EK also is releasing EK-Vector Radeon VII water blocks that are compatible with reference design Radeon VII graphics cards. This kind of efficient cooling will allow your high-end graphics card to reach higher boost clocks, thus providing more overclocking headroom and more performance during gaming or other GPU intense tasks.
You know it, in my reviews I have been complaining for a year or so now that the developments for the SATA interface are not progressing. Most SATA3 SSDs these days are limited by the more narrow bandwidth the interface offers. As a result, we've seen SSD NAND storage in the form of M.2. on the rise for a year or two already.
A new update for Battlefield 5 is live, Chapter 3 for the WW2 shooter. The first patch for Trial by Fire not only prepares the Battle Royale mode Firestorm, but also changes some game elements such as the dogfight. Also in the much-criticized AA-edge smoothing DLSS there should be improvements in sharpness.
The credit for c***up of the year goes to Facebook. The company keeps promising things but as it now turns out it stored the passwords of hundreds of millions of users completely unencrypted, yes that would be plain text on internal servers readable to anyone who had access to the server and files.
We've all been accustomed to Valve's Steam layout (GUI) for many years now and little has changed. Well, that is about to change as over at GDC Valve has announced with is going to overhaul the GUI.
The ViewSonic XG240R has been announced a while ago and was available in selected regions. The company just announced it is now globally available including the Asia region. This screen has a 24" Full HD panel (TN) offering a 144 Hz refresh rate and 1 ms response time at a more affordable 269 EUR / 259 USD price marker.
TP-Linkunveils a full product line of Archer A Series Wi-Fi routers, the latest additions to TP-Link's lineup of affordable, cutting-edge networking solutions. Priced from 20 to 30 percent lower than other brands, the new line of Archer A series Wi-Fi routers offers unbeatable value and is one of the most complete Wi-Fi offerings in the marketplace.
To expand the FLUID line of products, EK adds one aluminum water block that is cross-compatible with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 and 2080Ti cards which use the reference PCB and layout.
Epic will add real-time ray tracing to its Unreal Engine 4.22 starting March 26, the company announced at the Game Developer Conference. Starting March 26 the support for DXR DirectX12 will be complete opening up a new set of tools to the six million developers using the engine. Together with the announcement, the company unveiled a new demo made with Unreal Engine 4.22, called Troll, have a peek below.
Intel quite silently published a paper that details the 11th generation graphics architecture for their integrated GPUs. With Skylake came Gen9 graphics, with Kaby Lake Gen9.5 and with the upcoming 10nm Ice Lake processors (late this year) you may expect integrated graphics with Gen11 iGPUs.
ZOTAC today announced the launch of the super-compact gaming desktop, MEK MINI. Boasting a mere 9.18 liter, MEK MINI packs an Intel Core i7 processor, a discrete ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX graphics card, and SPECTRA 2.0 lighting system.
The Patriot brand is known more widely for making flash drives, SSDs, and RAM. On the 24th of October last year, they announced a new gaming keyboard with RGB backlighting - the Viper V765. We are reviewing the version with White Kailh switches.
Read the review here.
NVIDIA has released a driver specifically intended for content creators. We now have Game Ready, Creator Ready, DCH, Beta, Quadro, Vulkan and Hotfix drivers. What did ever happen with the universal driver program NVIDIA? This new update offer increase perf in titles like Blender, Adobe Photoshop CC and CINEMA 4D.
Download the Nvidia GeForce 419.67 WHQL CRD driver as released by NVIDIA. The CRD driver is key creative application updates, ensuring the best compatibility and performance for those who depend on PCs for their creative work.
Samsung announced that it has developed a 3rd-generation 10-nanometer-class (1z-nm) eight-gigabit (Gb) Double Data Rate 4 (DDR4) DRAM for the first time in the industry. Development of 1z-nm 8Gb DDR4 without the use of Extreme Ultra-Violet (EUV) processing has pushed the limits of DRAM scaling even further.
Intel is on a journey to improve the graphics experience for over a billion consumers worldwide. The first step in that is to update their software, which now has been redesigned with new features and better user experience.
For this first time ever (that we know of) ASUS has reported a loss in the last quarter of 2018, mainly due to its struggling smartphone business. Asustek has already begun reorganizing and adjusting its smartphone strategy in the first half of 2019.
Download Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.3.3. This release adds support for the launch of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and Generation Zero.
Microsoft has started notifying users of Windows 7 that support will be halted next year. A patch was released on Wednesday that will continue to remind users of that happening next year.
MSI announced Tom Clancy's The Division 2 game bundle started from March 15, 2019, and continues till April 15, 2019. Users who purchase selected MSI gaming monitors can get a digital standard edition of Tom Clancy's The Division 2 for free.
Epic Games announced added new games that will hot the Epic Games store. Some of the new exclusives include The Outer Worlds, Control, Industries of Titan, Beyond: Two Souls, Detroit: Become Human, Heavy Rain and many more titles. Humble Bundle has been chosen as a distribution partner for the Epic Games store which will allow it to sell Epic Games keys which will be redeemable on the Epic Games store. Epic will receive no revenue share from the sale of those games purchased through the Humble Store. Customers can link their Humble Store accounts to the Epic Games store for direct purchasing.
Epic also announced that Ubisoft will place several titles in the Epic Store. In addition, games from the company's portfolio should become part of the regular, free offers in the store.
Download Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.3.3. This release adds support for the launch of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and Generation Zero.
Google has announced its game streaming service Stadia on Tuesday. The platform will be available later in 2019 in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Europe.
For home entertainment or at the office, the Philips E9 Series includes the 32" Ultra-Wide Color QHD monitor (328E9FJAB), and the Philips 32" (328E9QJAB) and 27'' Ultra-Wide Color LCD monitors (278E9QJAB).
The GeForce RTX 2080 SEA HAWK X has announced late September last year already. And while the 2080 Ti version did hit the stores, the RTX 2080 SEA HAWK X was put on hold it seems. Well, the product is available ever since a few weeks.
EK is boosting the performance of their kits with a newer revision of EK-Vardar fans. The majority of ever-popular EK liquid cooling kits are getting new fans with a wider speed range which will allow quieter operation or more cooling power.
We review ASUS RT-AX88U, this premium WIFI-6 router is compatible with the new AX standard whilst retaining it's compatibility with AC and lower bands as well. The Wi-Fi router from ASUS has been fitted with a quad-core processor even.
Read the review here.
Samsung announced its new High Bandwidth Memory (HBM2E) product at NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) to deliver the highest DRAM performance levels for use in next-generation supercomputers, graphics systems, and artificial intelligence (AI).
Intel and Cray are teaming up to create an exascale super compute(r) cluster for the US Department of Energy, which should be ready by 2021. The supercomputer has Intel written all over it, fitted with Intel Xeon CPUs, Optane memory and there it is, Xe GPUs.
Megacity contains 4.5 million mesh renderers, 5000 dynamic vehicles and 200,000 unique building objects. The vehicles fly on spline-based traffic lanes, never colliding, and there are 100,000 unique audio sources, including neon signs, air-conditioning fans, and cars.
