Aaron Klotz

A new report has come in detailing a 15% drop in hard drive sales volume for the past quarter, thanks to weakened demand in the consumer market.

Intel's Arc A380 is no longer locked behind Chinese borders, with the GPU now apparently shipping to the United States.

A new 7-Zip benchmark result reveals a 60% performance improvement for the 13900K in decompression tests, and 20% in compression tests in comparison to the 12900K.

A Linux expert has reported that Alder Lake laptops sporting the MIPI IPU6 are suffering from Linux compatibility issues surrounding proprietary drivers. Full open source drivers are a long way away.

Nvidia has reportedly restarted production on its RTX 3080 12GB SKU, as a result of oversupply issues surrounding its GA102 die.

Intel has made the decision to remove native DirectX 9 support from its latest Xe iGPs and Arc GPUs, and replace DX9 with DX12 emulation instead.

Preliminary Ryzen 7000 prices are here and are roughly 10 to 12% higher than Ryzen 5000 was at MSRP.

Intel has changed the prize pool in its GPU-focused scavenger hunt to include an alternative Core i5-12600K or Core i7-12700K prize for the original Arc A750 and A770 prizes.

A new codename from AMD known as Pink Sardine has emerged in Linux. The codename may correspond to AMD's upcoming Ryzen 7000 Phoenix mobile APUs.

Out of nowhere, a "GTX 2080" prototype has surfaced online. It gives us a clue that Nvidia was considering extending its GTX 16 series lineup into an 80 series product.

Cooler Master reveals two new cases in its CMP lineup, featuring front mesh panels and ARGB fans.

AMD recently updated its AMF H.264 encoder with a new feature called Pre-Analysis, this feature boosts video quality equal to that of Nvidia's Turing and Ampere-based NVENC encoder.

Gigabyte has revealed some new quality-of-life updates for its motherboards, featuring a latchless PCIe slot and a screwless M.2 slot.

Power-hungry GPUs — no problem

Intel and Nvidia prepare for big revenue drops as consumer demand falls; AMD and Apple are doing fine.

2.8 GHz is now the expected frequency ceiling for Nvidia's upcoming GeForce RTX 4070 mid-range GPU, with a base clock estimation of 2310MHz.

Nvidia has officially released a Game Ready driver for Sony's upcoming feature rich Spider-Man Remastered PC port.

Nvidia's RTX 4080 and RTX 4070 have reportedly dropped in estimated power consumption by up to 30%, with the RTX 4080 falling to 320W.

A new report has revealed that AMD's mysterious Sabrina project was just an alias for the already announced Mendocino project, featuring Zen 2 6nm SoC's running RDAN2 graphics.

Overclockers are now receiving AM5 X670E motherboard samples ahead of reviews to overclock AMD's Ryzen 7000 processors.

Nvidia is discounting its RTX 30-series GPUs at a steep rate, in an apparent attempt to deplete its overabundance of 30-series GPUs prior to the 40-series launch.

Intel has killed off its exotic packaging for the Core i9-12900K and Core i9-10980XE, replacing them with smaller boxes found in its non-flagship models.

An Intel Core i9-13900K sample was seen clocking as high as 5.77 GHz in a recent Geekbench 5 benchmark result.

A new RTX 4080 rumor was just Tweeted out, suggesting the previous 10,000+ CUDA core count for the 4080 was wrong. The estimated core count now sits at 9728.

AMD Ryzen 7000 and AM5 motherboards are confirmed to be launching on September 15th, just a month away from now.