Robert is back in da house, the man from down under this time has an even tighter build, meet Shockwave, you named after the transformer.

Check out the rig of the month.

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GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards, and hardware solutions, today announces the latest BIOS update on AMD X570、B550 and A520 motherboards for the features of AMD Smart Access Memory and Rage mode.

ASRock announced a new partnership with Razer to develop the ASRock Taichi Razer Edition line of motherboards, the world's first motherboard that is natively integrated with Razer Chroma RGB lighting.

Funny this one, if you look at the photo below the fold, you're going to notice a standard PCIe PEG 8-pin power header on a founder edition GeForce RTX 3070. Read it again, 8-pin power header.

Yes, no, yes, no ... that's pretty much what the rumor train has been on an RTX 3080 fitted with 20GB VRAM. Face it, there has been chatter on a 20GB model for ages now, but things get serious once they get registered, and that happened once again on the EEC.

The availability of the Radeon RX 6800 (XT) is poor, last week we already mentioned that a Dutch etailer doesn't expect the availability of AIB cards later into Q1 2021. We now also have some more numbers from ProShop.

It's not the color that matters that much, but the size surely is pretty. Meet the Geforce RTX 3070 Twin Edge OC, first white RTX 3070. The boost clock speed is set at 1,755 MHz. ZOTAC already had the black-colored version available of course.

Yeah, that looks funky, but will eb a hard color match inside any PC I guess. Check out the CD Projekt Red CyberPunk 2077 themed RTX 3080. It seems the team is going full in with NVIDIA, which would explain whey there is only Raytracing support for RTX cards at release.

It's a bit of a gable, overclocking. Sometimes you have average results, other times you're in luck. The ASUS 6800 XT LC review for example shows that we can hit 2700 MHz on that GPU clock. But the bar is set even higher for the 6900 XT. 

ASUS released a bios series that adds AMD's marketed SAM, or really; Resizable BAR support to various motherboards. The thing here us though, these are for the Intel Z490 chipset. 'Smart Access Memory' was initially only supported on AMD motherboards. Intel itself has not yet reported on support for this feature.

Palit is planning to release a duo of SKUs for the launch of NVIDIA’s next GeForce RTX 3060 Ti graphics card. The GA104 powered product has 4864 shader cores and is fitted with 8GB GDDR6 memory. 

One of the titles that never ceases to amaze in regard to how popular it is, is of course Minecraft. new data indicates that worldwide there are now 600 Million players active.  A juicy fact though, 400 million of them originate from China alone.

Not coming as a total surprise with December 2nd in mind, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is spotted once again, but this time in a plethora of EU webshops. 

ASRock today announced the brand new compact Mini PC – Mars 4000U Series, embedded the AMD Ryzen 4000 U-series processors. The Mars 4000U Series Mini PC support dual-channel DDR4-3200MHz memory up to 64GB as well as equip with Intel Wi-Fi 6 for high-speed connectivity. 

Steam also started its sale in the Black Friday time frame, punctually in the Black Friday week. We gathered all the information about discounts, the end of the game, and the Steam promotion.

Epic Store is also discounts on a number of games around Black Friday. The competitor from Steam, where the big autumn sale 2020 is currently running, is following suit.

Plextor (part of Kioxia these days, which was Toshiba), announced the M.2 SATA3.0 (6Gbps) SSD "M8VG Plus" series that that adopts Kioxia 96-layer 3D NAND flash.