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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

HPE Briefly Lists 40-Core Ice Lake CPUs: Intel’s Next-Gen HEDT Chips Incoming?

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Hewlett Packard Enterprise briefly listed Intel’s 3rd Generation Xeon Scalable ‘Ice Lake-SP’ processors and inevitably revealed their specifications. As spotted by @9550pro, it turns out higher-end extreme core count (XCC) versions of these products will carry up to 40 cores, significantly more than expected a few months ago. For servers, such… Read more

Asus Reveals the ROG Maximus XIII Apex for Rocket Lake CPUs

Home News ROG Maximus XIII Apex (Image credit: Asus) Asus has listed the ROG Maximus XIII Apex on its website, implying that the successor to the ROG Maximus XII Apex may be closer than we think. The new iteration to the Apex series has been engineered to tame Intel’s 11th Generation Rocket Lake processors. Built… Read more

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT review: Nvidia wins this round

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Unless AMD actually sells them for $479, of course AMD and Nvidia are pretending they live in a fantasy world, one where you can buy a state-of-the-art graphics card for under $700. Heck, a fantasy world where you can buy a new AMD GPU at all — though… Read more

Intel’s 11th Gen desktop chips are here with faster speeds but fewer cores

Intel’s next-generation desktop chips are finally here: after a brief preview at CES, the company is fully unveiling its 11th Gen Core desktop chips (better known by their codename, Rocket Lake-S.) Leading the pack is Intel’s new flagship chip, the Core i9-11900K, with eight cores, 16 threads, boosted clock speeds up to 5.3GHz, support for… Read more

Asus ROG Strix G15 2021 review: A gaming laptop masterclass

(Pocket-lint) – For 2021 it seems like Asus is going after competitive gamers with the 2021 versions of the ROG Strix G15 and G17. The G15 is now not only more compact than the previous model, but also boasts Nvidia’s RTX 3000 series graphics cards. Something that’s notoriously hard to get hold of in the desktop… Read more

MSI MPG Artymis 343CQR Review: Extreme 1000R Curve for Maximum Realism

Our Verdict Tightly curved monitors like the MSI MPG Artymis 343CQR can really enhance gameplay, especially in first-person environments. With class-leading contrast, accurate out-of-box color and superb HDR, the 343CQR should be on everyone’s curved screen short list. For High contrast Accurate out-of-box color Solid gaming performance 1000R curve Against Slightly light gamma Blur reduction… Read more

GPU Pricing Index: Tracking eBay Sadness

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Our GPU pricing index tracks all the best graphics cards and pretty much everything else in our GPU benchmarks hierarchy. Yes, they’re still sold out at retail, which means the fastest way to buy one is to pay extreme pricing on eBay. Sadly, after a drop in Ethereum mining… Read more

Facebook’s next big AI project is training its machines on users’ public videos

Teaching AI systems to understand what’s happening in videos as completely as a human can is one of the hardest challenges — and biggest potential breakthroughs — in the world of machine learning. Today, Facebook announced a new initiative that it hopes will give it an edge in this consequential work: training its AI on… Read more

Oppo Find X3 Pro review: Standout for all the right reasons

(Pocket-lint) – Oppo is on the move, gaining popularity in its home market where it’s even overtaken Huawei. But it’s not just gaining at home: it’s now undoubtedly a top contender in the world of smartphones, make it the most likely challenger to Apple and Samsung’s dominance. Oppo’s latest effort, the Find X3 Pro, is… Read more

Gigabyte’s Z590 Aorus Waterforce Motherboard Overflows With Features

Home News (Image credit: Gigabyte) Gigabyte’s AORUS Z590 Extreme Waterforce is one of the craziest motherboards that you’ll be able to buy soon for Intel’s Comet Lake and Rocket Lake SKUs, and could very well at some point find its way onto our best motherboards list. The board is designed for custom liquid cooling from… Read more

Yakuza’s lead writer on how Like a Dragon reinvents the series

A long, spoiler-filled chat Yakuza: Like a Dragon is a bold shift for Sega’s long-running series, doing away with beloved protagonist Kazuma Kiryu and shifting to turn-based RPG-style combat. In Kiryu’s place is the wild-haired Ichiban Kasuga, who finds himself homeless in Yokohama after doing 18 years’ hard time for a murder he didn’t commit…. Read more

Best NVMe SSDs: Our choice of the fastest and best storage drives you can buy

(Pocket-lint) – NVMe drives are becoming more and more common. With the rise in popularity of PCIe gen 4, they’re also getting faster and faster. We’ve written a detailed guide on how to install these tiny drives to give your system a performance boost, but if you’re contemplating which drive to buy you might be… Read more

This RTX 3060 Uses a Massive 3080 Cooler, With Impressive Results

Home News (Image credit: YouTube) MSI’s new RTX 3060 Gaming X Trio is one of the coolest, yet strangest, Nvidia graphics cards we’ve ever seen. As discussed by YouTube channel BPS Customs, the card comes equipped with an RTX 3080 cooler. That allows this RTX 3060 to reach the lowest temperatures we’ve seen out of… Read more

Biostar Injects Some Juice Into AMD’s Radeon RX 6700 XT

Home News Biostar Radeon RX 6700 XT (Image credit: Biostar) Evidently, not all reference Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics cards will arrive with the same clock speeds — Biostar (via VideoCardz) has listed a reference design that flaunts a small factory overclock. Biostar refers to the graphics card as “VA67T6TEL9 Ver. RX6700XT M,” although it’s… Read more