Intel’s 10th Gen Comet Lake-S desktop processors are expected to be announced by the end of the month, followed by a release in May. However, you won’t have to wait that long to… Read More

Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) reported a healthy increase in revenue for March 2020, with a sequential increase of 21.5% compared to the previous month. Compared to Ma… Read More

What is a VRM? What does it stand for? Why do motherboards and graphics cards need VRMs, and how important are they? Let’s have a look. VRM stands for Voltage Regulation Modulator. It… Read More

People often wonder whether memory speed matters and if yes, then by how much? How fast should your RAM be if you’re a gamer? That’s what we’ll answer in this post, plus so… Read More

A representative for custom laptop maker Schenker recently indicated that, without an official announcement, NVIDIA just low-key updated its RTX 2070 and RTX 2060 notebook GPUs with a new me… Read More

Every modern processor features a small amount of cache memory. Over the past few decades, cache architectures have become increasingly complex: The levels of CPU cache have increased, the s… Read More

After months of speculation and several dozen “leaks”, AMD finally took the wraps off its Ryzen 4000 mobile APUs last month. AMD also confirmed the existence of the top-end Ryzen… Read More

AMD’s Ryzen 4000 APUs are looking to be even more successful than the mainstream Ryzen 3000 desktop chips. With twice the number of cores as competing Ice Lake parts, comparable IPC an… Read More

FXAA, SMAA, TAA, MSAA. Four options and this is just anti-aliasing we’re talking about. Modern PC games include a slew of graphics settings to choose from and optimize. There’s A… Read More

Mechanical keyboards are something everyone needs to experience, at least once. That satisfying action as the keys click into place and activate is just, well, really nice. If you type for a… Read More

Intel’s 10th Gen Comet Lake-S desktop lineup may be just another glorified rebrand, but it might just work. We’ve seen multiple leaked benchmarks of the 10-core flagship, the Cor… Read More

Now that both the Renoir and Comet Lake chips are out, we know for a fact that the Ryzen 4000 lineup is superior in terms of performance as well as efficiency. However, there still aren&rsqu&hell…Read More

Huawei, the Chinese manufacturing giant known for its smartphones, has had a bit of a rough ride ever since the US government denied it access to Google’s proprietary operating system… Read More

After the massive success of GeForce RTX 2060 ($299), EVGA has gone ahead and launched the KO Editions of the RTX 2070 Super and 2080 Super. The new RTX KO cards cost $499 and $699, respecti… Read More

Look out for the next bunch of free games to add to your collection when you open Epic Games Store this week. The current batch includes Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments and Closer to… Read More

Acer laptops may not be the best, but they certainly are the most affordable. With AMD’s Ryzen 4000 “Renoir” mobile processors, the company is looking to go a step further… Read More

According to a recent report by DigiTimes, AMD is planning on bringing its Ryzen 4000 series desktop processors to the market as early as the end of this year. Tantalizingly, the report also… Read More

While not applicable to all models, certain Radeon RX 5500 XT models have seen their prices drop down to US$ 169 (after rebate). This makes AMD’s budget proposition US$15 cheaper than… Read More

A bunch of Intel’s marketing slides has surfaced shedding light on the company’s 10nm plans for the desktop market along with other related commitments. This is the first time we… Read More

NVIDIA launched the GeForce GTX 1650 Super to address the shortcomings of the vanilla 1650. The Super was faster than both the RX 570 as well as the GTX 1060. AMD’s answer was the Rade… Read More

In a gaming PC, the monitor or display is the single most important component. No matter how beefy your CPU and GPU may be, the output quality won’t matter if you have a crappy screen… Read More

Recently, NVIDIA announced the launch of DLSS 2.0, the first major update to its proprietary AI-based upscaling technology used in the RTX GPUs. While it’s a big step up from DLSS 1.0… Read More

A lucky winner of NVIDIA’s giveaway for the RTX 2080 Ti Cyberpunk 2077 Edition is auctioning his prize on eBay for bids in excess of US$4,200. Initial bidding started at US$2,500 (near… Read More

Intel just announced that it will be discontinuing a large number of its Kaby Lake U refresh mobile CPUs. The discontinued parts include the Intel Core i5-8250U, the i5-8350U, the i7-8550U… Read More

Intel’s 10th Gen Comet Lake-S desktop CPUs will be capable of hitting single-core boosts of 5.3GHz under the right conditions. We still don’t know the exact power draw of these l… Read More

It’s easy to forget how big of a company Intel really is. Most people often see Big Blue as the de-facto chipmaker, and that’s about it. On the contrary, Intel is invested acros… Read More

NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 2060 is easily the most balanced RTX card out there. Selling at just $299, it offers a taste of ray-tracing to the masses. It also happens to be one of the few GeF… Read More

Intel’s 10th Gen Comet Lake-S Desktop processors are going to hit retail on the 27th of May next month. According to a report from WCCFTech, the initial announcement will come on the 3… Read More

After Clevo, Origin PC has also launched a laptop packing a desktop Ryzen 3000 chip, a 12-core one at that. The device in question is the EON15-X which despite featuring a beefier processor… Read More

The monitor is the most important component of your gaming rig. No matter how powerful your CPU or GPU may be, at the end of the day, your display will decide how good your game looks (and p… Read More

What the heck are memory timings anyway? Memory is already complicated enough: You have to deal with the memory speed, capacity, and whether or not it’s in dual or single-channel mode… Read More

AMD’s Radeon RX 5700 has come down to an all-time low price of $319. That’s nearly the same as the GeForce RTX 2060 KO Edition, much lower than the $400 RTX 2060 Super that it ac… Read More

AMD’s wraith prism cooler is easily the best stock CPU thermal solution out there. But RGB and aesthetics aside, is it any good is it in terms of actual function? The Ryzen 3000 proces… Read More

Single-channel vs dual-channel RAM, what’s that about? Let me explain. Sometimes you’ll notice that despite having the fastest CPU-GPU combo, you’re not getting consistent… Read More

What is the CCX and CCD in an AMD Ryzen CPU? That’s the first most important question you should ask about the new Zen based processors. There are many factors responsible for AMD&rsqu&hell…Read More

It turns out that AMD’s Ryzen 4000 powered laptops won’t be getting a taste of NVIDIA’s RTX Super GPUs anytime soon. This has been confirmed by multiple sources. While we a… Read More

AMD’s Ryzen 4000H series are out and about, pounding the Intel competition as they go. Team blue’s main problem is the excessive power draw that’s the result of using a muc… Read More

At AMD’s Renoir mobile launch, there was mention of a 45W Ryzen 9 4900H/HS, but the company kept quiet about a 15W Ryzen 9 part. We’ve already seen a Lenovo device that supposedl… Read More

Shortly after details and a performance review for multiple Comet Lake-S parts made their way online, Intel’s marketing material for the next-gen Core i9-10900K, i7-10700K, and i5-1060… Read More

As if NVIDIA’s Turing lineup couldn’t get any more confusing than it already is, between the Super series refresh, 16 and 20 series cards, and the inexplicable mobile-only GTX 16… Read More

We’ve already tested the impact of dual-channel memory and memory speeds in general in the case of the Ryzen 3000 processors. These chips use an MCM design, whereas the Renoir mobile A… Read More

AMD’s Ryzen 4000 mobile processors are all set to wreak havoc on Intel’s fortunes in the notebook space. By bringing octa-core designs to 15W devices, even the newer 10nm based I… Read More

SK Hynix has detailed the specifications of the next-gen DDR5 memory standard, and they’re a substantial step above the existing DDR4 modules. DDR5 aims to reach bandwidths as high as… Read More

Here’s another heartwarming piece of news amid the lockdown. AMD’s new 15W Ryzen 7 4700U manages to run Battlefield V at a solid 60 FPS (FHD) without breaking a sweat. TechEpipha… Read More

Now that both the Intel 10th Gen Comet Lake-H and the Ryzen 4000 “Renoir” processors are out, we can do a direct comparison of the two 45W chip families and see which one comes o… Read More

The first benchmark of a finalized Intel Tiger Lake-U chip has finally seen the light of the day. While the gains on the CPU side are marginal, the graphics performance is vastly improved ov… Read More

Intel launched its 10th Gen Comet Lake-H CPUs for 45W notebooks yesterday, but as expected the reception varied from lukewarm to negative. The main criticism was aimed at the power consumpti… Read More

With the concurrent launch of both the 10th generation Intel Comet Lake-H series and the NVIDIA RTX Super mobile GPUs, Lenovo is among the few brands launching updated versions of existing l… Read More

MSI has announced the launch of three new models to make use of the updated 10th Gen Intel Core H-Series chips, as well as the newly launched lineup of NVIDIA RTX Super laptop GPUs. Two of t… Read More

Joining the fray of many laptop manufacturers refreshing their lineups with the 10th Gen Intel Core H-Series and NVIDIA RTX Super GPUs, Acer has announced two new refreshed models. Acer P… Read More

