MSI has just announced that their whole AMD 500 series lineup has now received AGESA 1.2.0.1 BETA BIOS.
The new firmware provides small fixes to SMART reporting and the AIDA64 memory bandwidth test. It also brings support for Smart Access Memory (Resizable BAR) on older Zen2 CPUs.
Resizable-BAR on AMD Ryzen 3000 series
AMD Zen2 is now officially supporting Smart Access Memory. MSI has provided a
Microsoft couldn’t decide whether Surface 4 should use Intel or AMD, so they are going to offer both options.
Microsoft Surface Laptop 3, Source: Microsoft
The specifications of the Surface 4 laptop have been leaked by Winfuture . This new version now expected to launch around April. The Surface 4 is a special laptop designed by Microsoft team often compared with Apple MacBook Pro and Google PIxelbook, each offering proprietary operating systems.
It’s important to mention that the Surface Laptop is not
Intel Ice Lake-SP, the upcoming Xeon Platinum CPUs have just been spotted on the SiSoftware benchmark website, just days ahead of AMD EPYC launch.
Two of Intel’s upcoming 10nm server processor series have appeared over at SiSoftware Sandra benchmark database. The CPUs that have leaked are Xeon Platinum 8352S and 8352Y , both offering the exact same specifications, but intended for different use. The Y-variant is only for dual-socket systems, whereas
One of the most popular games has been (accidentally?) removed from the store.
Counter-Strike Global Offensive is currently not available through Steam. The developer might have accidentally removed the game along with many other titles that have suddenly disappeared from the store. The issue was first noticed 2 hours ago when Steam has removed the store name and all details on the product page.
The manufacturer has quietly added two GAMING TRIO cards based on RTX 3080 SKU from NVIDIA.
Three times the charm, the AMD EPYC series will be officially launched on March 15th, the company today confirmed. AMD will introduce as many as 19 models featuring from 8 cores up to 64 cores. The series will all be based on Zen3 architecture, replacing Zen2 based EPYC series codenamed Rome.
AMD to Host Digital Launch of 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors on March 15, 2021
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RTX 3070 can finally have more memory than RTX 3060.
Russian modder VIK-on has once again provided a very interesting walkthrough video demonstrating the process of upgrading a GeForce graphics card with more memory. In the latest video, he modded GeForce RTX 3070 to 16GB memory, doubling the size of the official specifications. The graphics card used by VIK-on is the Palit GamingPro model.
The modder uploaded
Intel Rocket Lake-S is just around the corner, while we are already looking 4 generations ahead.
Intel Ethernet driver “e1000e” has received initial support from Lunar Lake. This is exactly the same patch that was added to the driver for Meteor Lake, back in August. The e1000e is a wired network driver for Intel Gigabit NIC for Linux or virtual systems. It has been frequently updated for each release. Interestingly enough,
OCCT a popular stress testing and monitor tool for PCs has received a new feature for advanced CPU testing.
Just a day after we reported on CoreCycler , a community-based AMD Ryzen 5000 tunning tool for Curve Optimizer, we were notified by the OCCT developer that the latest version of the software also comes with a similar feature. Both tools give you an option to test individual cores, which could be very handy when manually adjusting AMD Curve Optimizer. This AMD overclocking/undervolting technology works on
