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Asus has introduced its Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards. For now, Asus has announced four models: the ROG Strix LC Radeon RX 6800 XT, the ROG Strix Radeon RX 6800, the TUF Gaming RX 6800 XT, and the TUF Gaming RX 6800. With the release of the Radeon RX 6000 series …

During the recent Radeon RX 6000 announcement, AMD's chief architect of gaming solutions, Frank Azor, mentioned that the company is working alongside its partners to develop new cooling solutions for the upcoming AMD products. One of those partners, EKWB, has now teased two waterblocks for both Ryzen and Radeon components. …

Leo was prepared to be underwhelmed by AMD's big reveal about Radeon RX 6000 but Holy Heck did Lisa Su do the business. The new RX 6800 and 6800 XT take the fight to Nvidia RTX 3070 and 3080 but who predicted that Radeon RX 6900 XT might take on the mighty RTX 3090?

How good is this 360mm AIO from be quiet!, priced at £120?

Noctua has launched two new CPU coolers belonging to its Chromax black line. Noctua's new Chromax black CPU coolers stay “true to the successful formula of the original models”, featuring all-black fans and heatsinks without sacrificing their cooling capabilities. The Noctua NH-D15S chromax.black, just like the Noctua NH-U9S chromax.black, is very similar to …

We review our first custom RTX 3070 card, in the form of MSI's Gaming X Trio

AMD's big RDNA 2 GPU reveal has finally arrived, bringing the announcements of the RX 6900 XT, RX 6800 XT and RX 6800, with prices starting at $579.

One of the primary improvements touted by Sony with regards to the upcoming PlayStation 5 is the fact that the next-gen console will utilise a speedy SSD, drastically reducing loading times, while also allowing for new level designs thanks to this increased loading speed. That being said, it appears as …

We already got a glimpse of what the Ryzen 5 5600X will be capable of, but with the new CPU-Z results, we now also have an idea of how the Ryzen 7 5800X and the Ryzen 9 5950X will perform once we have them in our hands.

It looks like the presumed “RTX 3070Ti” is not the only new SKU that Nvidia is working on. It seems a new SKU between the RTX 3080 and the flagship RTX 3090 is also reportedly in the works. As per @kopite7kimi, the new GA102 (codename GA102-250) card features 9984 CUDA …

Today we look at one of the most affordable 240mm AIO coolers available, how well will it perform?

Coming right on time for the release of Ryzen 5000 series, MSI has introduced two new ATX B550 motherboards. Aimed at “enthusiast gamers”, both the B550 Unify and B550 Unify-X offer enhanced thermal and power solutions. Featuring a UV black printing with no sight of RGB lighting whatsoever, the MSI …

We review Nvidia's RTX 3070 - is this really faster than an RTX 2080 Ti, for £469?

Palit had already shown the design of their RTX 3090 and 3080 in the form of the GameRock and GamingPro graphics cards. Now it's time for us to see what they have been holding for the RTX 3070. In a Twitter post, Palit revealed the RTX 3070 Jetstream series of …

More details about the unannounced GA102 based SKU from Nvidia have emerged. Based on the shared specifications, the new SKU seems to be a cut-down RTX 3080, created to take over the segment where the Radeon RX 6800XL will land. We already covered some of the alleged specifications of the new …

An alleged roadmap of the Intel Xeon series of processors has leaked, showing when we can expect to see the release of the long-awaited Ice Lake and Sapphire Rapids server processors. During Intel's recent quarterly earnings call, CEO Bob Swan claimed that they are “targeting qualification” of the 3rd Gen Intel Xeon …

Laptop versions of the RTX 30 series are on the way according to new leaks.

It seems that Nvidia is working on a new RTX 30 series graphics card that should position itself between the RTX 3070 and the RTX 3080 in terms of performance. The name hasn't been mentioned, but some specifications of this SKU were shared, giving us a glimpse of what we can …

Following the leak of the RTX 3070 3DMark results, multiple sources got hold of the 3DMark scores of the Radeon RX 6800 XT. Ranging from Fire Strike benchmarks to Time Spy, the Radeon RX 6800 XT beats the RTX 3080 in 3 out of 6 benchmarks, offering fairly similar performance in …

AMD has risen to the top of the PassMark single-threaded benchmark chart. The new chart puts the Ryzen 5 5600X at the very top, beating out plenty of Intel Core i9 and Core i7 SKUs along the way. The 6C/12T Ryzen 5 5600X, featuring a max boost clock of 4.6GHz, …

The account-linking requirement between Oculus and Facebook has already been causing headaches for some Quest 2 buyers, but there is even more to consider. If you decide to disable your Facebook account for any reason, you will also lose access to all of your purchased content on Oculus devices.  As …

We review the latest NVMe SSD from Corsair

Rumours about a 20GB version of the RTX 3080 and a 16GB version of the RTX 3070 have been discussed since the launch of the RTX 30 series. These cards were even listed in Gigabyte's Watch Dogs Legion redeeming form and mentioned in Galax's roadmap, but apparently, they have now been …

3DMark and Ashes Of The Singularity benchmark results for the RTX 3070 have surfaced, putting the new GPU on par with the RTX 2080Ti.

New leaks detailing the main specifications of the Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards gives us a glimpse of what we might expect from them. These leaks refer to the Navi 21 and 22 SKUs reference designs, including the number of CUs, memory capacity and bus, and core and memory clock …

MSI is introducing a new feature accessible through the BIOS of most of its B460 and H410 motherboards. The new feature, called CPU Cooler Tuning, allows you to select your type of cooling to unlock “the full potential of the processors”, increasing the power and current limits. By selecting one …

A killer new unit from FSP. If you can find it anywhere

After seeing what happened with the launch of the RTX 30 series graphics cards, AMD has contacted retailers to put anti-scalping measures in place. The goal is to ensure as many RX 6000 GPUs and Ryzen 5000 CPUs go to legitimate customers as possible. 

SPECviewperf 2020 benchmark results of the upcoming Nvidia RTX A6000 have surfaced. The leaker compared the results of the RTX A6000 to that of its predecessor, showing a performance improvement of about 10% on average. The benchmark results were leaked by AdoredTV. As seen by the results, the performance uplift might …

A new leak regarding the AMD Radeon RX 6000 has surfaced, suggesting that the Navi 21 XT will use GDDR6 memory modules from Samsung and feature a 320W TBP, while the Navi 21 XL is allegedly coming with lower clocked Samsung GDDR6 modules and with a 290W TBP. Earlier this week, …