ASUS ROG RYUJIN II 240 CPU cooler comes with a screen as big as iPhone 4’s

ASUS unveils ROG RYUJIN II 240 CPU cooler

At CES 2021, ASUS unveiled its flagship dual-fan cooling solution for CPUs, the RYUJIN II 240.

The cooler is a successor to RYUJIN 240, which offered a similar radiator and fan design. It was the first ASUS cooler that came with a LiveDash OLED screen, although it was rather small (1.77-inch). The successor will feature a much larger display. The RYUJIN II comes with a 3

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(Driver) INTEL Graphics Driver 27.20.100.9168

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NVIDIA will no longer differentiate Max-Q and Max-P mobile GeForce graphics cards

NVIDIA drops Max-Q / Max-P SKU naming

According to Notebookcheck NVIDIA has decided to drop the Max-Q and Max-P mobile SKU naming. What this means is that customers will no longer be able to differentiate between low-TGP and high-TGP variants of the graphics cards, unless the company clearly specifies the value itself.

NVIDIA Max-Q, Source: NVIDIA

The purchase of the next-gen laptop might be even more complicated than it was before. NVIDIA is now allegedly dropping Max-

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CPU-Z 1.95 now supports Intel Rocket Lake CPUs

CPU-Z gets Intel Rocket Lake-S support

The most popular processor monitoring tool has been updated to support the upcoming 11th Gen Core series from Intel.

The tool has been updated yesterday to support the 11th Gen Core series codenamed Rocket Lake-S. Intel has not provided a clear launch date for the new series, but the rumors have been pointing towards March for a while now. Intel officially confirmed that the CPUs will be announced in Q1 2021. The CPU-Z

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AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX is now PassMark’s highest ranking mobile CPU

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX Cezanne APU

The Ryzen 9 5900HX is not even the fastest CPU of the Cezanne FP6 series, yet it was enough to top the PassMark mobile CPU ranking in both single and multi-threaded benchmarks.

AMD introduced its first Zen3 based mobile CPUs aka Ryzen 5000H series at CES 2021. The new series was introduced in four variants, including:

  • U-Series – 15W – Ultra-mobile
  • HS-Series
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(Driver) NVIDIA GeForce Hotfix 461.33


European Commission fines Valve and 5 game publishers 7.8 million EUR for geo-blocking practises

European Commission has fined Valve and five other game publishers for a total of 7.8 million euro for breaching EU antitrust rules

Users within European Economic Area (EEA) were restricted from buying PC games from different European regions. European Commission claims in a press release announcing fines on the publishers. Many publishers were selling games at a lower price for Eastern European countries which were locked to those regions and could not be activated in Western Europe. This geoblocking of the game purchases is prohibited in the EU and the Commission has decided


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Intel Core i5-11400 6-core Rocket Lake-S CPU spotted on Geekbench

Intel Core i5-11400 Rocket Lake-S CPU with 6-cores appears on Geekbench

Intel confirmed that its 11th Gen Core CPU series will be available in the first quarter of this year. The company has not yet revealed the exact date, however, this has not stopped the leaks from appearing almost on daily basis for the past few weeks.

Intel Core i5-11400 is a 6-core CPU with 12-threads that ships with a base

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MSI preparing GeForce RTX 3060 Ti MINER series

MSI might launch a GPU mining-specific graphics cards

According to the latest MSI’s entry to the Eurasian Economic Commission regulatory office, MSI might be preparing custom graphics cards designed specifically for mining.

The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti MINER series have appeared in the EEC listing. The product name clearly suggests that the graphics cards would be used for cryptocurrency mining. This isn’t the first time we are seeing mining-specific cards being launched by board partners though.

Board partners often sell special series with subpar

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NVIDIA to reintroduce GeForce RTX 2060 and RTX 2060 SUPER to the market

NVIDIA to reintroduce GeForce RTX 2060 series

A month ahead of the official GeForce RTX 3060 launch to the market, NVIDIA has plans to reintroduce its Turing cards first.

Interesting information has been shared by Overclocking.com today. According to multiple sources of theirs, NVIDIA has plans to reintroduce GeForce RTX 2060 series to the market, just as we expected its successor. The site claims that NVIDIA has already distributed new GPU stock to board partners and system integrators. The numbers of the

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