Desktop

Gigabyte asserts that its new AORUS TACHYON motherboard, made for Z790-compatible processors such as Intel's Raptor Lake line, has broken records on Cinebench. They apply to an overclocked version of the high-end Core i9-13900K CPU. The OEM now pitches the board as "exclusively for extreme overclocking" on the back of this new achievement.

The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D has topped scraped weekly CPU sales data from Mindfactory by an incredible margin. While the numbers are taken from a single retailer, they do offer a snapshot of the market as a whole. Raptor Lake parts have been selling better than Zen 4 chips, with the AM5 motherboard requirement likely affecting the latter’s sales.

Nvidia needs to analyze all the affected RTX 4090 cards in order to issue a full statement regarding the faulty power connectors, so the company notified all AIB partners to send relevant hardware directly to the Santa Clara HQ.

According to a new report, Huawei is preparing to update its MateStation X all-in-one desktop. While the company currently offers the Apple iMac competitor with an AMD Ryzen 7 5800H, it is rumoured to have switched to Intel and the Core i9-12900H for its 2022 refresh.

The original The Witcher from 2007 is all set to get a new lease on life. CD Projekt Red has confirmed that Fool's Theory is remaking the game in Unreal Engine 5. Unfortunately, its release date or platform availability has not been revealed.

The AMD Ryzen 7 7700 scored 2,062 and 12,685 points on its maiden Geekbench run. The 65 W CPU has a base and boost clock of 3.8 GHz and 5.3 GHz, respectively. It is about 11% slower than its X-branded counterpart in the benchmark.

Manli has officially unveiled the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB. It has the same number of CUDA cores, base/boost clocks as the 12 GB version, but reduces the total memory bandwidth to 240 GB/s. The OEM is yet to specify its price.

AMD is planning to launch an improved version of the Radeon RX 7900 XT called the Radeon RX 7900 XTX. It will feature 24 GB of GDDR6 VRAM on a 384-bit bus and a mostly uncut Navi 31 GPU.

Apple may be preparing the company’s first Mac Pro with Apple silicon if the latest report from Mark Gurman is true. According to the insider, Cupertino is currently testing the unannounced Mac Pro with two new M2 chips that are up to four times more performant than the M2 Max.

The AMD Ryzen 9 7950X has been unceremoniously dumped outside the top 10 best-performing processors in UserBenchmark’s average bench chart. While the much-praised Intel Core i9-13900K sits at the top, the Zen 4 part has to settle for a lowly position behind the i7-12700K, despite seemingly scoring much higher test marks than the Alder Lake chip.

While many retailers are facing GeForce RTX 4090 stock problems, quite a few RTX 3000-series video cards are available for generous discounts. This weekend's highlight is the discount offered by Amazon for the ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 3090 Trinity OC 24GB, which is down to US$999.99 from a list price of no less than US$2,399.99.

Wccftech has learned from its sources that the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT will launch with 20 GB of GDDR6 VRAM. AMD plans to launch an RX 7950 XT later with 24 GB of video memory.

Extreme overclocker Elmor has successfully pushed an Intel Core i9-13900K CPU to 8.8 GHz on a single core, effectively smashing the AMD FX-8370's record of 8.7 GHz. The test rig used an Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Apex motherboard and 32 GB of DDR5-4800 RAM.

Intel has taken the single-thread spoils in an interesting high-end processor clash on PassMark. The site now has entries for many Raptor Lake and Zen 4 parts, and on the surface it appears that the Intel Core i9-13900KF is the chip to beat. But while the i9-13900KF easily snagged the single-thread crown, the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X still packs multiple benefits.

With a short support period that ends in July 2023, Ubuntu 22.10 "Kinetic Kudu" comes with the new 5.19 Linux kernel, various updated applications and subsystems, and much more. In addition to the regular release, these community editions have been updated to 22.10: Kubuntu, Budgie, MATE, Unity, and Xubuntu.

