AMD slashes Q3 earnings forecast as Client revenue declines

Weaker than expected PC demand has resulted in declining sales

Published: 7th October 2022 | Source: AMD | Author: Mark Campbell

AMD slashes its Q3 earnings forecast by $1 billion

Q3 was expected to be a time of record profits for AMD, with the company expecting $6.7 billion in total revenue. Now, AMD has confirmed that they now expect $5.6 billion in revenue this quarter, citing lower than expected client CPU sales.

With these lower earnings also comes lower

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Nintendo releases their first trailer for The Super Mario Movie

The film is coming to Cinemas in April 2023

Published: 7th October 2022 | Source: Universal Pictures | Author: Mark Campbell

Nintendo reveals their first trailer for The Super Mario Movie  at Nintendo Direct

Following the company's latest Nintendo Direct livestream, Nintendo and Illumination Entertainment have released their first trailer for 2023's The Super Mario Bros Movie.

In the trailer below, Nintendo has showcased incredible 3D animation and have highlighted the movie's high fam voice cast,


Valve's Steam Deck handheld is now available to order without reservations

Steam Deck is now available in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

Published: 7th October 2022 | Source: Valve | Author: Mark Campbell

Valve has fulfilled all Steam Deck reservations, gamers can now buy a Steam Deck without delay

Valve's Steam Deck gaming system is now available to purchase without any delays, with the company confirming that they have scaled up their production rate and have now fulfilled all existing reservations for their handheld PC.

Starting now, Valve's Steam Deck


Hitman 3 has been updated to support XeSS and FSR 2.1 in addition to DLSS

Will we see other major games following suit?

Published: 6th October 2022 | Source: Hitman 3 - IO Interactive | Author: Mark Campbell

Hitman 3 now supports XeSS, FSR 2.1, and DLSS

As part of the game's October update, Hitman 3 has gained support for Intel's XeSS AI upscaling technology and AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) 2.1 temporal upscaling technology. Previously, the game only supported Nvidia's DLSS AI super resolution technology, now

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Samsung reveals plans for 36Gbps GDDR7 DRAM

Samsung's GDDR7 is more than 2x faster than commonly used 16Gbps GDDR6 modules

Published: 6th October 2022 | Source: Samsung | Author: Mark Campbell

Samsung's GDDR7 memory will be transformative for GPUs

Samsung has confirmed that they are working on GDDR7 memory, revealing that they have "upcoming DRAM solutions" that included 36Gbps GDDR7 memory modules. Why does this matter, because it is more than 2x faster than the GDDR6 memory modules that

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Corsair partners with Nanoleaf to deliver seamless smart lighting integration.

First Philips Hue, now Nanoleaf

Published: 6th October 2022 | Source: Corsair | Author: Mark Campbell

Corsair and Nanoleaf have teamed up to make room-scale iCUE lighting setups a reality

Today, Corsair has expanded the capabilities of their iCUE software to support Nanoleaf's suite of smart lighting devices, allowing iCUE users to control their entire RGB setup from a single software package.

Corsair's iCUE software can now control Nanoleaf's Lines, Shapes, and Canvas products, with support for their

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Is your PC ready for Dead Space? The Remake's system requirements are here!

You're gonna need a beefy system to run Dead Space's PC remake

Published: 6th October 2022 | Source: Steam | Author: Mark Campbell

Here's what you will need to run Dead Space's Remake on PC

Dead Space's current-gen remake is launching on PC, Xbox Series X/S, and PlayStation 5 on January 27th 2023, and PC gamers are gonna need a high-spec system to run it.

Dead Space has

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Intel

Noctua NA-TPG1 thermal paste guard makes AMD AM5 processors easier to clean/use

Cleaning thermal paste of a Ryzen 7000 series CPU is a difficult process

Published: 6th October 2022 | Source: Noctua | Author: Mark Campbell

An effective solution for an annoying problem - Noctua releases their NA-TPG1 thermal paste guard for AM5 CPUs

If you have read our review of AMD's Ryzen 7 7700X or Ryzen 9 7950X ( see it here ), you will know that AMD has delivered incredible levels of performance with their

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Zotac reveals their official RTX 4090 pricing - Will hit Nvidia's MSRP

It looks like there will be plenty of RTX 4090 GPUs that will be available at Nvidia's MSRP

Published: 6th October 2022 | Source: Zotac | Author: Mark Campbell

Zotac's RTX 4090 designs are staying close to Nvidia's MSRP

On the company's website, Zotac has revealed the official pricing of several RTX 4090 models, all of which sit close to Nvidia's $1,599 MSRP. Zotac's

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UL has released a new 3DMark Feature Test for Intel's XeSS tech

XeSS works on GPUs from AMD, Nvidia, and Intel

Published: 5th October 2022 | Source: UL Benchmarks | Author: Mark Campbell

Want to try out XeSS? 3DMARK has a new feature test for that

With XeSS, Intel has given the world an AI-upscaling technology that supports GPU hardware from multiple manufacturers. Unlike Nvidia's DLSS technology, XeSS is supported on hardware from their competitors, though it is optimised for Intel's ARC A-series GPUs.

To highlight the benefits

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