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Leo Says 58 – Intel Rocket Lake and Adaptive Boost Technology

Leo Waldock 1 day ago Featured Announcement, Featured Tech News The news embargo has lifted on Intel 11th Gen Intel Rocket Lake-S so we know plenty about feeds, speeds and prices. In addition we have discussed Core i7-11700K after a few hundred CPUs mysteriously went on sale early in Germany and France. Add in the… Read more

Intel explains how Adaptive Boost Technology works on 11th Gen Core i9 CPUs

Home / Component / CPU / Intel explains how Adaptive Boost Technology works on 11th Gen Core i9 CPUs João Silva 1 day ago CPU, Featured Tech News Earlier this week, Intel officially announced its new 11th Gen Core processors, including Core i9 K and KF SKUs with a new frequency boost feature called Adaptive… Read more

AMD’s next RDNA 2 GPU will deliver ‘premium 1080p gaming’, launching in April according to leaker

Home / Component / APU / AMD’s next RDNA 2 GPU will deliver ‘premium 1080p gaming’, launching in April according to leaker João Silva 1 day ago APU, Graphics The Radeon RX 6700 XT officially launched this week, targeting PC gamers looking to play at 1440p resolution. As we know though, this isn’t the end… Read more

Intel teases Xe HPG GPU reveal coming next week

Matthew Wilson 1 day ago Featured Announcement, Graphics Ever since Intel hired Raja Koduri and announced plans to create new discrete graphics cards, we’ve been waiting to see what Intel can do in the gaming segment. So far, we’ve seen the Xe graphics architecture introduced in low-power DG1 discrete graphics cards, which are primarily sold… Read more

Samsung unveils new 4K IPS monitor with 10-bit colour and HDR

João Silva 2 days ago Featured Tech News, Monitors This week, Samsung launched its new S27A800U display. Aimed at professionals, this latest monitor packs a 27-inch IPS panel with 4K resolution and HDR10 capability. The 27-inch 4K IPS panel of the Samsung S27A800U features a 5ms G2G response time and offers wide 178º/178º viewing angles, so colours should… Read more

Nvidia CMP 30HX graphics card shows up at retail with crazy price tag

João Silva 2 days ago Featured Tech News, Graphics It looks like retailers are beginning to receive stock for Nvidia’s upcoming CMP 30HX mining graphics card, but early indications of pricing seem unrealistic. A Palit Nvidia CMP 30HX appeared at one retailer last night, with a hefty $700 price tag. The Palit CMP 30HX listing… Read more

Nvidia’s Reflex Technology Beats AMD’s Radeon Boost Counterpart: Report

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) Last year, in a bid to increase system responsiveness in competitive video games, both Nvidia and AMD released new technologies to reduce input lag for improved system performance: Nvidia’s Reflex Low Latency and AMD’s Radeon Boost. Both Nvidia and AMD say their respective technologies’ performance gains are significant, but how… Read more

MSI MEG Z590 ACE Review

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

Rocket Lake’s New Adaptive Boost Tech Dials Up Frequency, Power, and Temps

Home News In an odd disclosure that comes after Intel recently released the details of its 11th-Generation Core Rocket Lake-S processors, the company has unveiled a “new” Adaptive Bost Technology that allows the chip to operate at up to 100C during normal operation. This new tech will feel decidedly familiar to AMD fans, as it… Read more

Stress Testing Just Became a Lot Easier for AMD Graphics Cards

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) AMD’s latest Radeon driver update, Adrenalin version 21.3.1, adds several new features to team red’s graphics cards, but the biggest update is a new stress testing utility that allows you to check the stability of your overclocked AMD graphics card right from the Adrenalin software. When you install the 21.3.1… Read more

Vergecast: The Snyder Cut, Samsung Unpacked 2021, and this week in EVs

Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast The Vergecast, where we discuss the week in tech news with the reporters and editors covering our biggest stories. This week, co-hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn chat with Verge reporter Julia Alexander about the long-awaited release of the Zack Snyder version of Justice League on HBO… Read more

Astell & Kern’s AK USB-C Dual DAC cable promises to boost your portable listening

Home News (Image credit: Astell & Kern) Portable music player specialist Astell & Kern has launched a USB-C DAC cable to enhance the sound quality of an Android phone, Windows 10 PC, tablet PC or MacOS computer. As we bask in an age of high-quality streaming and increasingly high-performing headphones, the weak link in on-the-go… Read more

TSMC and Samsung Foundry Becoming Dominant Makers of Advanced Chips

Home News (Image credit: GlobalFoundries) It is well known that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and Samsung Foundry dominate the market of contract chip production. They are the only companies to offer leading-edge process technologies and have the largest capacities. Meanwhile, TSMC and Samsung Foundry are on track to become the dominant manufacturers of advanced chips as nobody,… Read more

MSI Rolls Out Less Suprim GeForce RTX 3080, RTX 3070 GPUs

Home News GeForce RTX 3080 Suprim SE 10G (Image credit: MSI) MSI’s Suprim family of graphics cards (pronounced ‘supreme’), which was introduced with Ampere, has two new members. The company (via Harukaze5719) recently and silently added the GeForce RTX 3070 Suprim SE 8G and GeForce RTX 3080 Suprim SE 10G to the mix. The 3070… Read more

Sapphire Announces the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT Nitro+ and Pulse Graphics Cards

Home News (Image credit: Sapphire) Sapphire is back with new custom graphics cards designed around the RX 6700XT graphics card that launches today. Sapphire’s new 6700XT models come in the form of the NITRO+ and the lower-end Pulse. Image 1 of 4 (Image credit: Sapphire) Image 2 of 4 (Image credit: Sapphire) Image 3 of… Read more