ASUS today launched the Intel variant of its new ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 gaming laptop featuring NVIDIA’s RTX 20 Super GPUs and a 4K G-Sync IPS display. The core feature of the Duo 15, how… Read More

Razer is one of the premium gaming laptop makers. Their notebooks may drive you bankrupt, but they’ll almost certainly offer the best experience. As custom dictates, along with all the… Read More

NVIDIA’s tagline over the past two years has been “RTX ON/RTX OFF”. Memes and humor aside, a lot of work actually went into designing the Turing GPU architecture and turnin… Read More

NVIDIA today announced its mobility RTX Super GPUs, including the just-launched GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER and 2070 SUPER GPUs for laptops. The new gaming laptops featuring the RTX 2060-powered… Read More

Personal Take When Capcom announced the remake of Resident Evil 2 a year ago, it was met with equal amounts of enthusiasm and skepticism of living up to the original quality. They deliver… Read More

AMD’s GCN architecture powered Radeon graphics cards for almost a decade. Although the design has its strengths such as a powerful Compute Engine, hardware schedulers, and unified memo… Read More

NVIDIA has silently launched faster GTX 1650 graphics cards with GDDR6 memory. Other than the newer GDDR6 VRAM, the rest of the specifications are exactly the same as the vanilla 1650. It&rs&hell…Read More

In another bizarre “leak”, someone has managed to get their hands on Intel’s upcoming 10th Gen Comet Lake-S parts, benchmarked them and published the performance figures on… Read More

Intel’s 10th Gen Comet Lake-H laptops are supposed to be announced on the 2nd of April, but the specs have already been leaked. We know that most of these chips are overclocked variant… Read More

AMD’s “fine wine” and demonstrated prowess on Vulkan appear to be holding true when it comes to Doom: Eternal. ID Software’s latest demon disembowler runs startlingly… Read More

AMD’s Ryzen 3000 CPUs are some of the most cutting-edge chips on the market. TSMC’s 7nm node paired with the brand new Zen 2 microarchitecture has allowed AMD to claw their back… Read More

With the launch of the Ryzen 3000 lineup, Intel’s lead in gaming performance has shrunk to single figures. Multi-threaded applications like rendering, editing, and other professional w… Read More

Schenker, a German OEM has managed to stuff the 16-core AMD Ryzen 9 3950X in its latest XMG Apex 15 laptop, making it the first notebook to feature a 16 core processor. The laptop in questio… Read More

Just a day after AMD’s Ryzen 4000 “Renoir” mobile processors hit retail, Intel’s entire 10th Gen Comet Lake-H lineup has been leaked. Coincidence? I think not. These… Read More

AMD just launched the Ryzen 4000 notebook APU family, highlighted by the heavy-hitting Ryzen 7 4800H and flagship, Ryzen 9 4900HS. With the arrival of these 7nm Zen 2 parts in the mobile spa… Read More

AMD’s Ryzen 4000 powered notebooks finally hit retail today after a long wait, and oh boy, do they deliver. Just hours after launch, and it’s a bloodbath. The Ryzen 7 4800H has a… Read More

Intel’s 10th Gen Comet Lake-H laptops CPUs are going to be announced on the 2nd of April next month. Like always though, a few OEMs have leaked the entire specs of these notebooks well… Read More

AMD finally got around to delivering a driver update for the Vega M GPUs on Intel’s Kaby Lake G chips after 14 months. This seemingly redefines “AMD fine wine” and gives Ha… Read More

If you want a top-of-the-line system, especially for gaming or content creation, then an SSD is essential. Luckily, Solid State Drives have developed at a rapid pace in the last decade and y… Read More

Gears Tactics, an upcoming turn-based Gears of War spin-off by way of XCOM is expected to run great on Intel’s upcoming Xe-LP graphics cards. This is because Microsoft’s taken ti… Read More

Over the past decade, Intel’s Core lineup included of these main product families, the Core i3, i5, and the i7. The first one was meant for offices while the other two were for gamers… Read More

Intel appears to be working on an octa-core Comet Lake-H i7 chip to combat AMD’s Ryzen 4000 laptops. This was confirmed by a leaked Geekbench listing that mentions a Core i7-10875H wit… Read More

Just yesterday we reported that AMD’s Ryzen 4000 laptops were now available in the Chinese market via jd.com. In just a day, it seems that someone has taken heed and now ASUS’ TU… Read More

Intel’s 10nm adventures have been far from successful. After Cannon Lake got canned back in 2018, rumors had started circulating that the company was going to skip the 10nm node altoge… Read More

