Nvidia Drivers Reportedly Enable New Checkerboard Rendering on Multi-GPUs

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Some people aren't content with just one graphics card. For enthusiasts with Nvidia graphics cards, that means relying on the company's Scalable Link Interface (SLI) to run multiple GPUs at the same time. But a recent post on the 3DCenter forum suggests that recent Nvidia drivers have quietly enabled a new checkerboard rendering mode that points to potential for upping graphics without SLI.

The post claimed that Nvidia enabled this new rendering mode starting with graphics drivers from the r435


AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Just $118 Ahead of Black Friday

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Who says you have to wait for Black Friday to get a good deal on a processor? AMD’s last-generation Ryzen 5 2600 targeted at mainstream PC owners is now just between $117-$120 at Amazon and Newegg days ahead of Black Friday .

Those who shop Amazon can get the CPU for $117.68. You can also buy the CPU from Newegg for $119.99 plus $0

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RGB 360mm CPU Cooler for $99: EVGA AIO Hits All-Time Low

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We can't wait for the best Black Friday tech deals to arrive. But in the meantime, we're already seeing some great sales. The EVGA CLC 360 liquid CPU cooler, which typically commands a $159.99 price tag, is currently on sale at Newegg for $99.99 after a $40 discount and $20 rebate card.

The EVGA CLC 360 all-in-

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Centaur Creates First x86 SoC with Integrated AI Co-Processor

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People typically think of x86 processors as coming from Intel and AMD, but there is a third architectural license holder: VIA . This week, an Austin, Texas-based subsidiary of the Taipei-headquartered company announced it's demonstrating an x86 processor that comes with an integrated artificial intelligence (AI) co-processor.

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Intel Comet Lake-S 10-Core CPU Benchmarks Surface

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Fresh benchmarks for Intel's 10th-Generation Comet Lake-S (CML-S) processors have started to appeared in the Geekbench 4 database. The results reveal the chips' core counts, L2 and L3 cache , as well as the preliminary base and boost clocks . But as always, it's wise to take these with a some grains of salt, since they are submissions of unreleased hardware.

As a quick refresher, Comet Lake-S will replace

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PowerColor Unveils Highest-Clocked Radeon RX 5700 XT Graphics Card

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We don’t normally know PowerColor for making graphics cards with water cooling blocks built onto them, but today it announced the Liquid Devil 5700 XT, which it claims that it is the fastest RX 5700 XT graphics card out there.

The graphics card itself features a relatively short board design, but manages to pack in a 10-phase VRM circuitry nevertheless.

Meanwhile, the liquid block is made by EKWB, so we're confident in its ability

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Get a Samsung 970 EVO 1TB M.2 SSD for Just $150

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For the past few months, you would normally find the Samsung 970 EVO 1TB SSD for $169.99. However, for a limited time, this SSD can be yours for just $149.99, which equates to roughly to 15 cents per gigabyte. And we haven't even hit the best Black Friday tech deals yet. Considering the drive cost $450 when it came

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AMD's Unlocked Athlon 3000G APU Starts Shipping at $49

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AMD announced today that it's started shipping its latest APU , the Athlon 3000G today for $49. The chip is the first Zen architecture-based product from AMD's Athlon line to to be unlocked.

AMD Athlon 3000G vs Athlon 200GE Specs

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Cores / Threads2 / 42 / 4
Base / Boost3.5 / 3.5 GHz3
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AMD Adds DirectX12 Support to Fortnite for Smoother Gameplay

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AMD has listed its new Adrenaline Driver 19.11.3. It's a small release but brings a sweet new feature: DirectX 12 support in Fortnite .

With DirectX 12, Fortnite is said to perform at higher framerates with reduced stuttering, thanks to DirectX 12's improved ability to distribute workloads across your gaming PC's CPU cores . Epic Games will be adding more DirectX 12 features to Fortnite in the future, but did not specify which


Windows 10 November 2019 Update Starts Rolling Out Automatically

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Microsoft officially released the Windows 10 November 2019 Update on November 12. Users had to manually install the update, however, which limited its immediate audience. This changed yesterday when the latest major version of Windows 10 started rolling out via the Update Assistant tool, which automatically downloads and installs feature updates on Windows 10 PCs .

This staggered rollout is meant to help Microsoft identify potential issues before releasing it to everyone. The company's been particularly cautious since the