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Dell’s new gaming monitors support variable refresh rate for consoles, not just PC

Dell has announced four gaming monitors, three of which are curved, that are releasing in the US between late May and late June. It unfortunately isn’t sharing prices for them yet, but the company says that all of them support AMD FreeSync Premium or Premium Pro, as well as variable refresh rate (VRR). VRR should… Read more

Alienware’s M15 R5 is its first AMD-based gaming laptop in over a decade

Alienware has announced the latest revision to its flagship gaming laptop lineup, the 15-inch Alienware M15 R5. It’ll start shipping on April 20th in the US, costing $2,229.99 to start. The company is going big with its messaging that it’ll host AMD’s fast Ryzen 5000 H-series processors (up to the octa-core Ryzen 9 5900HX) and… Read more

Microsoft support pages for Surface Laptop 4 suggest imminent launch

A pair of Microsoft support pages have appeared for the unannounced Surface Laptop 4, suggesting a launch may be imminent. One is a placeholder for an AMD version of the laptop, while the other is for an Intel model. Both were spotted by WalkingCat, an often reliable source of gadget leaks, who speculates that we… Read more

Intel Ice Lake Xeon Platinum 8380 Review: 10nm Debuts for the Data Center

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel’s long-delayed 10nm+ third-gen Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors mark an important step forward for the company as it attempts to fend off intense competition from AMD’s 7nm EPYC Milan processors that top out at 64 cores, a key advantage over Intel’s existing 14nm Cascade Lake Refresh that tops out… Read more

ASRock Radeon RX 6700 XT Phantom Gaming D Review – The Fastest RX 6700 XT

Introduction We have with us the ASRock Radeon RX 6700 XT Phantom Gaming D 12 GB OC graphics card. The latest entrant to the custom-design graphics card space debuting with the RX 5000 series, ASRock has established itself as a serious design-house for premium custom Radeon RX graphics cards. The Phantom Gaming D is the… Read more

Lenovo Using PSB on Threadripper and EPYC Systems To Reduce CPU Tampering

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) ServeTheHome has just confirmed that Lenovo is fully utilizing AMD’s Platform Secure Boot (or PSB) in its server and workstation pre-built machines. This feature locks AMD’s Ryzen Pro, Threadripper Pro, and EPYC processors out from being used in other systems in an effort to reduce CPU theft. More specifically, this… Read more

AMD X570S Motherboard Listings Suggest Impending Chipset Refresh

Home News X570 Aorus Elite (Image credit: Gigabyte) Today, Gigabyte (via Komachi_Ensaka) registered a ton of X570S motherboards with the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC). The new submissions hint to a potential chipset refresh on AMD’s part. EEC listings are a bit hit or miss. Vendors often register their products with the organization, but not all… Read more

Display Driver Chip Shortage Leads to Delays for Pretty Much Everything

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Bloomberg today reported that a shortage of inexpensive display driver chips has delayed production of the LCD panels used in, well, pretty much every product category you can think of. Displays are ubiquitous, and many devices can’t function without them. But for the displays to work, they require a display… Read more

Resident Evil Village System Requirements: Ray Traced Vampires and Werewolves

Home News (Image credit: Capcom) Capcom has revealed the Resident Evil Village system requirements for the PC version on Steam. The sequel follows the saga of Ethan Winters, this time with some apparently very large vampire ladies. Based on what we’ve seen, you’ll benefit from having one of the best graphics cards along with something… Read more

Ryzen 9 5900HX Unites With Radeon RX 6800M In The Ultimate AMD Laptop

Home News ROG Strix G15 (Image credit: Asus) Asus is apparently preparing what could be the ultimate AMD gaming laptop. According to a CPU-Z posting, the new iteration of the ROG Strix G15 will arrive with a lethal combination of AMD’s Ryzen 9 5900HX (Cezanne) processor and Radeon RX 6800M graphics cards. The unreleased laptop… Read more

Engineers Sneakily Upgrade Apple M1 Mac Mini With More Storage, RAM

Home News (Image credit: DuanRui) Apple’s computers have been notorious for their lack of upgradeability, particularly since the introduction of Apple’s M1 chip that integrates memory directly into the package. But as spotted via Twitter, if you want to boost the power of your Mac, it may be possible with money, skill, time and some… Read more

Graphics Card Power Consumption and Efficiency Tested

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) How much power do the best graphics cards use? It’s an important question, and while the performance we show in our GPU benchmarks hierarchy is useful, one of the true measures of a GPU is how efficient it is. To determine GPU power efficiency, we need to know both performance… Read more

Core Temp CPU Monitor Adds Support for Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake, Meteor Lake

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Popular CPU temperature monitoring utility Core Temp recently got patched to version 1.17 with a few new updates, including support for not only Intel and AMD’s latest and best CPUs, but some chips yet to be released as well. Core Temp version 1.17 adds full support for Rocket-Lake-S, which includes… Read more

Panasonic 2021 TV lineup: everything you need to know

Home Advice (Image credit: Panasonic) Having announced its new flagship OLED, the JZ2000, at CES back in January, Panasonic has now released the details of the rest of its 2021 TV line-up. It comprises four OLED models and three LCD TVs and includes the brand’s first-ever 48-inch OLEDs – in fact, there are three of… Read more

AMD’s Zen 3 CPUs Are Susceptible To Spectre-Like Vulnerability

AMD has published a whitepaper on a potential security vulnerability that affects the company’s latest Zen 3 processors. The side-channel exploit is similar to Spectre that affected a plethora of Intel processors three years ago. With Zen 3, AMD introduced a new technology called Predictive Store Forwarding (PSF), which helps improve code execution performance by… Read more