Micron announced with Rambus, Northwest Logic and Avery Design, their efforts to deliver a comprehensive solution for GDDR6, the world's fastest discrete memory. 

It seems MSI is working on an updated Armor design, specifically for Radeon. Typically the Armor edition is black and white, however now a black and red one surfaced, it looks quite good actually. 

Transcend is proud to announce the release of 2.5-inch and M.2 form factor industrial solid-state drives featuring 3D TLC NAND flash memory

It's unconfirmed for now, but it looks like AMD might have canceled Implicit Primitive Shader Support on driver level. Shortly after CES2018, AMD apparently told this to some people in a breakout session, that they canceled the implicit driver path for Primitive Shaders, they are now offering only explicit control to developers who wish to implement it. 

Micron has today launched the Micron 5200 SATA series of enterprise SSDs, built on 64-layer 3D NAND technology. With capacities up to 7.68TB in a SATA 2.5” form factor, the Micron 5200 ECO SSD meets and surpasses the capacity per unit of rack space and cost advantages that had been previously owned by HDDs. 

Samsung releases its 860 EVO series SATA 6 Gb/s SSDs. Available from 250 GB up-to 4 Terabytes, this new revision is fabbed with 64-cell layer V-NAND and their new MJX controller. Armed with truckloads of performance and interesting pricing, Samsung will once again set the tone.

You can read this review right here.

Samsung releases its 860 PRO series as well, a 6 Gb/s SSD range available from 250GB up-to a whopping 4 Terabyte this new revision is fabbed with 64-cell layer V-NAND and their new MJX controller and bumps up endurance levels in TBW even more.

You can read this review right here.

Samsung releases its 860 PRO series as well, a 6 Gb/s SSD range available from 250GB up-to a whopping 4 Terabyte this new revision is fabbed with 64-cell layer V-NAND and their new MJX controller. Armed with truckloads of performance and interesting pricing, Samsung will once again set the tone and bumps up endurance levels in TBW even more.

Samsung releases its 860 EVO series SATA 6 Gb/s SSDs. Available from 250 GB up-to 4 Terabytes, this new revision is fabbed with 64-cell layer V-NAND and their new MJX controller. Armed with truckloads of performance and interesting pricing, Samsung will once again set the tone.

ADATA is proud to present the ED600 external hard drive enclosure, which offers users the convenience of portable external storage coupled with the speed and performance of solid state drives (SSDs). 

A company called Integral Memory has launched a microSD memory card with a massive volume capacity of 512GB, yep that's half a Terabyte on something smaller than your pinky fingernail. The card reads at a maximum 80MB/s and follows the UHS-I U1 standard.

You can check out the grabs of AMD Ryzen 3 2200G and Ryzen 5 2400G "Raven Ridge" desktop APU retail packaging. Yes, AMD is on track with these alright. The processor in box packages would include the upcoming APU which is paired with an AMD Wraith Stealth cooler.

Streacom is pleased to announce the DB4 GPU cooling kit, our first ever fanless cooling solution for discrete graphics cards. Designed specifically for the DB4, it utilizes one of the 4 side panels for cooling, making silent performance graphics/gaming a reality. 

Intel sends word to manufacturers and end users to not to apply the current version of its Meltdown and Specter patches. This is for specific systems. They identified an issue and cause, making the system randomly restart/reboot.

A mesh network spreads out each connection, ensuring Wi-Fi beyond the reach of a single router’s signal. Each mesh router pod on the network will also intelligently “talk” to its neighbouring pods, which also then “talk” to their neighbouring pods. 

The Hidden Ones is the first expansion to be released for Assassin’s Creed Origins. Probably its most noteworthy inclusion is the addition of a brand new area to explore, called the Sinai Peninsula. The level cap is also set to be increased, and players will also be able to earn new gear to help in your travels. The Hidden Ones expansion is available for $9.99, however, if you purchase the season pass, you’ll be able to download it free of additional charge. Assassin’s Creed Origins was originally released on October 27, 2017, and is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows PC. The Hidden Ones DLC is set to be available tomorrow, January 23, 2018. 

Custom AMD Radeon Vega card are apparently getting so rare that when they surface online, all media reports on it, hey ok, why not :) Announced late in 2017 Sapphire offered the Nitro+ models. However, on the German-based website of Alternate a new model Radeon RX Vega 56 appeared, the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX Vega 56.

Ubisoft today has published the Far Cry 5 PC System Requirements, ahead of its launch on 27 March on multiple platforms. The game on PC will get extra graphics tweak options. Overall, the requirements are not that bad at all for Full HD and Quad HD gamers. Ultra HD might get a little more beefy of a requirement though. 

