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AOC 31.5-inch 155 Hz Curved QHD Gaming Monitor Spotted in Early Listing

Home News (Image credit: AOC) AOC is coming out with a new gaming monitor: the AG323QCX2 — or rather, a 31.5-inch VA-based gaming panel, as listed on AOC’s Chinese website. The display is naturally quite large at 31.5 inches, but with a QHD resolution it should be quite manageable to run. Because it’s a VA… Read more

Tianshu Zhixin has developed the first Chinese GPGPU computing circuit

At this stage, the theoretical FP 16 performance is known from the performance of a computing circuit called Big Island, which falls between the computational circuits of AMD and NVIDIA. Over the years, China’s efforts to become self-sufficient in technology have certainly become familiar to everyone who follows the industry. Now China’s Tianshu Zhixin Semiconductor… Read more

Thermaltake Toughair 110, 310 and 510: New air cooler trio

With Toughair 110, 310 and 510 Thermaltake is bringing three new air coolers onto the market. The trio is supposed to cover different application scenarios: The Toughair 110 is a top-blow cooler with a reduced height. Toughair 310 and Toughair 510, on the other hand, are single towers with either one or two fans. With… Read more

China Debuts First 7nm Data Center GPU To Rival Nvidia, AMD

Home News Big Island (BI) GPGPU (Image credit: Tianshu Zhixin) Shanghai Tianshu Zhixin Semiconductor Co., Ltd., commonly known as Tianshu Zhixin, announced that its Big Island (BI) GPGPU has come to life. The BI is touted as China’s first domestic GPGPU that’s tailored towards AI and HPC applications and other industries, such as education, medicine,… Read more

We’re getting closer to a Nintendo Switch-sized gaming PC

One year ago at CES 2020 in Las Vegas, Alienware made waves with a modular gaming PC that worked like a Nintendo Switch, with a pair of gamepads flanking a powerful Windows 10 tablet. Sadly, Alienware’s UFO was just a concept, as was Lenovo’s take on the idea this year — but two companies are… Read more

Intel and NVIDIA agreed not to mount high-end GPUs in laptops with an AMD processor

by Jordi Bercial Ago 35 minutes ago … As we can read in the Polish portal PurePC, it seems that suspicions about a secret pact in which the laptop manufacturers would only mount NVIDIA mid-range and low-end GPUs in laptops with AMD processor are true , and, although there had been speculation and rumors previously,… Read more

What Is a G-Sync Monitor? Nvidia G-Sync Explained

Home References You’ve come to the right place if you’re wondering what is G-Sync. In short, Nvidia G-Sync is a type of display technology used in certain PC monitors, laptops and TVs to fight screen tearing, stuttering and juddering, especially during fast-paced games or video. G-Sync only works when the display is connected to a… Read more

How to Run G-Sync on a FreeSync Monitor

Home How-to (Image credit: Shutterstock) Gamers everywhere have undoubtedly read the news by now. In January of 2019, Nvidia started announcing a number of AMD FreeSync monitors that the company has officially certified as being able to run its rival adaptive sync technology, G-Sync, as well as releasing a software-based version of G-Sync. Since then,… Read more

Competition for Intel and AMD? Samsung is to develop Exynos SoCs for PCs

The large CPU manufacturers Intel and AMD are currently dividing the desktop market between themselves. This could soon come to an end, however, as Samsung apparently has an SoC in the works as an additional player for use in Windows devices. At least that’s what the leaker @TheGalox_ claims in a tweet, according to which… Read more

AMD and NVIDIA report bad news about graphics card availability

Also in mid-January 2021 the shelves of the electrical retailers are partly empty and anyone who wants to buy a new generation graphics card is looking into the tube. Now there is the next bad news for all Team Red supporters who are eagerly waiting for more supplies. According to AMD boss Lisa Su, the… Read more

Shuttle Launches an Ultra Small Ryzen-Based SFF Unit

Home News (Image credit: Shuttle Computer Handels GmbH) SFF builder Shuttle has a new Ryzen-based SFF barebones PC ready for the European market; the XPC slim DA320. Measuring in at just 1.3 liters the DA320 is one of the smallest SFF units you can buy which supports Ryzen based processors. Luckily the unit features a… Read more

CES: AMD unveils Zen 3 for laptops and hints at new Epyc CPUs

Idriz Velghe 12 January 2021 19: 24 13 Comments Zen 3 for laptops AMD has new laptop processors featuring Zen 3 architecture were unveiled at the CES trade show. In addition to the U models for thin notebooks, the company has also unveiled the new HX sku for gaming laptops. The new video cards for… Read more

New laptop CPUs from Intel and AMD pop up in Geekbench: an overview

Idriz Velghe 23 December 2020 16: 53 29 Comments Introduction Dataminer Tum_Apisak has a series of Geekbench results posted to Twitter. It concerns different laptop processors from both Intel and AMD. Thanks to these new benchmarks, it is possible to compare the next generations of the major processor manufacturers. Two new Intel Tiger Lake SKUs… Read more

Ryzen 5000 BIOS support overview December 2020

Idriz Velghe 12 December 2020 15: 53 28 Comments Introduction Yesterday we reported about the compatibility of AM4 motherboards with the Ryzen 5000 processors. The German ComputerBase has drawn up a list of motherboards from the main AMD partners, consisting of Asus, ASRock, Biostar, Gigabyte, and MSI. According to AMD, motherboards went out of the… Read more

Last week in news: (major) developments around CPUs and GPUs

Björn Meijer December 6 2020 18: 47 3 Comments Processors The past week was relatively busy and therefore somewhat confusing for many. A small overview with the most important news is therefore desirable, and for the past week it appears that processors, video cards and major developments have been central. Last week, CPUs were probably… Read more