(PR) MINISFORUM announces EliteMini U820/850 Mini-PC with up to 10th Gen Core Intel Comet Lake-U CPU

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MINISFORUM EliteMini U820/U850—High Cost Performance Mini PC in 2021.

MINISFORUM, the leading MINI PC brand from Hong Kong is pleased to announce their new 10th Generation Mini PC U850 this week.

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Intel 4th Gen Xeon “Sapphire Rapids” CPU for LGA4677-X socket pictured

Intel Sapphire Rapids CPU pictured

Xeon CPU for the upcoming Eagle Stream platform.

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(PR) EK and MSI announce MPG Z590 Carbon EK X motherboard for Rocket Lake-S CPUs

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THE GAME CHANGER IS BACK IN THE FORM OF MSI MPG Z590 CARBON EK X

EK®, the premium liquid cooling gear manufacturer, and MSI®, a world-leading gaming brand, have partnered up once again to launch the next-gen MSI CARBON motherboard and EK-Quantum monoblock combo. The brand new MPG Z590 Carbon EK X is expected to be available for pre-order on February 22, 2021. Based on the latest Z5

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(PR) MSI announces Radeon RX 6900 XT GAMING TRIO Series

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MSI Announces the Radeon™ RX 6900 XT GAMING X TRIO Graphics Card

[Taipei, Taiwan] MSI is proud to officially announce the Radeon™ RX 6900 XT GAMING X TRIO graphics card, powered by the groundbreaking AMD RDNA™ 2 gaming architecture. AMD Radeon™ RX 6900 XT graphics cards provide new levels of performance, incredible visual fidelity and advanced features to power amazing 4K gaming experiences.

GROUNDBREAKING AMD RDNA™ 2 GAMING ARCHITECTURE

The AMD RDNA™ 2

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(PR) IKEA & ASUS ROG gaming furniture to be available worldwide in October 2021

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Furniture that puts gaming first

There are 2.5 billion gamers around the world, a diverse group united by their love of e-sports and gaming – and by being an overlooked group from a life-at-home perspective. But that is about to change: the new gaming range developed by IKEA in collaboration with Republic of Gamers (ROG) was launched at IKEA China on January 29, 2021. From May 2021 it will be available at IKEA Japan

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(PR) Microchip announces world’s first PCI Express 5.0 switches

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Microchip Accelerates Machine Learning and Hyperscale Computing Infrastructure with the World’s First PCI Express® 5.0 Switches

Switchtec™ PFX PCIe® Gen 5 high performance switches double the data rate of PCIe Gen 4.0 solutions while delivering ultra-low latency and advanced diagnostics

CHANDLER, Ariz., February 2, 2021 – Applications such as data analytics, autonomous-driving and medical diagnostics are driving extraordinary demands for machine learning and hyperscale compute infrastructure. To meet these demands, Microchip Technology Inc


ASUS reveals full GeForce RTX 30 Laptop GPU specs (TGP & clocks)

ASUS confirms full specs of its RTX 30 Laptop GPUs

On a request from Tweakers , ASUS has provided a full list of RTX 30 mobile specs.

The company has also added the specification to its website, leading among other brands that have not yet done so. Thanks to the information provided by ASUS, it is possible to easily determine which laptop ships with power limited GPU and if they do, it is easy to understand to what extent. ASUS actually went one step further from any brand yet by providing the

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Gigabyte submits Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics cards to EEC, confirms 12GB memory

Gigabyte Radeon RX 6700 XT series

Gigabyte has just submitted its upcoming Radeon RX 6700 XT series to Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC).

The leak confirms that Radeon RX 6700 XT will ship with 12GB GDDR6 memory. The manufacturer is now planning six models, including AORUS, Gaming and Eagle cards. The list closes with a reference model. It would appear that all these cards will ship with 12 GB GDDR6 memory.

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Sony shipped 4.5 milion PlayStation 5 in 2020, consoles are being sold at a loss

Sony ships 3x more PS5 consoles than PS4

Sony has shipped 4.5 million PS5 consoles between October to December last year. This is 3.2x more than PS4 consoles at the same time. The older console sees a 77% decrease in shipment compared to the previous year.

The company confirmed that PlayStation 5 is sold at a loss, which is “resulting from strategic price points for PS5 hardware that were set lower than manufacturing costs.” It also noted that it is

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ClockTuner for Ryzen 2.0 brings CPU fine-tuning to Ryzen 5000 series

ClockTuner for Ryzen 2.0 with AMD Zen3 support

Yuir (1usmus) Bubily finally unveils the latest version of its overclocking and fine-tuning tool for Ryzen CPUs.

The development of CTR 2.0 took more time than usual, due to the complexity of the Zen3 architecture. The Zen3 architecture has brought a new functionality of optimizing frequencies for each core individually. The technology known as Curve Optimizer does this by controlling the voltage for each core. AMD has referred to this technology as ‘like overclocking

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