Nvidia RTX 4080 prices look a lot better in the US
Bad news for European gamers
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10 Games to Work Out Your GPU to the Max
There are plenty of amazing games with incredible graphics that will push your GPU to its absolute limit. Here are ten great choices, along with tips for settings, for graphics card calisthenics!
TSMC and industry partners form 3DFabric Alliance focused on advancing chiplet architectures
The group will focus on advancing the future of 3D silicon stacking design, capability, and adoption
Geekbench was tricked: the Ryzen 7 7800X doesn't exist
WTF?! For the last few days, the computer hardware microcosm of the internet has been awash with theories about an AMD Ryzen 7 7800X that appeared in the Geekbench database on October 27. It hadn't been seen, heard, or rumored anywhere beforehand, which is almost unprecedented. Had AMD really made a 10-core Zen 4 CPU without anyone knowing?
Nvidia DLSS 2 vs Intel XeSS vs AMD FSR 2 on Nvidia GeForce and AMD Radeon GPUs
A deep dive into Intel's XeSS technology to see whether it's worth using on Nvidia and AMD hardware and how it competes against Nvidia's DLSS and AMD's FSR.
Rode launches new gamer oriented products
The company's first direct approach into the gaming market
Reddit user acquires decommissioned Netflix cache server, finds 36 hard drives inside
An old Netflix server from 2013 packing 262TB of storage
AMD Radeon RX 7000 flagship graphics card will reportedly come with 24 GB of VRAM
It might launch in early December
Poorly manufactured adapter responsible for melting Nvidia RTX 4090 cables, report claims
A very bad solder job
A hot potato: As Nvidia continues to investigate incidents of burning and melting power adapters that come bundled with its new RTX 4090 graphics card, the team over at Igor's Lab believes it has found the culprit. According to the publication, the issue isn't the 12VHPWR connection itself but rather, the quad 8-pin to 16-pin adapter distributed by Nvidia. Specifically, whoever manufactured the adapter performed a very poor soldering job.
The Most Memorable Overclocking-Friendly CPUs
#ThrowbackThursday Enthusiasts have been pushing the limits of silicon for as long as microprocessors have existed. These are but a few of the landmark processors revered for their overclocking prowess.
Newegg refunds customer who received RTX 4090 box filled with weights
Gamers Nexus offered to buy it
WTF?! Paying one-and-a-half thousand dollars for a graphics card is a big decision, but those concerns often vanish when you're enjoying blistering framerates at high resolutions. What will give you buyer's remorse, however, is opening an RTX 4090 box and finding it filled only with weights. Luckily for the person involved, seller Newegg has given them a full refund.
AMD working on consumer-level CXL memory
Why it matters: A new standard to connect RAM more closely with other system components could reach consumers within the next few years. The shift should increase the efficiency and usefulness of more recent, faster storage and memory modules. However, it will require new hardware.
Nvidia investigating cases of melting RTX 4090 power cables, RDNA 3 won't use 12VHPWR
Why it matters: Nvidia's new flagship RTX 4090 is a beast in multiple aspects. On top of its unprecedented gaming performance, consumers have expressed worry over its power requirements. Those fears may now bear out weeks after warnings about the GPU's power connectors.
Project Volterra, Microsoft's Arm system for developers, is now Windows Dev Kit 2023
Redmond's latest effort in the Arm ecosystem comes full of ports and RAM
TL;DR: The Windows Dev Kit 2023 is a new Mac Mini-like mini PC aimed at developers who code Windows on Arm applications. Decent specs and a lot of RAM should please app developers while Microsoft is pursuing its world conquest through AI and cloud VMs.
Intel's entire 13th-gen Core desktop processor lineup disclosed, includes 22 SKUs
More affordable Raptor Lake CPUs are inbound
Lenovo drives form factor innovations in PCs and "extended reality"
Technical advances in devices are critical, but physical design is arguably even more attractive
Intel Core i5-13600K vs. AMD Ryzen 5 7600X
The Core i5-13600K is the most affordable model in Intel's new Raptor Lake range. Its predecessor, the 12600K was a personal favorite of ours, so we are expecting this to be a real winner.
Apple said to be testing multiple Mac Pro configurations including one with 48 CPU cores
In a nutshell: The next version of Apple's high-end Mac Pro is expected to be the first to feature Apple Silicon. Apple insider Mark Gurman believes the Mac Pro could be offered with multiple chip options that are at least two to four times as powerful as the M2 Max and has affectionately dubbed them the M2 Ultra and M2 Extreme. These chips are said to feature 24 and 48 CPU cores, respectively, alongside 76 and 152 graphics cores, and up to 256 gigabytes of system memory.
The Rise of Power: Are CPUs and GPUs Becoming Too Energy Hungry?
Every few years new processors with ever-higher demands for energy are launched. Is 250W for a CPU too high? Should any GPU need 450W? Let's peel off the heatsinks to look at the truth behind power numbers.
Nvidia is allegedly moving production of RTX 4090 GPUs to Hopper H100 GPUs
Potentially making the RTX 4090 even harder to find
GPU running hot? An aftermarket air cooler could solve your problems
An unusual but very cool upgrade
Intel Core i7-13700K Review: Ryzen 7 7700X Versus
The Core i7-13700K is a much more practical CPU compared to the 13900K, power and thermals are kept in check, and performance is pretty solid. We'd seriously consider it for new gaming PC builds.
8.8 GHz: Intel 13900K on liquid nitrogen achieves highest overclock on record
Intel takes the record back from AMD
What just happened? It's only been a few days since the Core i9-13900K was released but Swedish overclocker Elmor has already used it to break the record for the highest clock speed ever reached (and validated): an incredible 8812.85 MHz.
Updated Asus RTX 3060 Ti spotted with higher performance GDDR6X memory
Ampere isn't ready to take a back seat to Ada just yet