I was recently invited to attend an event with Intel in Israel. While KitGuru is under NDA and unable to publicly discuss many of the topics highlighted at the event, we were able to record Isic Silas, Corporate VP in the Client Computing Group discussing certain topics. We found his …
Read More »Kingpin graphics cards may continue without EVGA
It has been one week since EVGA announced that it is ending its partnership with Nvidia and will be exiting the GPU market. As many enthusiasts will know, EVGA would previously work with overclocker ‘Kingpin' to release ultra high-performance graphics cards. Now, with EVGA pulling out of GPUs, Kingpin seems …
Read More »Corsair launches 600W 12VHPWR cables for RTX 4090, liquid cooling blocks on the way
Earlier this week, Nvidia officially launched the first RTX 40 series graphics cards. We've seen board partners show off their custom-cooled solutions, and now Corsair is getting in on the action with new 12VHPWR cables for the RTX 4090, as well as new liquid cooling blocks. The newly announced Nvidia …
Read More »EK launches 4-in-1 CPU combo block for easy SFF liquid cooling
EK is making headlines this week with its new unique pump-reservoir-block combo. This is effectively a 4-in-1 product, making it ideal for those looking to save space while putting together a small form-factor build with custom liquid cooling. The EK-Quantum Velocity² DDC 4.2 PWM D-RGB – 1700 is based around …
Read More »Noctua will offer free mounting kits for those upgrading to Socket AM5
We are just days away from the launch of AMD's new Ryzen 7000 series processors. The new chips have a new IHS, but coolers with support for Socket AM4 should work nicely with the new AM5 socket too. If you are using a Noctua cooler, you'll be able to get …
Read More »WD Black P40 Game Drive 500GB External SSD
WD's latest external SSD is here, offering up to 2000MB/s read speeds
Read More »AMD Ryzen 9 7950X overclocked to 7.2GHz on single core, 6.5GHz on all cores
The AMD Ryzen 9 7950X may not have reached the hands of consumers, but professional overclockers have already started to play with them. That's according to recent posts on social media, where you can see a CPU running a single core at 7.2GHz and another with all cores clocked at …
Read More »MSI launches new PCIe 5.0 and PCIe 4.0 Spatium M.2 SSDs
MSI is launching two new M.2 SSDs to expand its storage solution portfolio further. Aimed at the mainstream segment, the MSI Spatium M460 M.2 SSD is the company's latest PCIe 4.0 SSD. The other is the Spatium M570, MSI's first PCIe 5.0 M.2 SSD. Available with 250GB, 500GB, 1TB, and …
Read More »G.Skill introduces two new low-latency Trident Z5 RGB DDR5 memory kits
G.Skill is expanding its DDR5 memory line-up with new high-speed, low-latency kits. The new Trident Z5 RGB DDR5 kits support XMP 3.0, and offer speeds up to 6800MHz. G.Skill's two new kits are the first from the company to run at these specifications. The fastest kit comes with 32GB (2x16GB) …
Read More »Talking all things RTX 40 series with Dominic and Leo!
After the initial announcement made by Jensen Huang at GTC 2022, yesterday we got the low-down on Nvidia's new RTX 40 series via a series of press briefings. After getting a close look at the GPU specs, Ada architecture and much more, I sat down with Leo for a wide-ranging discussion on all things Nvidia RTX 40 series...
Read More »New BIOS for AMD X670E boards improves Ryzen 9 7950X performance
The Ryzen 9 7950X hasn't released yet, so there is still some work being done on the software side to optimise the chip's capabilities. We've already seen a few benchmarks for this processor, but a new BIOS update has seemingly boosted single and multi-threaded performance. While AMD says that the …
Read More »Our AMD Frame Pumps Are Dead… or are they?
While working on the final video for our huge AMD Frame custom build, we came across a problem that temporarily brought the project to a halt. Just a couple of days after filling the cooling system up with some new fluid, a very odd issue became apparent related to the pump and coolant. So we're reaching out to our readers and viewers to decipher if this is a common issue or not...
Read More »Intel CEO says first batch of Arc A770 is now ready for retail
It seems the Arc A770 graphics cards will soon arrive at retailers. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger recently shared on social media a photo of him receiving an Arc A770, where he also stated that the first batch of the company's flagship graphics card is now ready for retail. It may …
Read More »Board partners reveal custom-cooled RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 graphics cards
Last night, Nvidia officially announced the first RTX 40 series GPUs - the RTX 4090 and a 16GB and 12GB version of the RTX 4080. Like most GPU launches, these announcements are accompanied by a range of custom-cooled cards being announced by board partners. Here, we round-up the custom cards announced so far.
