Metro 2033 and Surviving Mars are currently available for free

Metro 2033 free on steam

After visiting GOG and Epic Games Store , the Metro franchise is now seeing a promotion on Steam.

Metro 2033 is the first installment in the franchise. This game available at really low prices already, but now it is an opportunity for you to obtain a copy for free. Steam currently has a weekend deal for all Metro games. The full franchise bundle with 2033 (Redux), Last Light Redux and the latest Exodus can now be purchased for

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Intel

Intel’s Xe-HPG (DG2) engineering board teased by Raja Koduri?

Please note that this post is tagged as a rumor .

Intel DG2 running 3DMark?

Just a month after teasing Xe-HPG architecture being tested in 3DMark, Raja Koduri, a Senior VP and GM at Architecture and Graphics division at Intel, has posted a photo that might be showing the actual graphics card in action.

Raja Koduri has already posted a screenshot from the 3DMark Mesh Shader test, which was being evaluated with Xe-HPG hardware at Intel Labs even before the test was available to the public

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AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT ray tracing performance has been leaked

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT faster than GeForce RTX 3070 without raytracing

It looks like Wccftech got their hands on RX 6700 XT performance number, including ray tracing.

New performance figures have been shared by Wccftech day. The site has provided information on RX 6700 XT framerates in 1440p gaming as well as 1080p gaming with raytracing enabled. The source of the data is unknown, but our readers should know that Wccftech is under NDA

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AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT only ‘a few thousand’ cards at launch for the whole European Union

Availability of Radeon RX 6700 XT will be better, but still not great

AMD has been preparing for this launch for weeks now.

The upcoming 479 USD graphics card from AMD will see more stock at launch than other RDNA2 cards, this is a commonly repeated sentence by many journalists who have gathered information from distributors and board partners. However, just because there will be more stock, it does not mean that suddenly new cards will flood the market. On the contrary, the availability of Radeon

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Intel Core i7-11700K Rocket Lake CPU has been delidded

Intel Rocket Lake CPU loses its integrated head spreader

Out of 210 Core i7-11700K processors sold, one has already been delidded.

Since the german retailer has begun selling new 11th Gen Core CPUs, many of them have ended in hands of real enthusiasts. There are still many of them waiting for Core i9-11900K though. The Core i9 is the actual flagship which is expected to bring some additional features over the 117


AMD announces AGESA 1.2.0.2 that solves intermittent USB connectivity issues

AMD has resolved USB issues, new AGESA incoming

On Reddit, AMD has confirmed that a new AGESA firmware that solves most of the reported USB related issues will be released in April.

Less than four weeks ago, AMD has begun collecting data from users who experienced USB related issues on AMD 500 series motherboards. Today the company announced that a fix is coming this April.

AMD 500 motherboards series have reportedly had issues with USB connectivity. Some users have reported that their USB devices would randomly disconnect or go


AMD Ryzen 3 5300G “Cezanne” desktop APU spotted on eBay

AMD Ryzen 3 5300G already on eBay for 177 USD

AMD has not even announced its desktop Zen3 APUs yet, but the CPUs can already be found on eBay.

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First NVIDIA CMP (Crypto Mining Processor) has been pictured

Gigabyte CMP 30HX pictured, the first mining card of 2021

The first card appears nearly three weeks after NVIDIA announced its second cryptocurrency mining series.

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(PR) ASRock launches Radeon RX 6700 XT Challenger and Phantom Gaming Series

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ASRock Launches AMD Radeon™ RX 6700 XT Series Graphics Cards

Level Up Your 1440p Gaming Experience

TAIPEI, TAIWAN, March 11, 2021 – ASRock, the leading global motherboard manufacturer, today announced its AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT series graphics cards. The new products include the high-end, triple-fan AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT Phantom Gaming D 12GB OC, the mid-range, triple-fan

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Intel “Raptor Lake” desktop and mobile series appear on a leaked roadmap

Intel Raptor Lake to provide Gaming optimizations over Alder Lake

We received a roadmap featuring Raptor Lake, Intel’s yet unannounced mainstream CPU series.

The roadmap is clearly not new. It still claims that Rocket Lake would launch in 2020. The upcoming 11th Gen Core series was pushed back to March around the fourth quarter last year, which is when this slide could have been made.

According to the picture received, Raptor Lake is indeed a successor to Alder Lake, the upcoming 12th Gen