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AMD is announcing a new Radeon RX 6000 GPU in March

AMD has announced a new hardware event for next month, where the company plans to unveil the next GPU in its Radeon RX 6000 line of cards. The presentation will air on March 3rd at 8AM PT / 11AM ET. Like other GPUs in the RX 6000 series, this new model will use the RDNA… Read more

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Intel: Rocket Lake’s PCIe 4.0 Storage Performance is 11% Faster Than AMD Ryzen

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel’s Rocket Lake is on the launchpad for release this quarter, and in traditional fashion, the company began teasing hard gaming performance numbers during CES 2021. Now, Ryan Shrout, Intel’s Chief Performance Strategist, has teased a new benchmark result via Twitter that shows the flagship Rocket Lake Core i9-11900K beating… Read more

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Intel’s Core i9-11900K Gets the Geekbench 4 Treatment, Here’s Why That Matters

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Courtesy of database detective @Leakbench on Twitter, we now have our first decent look at how Intel’s next-gen Core i9-11900K Rocket Lake CPU will perform in our CPU Benchmark hierarchy. This test is the first clear result from Geekbench 4 for the 11900K, which is nice to see as it… Read more

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Lenovo’s refreshed ThinkPads feature Ryzen 5000 mobile chips and 16:10 displays

Lenovo has announced a number of updates to its ThinkPad line. We’re getting upgrades to the lightweight ThinkPad X13 and convertible X13 Yoga, as well as the high-end T-Series, the budget-oriented L-Series, and the P-Series of mobile workstations. The biggest news is that all of these models have gotten spec bumps. Each series includes models… Read more

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Lenovo Brings Ryzen 5000, 11th Gen Intel Options to ThinkPad Line

Home News (Image credit: Lenovo) After updating the ThinkPad X1 line at CES, Lenovo is now opening the floodgates and releasing refreshed versions of its more mainstream ThinkPad T, X and L series, as well as some updates to the P-series workstations.  The new T-series, among the most popular ThinkPads around, are getting a slew… Read more

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Gigabyte Launches EPYC Server With 4 Nvidia A100

Home News (Image credit: Gigabyte) Gigabyte has announced its new server for AI, high-performance computing (HPC), and data analytics. The G262-ZR0 machine is one of the industry’s first servers with four Nvidia A100 compute GPUs. The 2U system will be cheaper when compared to Gigabyte’s and Nvidia’s servers with eight A100 processors, but will still provide formidable… Read more

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AMD Investigating USB Connectivity Issues with Ryzen PCs

Home News (Image credit: Fritzhez Frenz) A slew of complaints has been posted to Reddit and user forums regarding USB connectivity bugs with Ryzen systems. AMD has announced via a forum post that it is investigating the matter, but for now, the breadth of the issue remains unknown and AMD says it impacts a “small… Read more

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Thor-Themed Chinese Memory Vendor Launches DDR5-4800 128GB RAM

Home News Asgard DDR5-4800 64GB (Image credit: IThome) News outlet IThome has reported that Chinese manufacturer Asgard, which is owned by Shenzhen Jiahe Jinwei Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., has launched the company’s first DDR5 memory module. Asgard’s memory module, which carries the VMA5AUK-MMH224W3 part number, arrives with a capacity of 64GB. However, Asgard has confirmed… Read more

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New GPU-Z Version Adds Support for Radeon RX 6600 and RX 6700 GPUs

Home News (Image credit: AMD) Another hint for AMD’s unannounced mid-ranged RDNA 2 cards has been spotted online: This time, preliminary support for AMD’s future Radeon RX 6700 and RX 6600 GPUs has appeared in a new version of GPU-Z, a popular GPU monitoring tool developed by TechPowerUp. We’ve heard rumors that an RX 6700… Read more

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Best Budget 4K Monitors 2021

Home Best-picks (Image credit: Shutterstock) When it comes to sharp image quality, 4K resolution is where it’s at in 2021. Sure, there are 8K screens and even more modest 6K ones. And lower resolutions deliver higher frame rates on even the best graphics cards. . But if we’re being realistic about what our eyes need… Read more

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Philips Momentum 558M1RY 55-inch Monitor Review: Jumbo 4K Gaming With Audio to Match

Our Verdict The Philips 558M1RY represents a price breakthrough in the jumbo gaming monitor category. Though it leaves out HDMI 2.1, it brings everything else to the gaming table with 120 Hz, adaptive sync and accurate DCI-P3 and sRGB color. Add in killer HDR and you have a winner for a relatively low price. For… Read more

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Gigabyte W480 Vision D Review

Introduction Last year, AMD released the Ryzen 5000 series desktop processors in one of the most monumental hardware launches of the modern era. This final step completed the Red brand’s ascent back into the forefront of the desktop processor market that began with the launch of the first generation of Ryzen CPUs. Now, while Intel… Read more

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Intel’s Rocket Lake Core i5-11600K Spotted

Home News (Image credit: Intel) With Rocket Lake’s release date approaching, testers are getting their hands on more and more SKUs from Intel’s future Rocket Lake lineup; this time, we have benchmark results of Intel’s future Core i5-11600K (thanks to @Leakbench). The 11600K was found running the Geekbench 5 benchmark with mediocre performance at best,… Read more

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Seven-Screen Aurora A7 Laptop Costs Up to $20,000

Home News (Image credit: Expanscape) We recently reported about Expanscape, a startup developing battlestation laptops featuring up to seven displays and offering their prototypes to interested parties at undisclosed prices. Today we can share some more information about pricing, which tops out at an eye-popping $20,692 (after conversion) for the seven-screen model’s base configuration.  Expanscape’s Aurora laptops… Read more

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Nvidia says it won’t nerf the Ethereum mining performance of existing GPUs

This morning, Nvidia announced that it would artificially reduce the performance of its upcoming $329 GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card when it comes to one specific task: Ethereum cryptocurrency mining. As weird as that news might sound, it was music to the ears of some gamers — who have been trying and failing to get… Read more

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