Introduction After almost a decade of total market dominance, Intel has spent the past few years on the defensive. AMD’s Ryzen processors continue to show improvement year over year, with the most recent Ryzen 5000 series taking the crown of best gaming processor: Intel’s last bastion of superiority. Now, with a booming hardware market, Intel… Read more
read more...AMD
ASUS ROG STRIX Z590-I Gaming WiFi Review
Report: Valve is secretly building a Switch-esque portable gaming PC
Nearly a decade after introducing an ill-fated line of Linux gaming PCs dubbed “Steam Machines,” PC gaming giant Valve is reportedly trying its hand at hardware again — with its own handheld gaming computer a la the Nintendo Switch. That’s the word from Ars Technica’s Sam Machkovech, who claims to have multiple sources attesting that… Read more
read more...Mockup of AMD’s Zen 4 Raphael CPU Appears With Potential Specs
Home News AMD Zen 4 Processor (Image credit: ExecutableFix/Twitter) Hardware leaker ExecutableFix has provided further details on AMD’s next-generation Zen 4 processor. This new information comes in hot on the heels of the recent sneak peek at the AM5 socket. The AM5 socket has been rumored to shift over to a Land Grid Array (LGA)… Read more
read more...Russian Filing Suggests 100+ New Asus GPUs
Home News (Image credit: Asus) If you like graphics cards, and who doesn’t?, this trademark filing to the Eurasian Economic Union spotted by Twitter user @momomo_us may be of interest. It details over 100 cards from Asus, including some very interesting models. (Image credit: Asus) On the list there are plenty of mining cards /… Read more
read more...Intel Tapes In 7nm Meteor Lake Compute Tile
Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger announced at the J.P. Morgan Global TMC Week event today that the company has “taped-in” the compute tiles for its new 7nm Meteor Lake chips, meaning that the design elements and IP have been validated for integration into the broader SoC. The design will be ready… Read more
read more...AMD Ryzen 5 5600H Beats Intel’s Best 6-Core Tiger Lake Chip in Benchmark
Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Noted hardware detective @Apisak has dug up another benchmark in a public database, and this time Intel’s latest Core i5-11400H mobile Tiger Lake processor makes an appearance. Intel has officially launched the Core i5-11400H but these chips have yet to land in our labs, so this test result gives us… Read more
read more...ADATA SE900G Portable SSD 2 TB Review – USB at 20 Gbps
Introduction ADATA is Taiwan’s largest manufacturer of flash storage and DRAM memory for computers. They have been at the forefront of SSD development for many years, bringing us famous SSDs like the SX8200, SX900, and S510. Today we are reviewing the ADATA SE900G, which is the company’s latest portable SSD. It is one of the… Read more
read more...Chipmakers Are Finally Raising Prices Amid the Global Chip Shortage
Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Chipmakers might finally be cashing in on the global chip shortage. Times-Taipei News reported last week that since the second quarter of 2021, “more than 30 semiconductor companies have issued price adjustment letters, with product price increases ranging from 10% to 30%,” according to a translated version of the report…. Read more
read more...TCL C81 4K QLED TV review: Too good to be true?
(Pocket-lint) – Despite being TCL’s current flagship 4K TV, the C81 costs under a grand in its 65-inch format. A price which becomes all the more eye-catching when a scan of its features uncovers such high-end attractions as QLED Quantum Dot colour technology, support for both of the premium Dolby Vision and HDR10+ high dynamic… Read more
read more...Blue Shift: Building a Custom-Cooled PC in the Spectre III Case
Home News (Image credit: Niels Broekhuijsen, Tom’s Hardware) After putting the Mirror Maze system together last fall, I needed a break from all the work that goes into a high-end custom build. Plus, I had plenty of PC cases to review. So when Singularity Computers reached asking if we were interested in checking out its… Read more
read more...Alleged picture of the AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT has surfaced
New leaks for the upcoming Radeon RX 6600 series suggest that the GPU is not far from releasing. At this point, OEMs appear to be getting their hands on reference models of a Radeon RX 6600 XT graphics card, images of which have been posted online. Over on Twitter, a picture of an alleged OEM… Read more
read more...AM5 Socket May Be AMD’s Doorway To DDR5
Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Hardware leaker ExecutableFix, who has a good track record, has shared the potential specifications for AMD’s forthcoming AM5 socket. Nonetheless, this is the first time that we’ve seen anything related to AM5 so take the information with a bit of salt. The Twitter user started his tweet with mentions of… Read more
read more...Frontier Supercomputer to Get World’s Fastest Storage: 75 TB/s, 15 Billion IOPS, 700 PetaBytes
Home News (Image credit: OLCF) The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) has announced the first details about the Orion storage subsystem of its upcoming Frontier exascale supercomputer set to go online in late 2021. Being the industry’s first 1.5 ExaFLOPS supercomputer, Frontier will need a very fast storage subsystem. It looks like it is set to get… Read more
read more...Asus Implies AMD’s X570S Arrives in Q3: Fanless Motherboards Incoming
Home News (Image credit: Asus) AMD’s X570 platform has numerous advantages, but it also has one key disadvantage: the X570 chipset gets hot under load and requires active cooling. AMD has developed a new revision of the chipset — the X570S — that does not require a high-performance active cooling system, but the company hasn’t… Read more
read more...HP Omen 16 revealed with Radeon RX 6000M graphics
HP has recently announced the first Radeon RX 6000M-powered laptop, the Omen 16 2021. Aside from being the first laptop with a Radeon RX 6000M GPU, it is also the first 16-inch Omen laptop. The HP Omen 16 laptop will come with up to an Intel Core i7-11800H processor or 8-core AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX…. Read more
read more...