MSI announces Intel 400 series motherboards along with the brand new Core processors for socket 1200. Intel CPUs provide high specifications with up to 10 cores that improve both CPU and memory performance. MEG, MPG and MAG series are three different segments catered towards the most demanding gamers.

ASUS today announced its new range of Z490 motherboards designed to showcase the full potential of the new 10th Generation Intel Core™ processors. Ideal for gamers, enthusiasts and professionals, every ASUS and Republic of Gamers Z490 motherboard features improvements and enhancements to take clock speeds to the next level.

ASRock, proudly announces its latest range of motherboards featuring Intel 400-series chipsets and supporting the latest Intel 10th Generation processors with up to 10-cores using the LGA1200 socket.

Up to a 16-Phase Digital Power Design with Next Gen. Thermal Design to Deliver 90 Amps Per Phase for 10th Gen. Intel Core Processors.

For faster networking, the latest COLORFUL Z490 series motherboards come equipped with the latest Wi-Fi 6 standard and 2.5 Gigabit LAN.

The BIOSTAR's flagship motherboard range, the RACING Z490 series has 3 new models introduced to the market, the RACING Z490GTA EVO, RACING Z490GTA and the RACING Z490GTN.

During its last earnings report, AMD confirmed that it has had 10 successive quarters of growth, and that its global market share in the premium CPU segment has already exceeded 50%.

The Cronos Zero Stone Noise is the newest addition to the zero noise series from ABKONCORE. 

The Alpha 15 not only elevated the standard of technology innovation, but also showed that the all-AMD affair of the Ryzen mobile processors and Radeon GPU could provide a powerful basis for gaming performance.

As part of an ongoing cooperation between ASUS and Portrait Displays, selected ProArt Displays are now either Calman Ready to indicate the ability to communicate directly with Calman software, or Calman Verified as an assurance of studio-quality color accuracy right out of the box.

Earlier last week MSI already spilled some beans. Upcoming Comet-Lake-S processors (up to 10 cores) from Intel will require a new motherboard (Socket LGA 1200). This round, it's ASRock.

Yeah, somebody at ASUS is going to have a problem as the leaks just keep on coming.  This round information on the ROG Maximus XII flagship motherboard leaked. 

Philips announced their 24-inch 245B1 LCD monitor. This IPS model features a quad HD resolution (2560x1440), a Power Sensor to save up to 70% energy costs and HDMI connectivity. The 245B1 provides built-in stereo speakers and a variety of connections, including DisplayPort 1.2, HDMI 1.4, USB 3.2 and HDCP.

DisplayPort Alt Mode version 2.0 enables all of the latest capabilities of DisplayPort through the USB Type-C connector, including beyond-8K resolution and higher refresh rates, along with USB data delivery

With the rig of the month, we have seen many things. Among them the most expensive and beautiful builds, some from amateurs, others are true modders. The April edition falls into that last category, meet George from Greece-Athens with his build called Dark's iLLuMiNaTioN. He's not a man of many words though.

Check out the new ROTM April right here.

Meet the April edition of the Guru3D Rig of the month 2020, right here. 

The rumor mill can't stop the chatter about NVIDIA's series 3000 cards, and that will probably stay that way until announced. Today yet another twitter user posted a chart, with names and specifications. The interesting part, however, is that the tweet originates from chiakokhua, who you might remember as "Retired engineer". 

CPUID has released build version 1.92 of their popular CPU-Z system information software. We have added it to our download servers for you to grab. An interesting side note has to be made, added is support for Z490/W480/B460 Comet Lake platform, AMD "Renoir" Ryzen APU AMD Ryzen 3 3100 & 3300X.

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The Genesis Thor 300 RGB is a keyboard mainly intended for gamers. It packs mechanical keys, new generation RGB illumination, and software which allows for personalization to use the device’s full potential while playing.

MSI released a new monitor, this time the Optix G27C5 monitor at 165 Hz, a 27-inch full HD gaming LCD that uses a Samsung VA panel with 1500R curvature. It supports a response speed of 1 ms and a refresh rate of 165 Hz.

A bit unusual from AMD, but ZEN3 and RDNA2 based technologies will be released late 2020, AMD confirmed this on twitter. Earlier on a roadmap confirmed that the design phase of Zen 3 is complete and that will be a "7 nm+" process refresh.

