A while ago you have been able to read here that Global Foundries canceled 7nm to fully focus on 14nm, as that is the most profitable for them. That's was the first serious industry hint. The 14nm process sees massive productions delays and shortages, as a result, Coffee Lake at 14nm procs have risen in price significantly, some even 40% or 60%.

Multiple users on the X99 platform have confirmed and are reporting that their tweaks and overclocks are no longer working after they got Microsoft update KB4100347 installed. This is an Intel Meltdown related vulnerability microcode update. 

So yes, think it is safe to say that Z390 is a real thing judging from the info that has surfaced the past few weeks. New in the line of anything with photos, ASRock, ASUS and MSI Z390 motherboards. These have surfaced through the typical channels. 

Enermax has launched RevoBron TGA in partnership with ASUS TUF Gaming Alliance. RevoBron TGA is an ASUS TUF Gaming Alliance tested and certified gaming power supply that ensures compatibility with other gaming components in the alliance. The semi-modular gaming power supply is equipped with several innovations and supports a high industry standard, making it the ideal power supply for TUF gaming PCs.

It was discovered that the Western Digital My Cloud is affected by an authentication bypass vulnerability. A malicious person can, therefore, gain full admin access to the disk via the web portal without having to use a password, thereby gaining full control of the My Cloud device.

Capcom has revealed the official PC system requirements for Devil May Cry 5 via its Steam store page. According to the specs, PC gamers will at least need an Intel Core i7-4770 with 8GB of RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX760.

TEAMGROUP's gaming brand, T-FORCE recently announced, new generation of 2.5-inch RGB solid state drive - DELTA RGB SSD, and the award winning XTREEM both release new models today, bringing extreme computer performance to satisfy global gamers' desire for blazing fast performance.

Lian Li is pleased to announce the debut of the LANCOOL ONE White Edition chassis and to celebrate this exciting release, Lian Li is proud to announce the commemorative LANCOOL ONE Special Edition.

There is a newly leaked Intel roadmap on the loose, showing pending SSDs and they mention some unannounced Intel Pro 7000P SSDs (intended for the business market. The interesting thing here is that these are using a BGA, aka ball-grid array form factor. 

You can now download Download AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.9.2 Beta drivers for Windows 7, 8 and 10 in 32 adn 64-bit versions. This release contains updated support for F1 2018, Fortnite, Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Star Control: Origins.

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So if you might have overlooked it yesterday in the onslaught of all our content, we had a bit of an exclusive to show you. We have the first preliminary Ray tracing enabled 3DMark Dandia from UL (formerly Futuremark), this 3DMark tech demo shows real-time ray tracing in action which they plan to release later this year. The demo will run on any hardware with drivers that support the Microsoft DirectX Ray Tracing API. The purpose of this demo is to show practical, real-time applications of the Microsoft DirectX Ray Tracing API. The demo does not contain all the ray tracing effects that will be present in the final benchmark, nor is it fully optimized. The demo is based on a work in progress.

AIDA64 v5.97 is released.The latest AIDA64 update implements 64-bit AVX-512 accelerated benchmarks, affd GeForce RTX 2000 Series video cards, and supports the latest AMD and Intel CPU platforms as well as the new graphics and GPGPU computing technologies by both AMD and nVIDIA.

ASUS Republic of Gamers announces the ROG Delta and ROG Delta Core, a new series of gaming headsets tuned especially for first-person shooter (FPS) gaming. The headsets feature Sony-certified Hi-Res Audio and are designed to be incredibly lightweight and comfortable.

You can now download the new GeForce 411.63 WHQL driver as released by NVIDIA. The drivers have optimizations for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Forza Horizon 4, and FIFA 19. This driver also add support for GeForce RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti graphics cards.

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As one of Marvel’s most enigmatic, complex and badass characters comes to the big screen, MSI will collaborate with Sony Pictures on the studio’s upcoming title Venom.