Hardware
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Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake-S CPUs and 600-Series Motherboards With Matching LGA 1700 Socket Arriving In September Claims Leak
Intel is readying to release its 11th Gen Core series, codenamed Rocket Lake-S, early this year. These CPUs could be soon succeeded by the company’s 12th Gen Alder Lake-S processors. Incidentally, the Alder Lake-S CPUs will require a new series of motherboards with an LGA 1700 socket. Intel’s 12th and…
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Nvidia clarifies its position regarding the ‘downgrade’ of its G-Sync Ultimate Standard
Yesterday, we reported that Nvidia had quietly decreased the requirements for a monitor to receive the G-Sync Ultimate certification from Nvidia. The company previously required the monitors to support ‘Best HDR with 1000 nits brightness’, which has now been changed to ‘Lifelike HDR’ on Nvidia’s site. Nvidia had also erroneously…
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Xiaomi Launches New Mi NoteBook 14 (IC) in India: Top End Model Runs i5, 8GB RAM & Nvidia MX250
When we covered Ishan Agarwal’s tweet yesterday, no one was sure how on point it would be. Yesterday, the tipster commented on how Xiaomi is planning on announcing a new Mi NoteBook 14 and today, that has just happened. For context, you may read our piece on the topic here.…
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Xiaomi May Announce and Launch Mi NoteBook 14 with Integrated Webcam Tomorrow: A Budget Laptop For those Zoom Meetings in India
Xiaomi continues to make its mark on the market. The company went on from making mediocre smartphones to almost everything. Today, if you log on to their website, you would find a range of products. These cover gaming monitors and even laptops. The company is notorious for making designs “similar”…
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Nvidia Quietly Lowers the required Hardware for the G-Sync Ultimate Standard
G-Sync is Nvidia’s proprietary low-latency technology that allows the compatible monitors to reduce the tearing effect during high FPS gaming. It streamlines the frames that the GPU produces and the frames the compatible monitor displays so that the tearing, screen flickering, and other issues related to high refresh displays are…
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ViewSonic to Release a UHD mini LED Gaming Monitor with Support for DisplayHDR1000 and144Hz Refresh Rate
It seems CES 2021 is replete with companies showcasing their high refresh gaming monitors. Yesterday we reported that LG might announce its first HDMI 2.1 enabled gaming monitor during its CES presentation. Now, according to a report from a German tech site, Winfuture ViewSonic will also be presenting a 32-inch…
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NVIDIA Officially Announces Its Ampere-based GeForce RTX 3080, RTX 3070 and RTX 3060 Mobile Graphics Chips
NVIDIA has officially unveiled the GeForce RTX 30 mobile GPUs. These discrete graphics chips, meant for mobile computing solutions, are based on the Ampere Architecture. The company introduced three graphics cards designed for different price segments and desired gameplay experience. After appearing in leaks and reports for quite some time,…
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Intel Xe DG2 Iris dGPU Chip To Be Fabricated 7nm Process At TSMC’s Foundries, Claims Rumors
Intel has reportedly sought to reserve TSMC’s 7nm Fabrication process for its second generation of in-house developed Intel Iris Xe DG2 dGPU. The company is already deep in development of the discrete graphics chips but needs a reliable fabrication process to accelerate production and deployment. Intel intends to beat AMD…
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Intel Tiger Lake-H35 CPUs Announced for ‘ultra-portable gaming devices’
Intel has officially announced its 11th-Gen Tiger Lake-H35 Series of CPUs. These are intended for “ultra-portable gaming devices”. While the name might hint at a smartphone or a tablet, these new Intel CPUs will power gaming laptops. However, these portable computers should be slim and light, and be able to…
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LG may release its first HDMI 2.1 enabled Gaming Monitor capable of 160Hz Refresh Rate during CES 2021
The demand for high refresh/variable refresh rate 4K TVs and gaming monitors has been on the rise since the release of the 9th generation of consoles (PlayStation 5, Xbox Series consoles) and RTX 30-series graphics cards. The costs of these gaming monitors have also decreased considerably in the last few…
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Images of The Dragon-Themed MSI GE76 Raider featuring Comet Lake CPU and RTX 3080 GPU Leaked
As we are gearing up for the first-ever online Consumer Electronics Show 2021, MSI is preparing for its special event called “MSI: The Ultimate Shockwave”. It will happen on the 13th of January, and MSI has been marketing the dragon-themed event heavily. Nvidia will be announcing its Ampere based 30-series…
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AMD Ryzen 9 5900 and Ryzen 7 5800 non-XT Variants Boost Speeds and TDP Profiles Leak Online
AMD is developing two new ZEN 3-based Ryzen 5000 Series CPUs that will launch without the X branding. A few such SKUs lacking the X branding have officially arrived. Such products have similar specifications including the number of Cores and Threads as compared to the variants with X branding. The…
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ASUS TUF Gaming A17 laptop featuring Ryzen 5 APU, RTX 3070 Max-Q and a 144Hz display leaks online
The biggest consumer electronics event, CES 2021, is just around the corner, and big electronic companies are preparing to showcase their new products to the whole world. The event will be held online for the first time in its long history. Like many other companies, ASUS is gearing up to…
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LG Announces The 2021 Gram: Three Sizes, Intel 11th Gen Chipsets & 12 Hour Battery Backup
LG isn’t a company you may go to when buying a laptop. They changed this dynamic though in the form of the LG Gram. The laptops from LG performed excellently, gave huge battery backups and the best part: they were light and compact. They managed to keep them around the…
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Intel Reconfirms Xe DG2 GPU And Adds It Is Being Readied With 128 and 512 Execution Units?
