GravaStar Mercury M2 Stealth Black Gaming Mouse Review

Others/Mice & Keyboards by stefan @ 2024-03-17 read/post comments(0)

The Mercury M2 is really on another level in terms of looks, while the large ventilated areas do also help with cooling quite a bit. If dust is accumulated inside, it won’t go on the internal board, which is protected via a semi-transparent enclosure and is easy to clean. The Stealth Black color of the plastic finishing would make you think the chassis is made from metal when looking from a distance, thanks to the quality of the build and it won’t create any creaking noises, the chassis being sturdy. read more

AQIRYS HYDRA 360 AIO Review

Cooling/CPU Cooling by stefan @ 2024-03-10 read/post comments(0)

The HYDRA 360 AIO from AQIRYS did impress us in terms of performance, does not require extra controllers to function, relying all control via the computers’ motherboard. The included LCD display is easy to read and will display information strictly related to the cooler, such as the fan speeds, the pump speed but also the coolant temperature. read more

Silicon Power XPOWER Zenith 2x16GB DDR5 6000MHz Memory Kit Review

Memory by stefan @ 2024-03-06 read/post comments(0)

The XPOWER Zenith 32GB 6000MHz non-RGB memory kit does offer quite a bit of performance thanks to the lower latencies versus the JEDEC specifications, while operating at a voltage of 1.35. During operation, the modules only get a bit warm to the touch so can function even in cases which are not very well optimized in terms of airflow. The height of about 38.5mm does ensure compatibility with larger cooling systems and the potential customer can choose between white or black heatspreaders, with the same technical specifications. read more

Patriot Viper Gaming VP4000 Mini 1TB M.2 2230 PCIe Gen4 SSD Review

Storage/SSD by stefan @ 2024-03-02 read/post comments(0)

The VP4000 Mini 1TB SSD from Patriot Memory does perform great as an upgrade for portable consoles and when talking about durability, the one terabyte model has 250 TBW. The inclusion of TLC NAND makes sure the write speeds to not reach HDD-like levels when the pSLC cache has been fully utilized, while the temperatures remain at bay even when writing large quantities of data at once. read more

ANACOMDA Eryx Tataricus RGB 2x16GB DDR5 6000MHz Memory Kit Review

Memory by stefan @ 2024-02-25 read/post comments()

The Eryx Tataricus DDR5 6000 RGB memory kit from ANACOMDA does integrate perfectly with the RGB tools from different manufacturers, the heat spreaders are subtle and help with heat evacuation, while the kit can deliver quite a bit of extra performance when overlocking is applied, while maintaining the same CAS latencies and operating voltage. read more

Acer FA200 PCIe 4.0 2TB SSD Review

Storage/SSD by stefan @ 2024-02-18 read/post comments(0)

The Acer FA200 2TB manufactured by BIWIN Storage Technology can deliver good performance even without an included DRAM cache, being really close in performance with other mainstream to high-end drives, which is quite impressive! The large quantity of pSLC cache allows the drive to maintain high performance even after continuously writing over 450GB to it. read more
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Unwrapping the NVIDIA B200 and GB200 AI GPU Announcements

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NVIDIA on Monday, at the 2024 GTC conference, unveiled the "Blackwell" B200 and GB200 AI GPUs. These are designed to offer an incredible 5X the AI inferencing performance gain over the current-gen "Hopper" H100, and come with four times the… Go To Full Article

Akasa Intros Gecko Pro LX M.2-2280 SSD Cooler

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Akasa today introduced the Gecko Pro LX SSD cooler (model: A-M2HS04-BK), designed for drives in the M.2-2280 form-factor. The cooler is a fan-heatsink featuring an extruded aluminium monoblock heatsink that's ventilated by a 20 mm fan. The heatsink makes contact… Go To Full Article

ASRock Rack Unveils GPU Servers Supporting NVIDIA Blackwell GB200

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ASRock Rack Inc., a leading innovative server company, is announcing its 6U8X-EGS2 series at booth 1617 during the NVIDIA GTC global AI conference in San Jose, USA. The 6U8X-EGS2 NVIDIA H100 and 6U8X-EGS2 NVIDIA H200 are ASRock Rack's most powerful… Go To Full Article