Team Green seemingly produced quite a few of the bulky quad-slot coolers, as one picture suggests. Good thing these will most likely not be commercialized, since the Titan lineup is said to be dead.

Russian company Baikal Electronics has developed a powerful set of CPUs, mirroring China's efforts to be less dependent on Western silicon. Currently, Baikal Electronics' premier offering is the BE-S1000, a 48-core part that relies on ARM-based technology.

Besides revealing the advantages of the Intel Arc A770, the AV1 8K decoding test performed through the CapFrameX tool also exposes some unexpected optimization problems with the Nvidia RTX 4090, as well as some perplexingly low scores coming from AMD's RX 6800 XT card.

Greymon55 says that some Navi 31 test boards are already in the hands of AIBs. The GPU is reportedly 2X faster than its predecessor in rasterization and raytracing. AMD will unveil its next generation of graphics cards on November 3.

Scheduled to launch next week, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II has just received an in-depth list of PC requirements for a minimum, recommended, competitive, and ultra 4K level of gaming experience. Early access to the campaign will begin tomorrow, and today at 10 AM PT, the game will be available for pre-load.

A new leak suggests that game developers have started receiving PlayStation 5 Pro devkits from Sony. There is no word about when the console will be unveiled, but it is unlikely to happen within the next six months or so.

Already released for consoles and PC, the Crysis Remastered Trilogy has only been available for the latter as an Epic Games Store exclusive. Now, the trilogy is ready to land on Steam, where it will become available on November 17 with a generous first-week discount of 40 percent (55 percent for those who already own Crysis Remastered).

Danish mobile accessories brand, Sandberg, has just introduced the USB Webcam Flex with Full HD 1080p resolution and the USB-C All-in-1 Docking Station that features 3 USB ports, HDMI, DisplayPort and VGA, an Ethernet port, card readers, and more. Both products are already available on Amazon and come with a 5-year warranty.

Although the Intel Core i9-13900KF processor is known for reaching clock speeds in excess of 6 GHz, this happens when high-end Z690 and Z790 chipsets are used. However, it has recently reached 5.97 GHz on the ASUS ROG STRIX B660-F GAMING WIFI mainboard, which is an affordable solution that sports a mainstream chipset.

After the recent failure of the entry-level B650 series mainboards to start at the US$125 price promised by AMD, it looks like the tech giant is now planning to lower the production figures of the Ryzen 7000 Zen 4 CPUs. The two main reasons for this are probably the global PC market decline and the poor reception of the AM5 platform.

It seems the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D has been up to more impressive overclocking feats, with a recent HWBOT entry for an apparent engineering sample revealing an astonishing score in a Cinebench R20 multi run. While there is some discussion about the veracity of this overclocked Ryzen 7 5800X3D score, it does bode well for upcoming Ryzen 7000 X3D processors.

The Zen 3-based AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D processor has been spotted hitting astronomical clock rates that are almost 1 GHz above its published maximum boost clock. In fact, this particular Ryzen 7 5800X3D sample manages a speed that puts it alongside the processing-rate abilities of the just-released Zen 4 chips.

In an unprecedented move, Nvidia has announced that the GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB graphics card has been "unlaunched". The company has also confirmed that the GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB will be purchasable starting on November 16.

MSI has introduced a new version of the MAG META S. Available for £999 in the UK, the new MAG META S utilises the Ryzen 5 5660X, an AMD A520 chipset, the GTX 1660 SUPER and 16 GB of RAM, among other features.

The limited stock issues associated with flagship GPU launches could become a thing of the past with Nvidia's new "Verified Priority Access" program that offers GeForce Experience users a chance to order an RTX 4090 Founder Edition without worrying about retailer stocks.

8K displays are barely a thing right now, and 16K is clearly far away, but there is no doubt that the DisplayPort 1.4 standard is not enough for full chroma resolution, especially on ultra-wide monitors. While Nvidia seems reluctant to make the jump to DP 2.0, AMD is now rumored to introduce unannounced DP 2.1 connectors on the upcoming Radeon RX 7000 series.

