due to the high price levels. In fact, most Optane products ended up as cache only solution due to that price.

TerraMaster expands its 10GbE Series with the F5-422 5-bay quad-core NAS. The TerraMaster F5-422 is equipped with a powerful Intel Celeron quad-core processor and a 10 Gigabit Ethernet port along with two 1000MB/s ethernet ports to support network aggregation. Via the high-speed 10GbE, the F5-422 can deliver read and write speeds of up to 670MB/s using 6TB Seagate IronWolf NAS hard drives in RAID 5.

These are the ten top-selling titles on Steam for the week as reported by Valve, interestingly Cyberpunk is still at the number 3 spot in sales:

Rust.
Valve Index VR Kit.
Cyberpunk 2077.
Heroes of the Three Kingdoms 8.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - Operation Broken Fang.
Phasmophobia.
Raft.
Red Dead Redemption 2.
Grand Theft Auto V.
Sea of Thieves.