Valve shows Steam Deck internals in official teardown video

Steam Deck is a densely packed handheld console

Dismantling Steam Deck might not be complicated, but Valve does not recommend doing it.

The video posted by the official Valve account on YouTube shows the process of Steam Deck teardown, focusing mainly on the analog stick and SSD replacement. Valve promises that at some point replacement parts will become available so a video like this will become handly should anyone need to replace those components.

Steam Deck, Source: Valve

What was made clear is that SSD replacement is not recommended. The drive which

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Intel finally shows real Alder Lake CPUs for the first time

Intel Alder Lake officially pictured

No more renders, here’s a first look at Intel Alder Lake CPU.

Intel 10nm process technology is finally coming to desktop PCs. On Twitter, Gregory M. Bryant (Executive Vice President, General Manager, Client Computing Group at Intel) posted a photo of an engineer holding two Intel Alder Lake CPUs. This is actually the first official photo of the processors from the 12th Gen Core series, not including the renders that the company had already shown.

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Gigabyte Z690 AORUS Elite motherboard leaks, the first board for Intel Alder Lake

AORUS Z690 AORUS Elite AX DDR4 pictured

The first Z690 motherboard has been pictured.

AORUS motherboard that has leaked on social media features DDR4 memory. This is actually one of the boards that had already appeared in the Eurasian Economic Commission regulatory office leak. Only this time we get to see the first photo of the actual Z690 motherboard, including its new LGA1700 socket. The picture comes from a datasheet written in Chinese, which is probably being delivered to


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(PR) Kingston DDR5 memory receives Intel Platform Validation

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Kingston Technology First Third-Party Supplier to Receive Intel Platform Validation on DDR5 Memory

• 16GB and 32GB DDR5 UDIMM Compatible with Intel Platforms

Fountain Valley, CA – October 6, 2021 – Kingston Technology Company, Inc., a world leader in memory products and technology solutions, today announced its forthcoming DDR5 UDIMMS have received Intel Platform Validation . This marks the first and arguably most important milestone in validating compatibility between Kingston DDR5 memory solutions and Intel platforms utilizing

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HWiNFO gets preliminary Intel 13th Gen Core “Raptor Lake” support

Intel 13th Gen Core supported by HWiNFO

Alder Lake series might not be here yet, but the initial support for its successor – Raptor lake – has already landed for HWiNFO.

The 13th Gen Core will introduce a new microarchitecture called Raptor Cove for Performance (big) cores while retaining Gracemont for Efficient (small) cores. The core design upgrade is not the only change coming to Alder Lake’s successor, as the series will also introduce higher core counts, up to 24 cores in total.

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(PR) COMPUTEX returns, 2022 in-person expo opens for exhibitor registration

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COMPUTEX 2022 Opens for International Exhibitor Registration Today

COMPUTEX 2022 is set to kick off from May 24 to 27 in the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center Hall 1 & 2, featuring Innovative Computing, Accelerating Intelligence, Digital Resilience, Connected X-Experience, Innovations and Startups, and Sustainability. This annual tech event will continue to lead in the discovery of the latest technology trends. Due to the pandemic, the annual physical show was cancelled for two years, but COMPUTEX 2


Corsair shows off its Vengeance DDR5 memory

Corsair provides a first look at its DDR5 memory

Another brand shows off its new DDR5 memory kit.

Corsair provided a first look at its Vengeance DDR5 memory. The company did not reveal anything specifications of the new series though, such as frequencies or overclocking options, but this information should become available once we get closer to the Intel Alder Lake-S launch, the first desktop series to support this new memory standard. According to JEDEC specifications, the DDR5 memory starts at 4800 MT/

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NVIDIA bundles Guardians of the Galaxy with GeForce RTX 30 desktop and laptops systems

Guardians of the Galaxy is free with NVIDIA RTX 30 GPUs, but only when the whole system is bought

Select purchases of NVIDIA RTX 30 equipped systems will be eligible for a free game.

It is important to note that this bundle does not include separate graphics card purchases. The Guardians of the Galaxy game will only be included with desktop and laptop systems equipped with Ampere GPUs. This means RTX 3090, 3080 Ti, 3080, 3070, and 3

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AMD Radeon RX 6600 Final Specifications and Official Performance leaked

AMD Radeon RX 6600 launches October 13th

We have the final specifications and performance figures for the next SKU from the AMD RDNA2 series.

The Radeon RX 6600 non-XT will feature 1792 Stream Processors , a reduction of 256 cores compared to the XT variant. At launch this card will be the slowest variant of AMD RDNA2 desktop gaming GPU, however, it will not be the only Radeon to feature this configuration. AMD had already used 17

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(PR) XPG launches Xenia 15 KC gaming laptop with Core i7-11800H and GeForce RTX 3070

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XPG Unveils XENIA 15 KC Gaming Notebook

Designed with Intel for optimal performance.

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