As of March 31, 2019, Backblaze had 106,238 spinning hard drives in our cloud storage ecosystem spread across three data centers. Of that number, there were 1,913 boot drives and 104,325 data drives. 

If you just had a peek at the ASUS Ryzen 3000 compatibility list you will have noticed that A320 motherboards are not updated for compatibility. ASRock however also updated their support pages and it seems AMD Ryzen 3000 chips could be compatible with their A320 motherboards.

Be quiet! has made an announcement for their Dark Rock Slim, a compact high-end CPU cooler that offers high physical clearance for any memory module. With a supported TDP of up to 180 watts, Dark Rock Slim offers enough headroom for silently cooling any mainstream processor while keeping the space above occupied RAM slots clear.

NVIDIA released a GeForce 430.53 hotfix driver that adresses high CPU usage by NVDisplay.Container.exe, a 3DMark Time Spy: Flickering bug as well as some other fixes.

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D-Link announces the availability of its all-new Exo Smart Mesh Wi-Fi Router series; a powerful addition to D-Link’s portfolio of seamless connection solutions for the home. The series comprises of AC1900 Smart Mesh Wi-Fi Router (DIR-1960), AC2600 Smart Mesh Wi-Fi Router (DIR-2660) and AC3000 Smart Mesh Wi-Fi Router (DIR-3060).

Asus announces extensive support for the upcoming AMD processor generation. A total of 35 boards are to be able to run with a BIOS update when it comes to supporting the CPU models that are not yet announced but are the next-generation AMD Ryzen CPUs .

Yes, what if you run out of series numbers like Core i9 9900K? Move another digit or go back to the drawing board with a new naming? Well, it appears Intel will be doing the first and could be using a 10.000 processor suffix for upcoming processor generations.

Well, loads of AMD related news today. Earlier today in this news item we discussed the X570 chipset, well, that same source mentions some more spicy info on their website. Apparently, AMD Ryzen samples have been sent to motherboard manufacturers for product validation, these engineering samples already run 4.5 GHz. 

On April 29, AMD is making several announcements to commemorate its 50th anniversary. First, the company will launch ‘Gold Edition’ versions of the AMD Ryzen 7 2700X processor and AMD Radeon VII graphics card.

The April 2019 Rig Of The Month is a bit of a Purple and Red Heaven, designed for gaming, music production and video editing it serves Vangelis from Greece (no not that one) really well, and what a nice desk PC he has made.

Check out his rig right here.

Meet the April edition of the Guru3D Rig of the month 2019, right here. 

AMD has issued an updated build for their motherboard and proc chipset drivers, bringing them up-to build v18.50.0422. It has been a long time ever since AMD updated these officially. 

As we get closer to the Computex announcements with hopefully some good NAVI and Ryzen 3000 info, we all klnow there will be a new chipset from AMD as well. It's not likely to be a massive upgrade chipset as the procs mostly are backward compatible with X370/X470.

TSMC is working on a 6nm production process, which is a bit of a surprise as it never appeared on earlier roadmaps, these went from 7 and 7+ directly to 5 and 5+. 

Good news for consumers that would like a nice big 4TB SSD in the 2.5" form factor as Western Disgital now follows Samsung by offering one. It started listing at several shops for roughly 550 Euros.

In Japan, a new website went up from AMD, as we all know AMD is turning 50 soon and we've seen a number of graphics cards and signed processors already surface in etail. More details are now known.

While you have been able to read our review, the press release was still pending. Fractal Design revealed a new take on one of their most popular new case designs with the Define S2 Vision, a modification of the S2 chassis with a range of upgrades including dark tempered glass panels on all sides. 

We all know that the successor towards AMD's Polaris (Radeon 570/580/590) is to be released, with some announcements already expected during Computex late next month. Indications for this are getting stronger as PCB photos of an AMD board design have surfaced.

Meet the new water block from Bitspower, this Touchaqua CPU Block Summit MS OLED is intended for Intel processors with a LGA 775, LGA 115x or 2011/2066 socket and has both RGB and a small OLED screen displaying coolant temperature.