As graphics cards and motherboards become more efficient, their ever-decreasing power consumption has called for a new power rating variant. The introduction of the PRIME Ultra 550 W Platinum- and Gold-rated units is an answer to these current market trends.

Noctua today presented two updates to its range of quiet low-profile CPU coolers. Successors to the award-winning NH-L9a and NH-L12, the new NH-L9a-AM4 and NH-L12S models now support the AM4 socket of AMD’s Ryzen processors. 

Earlier last week we talked a little about the fact that Intel will be releasing another chipset called Z390 late this year. That is next to Coffee lake 6-core processors on the Z370 platform. Some new information appeared online, and the assumption that Z390 would be for 8-core 10nm Ice Lake products seems invalid.

It's has been quiet with X299 and the Skylake-X platform processors. We've seen the 10-core review, the 12-core parts in stores but other then that it remains silent. However in Asia a website leaked performance benchmarks on the 18-core part, the 2000 USD Core i9-7980XE.

Intel delivered updates at its Technology and Manufacturing Day held in Beijing, China, on Sept. 19. Disclosures included power and performance updates for Intel’s 10 nm process, high-level plans for Intel’s first 10 nm FPGA, and an announcement that the company is shipping the industry’s first commercially available 64-layer 3D NAND for data center applications.

Call of Duty: WWII is set to officially release on November 3rd, 2017, and will be available on PC. Players who pre-order the game will receive access to a myriad of different bonuses, including the Division’s Pack (which includes five unique multiplayer outfits).

Bethesda Softworks and MachineGames have released a new gameplay trailer for the highly anticipated first-person shooter Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. This new trailer is entitled "No More Nazis" and gives us perhaps our best - and bloodiest - look at the combat of Wolfenstein II since it was revealed this summer at E3 2017.

PNY launched the GeForce GTX 1070 8GB XLR8 graphics card. The GeForce GTX 1070 is built with 8 GB GDDR5 memory clocked at 8 Gbps with data transfer rate of 256 GB/s and 256-bit wide memory bus which provides ultra-graphics settings for an outstanding performance and gaming experience.

AMD's Senior Product Manager, James Prior talked a bit about the story that broke earlier on last week related to the fact that Threadripper is fitted with four AMD Zepplin dies. He mentions that the two extra dies have "no path to operation".

Synology launches a new product lineup featuring: XS-series DS3018xs: Synology's first 6-bay tower NAS with optional 10GbE and M.2 SATA SSD supports; Plus-series DS918+, DS718+, and DS218+: Greater performance and data resiliency for intensive workloads; and Value-series DS418: Introduction of 4K online transcoding capability.

Deepcool is very glad to inform you that CAPTAIN 360 EX WHITE RGB has been launched. CAPTAIN 360 EX WHITE RGB retains all the key features of the CAPTAIN EX RGB Series, which integrates the latest RGB variable lighting system and certified by ASUS ROG/GIGABYTE RGB/MSI SYNC.

So as you guys know, Coffee lake processors are around the corner and you will need a new motherboard for that, one with the Z370 chipset. The Socket physically looks and seems to be the same, LGA 1151. As it seems only Coffee Lake procs will work on it, and not 7th Gen Kaby lake.

That's a thin unit alright, announced at Computex 17 MSI now being releases, the MSI Vortex G25It is a thin gaming PC which offer 4K gaming experience at 60fps. The Vortex G25 has a Kaby lake Quad Core Overclockable Intel Core i7 along with an up-to GeForce GTX 1070 with 8GB VRAM and up-to 64GB Dual Channel DDR4 memory.

A special motherboard requires a special water block, so the tradition with monoblocks for ROG RAMPAGE series motherboards continues. EK Water Blocks, is releasing new LGA-2066 socket based monoblocks made to fit ASUS ROG RAMPAGE VI Extreme and Apex motherboards. 

The EVGA "Untouchables" EPOWER V card is a standalone VRM board that provides additional power for target devices, such as graphics cards or motherboards.

Hail Hydra? Marvel puns aside, a new brand is today announcing their € 999 Hydra Desk and a PC Case. The Hydra Desk offers a modding experience as the tempered glass pane gives you a look at the powerful PC hardware within.

Back in May Nvidia announced its Testla Volta V100 processor with Tensor architecture. The companies TSMC’s 12nm finfet process bakes graphics processor has 5120 shader processors activated out of a total of 5376 cores. Scores surfaced in geekbench, and they are impressive.