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Intel confirms B460 and H410 motherboards will not support 11th Gen Core Rocket Lake CPUs

No Rocket Lake support on B460/H470 motherboards

Intel will force budget-oriented customers to buy 500 series motherboards if they chose Rocket Lake CPUs.

Intel has now confirmed that existing entry-level H410 and mid-range B460 motherboards will not be compatible with upcoming Intel Rocket Lake CPUs. The company did not yet disclose when exactly the new CPU series will launch. It was only mentioned that the Rocket Lake-S series is currently scheduled to appear

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AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution technology may launch this spring

AMD finally ready to launch its DLSS competitor?

A new report puts a possible timeframe on the FidelityFX Super Resolution technology launch.

It has been more than two years since NVIDIA introduced its Deep Learning Super Sampling technology. At first, it was mocked for how blurry the games looked liked with the DLSS enabled, but the second revision of the technology has significantly improved the quality. At this point, most users would rather use DLSS and sacrifice almost indistinguishable image quality in favor of a much higher framerate. Some games such as

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(PR) TeamGroup announces XTREEM ARGB White Gaming Memory

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TEAMGROUP Launches Highly-Anticipated White-Colored Series: the XTREEM ARGB WHITE GAMING MEMORY and DELTA MAX WHITE RGB SSD

February 8, 2021, Taipei_ The XTREEM ARGB GAMING MEMORY, winner of the 2020 German Red Dot Design Award, and the DELTA MAX RGB SSD with its ultra-large, cutting-edge RGB panel continue to receive great attention inside and outside the industry. Today, TEAMGROUP is releasing brand new models in a lustrous, clean white for both series

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(PR) Colorful launches its iGame Vulcan DDR4 memory

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COLORFUL Launches iGame VULCAN DDR4 Memory and SL500 Mini SSD

February 8th, 2021 Shenzhen, China – Colorful Technology Company Limited, a professional manufacturer of graphics cards, motherboards, all-in-one gaming and multimedia solutions, and high-performance storage, launches the iGame VULCAN DDR4 gaming memory and SL500 Mini SSD.

COLORFUL iGame VULCAN DDR4 Memory Series

The COLORFUL iGame VULCAN DDR4 memory is designed to meet the performance and aesthetic needs of

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EMTEK launches GeForce RTX 3090 Blower Edition

Emtek RTX 3090 Blower has power connectors on a daughterboard

NVIDIA board partners would rather put conventional power connectors on a daughterboard than use NVIDIA 12-pin power connector.

Emtek is a South Korean NVIDIA board partner offering custom designs often used by other brands, such as Palit. This company now offers a variety of cards, with up to three-fan solutions. It is therefore surprising to see the Emtek has now a custom RTX 3090 model with a blower-type cooling solution.

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GPU Mining farms are causing power outages in Iran

GPU mining causing power outages in Iran

The country with cheap electricity suffers from the popularity of GPU mining,

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Intel Core i9-11900K breaks 1.9K points barrier in Geekbench single-core benchmark

Intel Core i9-11900K crosses 1.9K score in Geekbench SC benchmark

Intel Rocket Lake-S flagship CPU exposing its power.

The new benchmark scores of the Core i9-11900K processor put it 35% higher in the single-core Geekbench V5 benchmark over its predecessor. With 8-cores and 16-threads, it is also able to match the 20-thread 10900K CPU in the multi-

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PNY announces GeForce RTX 3060 Mini-ITX model with weird specs and name

PNY GeForce RTX 3060 in Mini-ITX form factor

Interesting product with an unfortunate name.

Meet “PNY GeForce RTX 3060 12GB XLR8 Gaming REVEL EPIC-X RGB Single Fan Edition”. This product name itself would probably deserve a separate article, because it is simply ridiculous, however, let’s focus on the graphics card.

This PNY model is actually the third RTX 3060 listed by the company. It is also the first in Mini-ITX form

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Chinese GPU miners are now bulk buying GeForce RTX 30 laptops to mine Ethereum

It is now profitable to mine crypto with laptops

The value of the cryptocurrency has increased so much that it is now profitable to bulk buy laptops for mining.

Since late November the value of Ethereum (ETH) has tripled. This cryptocurrency is the most popular one among GPU miners. We have heard many stories where miners in China are queuing up to NVIDIA board partner factories in hopes to buy graphics cards in bulk. Some AIBs agree to sell cards directly to them because those clients pay more (usually 1/3 more

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti with 12GB memory to launch in April?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti with 12GB memory

We have received a new update on the RTX 3080 Ti.

NVIDIA has allegedly changed the specifications for its upcoming high-end RTX 3080 Ti graphics card once again. We were actually in a process of confirming the specs that we received, when @kopite7kimi, the person who leaked GA100/GA102 specs months ahead of launch

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