Ryzen 9800X3D has sold out everywhere, including a big German retailerThat retailer, MindFactory, had a fair bit of initial stock, but it’s all goneThe restock estimate from MindFactory is the end of December, worryinglyAMD’s Ryzen 9800X3D has been very well-received, but the problem with the CPU is that keen PC gamers who want to buy…
Intel acknowledges Arrow Lake CPUs underperformed at launchA full and detailed audit is going to take place as to why this happenedFixes for the issues are coming, promising significant performance gainsIntel’s Core Ultra 200S processors have got off to a shaky start, it’s fair to say, and Team Blue has acknowledged this – and pledged…
There’s good news and bad news for Nvidia in the latest Steam Hardware Survey, which shows its RTX 3060 GPU taking the lead as the most popular GPU in October, beating the RTX 4000 series laptop GPU – two years after the RTX 4000 series launch.As spotted by VideoCardz, the 3060 is used by 7.46%…
If you’re in the market for a new phone but don’t want to pay full price, Google has a compelling new offer you might want to check out. As of Monday, October 28, Google now sells refurbished Pixel phones through its new Certified Refurbished Phone program in the US.Google says that it inspects the battery,…
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The highly anticipated Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 has hit the headlines in a bad way with a report flagging up that it can chomp your bandwidth when streaming the in-game world to the tune of up to 180Mbps.Tom’s Hardware observes that this works out at something like 81GB of data per hour of gameplay when…
AMD’s Ryzen 9800X3D processor may not offer the sizeable leap in gaming performance that some leaks have previously suggested, it seems according to some new material shared by German tech site HardwareLuxx (via Tom’s Hardware): namely leaked slides from an MSI presentation.According to the headline at the top of a gaming comparison slide, the Ryzen…
Nvidia has reportedly paused supply of its GeForce flagship RTX 4060 and RTX 4060 Ti to its Add-In Board partners (AIB). Given that these are some of Nvidia’s most popular cards, this decision has raised eyebrows. It isn’t clear why Nvidia has done this; some guesses are that it’s limiting supply to manage inventory more…
A future Intel architecture for its performance cores – the hefty cores that do most of the grunt work, as opposed to smaller efficiency cores in its hybrid CPUs – is expected to be a big leap forward for IPC, according to a new rumor.This is the Panther Cove architecture – not to be confused…
Intel’s Arrow Lake processors will hit the shelves in three weeks, if the latest from the rumor mill is correct.VideoCardz cites multiple sources who have told the tech site Intel’s intended launch schedule for the next-gen desktop CPUs, backed up by a well-known hardware leaker on X, namely @wnxod (as flagged by Tom’s Hardware).The theory…
Nvidia’s RTX 4060 struggled to make an impression when it arrived – notably against the previous-gen RTX 3060 Ti, even though the newer GPU was cheaper – but the graphics card appears to finally be hitting its stride.This is according to the latest Steam Hardware Survey, where the RTX 4060 has positive leapt up the…
