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At this point, Facebook has made it clear that the Oculus Go and Oculus Rift headsets are on borrowed time, with plans to focus on the Oculus Quest going forward. Unfortunately, that also means backwards compatibility with older apps is also going to become an issue.  The original Oculus Quest …

Details about the AMD Navi 21 GPUs have leaked, detailing some specifications of the Navi 21 XT and XL GPUs. These details include base, game, and boost clocks of both GPUs, plus the TGP and memory capacity of the Navi 21 XT. The first leak comes from @patrcikschurr, which stated that …

Asus has revealed its first laptop featuring an Intel Tiger Lake CPU and the “first Intel Discrete Graphics”. On the VivoBook 14 Flip product page, Asus hasn't named the Intel discrete graphics card specifically, but the webpage description referred to it as “Iris Xe Max”. As found by @momomo_us, the …

New benchmark entries of the upcoming Ryzen 5000 processors were spotted on the SiSoftware database. The results were put in comparison with previous generations SKUs, showing significant improvements in both arithmetic and multi-media benchmarks.

Two entries of the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X have been spotted on the Geekbench database. One of these entries shows the AMD processor was running on in an iMac Pro and it was clocked at 6.0GHz, which is quite the impressive figure.  The two entries spotted on Geekbench (1, 2) …

With the Ryzen 5000 series from AMD now officially on the way, motherboard makers are planning their BIOS updates for older motherboards. In the case of MSI, we have some good news, as the company has announced that all of its 400-series motherboards will support AMD's latest processors.

Following the launch of the Freezer 50 TR, Arctic has now launched the dual-tower Freezer 50, compatible with both Intel and AMD platforms.

A picture of an alleged Alder Lake-S processor has surfaced. This image shows the back of the processor compared to the back of the currently available Comet Lake-S processors, giving us an estimate of its size and a look at some of the physical differences between both architectures. Intel Alder …

An AMD slide belonging to the “When Gaming Begins” presentation has leaked, detailing the memory overclocking in Ryzen 5000 desktop processors. As per this slide, “DDR4-4000 is to Ryzen 5000 series as DDR4-3800 was to AMD Ryzen 3000 series”. The slide shared by TechnoPat, details what Infinity Fabric clock (fclk), …

AMD has expanded the ecosystem of EPYC based cloud and virtualised solutions with the addition of the Lenovo ThinkAgile HX, powered by EPYC processors and Nutanix's Hybrid cloud infrastructure solution.  With more companies starting to move to HCI solutions to “modernise and transform their enterprise data centre”, performance, ease of management …

Alpenföhn has designed a new AIO liquid cooler in collaboration with famous overclocker and enthusiast Robert “der8auer” Hartung. Optimised to “offer high-performance cooling yet run almost in silence”, the new Gletcherwasser liquid coolers come with ARGB lighting and interchangeable logo plates for you to customise. The pump features ARGB and a …

The Oculus Quest 2 has officially released and alongside the new headset, new terms and conditions require users to link their Oculus and Facebook accounts moving forward. Unfortunately, this process is already proving to be a complete mess, with people finding their Oculus and Facebook accounts banned after trying to …

In AMD's recent Ryzen 5000 series announcement, the company only mentioned SKUs with the “X” suffix, leaving the popular “x600” model out of the lineup. However, it seems that AMD will actually launch a Ryzen 5 5600, but you will have to wait a bit longer for it.  As per …

A new report suggests that Nvidia might move the production of Ampere GPUs from Samsung's 8nm to TSMC's 7nm process node. The same report claims that there should be a large volume moving to TSMC's 7nm, but it won't be the whole Ampere GPU consumer lineup.

With the upcoming generation of consoles, both Sony and Microsoft have put an emphasis on speed. This is doubly the case for Sony, whose custom SSD is so central to the PlayStation 5, that a number of the console’s first-party game mechanics will revolve entirely around it. Though Sony has …

This past weekend, Razer announced multiple new products during RazerCon 2020. Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan took the stage to introduce what Razer has been working to over 1M concurrent viewers, totalling over 250000 hours viewed and generating 175M impressions over social networks. Some new product include cases, a gaming chair, …

AMD is claiming enormous IPC increases of 19 percent with its Ryzen 5000 CPUs, and a win over Intel when it comes to 1080p gaming. Zen 3 looks very, very good but you can rely on Leo to find something that causes mild annoyance...

Back in September, Ubisoft announced the PC system requirements for Watch Dogs: Legion on PC. Now that a new generation of RTX graphics cards have hit the market, those system requirements have been expanded to include hardware for ray-tracing effects.  As a reminder, here are the base specs for those …

Oculus's most controversial change to date is officially taking place this week. For the first time, a Facebook account will be required for first-timers to Oculus VR headsets.  Since launch, Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest, GearVR and Oculus Go owners have been able to log in using their own separate Oculus …

At the KitGuru modding workshop today, we delve into the ins and outs of DIY electroplating and show you how you can jazz up your components for very little cost, using many of the things you may already have around the house...

Intel seems to have launched a new entry-level processor, bringing the fight to AMD's Ryzen 3 3000 series. The new Intel Core i3-10100F is exactly the same as the Core i3-10100 but without an integrated graphics card, as the “F” suffix suggests. As reported by Tom's Hardware, Intel's Core i3-10100F …

During the Ryzen 5000 series announcement, AMD promised that "over 100 AMD 500 series motherboards from all major motherboard manufacturers" will be ready for the Ryzen 5000 processors. As it seems, they were not lying as most motherboard manufacturers already have at least an AGESA Combo-AM4 v2 1.0.8.x firmware update ready to be downloaded.

The Raijintek Paen Series of cases is getting a new addition this week. The Paean Premium is the company's latest ATX case aimed at the DIY PC enthusiasts that want to house extensive water cooling or air cooling solutions and pair it with the most powerful components currently on the market, …

Streacom, known for its SFF PC cases, has released its DA2 Version 2 chassis in the UK. The “next iteration of Streamcom's popular Small Form Factor (SFF) case” offers numerous improvements over its predecessor, including a redesign of its intake vents, which results in increased airflow for the system components. …

Gigabyte has officially unveiled its Aorus GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards. Featuring MAX-Covered Cooling technology and powered by Nvidia Ampere architecture, the new Gigabyte Aorus RTX 30 series consists of four graphics cards.  The Aorus GeForce RTX 30 series consists of 4 graphics cards: the Aorus GeForce RTX 3090 Xtreme 24G, the Aorus …

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During today's Zen 3 and Ryzen 5000 presentation, AMD also briefly touched on the GPU side of things. While we'll have to wait until later this month for the full Radeon RX 6000 series GPU reveal, AMD did give us an early look at 4K performance on three modern games.  …

The big day has arrived- today during a digital presentation, AMD launched the Zen 3 architecture and unveiled its new range of Ryzen 5000 series desktop processors.

Corsair is expanding its SSD line-up this week with the brand new MP400 Gen3 PCIe x4 NVMe M.2 SSD. This time around, Corsair is utilising 3D QLC NAND technology, enabling high capacities and fast speeds. The Corsair MP400 will be available in 1TB, 2TB and 4TB capacities to start off …

The Western Digital Black series of storage devices has long been a favourite amongst enthusiasts and gaming PC builders. This week, the WD Black portfolio is getting some big upgrades, including three new NVMe SSDs, pushing PCIe 4.0 speeds to their limits.  First up is the WD Black SN850 NVMe …