Gigabyte unveils its second NVIDIA Ampere-based graphics card with a pre-installed water block.
The manufacturer had already released RTX 3080 AORUS Xtreme WaterForce WB. This rather lengthy product name basically means that the card is part of the AORUS series, Xtreme variant (the top of the line), Waterforce (water cooling), and WB (with a water block).
The new model cover in this article is not part of the AORUS series but
Intel’s 12th Gen Core Alder Lake-S processor has been discovered on the SiSoftware website by @momomo_us .
This isn’t the first time this 16-core Alder Lake CPU had appeared in the leaks. Back in October a similar SKU has been discovered on Sisoftware website. Another Alder Lake CPU had appeared in December on Geekbench.
The new sample that was discovered today has a higher clock speed though. With
Only after the reports of NVIDIA downgrading the specifications of the G-Sync Ultimate monitors, the company decided to issue a statement explaining why it was necessary.
The issue started with a tweet from PC Monitors who noticed that NVIDIA listed ACER X34 S as a G-Sync Ultimate monitor. This display has a nominal brightness of 400 nits (550 peak) which is nowhere near NVIDIA’s (
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BIOSTAR’S NEW FLAGSHIP MOTHERBOARD RANGE
January 19th, 2021, Taipei, Taiwan – BIOSTAR, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards, and storage devices today announces the launch of their latest Z590 VALKYRIE series motherboard range engineered to run Intel’s 11thgen Rocket Lake-S processors.
Designed based on the latest Z590 chipset from Intel, BIOSTAR’s VALKYRIE series motherboards are
Gigabyte figured that their RTX 3060 Ti does not actually need such a beefy cooler, so they made it thinner.
Gigabyte outs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Gaming OC Pro.. again. The new revision is thinner and shorter. The card will now occupy 2 slots, rather than 2 and a half. The length of the card has also been reduced by 4 mm and width by 2 mm. Gigabyte does not share details
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 only available from board partners.
Official render of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060, Source: NVIDIA
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 will be released by board partners only. NVIDIA has no plans to launch its reference design under Founders Edition, a report from Cowcotland indicates. The slides that were used during the card’s announcement, have not featured any reference design, which normally means that the manufacturer isn’t planning
ASUS is refreshing its overclocking and monitoring tool for graphics cards.
GPU Tweak III is a new software from ASUS that handles GPU monitoring, overclocking, and tweaking (such as fan profiles or lighting). The tool is very much like MSI Afterburner, probably the most popular GPU adjustment tool on the market. The reason why is simple, both applications support GPUs from NVIDIA and AMD, so gamers can get used to the tools easily no matter who made their graphics cards.
GPU Tweak
NVIDIA quietly changes ‘over 1000 nits brightness’ to ‘lifelike HDR’
At its debut, NVIDIA G-Sync technology required proprietary hardware to be installed in the monitor itself. It allowed the display to control the refresh rate dynamically in synchronization with the GPU. The technology was announced before AMD FreeSync. Eventually, due to the increasing popularity of Vesa Adaptive Sync monitors, NVIDIA has split the technology into three branches: G-Sync Compatible (without NVIDIA hardware),
Back in October ASUS announced a special edition of its PC hardware line inspired by the Mobile Suit Gundam anime series. The company revealed plans for two product series: GUNDAM (kept in a white color scheme) and ZAKU II (pictured below).
While we have all been awaiting news on the high-end GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, NVIDIA announced a new entry-level SKU: the GT 1010.
It has been a while since we have heard about a new 10 series graphics card, but it seems that NVIDIA is finally replacing its ancient GT 710 SKU. The GT 710 is based on Kepler GK208 GPU, the card was originally released in
