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Intel Core i9-11900K, i7-11700K and i5-11600K Rocket Lake-S specifications confirmed by MSI

Intel Core i9-11900K Rocket Lake-S up to 5.3 GHz

We received an anonymous tip with Rocket Lake-S CPU series specifications.

It appears that the chart originated at MSI, likely to be part of the recently 500-series motherboards presentations. The specifications of the 11th GeN core series are certainly still under NDA though.

According to the chart, Intel 11th Gen Core-K series will feature Core i9-1190


IKEA & ASUS ROG gaming products leaked ahead of launch

IKEA partners up with ASUS ROG

Back in September, Ikea and ASUS announced a partnership to launch a new series of products together.

According to messages posted on Chinese social media platform Weibo, Ikea and ASUS will make a public announcement of the first piece of furniture on January 29th. However, it appears that the Ikea China store has already listed all products, which were then quickly removed.

Ikea is launching various products after collaborating with ASUS. The UPSSPEL gaming desk will retail at 3999 Yuans (

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ASUS teases GeForce RTX 3070 & RTX 3060 Ti Megalodon Series

ASUS GeForce RTX 3070/3060 Ti Megalodon

ASUS China posted pictures of a new GeForce RTX 30 series.

Megalodon appears is a China-exclusive model. It features a triple-fan cooler design which borrowed the aesthetics from the ASUS STRIX series. The card looks a lot cheaper though,  with the metallic shroud replaced with plastic. It actually looks like a hybrid between TUF and STRIX, judging from the quality of the cooler.

ASUS announced that the Megalodon series will launch under RTX 3

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Iris Xe Intel’s first desktop discrete GPU will not work with AMD processors

Intel closes Iris for AMD CPUs

Yesterday Intel announced its first graphics card that will be offered to OEM partners. This is the first time Intel graphics cards will be available to consumers in almost 22 years since Intel’s 740 was released.

A special UEFI BIOS is required for Intel Iris Xe discrete desktop graphics cards to work, Legit Reviews revealed yesterday. The announcement of Intel’s first dGPU for system integrators and OEMs has sparked joy among GPU enthusiasts, finally, after so many years we get to

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MSI unveils GeForce RTX 3060 and RTX 3060 Ti AERO ITX

MSI announces AERO Mini ITX series

MSI has unveiled four Mini ITX graphics cards based on NVIDIA Ampere architecture.

We have already mentioned the AERO ITX series two weeks ago when MSI first showcased a single photo of the upcoming product designed in Mini ITX form factor. Until yesterday, MSI did not list the series on its website. The company has now added four products based on RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3060 SKUs.

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MSI Afterburner 4.63 Beta 5 supports Radeon RX 6000 overclocking

MSI Afterburner gets Big Navi overclocking support and a new skin

Unwinder, the developer of MSI Afterburner has released a new version of the monitoring and overclocking tool.

The new version 4.6.3 Beta 5 has now overclocking support for Radeon RX 6000 series: RX 6900 XT, RX 6800 XT, and RX 6800. All these SKUs are based on AMD RDNA2 architecture and have been released last year. Unwinder needed more time to work on these cards


(PR) MSI launches its Intel 500 series motherboards for Rocket Lake-S CPUs

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MSI Intel 500 Series Motherboards are Officially Launched on 27th January

[Taipei, Taiwan] At the beginning of 2021, MSI, a world-leading motherboards brand, had announced the latest Intel 500 series platforms will launch soon. Through few weeks of waiting, on January 27th, MSI Intel 500 series motherboards are officially launched.

As MSI official announcement mentioned, all of MSI 500 series motherboards with 11th Gen Intel Core

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There are 28 variants of GeForce RTX 30 Laptop GPUs

NVIDIA made 28 variants of GeForce RTX 30 mobile graphics cards, yet OEMs do list which they are selling

ComputerBase managed to find a list of all Max-Q and Max-P variants of RTX 30 graphics cards.

We have been covering the disappearance of Max-Q branding on GeForce RTX 30 SKUs ever since the news broke. It appears that NVIDIA’s decision to drop Max-Q branding caused a lot of confusion around the already confusing naming of the laptop GPUs.

NVIDIA claims that Max

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Intel’s Raja Koduri publishes the first picture of Xe-HPC GPGPU

Intel Xe-HPC die pictured

Intel’s SVP, Chief Architecture, GM of Architecture, Graphics and Software, Raja Koduri published the first picture of the multi-chip Xe-HPC GPGPU.

We get a first look at Intel Xe-HPC, an upcoming compute accelerator based on Intel Xe architecture. Intel has been teasing and talking about the HPC architecture for a while now. It was first revealed as Ponte Vecchio GPU back in 2019.

Last year Intel confirmed that Xe-HPC will be based

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(PR) Micron Delivers Industry’s First 1α DRAM Technology

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Micron Delivers Industry’s First 1α DRAM Technology

Milestone further solidifies Micron’s technology leadership in both DRAM and NAND

BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 26, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today announced volume shipment of 1α (1-alpha) node DRAM products built using the world’s most advanced DRAM process technology and offering major improvements in bit density, power and performance. This milestone reinforces Micron’s

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