Posts by Metal Messiah:

$330,000 worth of Nvidia Geforce RTX 3090 GPUs stolen from a factory in China, MSI confirms the theft

Posted on: 11 Dec 2020

In a rather bizarre event, a total of 40 cargo units containing NVIDIA’s flagship Ampere GeForce RTX 3090 GPUs were stolen recently, just a few days ago from an MSI factory in China. There were rumors circulating on the web, Chinese news outlets and social media that this was a hoax, but MSI has confirmed … Continue reading $330,000 worth of Nvidia Geforce RTX 3090 GPUs stolen from a factory in China, MSI confirms the theft →

Report: Cyberpunk 2077 might trigger seizures in some gamers, CDPR plans to add a warning in the game

Posted on: 10 Dec 2020

It appears that some gamers might suffer major seizures while playing Cyberpunk 2077, with Game Informer Associate Editor Liana Ruppert reporting that she suffered a major seizure while playing this game.

NVIDIA’s rumored GeForce RTX 3080Ti Ampere GPU spotted in HP OEM drivers

Posted on: 10 Dec 2020

It appears that NVIDIA’s upcoming RTX 3080 Ti flagship GPU entry has been spotted in an OEM driver courtesy of StefanG3D from Laptopvideo2go forums, with the GPU device ID being listed as well.

$82 million eBay scalping trend analyzed for the PC Gaming and Console market for Q4 2020

Posted on: 09 Dec 2020

We all know by now that Scalping has become one of the most frustrating things to happen this year, which in turn has affected and disrupted the whole PC Gaming hardware and the console gaming market as well. Scalpers had the opportunity this year to buy a product for the sole purpose of just making … Continue reading $82 million eBay scalping trend analyzed for the PC Gaming and Console market for Q4 2020 →

Intel to host two major virtual news conferences at CES 2021 event next year, will preview new tech

Posted on: 09 Dec 2020

In a recent press release statement, Intel has announced the company would be hosting two virtual news conferences at the CES 2021 event, which is going to be delivered via a digital platform, as no audience will be present at any of the conferences.

Intel’s 9th generation “Coffee Lake” refresh desktop CPU lineup to reach End of Life status by end of 2021

Posted on: 09 Dec 2020

Intel has just announced that the company will be discontinuing its entire 9th gen Coffee Lake “refresh” lineup of desktop processors. All last shipments will be made till December 2021. It appears that a total of 117 boxed and tray SKUs will reach discontinued status soon.

AMD’s Radeon RX 6800 XT Big Navi card tested in “multi-GPU” setup, third-party gaming benchmarks shared

Posted on: 07 Dec 2020

It appears that TweakTown has managed to benchmark two RX 6800 XT GPUs in a multi-GPU setup in DX12 mode. We all know by now, SLI and CrossFireX technologies are kind of dead in the water, and developers have been slowly abandoning these multi-GPU technologies, due to lack of proper scaling seen in games, and … Continue reading AMD’s Radeon RX 6800 XT Big Navi card tested in “multi-GPU” setup, third-party gaming benchmarks shared →

Rumor: DELL might bring INTEL’s “Tiger Lake” mobile CPUs to Desktop PCs

Posted on: 07 Dec 2020

According to a recent report coming via Phoronix, Dell is working on getting Linux Power Management optimized for their latest systems, and also for upcoming Tiger Lake Desktop CPUs. Both Intel and Dell are currently working on implementing S0ix power-saving states into the LINUX kernel (heuristic S0ix support).

Avalanche co-founder and Just Cause creator sets up a new studio, Liquid Swords

Posted on: 05 Dec 2020

It appears that the founder and ex-chief creative officer of Sweden’s Avalanche studios Christofer Sundberg has set up a brand new development studio. Since departing from Avalanche in 2019, Sundberg went quiet about his next gaming career move.

Intel’s upcoming 14nm Core i9-11900K Rocket Lake CPU spotted in Ashes of the Singularity/AOTS gaming benchmark

Posted on: 05 Dec 2020

Back in October, Intel officially revealed its upcoming 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S desktop CPU lineup, based on the Cypress Cove core architecture. Rocket Lake (RKL) is a planned microarchitecture designed by Intel as a direct successor to the 10th gen Comet Lake-S series of desktop CPUs and high-performance mobile devices.