Beginning today and ending on May 21, EPIC will periodically require two-factor authentication prior to claiming free games on the Epic Games Store. They are making this change in an effort to encourage our players to take steps to strengthen their Epic account security.

After the WD debacle, Toshiba follows. The introduction of Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology has enabled HDD manufacturers, such as Toshiba, to increase the capacity of their spinning platter drives beyond that of existing approaches. 

AMD shares record first-quarter sales in the first three months of this year. Compared to the same time frame last year, sales increased 40% to $ 1.79 billion. The gross margin generated net sales of $162 million from revenues, with a gross profit margin of 46%. According to AMD, the Ryzen processors are a big part of the increased sales and profits.

QNAP launched the quad-core TS-x31K series NAS (including 1-bay, 2-bay and 4-bay models) that provides centralized data backup and management, easy file access and sharing, feature-rich multimedia applications and secure Snapshots protection.

In the night of Wednesday, 29th April 2020, at 05:30 am UTC+2 some maintenance will take place in our datacenter. That means in the EU during nighttime there will be a short interruption of the Internet uplink, we expect an offtime of fewer than 10 minutes. 

MSI introduces its all new X570 motherboard, MAG X570 TOMAHAWK WIFI. For the 3rd Gen Ryzen processors, the new MAG X570 TOMAHAWK WIFI motherboard is optimized with best performance in every aspects.

Well, after Comets  .. meteors .. why not? Intel is paving the desktop road with Comet and Rocket Lake, the following series would, or rather, could be Meteor Lake. 

Origin PC is proud to announce the availability of a custom Origin PC desktop powered by AMD Ryzen inside a Tesla Model S for kids called the Ludicrous PC.

be quiet! introduces Pure Rock 2. This update to the entry-level Pure Rock cooler from 2014 ticks the right boxes as the upgrade from stock coolers by Intel and AMD. 

Meet the Phanteks Enthoo 719, a full-tower PC chassis with some RGB in it (not exaggerated), which already had its debut back in August 2019. Although half a year has passed since then, there’s a good reason for this delayed review. We’re going to use this chassis for some interesting stuff later, but not without presenting the product to Guru3D readers first (at least those of you who didn’t have a chance to read about it elsewhere).

You can read the full review here.

This time, we’re taking a look at the Phanteks Enthoo 719, a full-tower PC chassis with some RGB in it (not exaggerated), which already had its debut back in August 2019. Although half a year has passed since then, there’s a good reason for this delayed review. We’re going to use this chassis for some interesting stuff later, but not without presenting the product to Guru3D readers first (at least those of you who didn’t have a chance to read about it elsewhere).

TEAMGROUP today announces two new products, the T-FORCE SPARK RGB USB Flash Drive and the ELITE SDXC Memory Card. The T-FORCE SPARK RGB USB Flash Drive has a soft RGB lighting effect and a smart capacity display design to supports multiplatform operation.

With an image of its Z490 Aorus Master, Gigabyte announced that on April 30 it will launch its 400 Series motherboards in an “Aorus Direct” event that will be broadcast on YouTube at 2:00 pm.

An alleged slide disclosed by an online publication shows AMD would be aiming for DDR5 support by 2022. In doing so, it would make its way to the mainstream platforms. 

The pending Windows 10 update v2004 should speed up good old HDD performance, in certain circumstances that is. According to a Windows Latest test, hard disk systems should become noticeably faster. 

Kingston announced KC2500, powerful performance using the latest Gen 3.0 x 4 controller and 96-layer 3D TLC NAND. With speeds1 up to 3,500MB/s read and up to 2,900MB/s write, KC2500 combines outstanding performance and endurance that improves workflow for desktop, workstation and power users

Total War: SHOGUN 2 features enhanced full 3D battles via land and sea, which made a name for the series, as well as the tactical campaign map that many refer to as the heart and soul of Total War.

Thermaltake welcomes the new member to the S series, the S100 Tempered Glass Micro Chassis which comes in both black and white versions. 

Micron announced the first open-source, heterogeneous-memory storage engine (HSE), designed specifically for solid-state drives (SSDs) and storage-class memory (SCM). 

Following ASRock, ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte, Colorful now as well has the issue some motherboards of the lineup leaked out. In specific I am talking about the Z490 motherboard lineup of course, based on Socket LGA1200 for Comet-lake, and later on Rocket-Lake.