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Arctic Alpine 23: Small and affordable AMD cooler

Arctic has introduced the Alpine 23, a successor to its Alpine AM4. The new model was also developed as a pure AMD cooler for Socket AM4. The Alpine 23 is particularly compact and inexpensive. According to Arctic, the mounting system in particular has been revised. The Alpine 23 can simply be plugged onto the existing… Read more

NDI Tools: NVIDIA GPUs stream into the network

In cooperation with the Vizrt Group, NVIDIA presents a new feature of its own GeForce graphics cards, which focuses on streaming content, especially game streaming. Using the “NDI Screen Capture HX” software from the Vizrt Group and the NVEC encoder of the Turing and Ampere GPUs, the cards can stream their video signal over the… Read more

Samsung expands Odyssey series with G5 and G3 models

Samsung is expanding its Odyssey gaming monitor series with the G5 and G3 models, which only started this year with the Odyssey G9 and G7. The G5 with 27 inches is already available on the market in a curved design, the larger versions with 32 inches and 34 inches as well as the G3 with… Read more

Corsair introduces Hydro X Series XG7 water block for GeForce RTX 30 cards

Corsair has the Hydro-X-Series water blocks for the GeForce RTX graphics cards – 30 – series presented. The Hydro X Series XG7 RGB GPU water block is compatible with the Founders Editions of the GeForce RTX 3080 and 3090 as well as the model variants ASUS ROG Strix and MSI Ventus as well as numerous… Read more

iOS updates: Corona tracing now from iPhone 5S

Since Apple’s older smartphone generations are still extremely popular and widespread today, the Californian company decided to publish an update for older iOS versions too. This makes it possible for users who have an iPhone that only has the iOS version 12, you will be able to install the Corona-Warn-App on your device in the… Read more

Steam cracks (almost) the 25 million user mark

The year was not only for private individuals, but also for companies 2020 undoubtedly a rather difficult one. The global consequences of the pandemic and the nationwide lockdowns hit small and medium-sized businesses particularly hard, but caused an unexpected economic upturn in some areas of the economy. Above all, the consequences of the global economic… Read more

Graphics card prices 2021: return to the MSRP market unlikely

Hardly any other topic currently occupies the DIY PC hobbyist as much as the availability of graphics cards. No matter whether NVIDIA’s new GeForce RTX – 30 – or AMD’s Radeon-RX – 6000 – series: Not only are The cards are difficult to get because there are too few quantities, and the prices are far… Read more

KIOXIA expands Kitakami plant to increase production capacity

KIOXIA (formerly Toshiba Memory) announced the expansion of its Kitakami plant in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. The reason given by the manufacturer is the intention to further increase the production of its 3D flash memory BiCS FLASH. Said extension is to be built on a site adjacent to the existing plant. There are a total of… Read more

With the SHARK Force II, Sharkoon presents a 10 euro gaming mouse

The manufacturer Sharkoon has now presented the SHARK Force II gaming mouse to the public. According to the company, this is a more powerful upgrade from its predecessor. Inside the mouse, an optical PixArt PAW 3519 sensor does its job. This has six preset modes with up to 4. 200 DPI (400, 800, 1. 600,… Read more

Microsoft is expanding its Game Pass offering with Skyrim and Among Us

Microsoft is known to update its Game Pass offer every two months. For the second half of December, the company is taking advantage of the recent purchase of ZeniMax Media and is expanding its service, along with many other popular titles, to include the special edition of Skyrim. Subscribers can start next week of December… Read more

Cyberpunk 2077: The best optics are only available on the PC

Anyone cyberpunk 2077 with all If you want to play details and a high resolution, you need an appropriate system that has enough power. Gamers who own a powerful gaming PC will certainly have fewer problems with this. However, CD Projekt Red has now announced that the display on the console is currently not comparable… Read more

ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 3080 AMP Holo in the test: Quieter, but not much faster

Page 1: ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 3080 AMP Holo in the test: Quieter, but not much faster After we launched the ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 3080 Trinity were able to test the so far cheapest custom offshoot of the NVIDIA exclusive partner, which already has a powerful cooling system and stylish RGB lighting attracted attention… Read more

Reader test with SilverStone: Test the CS330!

In cooperation with SilverStone, we are looking for two testers for a new micro-ATX case from the manufacturer as part of a reader test, which is particularly noticeable with its three hot-swapping slots and thus particularly appeals to those who handle a lot with storage media and hard drives. After an extensive test report for… Read more

BioWare is working on a next Mass Effect

The Mass Effect series from BioWare is one of the most popular action role-playing games with a science fiction scenario. This is especially true for the so-called Reaper trilogy with Commander Shepard. BioWare is now revealing via YouTube that there will be another series part. After the original Reaper trilogy, BioWare had dared a fresh… Read more

Cyberpunk 2077 does not use SMT for AMD processors

Apparently the REDengine-4 engine from Cyberpunk uses 2077 does not have the ability to process two threads per core, as the current Ryzen processors from AMD offer. Analogous to Hyperthreading at Intel, SMT (Simultaneous Multithreading) is a possibility to use the resources of a CPU core more effectively. We looked at Cyberpunk in the technology… Read more