Word out on the web today is that the latest version of Denuvo (game copy protection), Denuvo 4.8, has been cracked or bypassed. A certain group has been successful to crack Sonic Forces; a game that uses Steam and Denuvo 4.8, which previously was not crackable.

The upcoming Samsung Galaxy S9 camera possibly will have the ability to capture full HD video at a super-slow-motion 480 frames per second. This is possible through the use of a '3-stack FRS': a fast readout sensor based on three layers.

As we talked about a while ago, VIA launches their Zhaoxin processors, well SoC's really. Zhaoxin has launched the new processors in the KX-5000 series. With the to be released KX-7000, it wants to compete with AMD again.

AMD has announced the specifications of two of these APU's: the Ryzen 3 2200G and the Ryzen 5 2400G series. What is interesting to see straight of the bat is that default memory speeds have been bumped upwards to up to 2933 MHz.

Hot off the press after the Optane 800P m.2 SSDs Intel does not sit still, several websites showing pre-order price is for a new module named "M10", these would be new Optane cache modules.

Retailers have begun selling GeForce GTX graphics cards in limited quantities per order. Nvidia confirmed this due to an initiative of the GPU manufacturer in an attempt to limit sales to miners. What effect this has on for prices and availability, remains to be seen.

Cloud Imperium Games released a new video of its upcoming space simulator Star Citizen. The video showcases the process of creating ships, also introducing the teams and developers responsible for the process of bringing each warbird from the concept phase to flyable. 

Gigabyte announced the release of new generation Gemini Lake based J/N series motherboards with the built-in latest Intel Pentium Silver/ Intel Celeron processors. Gemini Lake offers support for hdmi 2.0 and a built-in 10-bit vp9 decoder in relation to the predecessor.

It's not much to look at, but here is the ten top selling titles on Steam for the week as reported by Valve:

PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
Slay the Spire
Human: Fall Flat
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
They Are Billions
Divinity: Original Sin 2
Grand Theft Auto V
DRAGON BALL FighterZ
DRAGON BALL FighterZ
Subnautica

We talked about the Core i3 8300, Core i5 8500 and some other processors for a couple of times already. The new models now get a price and availability date as they just surfaced and got listed at an Australian webshop. 

We already checked out the H150i PRO, Now it's time for the Corsair Hydro Series H115i PRO. The dual-fan 280mm model of the AIO Liquid cooler series that Corsair releases. With a tiny bit of RGB, bling Corsair promises to deliver ultra-silent performance with more than adequate cooling capacity.

Read the full review here.

In this review we check out the new Corsair Hydro Series H115i PRO - the dual-fan 280mm model of the AIO Liquid cooler series that Corsair releases. With a tiny bit of RGB, bling Corsair promises to deliver ultra-silent performance with more than adequate cooling capacity. 

Announced recently and already lowered in price. The NZXT motherboard (it's an ECS fabbed mobo btw) was announced at $299.99, that has been reconfigured towards $249.99, effective immediately. Not just that, NZXT increases warranty from three to four years as well.

So there is some sort of 'product' sales slide deck series from SK Hynix, and it just got an update, GDDR6 graphics memory has moved in its status, and is available starting now. This reflects the availability of 10, 12 and even 14 Gbps 1GB chips.

LG is launching their latest 27-inch 4K HDR compliant LCD monitor, the 27UK650-W. Adopting a 3-side frameless design, this new 27-inch IPS LED-backlight monitor (HDR 10 standard support – achieving vivid and natural colors with wide viewing angle) supports a native resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels.

Overclocking of a Skylake-X processor is not a simple task due to the inefficient thermal-interface material (TIM) being used instead of solder, (which offers much better thermal performance).  Roman 'der8auer' Hartung who already designed a delid tool now also releases a cooling plate, a frame that can be mounted directly further reducing the temperatures of the processor by 5 to 10 °C.

Western Digital Corporation expands its portfolio for enterprise customers with a new, mid-range series of 4 terabyte (TB), 6TB and 8TB air-based hard drives. The new products enable data centers having data set sizes smaller than found in hyperscale environments.

When we set out to create the Definitive Edition of the original Age of Empires, our goal was to deliver the best possible version of this classic, from a top notch audio-visual presentation to multiplayer to core game systems

Ubisoft has released a new trailer for Far Cry 5 in which Dan Hay and Philippe Fournier answer some fan questions. In addition, this trailer features some new gameplay footage from this upcoming open-world title. The game is coming released March 27th. 

Oh, the memories. GOG and Stainless Games are currently offering Carmageddon TDR 2000 for free for the next 480 hours. PC gamers can go ahead and download this DRM-free version of Carmageddon TDR 2000 and it keep it theirs forever.