Photos have leaked from MSI's upcoming X570 gaming motherboards. It's a twofold of boards, the X570 Gaming Pro Carbon and the X570 Gaming Plus. Once again the motherboards have an active fan on board on top of the chipset and shows a dual PCIe x16 slot, likely PCIe Gen 4.

EK is releasing an Intel LGA1151 socket based monoblock belonging to the Quantum Line. The EK-Momentum Strix Z390-I is tailor-made for the ROG Strix Z390-I motherboard. The mini-ITX form factor often suffers worse airflow due to less space, and having less space on the motherboard means less VRM components can be built into it. 

Samsung started sampling 32 Gbit chips, that's 4 GB per IC. Right now there is chatter about an A-die ddr4 chip with a speed of 2666 MHz with such a large capacity. Other types of ddr4 chips of the company will probably follow in the near future. 

ASRock has decided to give gamers and enthusiasts a welcome surprise by introducing the Z390 Phantom Gaming 7 and Z390 Phantom Gaming X, to join the just launched Z390 Steel Legend.

AMD's new APU generation Picasso for the socket AM4 has showed up in a benchmark database. Twice actually with a Ryzen 5 3400G and Ryzen 3 3200G. The Ryzen 5 3400G thus has four cores and eight threads and operates at 3.7 GHz base clock, Apisak also calls 4.2 GHz for the turbo.

Today, AMD announced that CEO and President Dr. Lisa Su will deliver a keynote at this year’s Hot Chips: A Symposium on High Performance Chips, in Palo Alto on Monday, Aug. 19 at 1:45 PM PT.

Nvidia has a better-than-expected quarterly profit and forecast second-quarter revenue above estimates on strong demand for its gaming chips and higher sales to data centers. The company forecast revenue of $2.55 billion, plus or minus 2%, for the quarter. 

Members of the Overclocked Gaming Systems (OGS) team have set a new overclocking world record using Ballistix memory modules. Using the Ballistix Elite 3600 MT/s, the new world record for the fastest DDR4 memory frequency now stands at 5726MT/s.

Gigabyte has released BIOS updates for X470 and B450 AMD motherboards. With a simple update of the BIOS, users will be able to fully harness full support for next gen. AMD Ryzen processors. BIOS updates for the X370 and B350 AMD motherboards will be released before the end of the month.

Steep, the extreme sports game developed by Ubisoft released a while back on PC and consoles, it's going to be available for free on PC for a few days. The European publisher has confirmed today that Steep will be available for free for all uPlay users from today until May 22nd.

After announcing that Detroit: Become Human, Heavy Rain, and Beyond: Two Souls would all be coming to PC later this year, Quantic Dream has today revealed just when all three titles will be launching. Heavy Rain PC: the demo is available on May 24, 2019 Beyond: Two Souls PC: the demo is available on June 27, 2019. Detroit: Become Human PC: the demo is available later this summer. Heavy Rain PC: the full game is available on June 24, 2019 Beyond: Two Souls PC: the full game is available on July 27, 2019 Detroit: Become Human PC: the full game will be available this fall. Lastly, as of today, all three Quantic Dream games are now available for pre-purchase if you’d like to snag them ahead of time. If you want to head over to the Epic Games Store, the exclusive platform that will be making all three games available for purchase, you can do so now and lock in your pre-order.

GeIL (Golden Emperor International Ltd.) announced a partnership with ASRock to expand their hardcore gaming product line and launch the EVO SPEAR Phantom Gaming Edition Memory. This new memory module delivers the hardcore gaming experience gamers and enthusiasts demand for their SFF (small form factor) systems.

This driver update offers support for A Plague Tale: Innocence, Total War: Three Kingdoms, Conan Unconquered and offers improved performance and image quality when Conservative Morphological Anti-Aliasing (CMAA) is enabled for DX12 games and 3D applications. 

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Remember a couple of days ago when Biostar leaked AMD X570 details and the photo showed a board with active chipset cooler? Well, a new photo leaked this round from Colorful and guess what? Will the annoying noise making small fans on the chipset IC make a return? We certainly hope that is not the case.

On an Annual Stockholders Meeting yesterday AMDs Lisa Su reconfirmed Q3 for Ryzen 3rd gen, Epyc Rome and NAVI. Q3 means from July to September. That's what, the second or third confirmation?

Western Digital silently now is offering 12 TB variants of the Red and Red Pro hard disks. This further extends the maximum capacity of the series. They are tagged under SKU codes he WD120EAFAX and WD121KFBX.

ASRock outs a new model motherboard to its lineup, the Z390 Phantom Gaming 4S. Found in their "Phantom Gaming" series, the motherboard is an entry-level product with an 8-phase digital power supply circuit.