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Silicon Lottery is currently selling a pre-binned Intel Core i7-10700K 5.1 GHz CPU for $559

Posted on: 09 Jun 2020

Silicon Lottery is currently selling a highly pre-binned variant of the Intel Core i7-10700K CPU on its online store. This CPU isn’t meant for the average gamer though, since you need to pay a premium for it.

AMD’s next-gen RDNA 2 graphics cards to feature higher clock speeds and improved IPC

Posted on: 08 Jun 2020

AMD has once again hinted on the performance improvements we can expect from their next-gen RDNA 2 architecture of gaming GPUs. This comes via a recent AMD investor PowerPoint presentation.

AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 7 3800XT CPU spotted in Ashes of the Singularity benchmark

Posted on: 08 Jun 2020

As previously mentioned before, AMD is prepping new desktop CPUs in the Ryzen 3000 ‘Matisse’ family lineup, the Ryzen 9 3900XT (3900X replacement), Ryzen 7 3800XT (3800X replacement)and lastly the Ryzen 5 3600XT (3600X replacement).

This “indie video game bundle” from Itch.io offers 300+ games for just $5

Posted on: 08 Jun 2020

Itch.io’s “The Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality” packs in over almost 740 games and assets to help raise money/funds for the NAACP and Community bail fund, and to help aid the arrested protesters.

INTEL’s future Alder Lake-S CPU architecture to feature CLDEMOTE “cache line demote” instruction set

Posted on: 08 Jun 2020

According to one recent Tweet posted by @InstLatX64, INTEL’s future upcoming ALDER LAKE micro architecture is going to support a new instruction set which can help speed up the processor’s cache performance. This is called CLDEMOTE, or “cache line demote”.

The PC Gaming show has been postponed to June 13th 2020

Posted on: 08 Jun 2020

“PC Gamer” officially made an announcement that their upcoming online event, the “PC Gaming Show”, has been postponed  until June 13th. This Gaming related show was originally scheduled to take place on Saturday, June 6th as part of IGN’s “Summer of Gaming” event. But PC Gamer has decided to postpone this upcoming event as a … Continue reading The PC Gaming show has been postponed to June 13th 2020 →

NVIDIA’s next-gen Ampere RTX 3080 Flagship GPU pictured for the first time

Posted on: 06 Jun 2020

It appear that we have first real pictures of NVIDIA’s upcoming RTX 3080 “AMPERE” graphics card which have been leaked out on Chiphell,  coming via HXL, and Videocardz. The Model seems to be a “prototype” engineering sample of some sort.

INTEL finally sheds some light on the Comet Lake-S CPU’s PL1/PL2 power limit values

Posted on: 06 Jun 2020

INTEL has finally revealed the “power state limit’ values of its 10’th gen Comet Lake-S series of desktop processors, as evident from the latest revised Intel 10th Gen Core Datasheet, coming via Computerbase.

AMD hints that 4GB gaming GPUs are not that relevant these days, VRAM demands continue to increase for AAA games

Posted on: 05 Jun 2020

According to one blog post written by Adit Bhutani, the Product Marketing Specialist for Radeon and Gaming at AMD, current 4GB VRAM cards are not much sufficient for gaming these days.

Don’t expect INTEL to launch next-Gen “Core-S” and “Core-X” CPUs this year, including Rocket Lake-S lineup for the desktop platform

Posted on: 04 Jun 2020

According to one recent roadmap posted on ROG.Forums, coming via @9550pro and Videocardz, there is no mention of INTEL’s plans to release their next-gen CPUs this year.