Read More »Over 35 games and apps already support DLSS 3
Last night alongside the new RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 graphics cards, Nvidia also announced DLSS 3, the next big evolution of its AI-driven, performance-enhancing technology. Continuing on from the success of DLSS 2.0, it seems that DLSS 3 already has quite a bit of industry support, with over 35 …
Read More »Nvidia’s RTX Remix tool enables modders to create their own ‘remasters’ with ease
Today's Nvidia stream didn't just deliver the announcements for RTX 4090 and RTX 4080. We also saw a number of other announcements for Nvidia Omniverse, a software stack featuring AI and ray-tracing tools that can be used to generate new content. Nvidia used these tools to create the newly announced …
Read More »RTX 4080 12GB to be AIB-only, no Founders Edition model
Announced earlier today at GTC 2022, the RTX 40-series is official, with Nvidia confirming the RTX 4090 as well as two versions of the RTX 4080, with slightly differing specs. Interestingly, it appears the RTX 4080 12GB will only be available through Nvidia's board partners (AIBs) and will not be …
Read More »Nvidia will continue to sell RTX 30 GPUs alongside RTX 4090 and RTX 4080
Today, Nvidia officially announced its first next-gen GeForce graphics cards using the new Ada Lovelace architecture. So far, we're getting an RTX 4090, and two versions of the RTX 4080 with differing amounts of memory. Due to the current situation with Nvidia's RTX 30 series GPUs, older-gen graphics cards will …
Read More »Nvidia is releasing an RTX remaster of Valve’s Portal
Nvidia's in-house Lightspeed Studios has worked with several game developers in recent years to bring RTX features to various titles. During that time, this team has also created its own fully ray-traced remasters of games like Quake II and Minecraft. Today, alongside the RTX 40 launch, Nvidia announced Portal RTX. …
Read More »Nvidia launches RTX 4090 for £1679, RTX 4080 starts at £949
Today during a GeForce Special Event stream, Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang, officially announced the RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 graphics cards. Powered by the new Ada Lovelace architecture, featuring 3rd Gen RT Cores, 4th Gen Tensor Cores, and plenty of new optimisations to enable next-generation performance.
Read More »Recent Windows 11 update disables undervolting and overvolting on MSI motherboards
If you have an MSI motherboard and you're having issues with undervolting and overvolting your Intel CPU, it could be due to a recent Windows 11 update, which appears to have mistakenly blocked these features. According to this post on MSIGaming subreddit (via Tom's Hardware), since a relatively recent Windows …
Read More »AMD launches Ryzen 7020 CPUs to bring all-day battery life to mainstream laptops
Today, AMD unveiled its new Ryzen 7020 Series and Athlon 7020 Series Processor line-up. Built on the Zen 2 core architecture and featuring AMD RDNA 2 graphics, the new processors are geared towards mainstream laptops to handle every day tasks and productivity applications. According to a recent survey from Wakefield …
Read More »AMD will launch the first RDNA 3 GPUs in November
Just hours ahead of Nvidia's planned RTX 40 GPU reveal, AMD has announced its plans for RDNA 3. We've known for sometime now that AMD's next-gen GPUs would debut in 2022, but we didn't know exactly when. That changed today with the announcement of a November launch event. AMD's Senior …
Read More »MSI teaser confirms upcoming Intel Z790 motherboard launch
MSI has started teasing the release of a new series of motherboards. The announcement itself doesn't specify which motherboards MSI is talking about, but a close look at the image shared by the company suggests Intel Z790. Over the weekend, in a now deleted tweet, MSI announced its own live …
Read More »DeepCool unveils AK500 CPU cooler with 240W heat dissipation
DeepCool is back with a new high-performance air cooler. Following on from the AK620, this month DeepCool is launching the AK500, a stylish CPU heatsink with a black shroud covering the top of the aluminium heatsink to help with aesthetics. The DeepCool AK500 is a single-tower CPU cooler, with a …
Read More »Gigabyte registers new Gigabyte RTX 30 series Project Stealth cards, including a 16GB RTX 3070 Ti
The first Nvidia RTX 40 series graphics cards are just around the corner, but it looks like RTX 30 will be sticking around for a while into the new generation. Over the weekend, new Gigabyte GPU listings were spotted on the EEC database, including a new 16GB RTX 3070 Ti. …
Read More »Intel Core i9-13900K beats the 12900K by +10% in CPU-bound games
The Intel Core i9-13900K hasn't yet been announced, but a reviewer in China has already shared a comprehensive set of test results from an early sample. Many gaming benchmarks were included in these tests, showing the Core i9-13900K outperforming its predecessor by +10% in specific cases. The review comes from ECSM_Official …
Read More »Gigabyte Z690, B660, and upcoming motherboards will support AMD EXPO
Intel XMP has been the only memory OC profile standard for many years. However, that will soon change with AMD EXPO. The new memory standard was designed to work alongside the upcoming Ryzen 7000 series chips. Still, according to Gigabyte's announcement, Intel platforms also support AMD EXPO, but you'll need …
Read More »Listed ASRock X670E motherboards start at less than £300
After seeing the pricing of the MSI X670E boards in the US, we started to wonder if all these motherboards would be that expensive. Fortunately, it seems that won't be the case, at least based on the ASRock X670E board listings that were recently found. Leaker @momomo_us found listings of …
Read More »More than 50 games have been confirmed for PSVR2 so far
We have still yet to get the first proper big blowout event for Sony’s PlayStation VR2, but we already know dozens of games which are planned to release on the system. As reported by PSVR without Parole, there are more than 50 games currently confirmed for PSVR2. As reported and …
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