Like contemporary Intel mobility processors, AMD’s Ryzen 4000 APUs are also launching in two flavors: a low power 15W lineup for 10-14″ notebooks and a high-performance 35-45W li… Read More

Even though JEDEC, the gatekeeper to DDR RAM specifications, has yet to release an official spec for DDR5 RAM, Cadence, a major IP holder in the RAM space announced some provisional informat… Read More

BenQ recently announced the Zowie XL2746S, a 240 Hz TN panel display that’s targeted squarely at eSports professionals. The monitor has a spectacular 0.5 ms grey-to-grey response time… Read More

Apple analyst (but not botanist) Ming Chi-Kuo recently made some interesting claims about the future of Apple’s Mac lineup in an industry report accessed by MacRumors. According to him… Read More

As the Western world struggles to control the COVID-19 pandemic, life in China has started limping back to normal. The government’s stringent measures have actually brought the spread… Read More

Intel’s Comet Lake CPUs are expected to be announced next month, with the mobile H series coming early on and the desktop S parts in the last week. We’ve seen many benchmarks of… Read More

Shortly after the Khronos Group announced official ray tracing extensions for the Vulkan graphics API, Nvidia had a raytracing announcement of its own. Jensen and Friends, who are best known… Read More

News recently broke that someone had stolen critical AMD intellectual property relating to their GPUs and had then posted the same up on GitHub. The folks over at WCCFTech reached out to ano… Read More

According to a report from Spanish outlet El Chapuzas, Intel is going to announce its 10th Gen Comet Lake-S desktop CPUs on the 30th of April next month. This will just be the product reveal… Read More

NVIDIA’s Ampere GPUs were initially rumored to launch in March during GTC 2020, but courtesy of the COVID-19 pandemic, everything got canned. Jensen’s GTC keynote was first switc… Read More

AMD’s Ryzen 4000 APUs will feature the world’s first low-power octa-core processors, bringing desktop levels of performance to the notebook PC space. We’ve already seen man… Read More

One of the most basic graphics options of modern games is the V-Sync toggle. Almost every PC game released over the past decade has it. Most people know that it locks the in-game frame rate… Read More

When building or upgrading a computer, most people neglect storage. The major chunk of the budget goes into the CPU, GPU, memory and in some cases your personal RGB fantasies. However, in an… Read More

Here’s good news for PC gamers. Just days after the two console manufacturers announced ninth-gen consoles with unprecedently fast shared memory pools, Samsung’s announced that&r&hell…Read More

Intel recently listed three new Ice Lake parts in their ARK database, the i7-1060NG7, the i5-1030NG7, and the i31000NG4. These parts are near identical to their non-“N” counterpa… Read More

Thanks to AMD’s Ryzen 3000 processors, the consumer CPU market is more competitive than ever. Compared to just a few years back, the core counts have doubled across the board. The entr… Read More

The source code for AMD’s Navi 10, Navi 21 and the Arden GPU have been stolen and leaked on GitHub. Although AMD was quick to react and issue DCMA takedowns of these packets, it’… Read More

Yesterday, NVIDIA detailed its DLSS 2.0 technology which reportedly offers better visual quality and performance than the target native resolution. The main takeaway is that NVIDIA is now u… Read More

We’ve been hearing a lot about DirectX 12 and ray-tracing (RTX in NVIDIA terms) over the last 10-15 months. While ray-tracing (DXR) is a core feature of the new low-level API, it&rsquo&hell…Read More

Modern computers include different kinds of memory. The main memory or RAM, the cache and then the registers. The registers are the most easily accessible memory location for the CPU and sit… Read More

Intel isn’t in a very comfortable position at the moment. From having a monopoly over the CPU market just a few years back, the company is now struggling to meet 14nm chip demands, all… Read More

Have you ever heard of a “handheld” gaming laptop? Well, now you have. GPD is well-known for designing handheld Windows gaming PCs. Over the last few years, they’ve made mu… Read More

Intel’s 10th Gen Comet Lake-H CPUs for gaming laptops are reportedly launching on the 2nd of April. Paired with NVIDIA’s RTX Super GPUs, these notebooks will try to fight off AMD… Read More

Good news for photographers and other users looking for a moderately priced professional monitor. BenQ recently announced its 32-inch SW321C as a value option for just this segment. And the… Read More

Computex 2020 has been officially postponed to ending September. The show will now (hopefully) commence from 28th to 30th September. This is the first time since the SARS outbreak of 2003 th… Read More

Overall, NVIDIA’s RTX Turing graphics cards have been a mixed bag: Till now less than a handful of titles support ray-tracing and that too with barely playable frame rates. DLSS, the n… Read More