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Acer Laptops Get RTX 3000, Tiger Lake H-Series

Home News (Image credit: Acer) Acer’s bringing Intel’s new high-powered 11th Gen Tiger Lake chips to its gaming laptops, alongside new mobile RTX 3000 GPU options and a new design for one laptop in particular. New, more budget-friendly RTX 3000 gaming desktops are also joining those mobile options, giving gamers who haven’t been able to… Read more

Acer’s Swift X Crams Ryzen 5000 and RTX 3050 Ti Into Thin Chassis for Creators

Home News (Image credit: Acer) Acer announced the Swift X, its first laptop in the Swift line to use discrete graphics, during a virtual event today. The laptop will use AMD Ryzen 5000 series processors and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 Ti when it launches in June starting for $899.99. The laptop, which Acer says… Read more

Hands On: Acer’s RGB-Everything Predator Helios 500 Is a Disco Gaming Animal

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) It’s been a couple of years now since Acer overhauled its big-screen Helios 500 desktop replacement rig. But the laptop is back in a 17-inch shell that’s a bit of a departure from the 2018 model . As expected, it brings current top-end 11th Gen Intel/Nvidia components, plus perhaps… Read more

Acer Joins the Polling Rate Race With 2,000 Hz Predator Cestus 335 Gaming Mouse

Home News (Image credit: Acer) Acer is joining the likes of Razer and Corsair in pushing gaming peripherals that changes the rate at which your mouse sends data to your PC. Most gaming mice offer polling rates of 1,000 Hz max, meaning it sends a report to your PC telling it of your mouse’s position… Read more

HTC Vive Pro 2 review: The ultimate virtual reality experience

(Pocket-lint) – The HTC Vive Pro 2 has arrived – and you could easily be forgiven for thinking it’s virtually the same VR headset that the company released back in 2018. That’s because outwardly it hasn’t changed much from the original, aside from some colour changes on the front faceplate. However, under the hood things… Read more

Epic Optimizes Unreal Engine 5 Compilation For AMD’s Threadripper CPUs

Home News (Image credit: AMD) In a recent blog post by AMD, the company announced that Epic Game’s Unreal Engine 5, which is now in early access mode and will power a new generation of games, is now fully optimized for compilation work with Ryzen Threadripper CPUs. Epic Games VP Nick Penwarden notes that using… Read more

Nvidia Teases Possible GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, RTX 3070 Ti Event For May 31

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) Nvidia has revealed via its Twitter account the company’s looming GeForce event that will be held on May 31. Although Nvidia didn’t openly say it, the chipmaker is probably taking this opportunity to announce two new Ampere GeForce gaming graphics cards. Computex 2021 will kick off on May 31, which… Read more

Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro SL DDR4-3600 C18 2x8GB Review: Short On Height, High On AMD Performance

Our Verdict The Vengeance RGB Pro SL DDR4-3600 C18 is a great memory kit for AMD owners that don’t have the luxury of a lot of clearance space under their CPU air coolers. For + Great performance on AMD platforms + Competitive pricing + Only 44.8mm tall Against – Disappointing overclocking headroom – Poor performance… Read more

Asahi Linux Dev Reveals ‘M1RACLES’ Flaw in Apple M1, Pokes Fun at Similar Flaws

Home News (Image credit: Hector Martin) Asahi Linux developer Hector Martin has revealed a covert channel vulnerability in the Apple M1 chip that he dubbed M1RACLES, and in the process, he’s gently criticized the way security flaws have started to be shared with the public. Martin’s executive summary for M1RACLES sounds dire: “A flaw in… Read more

Intel Remains World’s Largest Chipmaker as AMD Enters Top 15

Home News (Image credit: Intel) While Intel’s revenue dropped in the first quarter, it is still the world’s largest supplier of chips by revenue, ahead of Samsung and TSMC, according to IC Insights. Intel’s arch-rival AMD significantly increased its sales in Q1 2021 and is now one of the world’s Top 15 semiconductor companies. Demand for… Read more

ARM unveils Cortex-X2, A710, A510, new Mali GPUs as it prepares to go 64-bit only

ARMv8 has been around for years, it is the first 64-bit version of the ARM architecture. Now it’s time to move on to ARMv9. No, it’s not jumping to 128-bit, but it does bring the end of 32-bit designs. ARM is planning to take Cortex-A cores 64-bit only by 2023 and it is working with… Read more

Intel has taped in the 7nm Meteor Lake compute tile

Gregory Bryant has recently announced that Intel has taped in its 7nm Meteor Lake CPU architecture, which means that the designing phase has been completed. From now on, Intel will start working on the production phases, leading to the release of Intel’s first 7nm processor. The executive VP and GM of the client computing group… Read more

Intel’s upcoming ‘socket V’ may force you to buy a new cooler for Alder Lake-S CPUs

A new report detailing the size of Intel’s new socket V (LGA1700) claims that the new socket will have a lower height and feature a more rectangular hole pattern, strengthening the rumours about Alder Lake processors coming in a rectangular shape, although it may come at the cost of cooler compatibility. Unlike the LGA1200 socket… Read more

AMD’s AM5 platform rumoured to come with LGA socket, PCIe 4.0 support, and DDR5

A new report detailing the upcoming AM5 platform has surfaced. Instead of using a PGA socket like the AM4 platform, the upcoming platform will reportedly feature an LGA socket — the LGA1718. The report further tells us that the AM5 platform will “only” support PCIe 4.0 connectivity and dual-channel DDR5 memory. In a PGA (pin… Read more

Rumor: AMD’s EPYC Milan-X CPU to Have 3D Die Stacking

Home News AMD X3D Chip Packaging (Image credit: AMD) We now know a lot more about AMD’s forthcoming 3D die stacking technology, thanks to new tweets from reliable hardware leakers ExecutableFix and Patrick Schur. These tweets claim that we can first expect to see this tech at play in the EPYC Milan-X series of data… Read more