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WD's latest external SSD is here, offering up to 2000MB/s read speeds

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 …

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 …

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) …

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...

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 …

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...

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 …

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. 

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.  …

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. 

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.  …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Sony has slowly but surely been giving fans more information on the much-anticipated next-generation PlayStation VR2 headset which is set to launch some time next year. A large majority of the successor’s features are in many ways leaps and bounds above the first-gen headset, Unfortunately, this means that PSVR2 is …

For many years, EVGA has been one of Nvidia’s biggest and most popular board partners. However, over the years, it seems the relationship between the two companies has soured, to the point where EVGA is abandoning the GPU market completely.  In an interview this week with Gamers Nexus, EVGA CEO, …

With the AMD AM5 platform releasing in less than two week, memory manufacturers are getting ready to put their AM5-compatible DDR5 memory sticks on the market. AMD has already shown some of these upcoming from different partners, but it seems Teamgroup was the first to launch DDR5 memory supporting AMD …

Over the last generation, Sony leveraged its development partnerships to secure some excellent VR titles for PlayStation VR. Unfortunately, those games will not be compatible with the upcoming PS VR2, Sony has confirmed this week.  To cap off the week, Sony has announced that PSVR titles will not be compatible …

The Tokyo Games Show has been the stage for many gameplay reveals and announcements throughout its duration, but games are not the only things being shown there. ASRock and Intel have chosen the conference to display the first Intel Arc A750 custom graphics card, the A750 Challenger. PCWatch (via @momomo_us) …