Most people expected a May/June release together with Computex for Skylake-X. New information shows Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X processors to be released in the August / September 2017 timeframe.
Palit is announcing a new flagship, the GeForce GTX 1080 Dual OC. This GTX 1080 Dual OC edition delivers great performance, compact design, innovative new gaming technologies, and more.
Back in December a vunerability has been exposed on Netgear routers. Most routers already had firmware updates available and most of them can be updated. However Both Netgear and Cert now again issue a warning, please up update your firmware ASAP.
Over at the Chinese Chiphell-forum some new info appeared on the upcoming Ryzen processor release. AMD is still on track for a late February release announcement, however availability might be shifted towards due to some BIOS bugs from the motherboard manufacturers that need to be addressed.
EK introduces the CrossChill II EK hybrid cooling block for the latest ASUS ROG Z270 motherboard ASUS MAXIMUS IX Formula.
CI Games has revealed the official PC requirements for Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3. The game releases on April 4th and since it will feature open-world environments, it will be interesting to see how it performs on the PC platform. Here are the full PC requirements for Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3.
Team Group is proudly announce the DRAM gaming series flagship, T-FORCE XTREEM 3733 module completed the overall highest frequency for DDR5260.8 MHz as the world record currently. Mr. Audigy (Mr. Krittanan Nanta) by using T-FORCE XTREEM DDR3733 module pair with the Limited edition ASRock Z170M OC Formula motherboard cooled by liquid nitrogen.
As we are nearing the end of the first month in 2017, these are the ten top selling titles on Steam for the week as reported by Valve:
- H1Z1: King of the Kill
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- ASTRONEER
- Endless Grand Master Collection
- Grand Theft Auto V
- RESIDENT EVIL 7 biohazard / BIOHAZARD 7 resident evil
- Planet Coaster
- ARK: Survival Evolved
- Pit People
- The Forest
Berserk and the Band of the Hawk mixes the hack-and-slash gameplay of Koei Tecmo's Dynasty Warriors series of video games, with the setting and characters from the Berserk manga series by Kentaro Miura.
Currently there is a Flash NAND shortage due to the high and popular demand and usage for both smart-phones and SSDs. This will effect two things, prices and some units of the lesser sold units will be delayed. The 4 Terabyte model of the Samsung 850 Pro is to be delayed, a new release date was not mentioned.
The desktop Kaby lake processors have been announced and released, however the Xeon (server) counter-parts still had been unlisted, until today that is. In a document from a motherboard manufacturer all processors and specification have been noted.
Okay it's a bit of a weird title, but as many of you know Samsung started updating and rolling out Android 7.0 Nougat towards the the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge. The screen on this smart-phone series is 1440 x 2560 pixels. However after the update (users report) the phone starts in a 1080 x 1920 resolution.
Colorful announces their Colorful iGameGTX1070 X-TOP-8G Advanced Limited graphics card. This card features the latest technologies from both NVIDIA's 10-series GPU as well as Colorful's own technology.
AOC is on the move in the gaming segment for monitors in their Agon line. They have just launched a new 35" model that has been fitted with GSYNC module. The 3ms response time VA based panel comes with a resolution of 3440 x 1440 pixels.
I haven't seen photos on this specific MSI H270M Mortar (Arctic edition) just yet and stumbled into them this morning. Check it out, the H270 series is a little less enthusiast and normally a little more mainstream. Judging from what MSI is doing with it, that seems contradictory. This is a 129 USD motherboard.
Some info leaked onto the web, Dell and Fitbit have reportedly shared the release dates for the Windows 10 Redstone 2 Creators Update. The update would be available in April 2017 and brings the aforementioned gaming improvements, better DPI support, and more.
ASUS announced ZenBook UX430 and UX530, thin-and-light laptops with large slim-bezel displays in an compact form factor. These new models offer the productivity benefits of larger displays without the usual size and bulk penalty. They are also the thinnest-ever ZenBook models to feature high-performance discrete graphics.
Developer Pavonis Interactive today announced that Long War 2 for XCOM 2, a follow up mod to the incredibly popular and extensive mod, Long War, for the previous XCOM game: XCOM: Enemy Unknown is available to download via Steam.
