Oculus Quest headsets will soon no longer require Facebook accounts

The Oculus brand is dead. Say hello to Meta and goodbye to Facebook

Published: 29th October 2021 | Source: Oculus/Facebook | Author: Mark Campbell

The Oculus Quest will become the Meta Quest in 2022

Facebook held its annual "Facebook Connect" event yesterday, rebranding the company as Meta while retaining Facebook as the name of its Facebook social media platform. Meta is now the umbrella company that controls, Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram and Oculus.

Regarding Oculus, Facebook's
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Noctua's Next-Gen NH-D15 Heatsink has been delayed until late 2022

The heatsink was originally due to launch this year

Published: 29th October 2021 | Source: Noctua | Author: Mark Campbell

Noctua's Next-Gen NH-D15 Heatsink has been delayed until late 2022

Noctua has just released a new revision of its hardware roadmap, revealing that the company plans to launch in the remainder of 2021 and throughout 2022. One of the highlights of this roadmap is the company's "Next-generation NHD
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Intel

Three reasons you should be excited about Alder Lake and one reason your shouldn't

Is Intel back?

Published: 28th October 2021 | Source: OC3D | Author: Mark Campbell

Why you should, and shouldn't, be excited about Alder Lake

It is an exciting time to be a PC enthusiast, as Intel's preparing to push the PC hardware industry further with an innovative new CPU architecture, strong IPC gains, a lot of next-generation hardware features. Alder Lake is coming, and it is a game-changer for Intel.

We've

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Why G.SKILL's "Fastest" DDR5 memory isn't their best

G.Skill's 6600 MT/s memory is better than their 6800 MT/s modules

Published: 28th October 2021 | Source: G.Skill | Author: Mark Campbell

There's more to memory speeds than clock speeds alone

G.Skill has just revealed new DDR5 6800 MT/s memory kits, only a week after revealing the "world's fastest" DDR5 memory , which offered 6600 MT'

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Intel

Alder Lake Pre-Orders Open - Intel's UK 12th Gen Pricing Revealed

Alder Lake is cheaper than expected.

Published: 28th October 2021 | Source: Various Retail Sources | Author: Mark Campbell

Here's how much Alder Lake will cost

Intel has officially revealed their 12th Generation of Core processors, codename Alder Lake, the company's first hybrid x86 processors. With this product launch, Intel has officially opened up pre-orders for their processors and Z690 series motherboards, giving us a look at early Alder Lake pricing.

At

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Intel

EVGA reveals its Z690 Kingpin and Classified Motherboards for Intel 12th Gen

New overclockings tools, new motherboards and beefy VRMs

Published: 28th October 2021 | Source: EVGA | Author: Mark Campbell

EVGA launches its high-end Alder Lake Z690 motherboard lineup

EVGA's ready for the launch of Intel's 12th Generation Alder Lake processors, as they have created several new Z690 series motherboards for the high-end motherboard market. Both of these new motherboard designs feature digital VRM designs, multiple PCIe 4.0 M.2

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Intel

Corsair reveals its DDR5 Vengeance and Dominator Platinum RGB Memory Kits

Press Release

Published: 28th October 2021 | Source: Corsair | Author: Mark Campbell

PR - Enter the Next Generation of Performance and Speed— Introducing CORSAIR DDR5 Memory

CORSAIR, a world leader in enthusiast components for gamers, creators, and PC builders, today kicked off the DDR5 era with the launch of DOMINATOR PLATINUM RGB DDR5 and VENGEANCE DDR5. Leveraging more than 25 years of experience crafting premium, high-performance memory, these new modules open the way to far higher

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Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Master Preview

Introduction and Technical Specifications

Published: 27th October 2021 | Source: Gigabyte | Price: | Author: Tom Logan

Introduction

We don't often like to give you peeks behind the curtain here at OC3D, but all these motherboards arrived on Monday afternoon and need to be photographed and written up by first thing Wednesday morning. To say we've been busy is somewhat of an understatement. Thankfully for us this is the last of the motherboards we have to write a preview for, and

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ASUS TUF Gaming Z690-Plus WiFi D4 Preview

Introduction and Packaging

Published: 27th October 2021 | Source: ASUS | Price: | Author: Tom Logan

Introduction

One of the biggest problems upgrading to the latest system is the costs involved. AMD somewhat negate this by sticking to the same socket for as long as possible, and thankfully DDR4 has been around long enough that many people forgot the transition from DDR2 to 3, or 3 to 4.

Intel have nearly always required a wholesale upgrade when moving platform, and the Z69

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Intel

ASUS ROG Z690 Maximus Hero Preview

Introduction and Packaging

Published: 27th October 2021 | Source: ASUS | Price: | Author: Tom Logan

Introduction

With the Maximus Formula appearing in all white this generation the Hero is the main event of the ASUS ROG Maximus for those of you who prefer a black PCB.

The Hero has some different design takes than we've seen on previous ASUS ROG motherboards in keeping with the big changes to the whole Intel platform that the 12th Generation CPUs and Z690 chipset have brought

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