Intel

Intel's discontinuing their Blockscale Crypto Mining ASICs with no next-gen replacement

Customers have until October 2023 to order new mining ASICs

Published: 19th April 2023 | Source: Tom's Hardware | Author: Mark Campbell

Intel's pulling back from crypto mining ASICs as the company's focus tightens on IDM 2.0

Intel has today confirmed that they are discontinuing their fist generation Blockscale 1000-series Crypto mining ASICs, custom processors that were designed to efficiently mine cryptocurrencies. Intel's Blockscale SOCs have been discontinued without a next-

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Palit & IEM create a custom Spider-Man RTX4070 GPU

A clever use of 3D printing for GPU modding

Published: 18th April 2023 | Source: Italian Extreme Modders | Author: Mark Campbell

This custom Spider-Man RTX 4070 graphics card looks awesome

Palit has worked with IEM (Italian Extreme Modders) to create a custom Spider-Man themed RTX 4070 graphics card using Palit's RTX 4070 GamingPro model, a 3D printer, and some paint.

This mod is possible thanks to Palit's


NVIDIA launches their GeForce Game Ready 531.68 drivers for Jedi: Survivor and Dead Island 2

This driver has as must have fix for Counter Strike 2 testers

Published: 18th April 2023 | Source: Nvidia Drivers | Author: Mark Campbell

Nvidia's newest drivers are ready for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and Dead Island 2

Nvidia has just released their GeForce 531.68 WHQL drivers for Windows PCs, adding "Game Ready" optimisations for upcoming titles like Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, and Dead Island 2, both of which are due to be released later this month.

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Valve boosts Steam Deck and Linux Gaming with Proton 8.0

Linux gaming keeps getting better

Published: 18th April 2023 | Source: GitHub | Author: Mark Campbell

Valve further improves Linux gaming with Proton 8.0

Proton, Valve's Windows to Linux gaming compatibility layer, has just hit version 8.0, further enhancing the gaming potential of Linux and Valve's Linux-powered Steam Deck PC gaming handheld.

With Proton, Windows games are made playable on Linux though the Vulkan API and a collection of other software additions, allowing Windows PC games


Nintendo Hacker, Gary Bowser, is now indebted to Nintendo for life

Bowser owes Nintendo a lot of money, and Nintendo wants to get paid

Published: 18th April 2023 | Source: Eurogamer | Author: Mark Campbell

Gary Bowser is now out of jail, but he now owes Nintendo 25-30% of his income

In early 2022, Gary Bowser, one of the member of the hacking group "Team Xecuter" was jailed for 40 months after providing and selling tools that could be used to circumvent the security systems of Nintendo'

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AUO are set to reveal a huge 49-inch 360Hz 5K monitor at Touch Taiwan

AUO plans to make some big announcements this week

Published: 18th April 2023 | Source: TechPowerUp | Author: Mark Campbell

AUO plans to reveal 5K 360Hz and 1080p 540Hz displays at Touch Taiwan

At the Touch Taiwan trade show, AUO Optronics are set to reveal a wide range of new display technologies, including new transparent micro LED panels, as well as high resolution gaming-oriented screens.

One of the screens that AUO is set to showcase

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Capcom acknowledges Resident Evil 2/3's ray tracing removal - Fix Planned

Expect ray tracing to return with a future update

Published: 18th April 2023 | Source: Capcom | Author: Mark Campbell

Capcom's working to bring back ray tracing in Resident Evil 2/3's PC versions

Following the release of Capcom's April 14th for Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3 on PC, PC gamers quickly discovered that the game's ray tracing options had been removed from both titles, an apparent bug that was added with the game's new


Samsung's switch to AI-powered Bing sends Google into a "panic"

Will Samsung ditch Google?

Published: 18th April 2023 | Source: Mashable | Author: Mark Campbell

The appeal of AI-Bing is pushing Google's AI developments into overdrive

Earlier this year, Microsoft's Bing search engine received a major boost with its new AI features, and now Samsung are reportedly considering ditching Google on their devices in favour of Bing's new AI-enabled version.

If Samsung decides to ditch Google and replace it with Bing, Google, and its parent company

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Nvidia's targets a $450 price-point for their RTX 4060 Ti

Is $450 a good price for Nvidia's RTX 4060?

Published: 18th April 2023 | Source: Red Gaming Tech | Author: Mark Campbell

Nvidia's reportedly planning to deliver better than RTX 3070 performance for $450 with their RTX 4060 Ti

According to Red Gaming Tech, Nvidia's planning to launch their RTX 4060 Ti graphics card in May 2023 with a planned MSRP of $

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Intel showcases impressive performance gains with their latest "Game On" GPU Drivers

Intel's new 4311 ARC drivers can deliver impressive performance gains

Published: 17th April 2023 | Source: Intel | Author: Mark Campbell

Intel claims impressive performance gains with their latest ARC GPU drivers

Following the release of their newest ARC "Game On" GPU drivers, Intel has released a lengthy blog post to describe the performance gains that their latest software updates deliver.

In Dead Space, Intel's ARC A750 graphics card can now deliver performance levels that surpass Nvidia

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