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Biostar and ASrock confirm 11th Gen Core ‘Rocket Lake-S’ support on Z490 motherboards

Biostar and Asrock confirm Rocket Lake-S Support on Z490 motherboards

According to the picture posted by @momomo_us , Biostar becomes the first board manufacturer to officially confirm the 11th Gen Intel Core CPU series on existing 400-series motherboards.

Biostar Z490 RACING support for 11th Gen Core Intel processors

Biostar Racing Z490 motherboards now officially support the 11th Gen Core series, according to the marketing banner published on social media. Intel’s upcoming


Epic Games Launcher makes AMD Ryzen CPUs run hotter even without any game running

Game launcher caught making Ryzen CPUs hotter.

Epic Games Launcher increases the temperature of AMD Ryzen CPUs, even when idle

It appears that Epic Games Launcher is making some Ryzen processors run hotter, as reported by multiple users on Reddit and verified by Hot Hardware . The applications appear to continue to use CPU resources even when the application is running in the background. This is of course not expected behavior from the application that is only meant to maintain the library and launch games. Those resources could have been used by the game itself

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Intel to begin mass production of 11th Gen Core Rocket Lake-S CPUs in January

Intel Rocket Lake mass production starts in January

Intel is set to begin mass production of its upcoming 11th Gen desktop processor series in January, a new leak from @OneRaichu seems to confirm. We do not know how recent this roadmap is, but it does appear to be a real roadmap.

Intel has begun producing engineering samples back in June, with a refined version released in August. In late November Intel has started manufacturing qualification samples, which are leaking all over the Internet by now. Those samples are sent

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ASUS confirms ROG STRIX GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card with 20GB memory

ASUS service and support website already lists the upcoming GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card.

ASUS confirms GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

The manufacturer becomes the first to confirm that such NVIDIA SKU even exists. The listing reveals that two ROG STRIX graphics cards are in development: ROG-STRIX-RTX3080TI-O20G-GAMING (with factory-overclocking) and ROG-STRIX-RTX3080TI-20G-GAMING (likely to feature reference

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MSI focusing on Radeon RX 6000 GAMING series only, other series currently not planned due to lack of Navi 21 GPU supply

MSI will be focusing on the Radeon GAMING series only due to lack of GPU supply

Unlike other manufacturers who confirmed to offer up to 4 SKUs per a single Radeon RX 6000 model, MSI decided to focus on one design entirely. The company announced that during the MSI Insider show which was featuring Radeon RX 6800 XT GAMING X TRIO graphics card.

The manufacturer publicly confirmed it will focus on the GAMING series only. That means only four SKUs are currently planned, including factory-overclocked models known


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MSI shows off Radeon RX 6800 XT GAMING X TRIO, confirms RX 6900 XT GAMING X TRIO

During the MSI Insider show, the company announced its flagship Radeon graphics card from the RX 6000 series, the RX 6900 XT GAMING X TRIO.

MSI Radeon RX 6900 XT GAMING X TRIO

The graphics card is still in the development process, for instance, the PCB has not been finalized yet. This implies that the RX 6900 XT has a different PCB than RX 6800 XT model, possibly with more power connectors.

MSI Radeon RX 69

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Intel Rocket Lake Core i9-11900K, i9-11900, i7-11700 engineering sample CPU-Z screenshots leak

Intel Core i9-11900K, Core i9-11900, and Core i7-11700 engineering samples emerge

The leaker from Chiphell claims that he just received the samples of three Rocket Lake CPUs. including the 11900K. The engineering samples are clearly clocked lower than retails units that we expect to appear in the leaks soon.

The Core i9-11900K ES appears to have a base clock of

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 offers 31 FPS in Cyberpunk 2077 at 8K with raytracing, 6.6 FPS without DLSS

Our friends at TweakTown took NVIDIA flagship GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card for a spin at 8K.

NVIDIA RTX 3090 in Cyberpunk 2077 at 8K

NVIDIA heavily promoted its new flagship graphics card based on Ampere architecture as the first 8K gaming GPU. The 8K gaming is still a niche and it will remain so until RTX 3090 successor arrives. The popularity of 4K gaming will probably increase once display manufacturers begin focusing on HDMI 2.1 capable monitors

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Intel quad-core Tiger Lake i7-11370H and i5-10300H processors spotted

Intel Tiger Lake-H35

Intel’s 11th Gen Core series will soon reach the mobile gaming market with the first Tiger Lake-H35 processors coming at CES 2021. Those processors will be the first next-gen CPUs to launch with the GeForce RTX 30 mobile graphics cards. It seems that Intel is not yet ready to bring the heavy guns (8-core chips) to the fight with AMD Cezanne. Those processors are not expected till the second quarter of the

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