In this review, we peek at a more affordable Z390 motherboard from ASRock, meet the Z390 Steel Legend. Ready for 8th or 9th Gen processors this board is about performance, aesthetics and features.

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Toshiba participated in the PCI-SIG Compliance Workshop #109 in Burlingame, California, where several prototype and engineering samples of the company’s upcoming PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs underwent PCI-SIG FYI Gen 4 testing.

Cooler Master expands their legacy of silent cases, launching the Silencio S400 & Silencio S600 with advanced technology and minimalistic design. Positioned to challenge the higher-priced market, the Silencio series refines its long-established strengths of silence optimization and thermal efficiency.

Noctua today announces new fan and heatsink accessories as part of its chromax line that allows colour-configuring Noctua products in order to coordinate them with individual build colour schemes. 

While Ryzen 3000 (Matisse) is on track for a release next month on the 7th of the 7th, it is a bit silent on the Epic side. Until now that is, an Epyc 7452 server processes got listed, yep the one with 32 cores and 64 threads has got to be Zen2 based.

Intel would be in an agreement with Samsung for the production of processors on its 14nm process. There are two major causes for Intel's CPU shortage. On the one hand, the 10nm process is problematic to say the least , as a result of which more and more products are stuck at 14 nm that would originally be produced at 10 nm.

The one title that made a lot of news was Cyberpunk 2077 demo'd in an RTX optimized version. Would the game be playable with say an RTX 2070? Well, the E3 2019 demo for Cyberpunk 2077 was running on a PC system that was equipped with an Intel Core i7 8700K CPU and an NVIDIA Titan RTX graphics card. 

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is third-person open world survival game from Patrice Désilets, the original creative director of the Assassin’s Creed franchise. In Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, players are challenged to survive and evolve in the harsh yet beautiful land of Africa spanning from ten million to two million years ago. As humankind’s primate predecessors, players explore Neogene Africa, expand their territory, and evolve to advance their clan from one generation to the next in order to survive in this innovative take on the open world survival genre. The game and its mechanics rely on evolution, discovery, and survival as players traverse a variety of terrain and environments, encounter various predators, and learn new abilities to pass along to the next generation of their clan. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey will be timed-exclusive on the Epic Games Store and will release on August 27th. 

You can now download Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.6.2 as released by AMD for Radeon graphics cards.  This release adds new Vulkan extension support and several improvements on stability with fixes for end-user issues.

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Roar!, I've mentioned these units for a long time already, there are people that love it, and some hate it but face it, Nvidia Shield TV has long been one of the best Android TV boxes on the market, and indeed one of the best set-top boxes or media players. However it is time for an upgrade, sure. 

NVIDIA today announced its support for Arm CPUs, providing the high performance computing industry a new path to build extremely energy-efficient, AI-enabled exascale supercomputers.

Funny how these slides always seem to leak right after a competitor announcement ;) Anyhow, we're talking about Intel's new Sunny Cove architecture, which is still out for quite a while. Mind you that Sunny Cove is a four-core series proc baked at 10nm. Intel already made claims that it IPC improvements would be 18% and even 40% in some workloads.

Interesting advisory, if you own one of the Qled TVs you need to regularly scan for malware manually to prevent attacks with malicious software. Users should do this every few weeks mentions the manufacturer.

The sequential read/write speed of Apacer AS2280P2 PRO can reach up to 1,580/950 MB/s, and the random write performance can even reach up to 92,160 IOPs, bringing the best gaming experiences for gamers with their best performances.

Antishnaps has shared a video interview with developers of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2. During this interview, GSC GameWorld has revealed some new information about this game that a lot of PC gamers are looking forward to, even though there is no ETA as of yet. As GSC GameWorld confirmed, STALKER 2 will not feature any Battle Royale mode.

Funny plot: In Maneater, players will assume control of a shark and they will progress from a baby bull shark to a legendary beast. Players will fight to survive in open ocean, swamps, and rivers with danger lurking at every depth, using their wits, jaws, and the uncanny ability to evolve as they feed. According to Tripwire, the game will come out first on Epic’s store, and it will hit other digital stores 12 months later. 

In the past, we've mentioned an X590 chipset alongside the AMD X570 chipset. At the time I think AMD denied an X590 chipset, guess what? The name is now resurfacing. Short term you may expect the X570, B550 and A520 chipsets right? 

We've been talking about HDMI 2.1 for a long time now, but ever since January 2017 after it's announcement only a handful of TVs support it. Thing is, it does require a specifically optimized cable, certified even but that certification still is not finalized. That's about to change though.