Next week you'll see a number of board partners release their custom Radeon RX 5700 graphics cards. We've already addressed quite a bit of them, and some new ones have surfaced.

Taiwan's Phison is known for its flash NAND controllers, and have been going strong for the past three years. They have unveiled a road map for SSD controllers that support PCI Express Gen4. One model jumps out the PS5018-E18. 

Deepcool launches 2 new AIO CPU liquid coolers with Anti-leak Tech and aesthetics inside - Castle 240 RGB V2 and Castle 360 RGB V2.

Today, Intel announced that laptops verified through its innovation program, code-named “Project Athena,” will feature the visual identifier “Engineered for Mobile Performance.” 

Eurocom Corporation offers the EUROCOM Nightsky RX15, a 15.6” system featuring a vibrant Sharp IGZO FHD panel with a blazing fast 240Hz refresh rate, powered by the strappy Intel 9980HK CPU.

Samsung Electronics, Ltd., has taken its leadership position in the memory market a step further today by announcing support of the Samsung PM1733 PCIe Gen4 Solid State Drive (SSD) and high density RDIMM and LRDIMM dynamic random access memory (DRAM) for the AMD EPYC 7002 Generation Processors. AMD launched the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processor in San Francisco yesterday.

Slides from the media deck on the ASUS custom-design Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics card, the ROG Strix RX 5700 XT OC, has leaked to the web, listing all details and design specs.

LIQMAX III RGB features a luminous RGB fan and Aurabelt water block designed to support synchronizable RGB lighting with RGB motherboards from ASRock, ASUS, Gigabyte, and MSI. Compatible with both Intel and AMD CPU sockets (except socket TR4/SP3), LIQMAX III RGB would be your top choice to experience the harmonious RGB lighting effects.

An exciting day for AMD as they introduced its second generation of Epyc server processors. Epyc 7002 processors (Rome) get a massive 64 cores for its flagship models. That's twice what it was a year ago. These puppies can do 3.4 GHz as long as a maximum of eight cores and have an all-core turbo of 3.2 GHz.

Toshiba announced their enterprise SSD based on PCIe 4.0m and these units are capable of a sequential read performance of over 6.4GB/s. 

ASUS today announced multiple solutions with AMD EPYCTM 7002 series processors, including RS500A-E10 series server systems and the KRPA-U16 server motherboard. The AMD EPYCTM 7002 processor features the world’s first 7nm datacenter-design and a PCI Express 4.0-capable x86 server processor that offers up to twice the performance and four times the floating point capability versus the previous 7001 generation. 

3D artist Alden Filion, who has worked in some triple-A games like Battlefield 4, Crackdown 3 and Lost Planet 3, has released a new Unreal Engine 4 ray tracing tech demo. This tech demo was created for the Nvidia DXR Spotlight contest. UE4 Diode is basically a short third-person action/melee game that takes advantage of real-time ray tracing. Players can explore a castle, solve a simple puzzle and fight some enemies. 
 

Custom NAVI Radeon RX 5700 (XT) graphics cards are getting closer and closer. There will be many brands and models. Of course, we've seen a thing or two from MSI, however, photos of the RX 5700 XT EVOKE we have not seen. MSI send us a teaser image for us to post. 

Yesterday we reported that gigabyte is actively pulling inf PCI-Express 4.0 support from all non-X570 motherboards. AMD has now stepped it up and is has removed the feature from older chipsets in their latest AGESA firmwares. 

Bitdefender claims to have discovered a new vulnerability in all current Intel processors, which, like Meltdown and Specter, are based on Speculative Execution, which performs probable, subsequent instructions to increase speed.

Sapphire's Radeon RX 5700 XT is up for pre-order, at least the budget-friendly model the Pulse. It has been priced 429 British pounds which is roughly 469 EUR.