If you've had your eye out for a curved monitor, you should check out this Newegg deal for the Samsung C24RG50 gaming display. The 144 Hz screen spans 24 inches across diagonally for a seriously immersive experience. For the next few days as part of their Labor Day Sale, this display is discounted over $35 off when you use promo code 97LABRDAY42 .
Samsung 24-inch, 144 Hz Curved Gaming Monitor Now $164

YARH.IO MKI Raspberry Pi Handheld is Made for Hackers

If you're looking for an all-in-one Raspberry Pi handheld, you might appreciate the YARH.IO MKI project. This gadget is completely portable and self-described as a "hackable Linux handheld".
The YARH.IO can be customized with add on boards and adjusting the physical modules on the handheld. Certain components can be removed, like the keyboard. Because it relies on a Raspberry Pi, it supports a variety of Linux-based operating systems.
Unannounced Asus and Gigabyte Ampere RTX 30-Series GPUs Listed

Today Videocardz.com reported on findings at the Eurasian Economic Commission (ECC) website that list new unannounced Ampere RTX 3000 series graphics cards from Asus and Gigabyte. As with all ECC listings, some of these entries could merely be placeholders that won't make it to market. But the listings do give us a taste of things to possibly come.
Both Asus and Gigabyte have already revealed their main lineups, but now we have info on more exotic SKUs that might come
Micron Reveals GDDR6X Details: The Future of Memory, or a Proprietary DRAM?

Micron Technology shared some additional details about its latest GDDR6X SGRAM used by Nvidia's GeForce RTX 30-series graphics cards at a virtual briefing last week. The company revealed that it has experimented for more than a decade with technologies enabling the new type of memory and said that GDDR6X SGRAM had not been standardized by JEDEC yet. Right now, only Nvidia uses GDDR6X memory, but Micron hopes this will change over time. Can it?
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Adata Swordfish M.2 NVMe SSD Review: Affordable, Secure Storage
Our Verdict
Adata’s swordfish isn’t the most responsive SSD out there, but it looks great and comes with AES 256-bit encryption support at a very low price.
For
- Low cost
- Large SLC write cache
- Sleek aesthetic
- AES 256-bit encryption
- 5-year warranty
- SSD Toolbox and cloning software
Against
- Slow write performance after the SLC cache fills
- Endurance is lower than average
- Could use further power optimization

New PicoRio SBC To Feature RISC-V Open-Source Processor

Imagination Technologies has paired up with RIOS Laboratory to develop a new SBC called PicoRio. According to the press release, the new board will feature an open-source RISC-V processor .
Talk of a new SBC almost always draws comparison to the popular Raspberry Pi board, which features an ARM-based processor. So far no details have been made about the exact size of the PicoRio. Whether or not this board is a comparable competitor remains unclear.
The PicoRio board is designed with Linux
AMD's Ryzen Embedded Powers Bleu Jour's Kubb Mini PC

Bleu Jour, the French PC manufacturing company, announced two CPU options for their small, cube-shaped mini PC known as the Kubb Graphite edition. According to a report from TechRadar , it will offer both an Intel and Ryzen option for the CPU.
This announcement comes from the IFA 2020 tech expo in Berlin. The Kubb Graphite mini PC was designed by Philippe Stark. It measures in at 4.7" x 4.7" x 4.7"
Nvidia RTXGI: Ray Tracing Global Illumination At Any Frame Rate

Nvidia's has opened the doors on it's new RTXGI SDK to allow Ray Traced Global Illumination on all GPU platforms and tweak it to any performance standard required by the developers.
Global Illumination is how games light themselves up, it's how you actually see anything in a video game in any realistic way. Typically you "pre-bake" your lighting where you run pre-calculated lighting runs and then "bake" them into the textures. But ray-tracing allows
Nvidia Details RTX 30-Series Core Enhancements

Nvidia revealed the RTX-30 Series Ampere Architecture on September 1, celebrating the 21st anniversary of its first GPU, the GeForce 256. The features and specifications certainly look impressive, as you can read more in our GeForce RTX 3090 , GeForce RTX 3080 , and GeForce RTX 3070 breakdowns. However, we ended up with quite a few questions, and Nvidia provided plenty of additional information that we're summarizing here.
A Closer Look at the GeForce RTX 3080, RTX 3090 Founders Edition Coolers

For the Ampere generation of Founders Edition coolers, Nvidia had to go back to the drawing board and completely redesign the cooling solution to suit the significantly higher TDPs of the GeForce RTX 3080 and 3090.
The radical new design for the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 Founders Edition coolers represent Nvidia's new solution to an old cooling problem, but it has also sparked a lot of controversy in the enthusiast community; will