The latest NVIDIA driver package, namely the 522.25 Game Ready driver, was released yesterday. Inside the nv_dispig.inf file that came with it, three unreleased RTX 3000 series cards were spotted: the GA102-based GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti with GDDR6X, and the GeForce RTX 3060 with 8 GB of video memory.

Bilibili leaker Enthusiast Citizen states that the AMD Radeon RX 7000 graphics cards will go on sale in December. AMD will launch only two flagship SKUs at its November 3 event, neither of which can outperform the GeForce RTX 4090 in rasterization or raytracing.

Microsoft has unveiled the Surface Studio 2+, four years on from the Surface Studio 2. Surprisingly, Microsoft has not updated the display at all and has only brought the Surface Studio series up to the lowly Intel Core i7-11370H. The Surface Studio 2+ is orderable now in one configuration that retails for US$4,499.99.

If you thought RTX 4090 was too overpowered, wait until Nvidia launches the 4090 Ti models with the best binned AD102 dies. These beasts would get even more CUDA cores, up to 2.95 GHz boost core clock out of the box, 24 Gbps GDDR6X VRAM and 475 W TGP. Could probably cost an arm and a leg, too.

Microsoft has long been rumoured to have developed the Surface Studio 3, a next-generation all-in-one desktop PC. Thought to be on track for release later today, a late rumour by a renowned leaker points towards Microsoft launching the Surface Studio 2+ in its place with an Intel Tiger Lake processor for over €6,000.

As the price of many gaming-focused graphics cards continue to fall, a well-known retailer has now discounted the well-performing Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti and offers the enthusiast-grade desktop GPU for 1440p and 4K gaming for well under US$600.

Paving the way for the launch of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 and the AMD RDNA 3 GPUs, Big Navi-based video cards such as the Radeon RX 6900 XT are now getting generous discounts with some retailers. Prices are now US$1,000 lower than in January 2022, so those interested can grab the Radeon RX 6900 XT for less than US$700.

The Horse Creek board features a SoC with 4x SiFive P550 cores manufactured on the Intel 4 production nodes. Intel integrated 8 GB of DDR5-5600 RAM as well as a PCIe 5.0 X8 slot, plus an SD card reader and many debugging interfaces.

With a 13.9 L case, the NUC 13 Extreme is larger than most builds that support a desktop-grade GPU. Intel decided to provide even more room so that users can fit a 3-slot GPU, plus improve airflow. The "Raptor Canyon" will support up to i9 K desktop processors with up to 64 GB of DDR5 RAM and Intel is expected to unveil the full specs in two weeks.

Although AMD promised a starting price of US$125 for the B650E & B650-based mainboards, the first batch to hit the market is far from it. Prices start around US$160 and go up to over US$400, depending on the features added by the third parties involved (US$449.99 for the ASRock B650E Taichi, for example).

Sony Electronics' latest stand-alone condenser microphone is a relatively affordable new offering from its Pro Audio division; however, it has inherited design elements from higher-end and "revered" counterparts such as the C-800G. Accordingly, the OEM asserts that the new uni-directional mic will deliver high-end audio specifically optimized for voice recording at a more accessible price.

Gigabyte has already debuted its new X670-type motherboards for new AMD Ryzen 7000-series processors. Now, the OEM has announced a new extended warranty program for the same new DDR5-, PCIe 5.0- and Wi-Fi 6E-compatible components. It applies to boards sold in the United States only, and, according to the company, further enhances their "Ultra Durable" appeal.

GEEKOM is celebrating its 19th anniversary this month. In honor of 19 years in business, the company is offering up to US$170 in discounts on each order placed between today and October 31. Use the coupon codes listed at the end of this article to nab the savings.

A new leak from Bilibili shows the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 boosting to 3.0 GHz in MSI Kombuster. The graphics card in question used some kind of water cooling loop/AIO cooler and drew up to 616 Watts in a separate benchmark.