Cyberpunk 2077 Release Date Nears as Game Goes Gold

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After much anticipation, Cyberpunk 2077 has officially 'gone gold', meaning that the publisher has declared the game finished and good enough to go to the CD printing press so that physical copies can be shipped to retailers in time for the launch.

Cyberpunk 2077 has gone gold! 📀See you in Night City on November 19th! pic.twitter.com/s6U266Y1fp October 5, 20


Asus RTX 3070s Emerge: Strix, TUF, and Dual Graphics Cards Detailed

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With only four weeks left before the RTX 3070 launch , Asus has begun rolling out full specifications for three of it's new RTX 3070 graphics cards, the 3070 S trix , TUF , and Dual series. The RTX 3070 TUF and Strix are very similar in design compared to Asus' RTX 3080 counterparts. They both feature triple-fan cooler designs with very large heatsinks. In fact, both the Strix

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Intel Iris Xe Max GPU Spotted in Leaked Benchmarks

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Intel Iris Xe Max graphics have shown up in some leaked benchmarks, and also indicate the possibility that Xe Max is the name for DG1, Intel's first discrete GPU.

In a SiSoftware entry , the GPU is shown with 96 execution units and 768 streaming processors. The benchmark also shows a clock speed of 1.55 GHz, a 1MB L2 cache, and 3GB of VRAM.

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The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070: RTX 2080 Ti Performance at $499 (Updated)

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Nvidia just announced the GeForce RTX 3070 and other GPUs that use the new Ampere architecture , and the great news is that pricing hasn't radically changed from the current RTX 20-series Super cards. The RTX 3070 will pick up where the RTX 2070 Super left off, at the $499 price point. What's more, it should offer better performance than the RTX 2080 Ti. Ampere has arrived

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Nvidia RTX 3070's GA104-300 GPU Pictured During Production Validation

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Coming hot off the heels of a potential RTX 3070 mobile GPU , a new post from twitter user @Avery78 (via Videocardz) shows a picture of Nvidia's desktop GA104-300 Ampere GPUs being validated for production. The picture originated from a user on the Baidu forums, but it has since been removed. As with all leaked info, though, we have to approach this with some caution, but


Raspberry Pi Blasts Off In Model Rocket to Record Telemetry Data

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Created by maker John Jones, this project uses a Raspberry Pi mounted inside of a model rocket to capture telemetry data from his rocket launches in real-time.

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Crucial P1 Features 1TB of Storage For $106 Through Newegg

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The 1TB edition of the Crucial P1 internal SSD is listed on Newegg at an 11% discount. It's usually priced around $119 but is listed today at only $106.

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AMD: 'We are continuing to produce RX 5700 series graphics cards.'

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Rumors of the Radeon RX 5700’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Earlier today, French tech site Cowcotland reported that AMD would be discontinuing its RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT Graphics cards to instead focus on new Big Navi cards that it would present to the public on October 28th. The story got picked up by both TechPowerUp and TechRadar , so we decided to reach out to AMD for confirmation. The response? The rumor is


Get Cyberpunk 2077 and Every Witcher Game for $88

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After twice delayed from its original launch date of April 16, Cyberpunk 2077 is finally set to come out on November 19. There has recently been a bit of controversy surrounding that launch, as development studio CD Projekt Red is breaking a previous anti-crunch promise with mandatory six-day work weeks to finish the game on time, according to an email obtained by Bloomberg . Therefore, there probably won't be any more delays, resulting in new


US Government's Aurora Supercomputer Delayed Due to Intel’s 7nm Setback

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When Intel announced earlier this year that its 7nm process technology would be delayed , it brought implications for Aurora, the first Intel-based exascale supercomputer. There was no clear answer back in July, but an official for the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DoE) Office of Science confirmed this week that the system will be delayed.

As reported by HPCwire , the DoE does not see this is as a major problem, noting that the Argonne National Laboratory

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