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Team Group Preps Overclockable DDR5 Modules

Team Group has been rather active in recent months announcing its intentions for the next-generation DDR5 memory modules. This week the company disclosed plans to build enthusiast-grade DDR5 UDIMMs with their own engineered power management ICs and voltage regulators in a bid to support extreme voltage hiking to boost overclocking potential. Team Group is apparently the first… Read more

How Nvidia’s DLSS could make the new Nintendo Switch better

You’ve probably seen the acronym “DLSS” appearing in more gaming and tech stories recently. You might know that it’s an Nvidia graphics thing, and that it might be coming to the new Nintendo Switch console that’s rumored to release later in 2021, according to a report from Bloomberg. But, really, what is it, and why… Read more

Rec Room rides uptick in users during the pandemic to become a VR unicorn

Gaming platform Rec Room is now a unicorn, valued at $1.25 billion during a recent funding round of $100 million. It appears to be one of the first, if not the first, virtual reality-focused startup to achieve unicorn status, a notable feat since Facebook’s landmark acquisition of Oculus VR for $2.4 billion in 2014 helped… Read more

New Entry-Level Rocket Lake Xeons Briefly Appear on List

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel’s new W-1300 series of Xeon processors briefly emerged in a compatibility list showing all CPUs supported in Intel’s latest LGA1200 socket. However, a few hours later they were taken down. This could mean that these new Xeon processors will support the same socket as Intel’s consumer-grade Rocket Lake products…. Read more

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 780G chipset promises more flagship features for less

Qualcomm has announced its latest 7-series processor, the Snapdragon 780G, which trickles down features from the company’s flagship Snapdragon 888 chipset, while still offering manufacturers (and, by extension, consumers) a more affordable phone. The 780G takes the new top slot in the 7-series lineup, replacing the 765G / 768G (the latter being largely a frequency-boosted… Read more

Oculus Quest 2 vs Oculus Quest: What’s the difference between these VR headsets?

(Pocket-lint) – The Oculus Quest 2 is an updated version of Oculus’ wireless virtual reality headset, but what makes it different to the original? Buy the Oculus Quest 2 Well, there are a number of both aesthetic and technical changes that make the Quest 2 worth considering. It might well be a brilliant purchase for… Read more

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Allegedly Delayed Until mid-May

Home News GeForce RTX 3090 (Image credit: Nvidia) It would seem that Nvidia might have encountered a setback leading up to the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti’s release. According to a message posted on the Board Channels forums, the chipmaker has purportedly pushed the launch date to mid-May. The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti was previously rumored… Read more

New Entry-Level Rocket Lake Xeons Have Been Leaked by ASRock

Home News (Image credit: Intel) ASRock has just spilled the beans on Intel’s new W-1300 series of Xeon processors in a compatibility list showing all CPUs supported in Intel’s latest LGA1200 socket. This means that these new Xeon processors will support the same socket as Intel’s consumer-grade Rocket Lake products. Because these chips are compatible… Read more

Asus: Nvidia GPU Supplies Dropped Further In Q1

Home News (Image credit: Asus) Executives from Asus said at the company’s recent investor conference that supply of Nvidia’s graphics processors dropped in the first quarter. As a consequence, one of the world’s largest suppliers of PC hardware expects shortages of graphics cards to persist. Asus believes that under supply might have been caused, among… Read more

OLED Nintendo Switch to use new Nvidia chip with enhanced 4K upscaling

Home News (Image credit: Nintendo) We have some more news on the much-rumoured Nintendo Switch Pro. According to Bloomberg, the console will use a new Nvidia chip that allows for 4K upscaling. The chip allows for something called DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling), which is a cutting-edge way of upscaling graphics. This will allow the… Read more

Gigabyte Flagship Aorus RX 6700XT Elite Takes Flight

Home News (Image credit: Gigabyte) The Aorus RX 6700XT Elite is Gigabyte’s new flagship model for the newly released RX 6700XT GPU from AMD. The Elite is equipped with a triple-fan cooling system, ring RGB lighting behind the fans, and is the largest 6700XT you can buy from Gigabyte at this time. Perrhaps this card… Read more

Audi Q7 TFSI e (PHEV) review: The plug-in SUV to beat all others?

(Pocket-lint) – It was back in 2015 when we drove then then-brand-new-generation Audi Q7. How things have changed since. The world is accelerating towards a more electric-based automotive future – indeed, Audi has since launched the all-electric e-tron – and, in a step-change for the series, the Q7 is also following suit. Say hello to… Read more

Intel’s Tiger Lake-H Family Leaks: Five 8-Core and 6-Core Models

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Two Twitter leakers — @9550pro and @OneRaichu — have published a slide that purportedly covers the specifications for Intel’s upcoming Tiger Lake-H family of processors for notebooks (which was then re-published by VideoCardz). The lineup seems to be rather small as it contains three eight-core models and two six-core SKUs, and the frequency range of… Read more

V-Moda M-200 ANC review: $500 headphones can’t be this unpolished

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Apple’s AirPods Max just might have ushered in a new norm of $500-plus wireless headphones. My argument in support of this? V-Moda’s new M-200 ANC headphones, which sell for $499.99 and, as the name makes obvious, are… Read more

AMD Radeon Software update adds Performance Tuning tool and improves Radeon Boost and Anti-Lag

Home / Component / Graphics / AMD Radeon Software update adds Performance Tuning tool and improves Radeon Boost and Anti-Lag João Silva 12 hours ago Graphics Besides a multitude of fixes, AMD’s latest Radeon Software 21.3.1 driver also comes with some new improvements for Radeon Boost and Radeon Anti-Lag, as well as a new stress… Read more