GIGABYTE Unveils Comprehensive and Powerful AI Platforms at NVIDIA GTC

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GIGABYTE Technology and Giga Computing, a subsidiary of GIGABYTE and an industry leader in enterprise solutions, will showcase their solutions at the GIGABYTE booth #1224 at NVIDIA GTC, a global AI developer conference running through March 21. This event will… Go To Full Article

ASUS Presents MGX-Powered Data-Center Solutions

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ASUS today announced its participation at the NVIDIA GTC global AI conference, where it will showcase its solutions at booth #730. On show will be the apex of ASUS GPU server innovation, ESC NM1-E1 and ESC NM2-E1, powered by the… Go To Full Article

SK Hynix Begins Volume Production of Industry's First HBM3E

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SK hynix Inc. announced today that it has begun volume production of HBM3E, the newest AI memory product with ultra-high performance, for supply to a customer from late March. The company made public its success with the HBM3E development just… Go To Full Article

NVIDIA's GPUs powered the AI revolution

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In less than two years, NVIDIA’s H100 chips, which are used by nearly every AI company in the world to train large language models that power services like ChatGPT, made it one of the world’s most valuable companies. On Monday,… Go To Full Article

NVIDIA's 'cuLitho' Computational Lithography Adopted By TSMC

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Last year, NVIDIA introduced its cuLitho software library, which promises to speed up photomask development by up to 40 times. Today, NVIDIA announced a partnership with TSMC and Synopsys to implement its computational lithography platform for production use, and use… Go To Full Article

NVIDIA Omniverse Expands Worlds Using Apple Vision Pro

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NVIDIA is bringing OpenUSD-based Omniverse enterprise digital twins to the Apple Vision Pro. Announced today at NVIDIA GTC, a new software framework built on Omniverse Cloud APIs, or application programming interfaces, lets developers easily send their Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD)… Go To Full Article

NVIDIA Blackwell Architecture and B200/B100 Accelerators Announced

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Already solidly in the driver’s seat of the generative AI accelerator market at this time, NVIDIA has long made it clear that the company isn’t about to slow down and check out the view. Instead, NVIDIA intends to continue iterating… Go To Full Article

AWS and NVIDIA Extend Collaboration to Advance Generative AI Innovation

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Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, and NVIDIA today announced that the new NVIDIA Blackwell GPU platform - unveiled by NVIDIA at GTC 2024 - is coming to AWS. AWS will offer the NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip and… Go To Full Article

NVIDIA Announces New Switches Optimized for Trillion-Parameter GPU Computing

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NVIDIA today announced a new wave of networking switches, the X800 series, designed for massive-scale AI. The world's first networking platforms capable of end-to-end 800 Gb/s throughput, NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand and NVIDIA Spectrum -X800 Ethernet push the boundaries of networking… Go To Full Article

NVIDIA Blackwell Platform Arrives to Power a New Era of Computing

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Powering a new era of computing, NVIDIA today announced that the NVIDIA Blackwell platform has arrived—enabling organizations everywhere to build and run real-time generative AI on trillion-parameter large language models at up to 25x less cost and energy consumption than… Go To Full Article

Paradox Unveils First Wave of "Cities: Skylines 2" Modifications

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With Mods (short for modifications), you can tailor your gaming experience to your unique preferences. Uploaded by creators all over the world, you can pick between anything to create the city of your dreams. Along with Beach Properties, the first… Go To Full Article

Report Alleges Halting of PlayStation VR2 Production

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The International Data Corporation (IDC) has been tracking sales of Sony's PlayStation VR2 virtual reality headset since launch time (February 2023)—a new report claims that a backlog of unsold units has accumulated. Bloomberg's analysis of IDC data reveals that PS… Go To Full Article

Gigabyte Unveils Comprehensive and Powerful AI Platforms at NVIDIA GTC

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GIGABYTE Technology and Giga Computing, a subsidiary of GIGABYTE and an industry leader in enterprise solutions, will showcase their solutions at the GIGABYTE booth #1224 at NVIDIA GTC, a global AI developer conference running through March 21. This event will… Go To Full Article

