B550 Chipset based motherboards are among us, and there are some pretty interesting ones available. We review the B550 Aorus Pro that offers 2.5 GigE Ethernet and two M2 NVMe slots. The board price sits at roughly 179 USD and offers all the defaults you need, and a bit more.

Read the review here.

As NVIDIA inaugurated a viral on twitter, a big bang as it seems from the animation today we have more info to share. Tagged as the "Ultimate Countdown" the company will hold an event on September the 1st.

Not a day goes by without some rumour on team green or red. Today a new rumour indicates that NVIDIA might be software locking the 384-bit memory bus for 12GB to 320-bits wide and thus 10 GB for the GeForce RTX 3080. NVIDIA would want to wait and see what big RDNA2 aka Big Navi would bring and likes to keep some options open.

TEAMGROUP today announced the T-FORCE VULCAN G Gaming Solid State Drive. With SATA interface and 3D NAND flash memory, the read and write speeds can reach up to 550MB/s and 500MB/s, which offers 4 times faster read/write speed than traditional hard drives. It also supports SLC caching and Windows TRIM optimization commands.

As the topic title says, word out on the cyber street is that custom (AIB) and NVIDIA Founder Graphics GeForce 3000 cards would launch simultaneously.

Clever, Thermaltake announced thermal grease "TG-50" and "TG-30", and the special think about it is that you apply it in a honeycomb pattern with a stencil.

In the category unique yet a little busy on the eyes, check out the Cyber board, a crowdfunded keyboard at Indogogo that is bound to lit up that gaming room of yours. And yes, Cyberboard, hints towards the Tesla Cywertruck. 

iiyama introduces the 42 series professional large format displays, giving users more brightness, flexibility, signage and power with 4K UHD resolution, Nsign platform and Intel® SDM slot.

The new Latitude 7410 Chromebook Enterprise, a 14-inch premium business laptop or 2-in-1 from Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL), boosts productivity with on-the-go power, sophisticated security and fast connectivity features employees need.

When AMD released their Ryzen 400G series APUs, they made it clear it's to be intended for OEM and system builders only. Well, in Asia they already bought a bunch in bulk somehow, and these are now entering the grey market, meaning you can spot them at sites like Ebay.

Toshiba has silently announced that it has withdrawn from the laptop market. Back in 2018, most of the business was sold to Sharp, which then changed the name to Dynabook. Sharp is now in complete control of this part of their business.

In the category, fruitless but heaps of fun to read about meet the  a-X2P which matches a regular PC case, but with a curved handle. It's kinda portable with a handle and everything. A system in a case is probably the right wording here. 

Microsoft will most likely release a cheaper version of the new Xbox Series X game console under the name Series S. According to photos of a Twitter user who bought a controller for the device.

Nvidia might be significantly increasing its graphics memory with new graphics cards. Models with 8.0 GB of VRAM appear to be almost undersized compared towards 24 GB for the flagship product.

ASUS last week released some new STRIX power supplies, this week you may add some TUF series as well, the new PSUs carry an 80-plus Bronze certification. 

QNAP released the QSW-M408 series 4-port 10GbE SFP+ and 8-port Gigabit Layer 2 Web managed Switches, designed for meeting versatile needs in a hybrid high-speed network infrastructure. Featuring practical Layer 2 management functions, QSW-M408 series switches enable efficient deployment of bandwidth utilization to offer an entry-level network management solution for SMBs.

You know it for them recent Intel rumours, processors with a couple of energy-friendly cores, and then some huge ones for heavy-duty processing. It seems to be something that AMD wants to explore as well, as they filed a patent for it.

AMD will likely announce its high-end Navi product or products in a fast-approaching future, Q4 we think. On the Chinese Chiphell forum and on the Taiwanese PTT the rumour mill has been cranked up a notch. It seems there are two variants of the alleged Navi 21 GPU.

You can grab a free copy of Codemasters F1 2018 this weekend. The game really is a classic and other then drivers, teams and a new track the game is pretty much the same as the new 2020 version we just reviewed.