Torchlight II is available for free on the Epic Games Store today

Overclock3D.Net | Dec. 30, 2020, 6:37 a.m. | Original

You have 24 hours to redeem your copy of the game

Published: 30th December 2020 | Source: Epic Games Store | Author: Mark Campbell

Torchlight II is available for free on the Epic Games Store today

For today only, Runic Games' Torchlight 2 is available for free on the Epic Games Store, giving Windows PC and macOS gamers access to an excellent RPG.

It's worth noting that Torchlight contains online and LAN co-op odes, making this a great game to play with
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Intel

Hedge Fund Urges Intel to Go Fabless - A Foolish Request

Overclock3D.Net | Dec. 30, 2020, 6:02 a.m. | Original

Going fabless would kill Intel as we know it

Published: 30th December 2020 | Source: Reuters | Author: Mark Campbell

Hedge Fund Urges Intel to Go Fabless - A Foolish Request

The New York-based hedge fund Third Point has urged Intel to explore alternatives to its current structure, suggesting that the CPU giant sells off its recent acquisitions and considers spinning off its manufacturing arm into a separate company.

For context, these suggestions come when Intel's manufacturing capabilities, which were previously the company'
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Metro Last Light Redux is currently available for free on GOG

Overclock3D.Net | Dec. 30, 2020, 4:25 a.m. | Original

Get access to a great survival FPS for free

Published: 30th December 2020 | Source: GOG | Author: Mark Campbell

Metro Last Light Redux is currently available for free on GOG

For the next two days, Metro Last Light Redux will be available for free on GOG, giving PC gamers free access to a DRM-free copy of the game's Windows version. Metro Exodus Last Light Redux is the remastered edition of Metro Last Light, offering gamers updated visuals, and an alternative gameplay mode
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EU signs €145 billion declaration to develop next-gen processors and 2nm technology

Overclock3D.Net | Dec. 30, 2020, 2:13 a.m. | Original

'We need to strengthen Europe's capacity to develop the next generation of processors and semiconductors'

Published: 30th December 2020 | Source: eetimes EU | Author: Mark Campbell

EU signs €145 billion declaration to develop next-gen processors and 2nm technology

The European Union, alongside 17 member states, has signed a joint declaration designed to take Europe to the forefront of semiconductor design and manufacturing.

This declaration is designed to allow Europe to create low-power "trusted"
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The Epic Games Store latest patch addresses the app's high CPU usage bug

Overclock3D.Net | Dec. 30, 2020, 12:56 a.m. | Original

The Epic Games Store should now use fewer CPU resources

Published: 30th December 2020 | Source: Sergiy Galyonkin | Author: Mark Campbell

The Epic Games Store latest patch addresses the app's high CPU usage bug

Patch 11.0.2 for the Epic Games Store app has been released, mitigating an issue which caused the storefront to utilise an unnecessary amount of CPU resources. This bug caused unwanted temperature spikes in CPUs and increased power draw in what should be close to idle scenario.

Most
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Seagate IronWolf NAS 18TB HDD and 510 M.2 Review

Overclock3D.Net | Dec. 29, 2020, 11:13 p.m. | Original

Introduction and Technical Specifications

Published: 30th December 2020 | Source: Seagate | Price: | Author:

Introduction

Reliable storage is one of those things in life that it's easy to become blasé about. Just as you don't really care about the NCAP rating of your car until you have an accident, so we all skim over the Mean Time Before Failure and daily write allowances of our storage mediums so we can get on with the business of finding our how fast it goes,

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No, Nvidia did not find 500,000 lost RTX 30 series GPUs

Overclock3D.Net | Dec. 29, 2020, 11:57 a.m. | Original

Sometimes jokes go too far

Published: 29th December 2020 | Source: Geeknetic | Author: Mark Campbell

No, Nvidia did not find 500,000 lost RTX 30 series GPUs

News reports have been circulating online about Nvidia's lost shipment of 500,000 RTX 30 series graphics cards, a shipment from Samsung which failed to reach Nvidia and satisfy the world's demand for the latest high-end graphics chips. With this newly found GPU
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Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus 1TB and 2TB Review

Overclock3D.Net | Dec. 29, 2020, 2:16 a.m. | Original

Introduction and Technical Specifications

Published: 29th December 2020 | Source: Sabrent | Price: £199 and £466 | Author: Tom Logan

Introduction

There are many benefits to the modern modular way of building hardware. As we've often said in our motherboard reviews having everything pretty much on the chipset means that most motherboards perform very similarly, allowing the consumer to choose the brand or feature set that best fits their budget/needs. Similarly the automatic boost overclocking on GPUs means

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The Witcher 3's "NextGen" mod will make the game look better than ever

Overclock3D.Net | Dec. 28, 2020, 12:17 p.m. | Original

Halk Hogan's 'NextGen' mod will release in 2021

Published: 28th December 2020 | Source: Halk Hogan | Author: Mark Campbell

The Witcher 3's "NextGen" mod will make the game look better than ever

If you are playing The Witcher 3 on PC, you need to install Halk Hogan's HD Reworked Project. Simply put, this mod takes The Witcher 3 and brings it into the Ultra HD era, offering gamers higher quality textures and improved models
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ASUS support reveals a 12GB RTX 3060 Strix graphics card

Overclock3D.Net | Dec. 28, 2020, 10:39 a.m. | Original

they also revealed a 20GB RTX 3080 Ti

Published: 28th December 2020 | Source: @9550pro | Author: Mark Campbell

ASUS support reveals a 12GB RTX 3060 Strix graphics card

Thanks to a listing on ASUS' support website ( thanks @9550pro ) we have confirmation that an ROG Strix RTX 3060 12GB graphics card is in the works, offering gamers more VRAM than Nvidia's
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