A few days ago Intel announced that Bob Swan, the current CEO of Intel, will leave his position on February 15 to be succeeded by Pat Gelsinger, Oregonlive now reports that the new CEO stands to collect well over $100 million at his new job.
Biostar announces the launch of their latest Z590 VALKYRIE series motherboard range engineered to run Intels 11th gen Rocket Lake-S processors.
The current market trend is that M.2/NVMe drives are the preferred option because they usually offer better performance, with fewer cables needed. But there’s a place for SATA drives as well. They are still 4-5x faster than HDDs, which they will eventually replace in most PCs.
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Yesterday we posted a story about G-Sync Ultimate versus the wording that NVIDIA now uses on the required HDR specification in G-Sync Ultimate.
Samsung today introduced its latest 108-megapixel (Mp) mobile image sensor, Samsung ISOCELL HM3. With a wide spectrum of advanced sensor technologies, the HM3 can capture sharper and more vivid images in ultra-high resolution with faster auto-focus and extended dynamic range.
AOC in Asia is listing a new 31.5" screen (AG323QCX2) on its website, the VA panel is based on a WQHD resolution (2560x1440 pixels), a refresh rate of up to 155 Hz and 1500 R curvature.
Equipped with a maximum 16,000dpi sensor, equipped with 8 buttons that support a total of 48 macros. ARGENT M5 Wireless RGB is a 3-way interface gaming mouse that supports dual wireless of 2.4GHz wireless and Bluetooth 5.0, and also allows wired USB connection. It is equipped with PixArt's optical sensor "PMW 3335" and supports a maximum resolution of 16,000 dpi.
Dell announced a new high-end gaming PC "Alienware Aurora Ryzen Edition R10" compatible with AMD Ryzen 9 5950X and GeForce RTX 3090.
An interesting observation was made today, a crafty contemporary change in the text on Nvidia’s website seems to indicate that NVIDIA has downgraded the requirements for the top of the line G-Sync Ultimate certification. The VESA DisplayHDR 1000 requirement changed to ‘lifelike HDR’.
Intel's soon the be announced Rocket-Lake-S series desktop processors have created a lot of excitement in the processor market. Z590 motherboards will be released soon; the procs, however, should see a release in March.
MSI (and all other brands) is going to release the latest AGESA COMBO PI V2 1.2.0.0 BIOS for AMD 500 series and 400 series motherboards, including MAX and non-MAX models.
Some eight years after the last AMD-based Mini-PC from Shuttle, a second processor manufacturer is once again being incorporated into the company’s own product line. As an initial model to revive this segment, Shuttle is supplying a robust 1.3-liter PC for AMD Ryzen processors with socket AM4.
While we expected the first DisplayPort 2.0 compatible monitors announced at CES, they seem to have been further delayed due to the pandemic. The DisplayPort 2.0 standard was finalized mid-2019.
Creative is re-rereleasing its Sound Blaster Z. This special edition (SE) sound card has a few extra features, new gaming profiles, extra microphone presets and equalizer presets.
Samsung Electronics announced that it is combining innovative new gaming features with exciting industry partnerships to create a groundbreaking gaming experience with 2021 Neo QLED and QLEDs.
Antec announced a new mid tower PC case tagged the "DF700 FLUX", it uses an airflow design that guides front and side intake to top and rear.
We reported about these last week already, but some new info and photos just arrived. The "EK-AIO Basic" series is an all-in-one water cooling unit featuring an all-black design that drops any RGB lighting function. So this is RGB free.
Kingston is starting pre-orders for the HyperX "Pulsefire Haste" gaming mouse, which has achieved an ultra-light weight of only 59g (excluding cables) due to the honeycomb shell design. The release date is scheduled for February 1.
The Optane products have been both impressive and disappointing ever since the beginning. Impressive for the sheer performance it offers, and disappointing due to the high price levels. In fact, most Optane products ended up as cache only solution due to that price.
TerraMaster expands its 10GbE Series with the F5-422 5-bay quad-core NAS. The TerraMaster F5-422 is equipped with a powerful Intel Celeron quad-core processor and a 10 Gigabit Ethernet port along with two 1000MB/s ethernet ports to support network aggregation. Via the high-speed 10GbE, the F5-422 can deliver read and write speeds of up to 670MB/s using 6TB Seagate IronWolf NAS hard drives in RAID 5.
