Gigabyte unveiled the new Z370 AORUS motherboards based on the Intel Z370 chipset. These motherboards are equipped with a server-grade digital power design which fully support 8th generation Intel Core processors.

Pro-overclocker Der8auer did his trick on the new 18-core Core i9 7980XE. He applied LN2 cooling on Intel's most extensive consumer proc, and was able to reach a tweak to 6 GHz, that however did results into a power-consumption of a scary 1000 Watts :-)

I have re-published our ASUS Radeon ROG RX Vega 64 STRIX 8GB review. The review is similar to what it was a few weeks ago, yet with some foot-notes. ASUS did not offer a new BIOS, yet did offer a driver which didn't help the product either As such the product is what it is and is what it was. More info in the review.

You can read the article here.

Intel is announcing the availability of its 14-, 16- and 18-core processors – Intel® Core i9-7940X, Intel Core i9-7960X and Intel Core i9-7980XE processors – which begin shipping to ecosystem customers today.

If you noticed last week’s driver release, you might have been a bit puzzled about the fact that the word Crossfire has not been used, while the driver itself was exactly about bringing that to Vega. As it turns out, there have been a number of changes.

Colorful announced the introduction of three new PCIE SSD models and are the world’s first to feature the latest SiliconMotion controller 2262/2263/2263XTL: announcing the CN600 DRAM-less Series, CN600 DRAM series and CP600 iGame Series. All of the new SSDs will be available in volumes of 240GB up to 2TB.

Misery Development has released a brand new version of its Misery mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call Of Pripyat. FYI, Misery is a full concept modification of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

It is time for a new overview of the ten top selling titles on Steam for the week as reported by Valve, PUBG is still holding strong at the number 1 position:

PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
Divinity: Original Sin 2
Stellaris: Synthetic Dawn Story Pack
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Total War: WARHAMMER II
Stellaris
NBA 2K18 - Pre-order
Grand Theft Auto V
Stellaris: UtopiaDead by Daylight

Asia based Expert Oriented announced a new GeForce GTX 1060 OC in its line-up. Codenamed GF-GTX1060-E6GB/OC2/DF, this VR-ready graphics card is packed with 1280 CUDA Cores, a 192-bit memory interface, a core base clock of 1518MHz (reference 1506MHz), a core boost clock of 1733MHz (reference 1708MHz) and a 6GB of GDDR5 memory set @ 8008MHz.

Last week some Coffee Lake Core i7 8700K scored leaked online through a Youtuber who ran a Cinebench with Intel Core i7-8700K on a HP Omen PC. The score was a little average, a new Cinebench CB15 benchmark however leaked through Asia.

There's some new chatter in the channels that AMD will be releasing an RX Vega 32 and 28 to replace the current 500 line. The cards would use the smaller Vega11 GPU.

Much has been said and spoken about Intel upcoming 6-core Coffee Lake processors. It will launch based on a LGA 1151 Socket. We’ve been able to confirm that Z370 will only support Coffee Lake processors. Here’s the shocker, they could support Kaby Lake, yet Intel doesn’t allow it.

MSi will be releasing a new GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, the new model might be aimed at the Asia market solely. Photos appeared by Hermitage Akibahara showing a sizable card that from the looks of it is even larger than the GTX 1080 Ti Lightning Z.

Wowzers, just when you think things could not be any different, they do. Over at Chinese Baidu  forum a prototype of a dual-core Intel i3-7360X appeared. So here you have the X299 motherboard at what 350 USD with socket LGA2066. And then you put a dual-core proc on there worth a few tenners?

G.SKILL are excited to announce a new lineup of Trident Z RGB DDR4 memory kits with enhanced compatibility on the latest AMD platforms. Specifically designed for AMD Ryzen and Ryzen Threadripper platforms, now there are vibrant options up to the popular DDR4-3200MHz CL14 or the massive 128GB (8x16GB) kits at up to 2933MHz.

Utilizing Unreal Engine 4, this will be first Ace Combat to appear on the latest generation of consoles(we'll see how it performs on the PC). Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown launches in 2018 for PS4, Xbox One and PC.

EVGA's GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 ELITE cards are available, these have 12 GHz of GDDR5X memory, giving it 528 GB/s of memory bandwidth.  These cards are available with either the ELITE Black or White shroud, and of come with EVGA's exclusive iCX technology, giving you 9 thermal sensors, onboard thermal LED indicators.