Microsoft is planning some more pre-Build AI announcements

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It's shaping up to be a busy spring for Microsoft, which has multiple events lined up over the next few months. Not only is there a work and Copilot-centric event this Thursday and almost certainly an Xbox showcase coming up… Go To Full Article

SNK Corp. Announces FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves

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SNK CORPORATION is proud to announce that FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves will be released in early 2025. SNK's beloved Fatal Fury series first hit the market in 1991, spearheading the fighting game boom of the 1990s that swept… Go To Full Article

TSMC Reportedly Investing $16 Billion into New CoWoS Facilities

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TSMC is experiencing unprecedented demand from AI chip customers—unnamed parties have (fancifully) requested the construction of entirely new fabrication facilities. Taiwan's leading semiconductor contract manufacturer seems to concentrating on "sensible" expansions, mainly in the area of CoWoS packaging output—according to… Go To Full Article

Razer Kitsune Firmware 2.0 Update Adds "SOCD Cleaning" Feature

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When we launched the Razer Kitsune, we promised a device that not only meets the demands of today's fighting game community but also evolves with it. True to our word, I am excited to share something exciting that we've been… Go To Full Article

AMD Zen 5 "Znver5" CPU Enablement Spotted in Change Notes

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Close monitoring of AMD engineering activities—around mid-February time—revealed the existence of a new set of patches for GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). At the time, news reports put spotlights on Team Red's "znver5" enablement—this target indicated that staffers were prepping Zen… Go To Full Article

Is It Worth Upgrading to the 2024 M3 MacBook Air?

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The 2024 MacBook Air runs on Apple's M3 chip and is the most powerful model in the range to date. Does that mean you should upgrade from your existing MacBook Air? Let's take a look. Go To Full Article

GOG Partners Up with Amazon's Luna Cloud Streaming Service

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Soon, you'll be able to play your favorite games from GOG, like the Witcher series or Cyberpunk 2077, on multiple devices of your choice. We're teaming up with Amazon Luna cloud gaming service to give you even more ways of… Go To Full Article

Aspyr Criticized Following Troubled Launch of Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collecti

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The Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection launched last Thursday (March 14), with day one adoptees experiencing a plethora of issues. Player feedback and press coverage painted an ugly picture—an unreasonable install size of 70+ GB was an immediate point of… Go To Full Article

Cooler Master Tempest GZ2711 OLED @ TechPowerUp

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Cooler Master joins the rapidly growing OLED gaming monitor market with a 27-inch 240 Hz QHD model that goes directly against several established competitors. Does Cooler Master have a twist on the familiar formula that would make it stand out? Go To Full Article

Zhaoxin KX-7000 8-Core CPU Gets Geekbenched

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Zhaoxin finally released its oft-delayed KX-7000 CPU series last December—the Chinese manufacturer claimed that its latest "Century Avenue Core" uArch consumer/desktop-oriented range was designed to "deliver double the performance of previous generations." Freshly discovered Geekbench 6.2.2 results indicate that Zhaoxin… Go To Full Article

Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro smartphones are up to $250 off ahead of Amazon's Sale

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Amazon's Big Spring Sale officially begins this Wednesday, but as with all such sales, a number of deals went live early, including on Google's latest Pixel smartphones. The 128GB-capacity Pixel 8 Pro is 25 percent off, which deducts $250 from… Go To Full Article

YouTube lays out new rules for 'realistic' AI-generated videos

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Many companies and platforms are wrangling with how to handle AI-generated content as it becomes more prevalent. One key concern for many is the labeling of such material to make it clear that an AI model whipped up a photo,… Go To Full Article

Balatro Sells a Million Copies in One Month

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"Balatro," the latest indie game sensation published by Playstack has reached a significant milestone by selling one million copies in its first month. This achievement highlights the game's widespread appeal and the enthusiastic response from the gaming community. "We're incredibly… Go To Full Article

YouTuber Dunkey’s publishing company is releasing its first game on May 9

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YouTube sensation Dunkey, aka videogamedunkey or Jason Gastrow, has added game publishing to his resume. He started a company called Big Mode last year, which is releasing its first title on May 9. Animal Well is a sidescrolling Metroidvania platformer… Go To Full Article

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