ASUS also submitted a Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card for review, this one is a bit more special though as it has been fitted with hybrid cooling. Yes, you'll see Liquid cooling applied on the primary GPU area, and then a fan can cool down some of the additional components. The end result is a graphics card that looks stunning and is very silent as well.

You can read the review here.

Powered by a Phison 5012-E12 controller and paired with 3D QLC NAND Corsair offers something pretty staggering in relation to sheer NAND volume storage, as yes, they out their new MP400 series NVMe M2 SSDs. The series is not targeted at an enthusiast audience but rather is released as a mainstream high capacity NVMe SSD series with very decent performance.

Read the review here.

Weird, as it turns out the new RTX 3080 / 3090 SUPRIM series (which we reviewed here and here) had been paused for shipments likely on a suspected issue. However, after analysis, the cards are shipping again as normal.

AOC is releasing two 31.5 "monitors with a 16: 9 ratio and a curvature of 1500R. It is a variant with a resolution of 2560x1440 pixels and a version with 1920x1080 pixels. Both screens have a refresh rate of 165Hz.

When you look purely at the numbers then intel still is ranking all charts in terms of silicon sold, but a very interesting rpsort was released by IC Insights showing massive growth for a couple of companies like AMD, Nvidia and TSMC.

Aka DirtectX12 Ultimate. Ubisoft's head of 3D programming Oleksandr Polishchuk revealed that the game will feature Ray Tracing, Variable Rate Shading, and FidelityFX Contrast Adaptive Sharpening (CAS).

Asobo Studio released the World Update 2 for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. The update brings graphical improvements to many regions in the United States, as well as four airports.

GIGABYTE launched five graphics cards - AORUS Radeon™ RX 6800 XT MASTER TYPE C 16G, AORUS Radeon™ RX 6800 XT MASTER 16G, Radeon™ RX 6800 XT GAMING OC 16G, AORUS Radeon™ RX 6800 MASTER 16G, and Radeon™ RX 6800 GAMING OC 16G.

UL released a new version of 3DMark today. This update adds a new design for the benchmark results screen to help PC gamers better understand their 3DMark scores. With the new features we've added, it's easy to see how your 3DMark score compares with results from other systems with the same components.

3DMark scores of the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti leaked with Fire Strike and Time Spy benchmark runs. Fire Strike shows 30706 points, where DirectX 12-based Time Spy test shows 12175 points.

Here in the Netherlands, we have an e-tailer called Azerty, one of the bigger names. Prior to the 6800 (XT) AIB release today, they have released a statement about availability. And their words are quite worrying.

Pretty much everything about the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti has already leaked, but not figures on cryptocurrency mining. As it stands this GPU performs quite well considering the ratio of energy consumption. And that is bad news for availability.

Last week when the RX 6800 series graphics cards got released, a feature called SAM (Smart Access Memory) was enabled to select X570 motherboards in combination with a Ryzen 5000 series processor and RDNA2 graphics card.

Samsung is launching a new member in its Odyssey G5 line: the C34G55T. It is a 34-inch ultrawide display with a strong 1.000R curvature, 3440 x 1440 pixels (21: 9) and a refresh rate of 165 Hz.

We talked about the Pyramid Mini 806 a while ago, but new models are added. A compact Pyramid-shaped chassis series that at the very least is going to make some conversation if you have that at home.

ASUS announced it will start handling the 23.8-inch full HD gaming liquid crystal display "VZ249HEG1R" with an IPS panel that supports a high-speed response of 1ms for the domestic market. 

You can probably remember that a couple of years ago Western Digital acquired Sandisk in an offer to get into the NAND market. The Sandisk line of products however has always been released next to the WD ones.

SilverStone will release a CUBE chassis for Mini ITX called SUGO 15. The top, bottom, and four exterior panels on both sides are removable.

IO DATA announces Wi-Fi 6 router WN-DEAX1800GR new Wi-Fi 6 router that supports communication up to 1,201 Mbps at 5 GHz and 574 Mbps at 2.4 GHz band.

Khronos has released the final versions of the set of Vulkan, GLSL and SPIR-V extension specifications that seamlessly integrate ray tracing into the existing Vulkan framework. This is a significant milestone as it is the industry’s first open, cross-vendor, cross-platform standard for ray tracing acceleration - and can be deployed either using existing GPU compute or dedicated ray tracing cores.