Intel appears to have reconfirmed the existence of the Intel Xe DG2 GPU. The company had earlier indicated that its gaming-oriented discrete Xe-HPG series of GPUs will arrive this year. Hence the company is obviously deep in the development of the second-generation in-house developed GPU. Intel has long hinted at…
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ASUS ROG Zephyrus Duo Gaming Laptop Confirms NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile Graphics Has Full GA104 GPU With 6144 CUDA cores
Gamers and multimedia professionals looking for a powerful gaming laptop with a high amount of graphics processing now have the choice of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile dGPU. Apparently, the ASUS ROG Zephyrus Duo (GX551QS) laptop packs AMD Ryzen 9 5900H CPU and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile GPU.…
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Samsung May Introduce EVO 870 SSDs with Increased Capacities Up To 4TB
The focus on Solid State Drives has shifted from being an ordinary storage unit to an essential component of a modern computer. These high-speed storage devices can revive older computers as well. Reduced loading time was probably the most important next-gen feature in the Xbox Series and PlayStation 5 consoles,…
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AMD To Finally Adopt Multi-Chip Module Design Architecture for Its Radeon Graphics Card Suggests New Patent
Multi-Chip Module or MCM design architecture could make its way to consumer graphics cards if a new patent filed by AMD is to be believed. The patent document reveals how AMD plans to build a GPU chiplet graphics card, and the process resembles MCM based CPU designs. With NVIDIA already…
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 SUPER and GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER Graphics Cards In Development With Higher VRAM?
There could be two new NVIDIA Graphics Cards under development. According to the latest rumors, there are SUPER Editions of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 under development. These SKUs could pack substantially more VRAM than the standard variants. After AMD launched its Radeon RX 6000 Series…
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, RTX 3070 and RTX 3060 Mobility Dedicated GPU Specifications Leak Online?
NVIDIA is expected to officially announce the Ampere-based GeForce RTX 3000 Series of dedicated graphics chips for gaming laptops early next year. However, detailed specifications of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, RTX 3070, and RTX 3060 mobility dGPU have allegedly leaked online. A powerful gaming laptop from ASUS with AMD Ryzen…
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Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20GB And GeForce RTX 3060 12GB Graphics Cards Leak Online Via EEC
Gigabyte has confirmed the existence of GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20GB And GeForce RTX 3060 12GB Graphics Cards. The leak confirming the Ti and non-Ti variant of the GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce RTX 3060 respectively happened from the EEC registration website. It was the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti that…
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ASUS To Launch Refreshed ROG Strix Laptops With AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, and 2K 165Hz Screen At CES 2021
ASUS teased a new version of its ROG Strix gaming laptops. The company has indicated it will launch new and refreshed editions of its popular ROG Strix Gaming Laptops at CES 2021. These powerful, mobile computing and gaming computers will have the new AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX CPU, and NVIDIA…
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MSI released the BIOS update enabling Nvidia GPUs to support Re-Size BAR for select motherboards
A few weeks ago, AMD announced the initial SKUs of the RX 6000 series of graphics cards. Based on the new RDNA 2 architecture, these graphics cards support hardware-accelerated ray-tracing, which has become an industry norm at this point. Another compelling feature that AMD boasted during the presentation was its…
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Intel To Rush Production Of 11th-Gen Rocket Lake CPUs To Beat ZEN 3 Cezanne AMD Ryzen 5000 Desktop-Grade Processors?
Intel appears to have stepped up its final-stage development process for the 11th Generation Rocket Lake CPUs. The Intel Rocket Lake-S desktop-grade CPUs could hit full-scale commercial production early next year. According to a leak, Intel will mass-produce the 11th-generation CPUs, codenamed Rocket Lake S, earlier than expected. These new…
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Intel Core i9-11900, Core i7-11700K, Core i7-11700 Rocket Lake Desktop CPUs Leaked CPU-Z Screenshots Indicate Improved Performance
A new set of CPU-Z screenshots have emerged online. These belong to the 11th Generation Rocket Lake Desktop CPU family. The screenshots clearly belong to the Engineering Samples of Intel Core i9-11900, Core i7-11700K, Core i7-11700. However, they strongly indicate Intel has significantly improved the Base Clock and quite possibly,…
