Posts by Metal Messiah:

Intel’s latest gen Celeron/Pentium CPUs now offer support for AVX2 and AVX-512 instruction sets

Posted on: 18 Oct 2020

It appears that Intel’s entry-level processors now offer almost the same feature set as the high-end Core series. The new Tiger Lake-based Celeron and Pentium Gold Laptop processors feature support for the AVX2 as well as AVX512-VNNI instruction sets.

SSDs are about to get cheaper as prices expected to drop by 10-15% in Q4 2020 & Q1 2021

Posted on: 17 Oct 2020

According to industry analyst firm TrendForce, coming via the Storage Newsletter, the memory market (including DRAM and NAND flash) is still in a state of oversupply till Q4 2020, and SSD prices could drop significantly soon by the end of this year.

AMD Ryzen 5000 “Zen 3” CPUs to support higher clocked Memory, DDR4-4000 MHz kits recommended

Posted on: 15 Oct 2020

AMD recently announced its Ryzen 5000-series Zen 3 Vermeer desktop CPU lineup, the next-gen architecture powering Ryzen processors. According to AMD these CPUs will offer better single-thread performance in PC games.

Intel’s next-gen Alder Lake-S CPU sample pictured, confirms LGA1700 Socket support

Posted on: 15 Oct 2020

Intel’s 12’th generation of Alder Lake-S Core processors are said to be the company’s first 10nm SuperFin-based mainstream desktop processors, and we have already seen documents, datasheets, and release notes for these CPUs which also appeared on Intel’s own developer website.

Security vulnerabilities found in AMD’s Radeon Software GPU driver and Ryzen Master Tool

Posted on: 15 Oct 2020

Some security vulnerabilities were spotted recently in AMD’s software, notably in the Radeon Software Adrenalin GPU graphics driver, and the Ryzen Master utility/app which is used to overclock and tune AMD Ryzen processors.

ASUS drops support for AMD’s Ryzen 5000-series Zen 3 CPU lineup on its 400 chipset motherboards, X470 and B450 [UPDATE]

Posted on: 13 Oct 2020

Back in May 2020, AMD issued a statement confirming the support for the upcoming Zen 3 processors on the B450 and X470 motherboard chipsets. Previously, AMD had mentioned that the next-gen Zen 3 CPUs won’t be backwards-compatible with the older 400-series boards, but the company actually had a change of heart and decided to offer … Continue reading ASUS drops support for AMD’s Ryzen 5000-series Zen 3 CPU lineup on its 400 chipset motherboards, X470 and B450 [UPDATE] →

Rockstar Games buys Crackdown 2 developer “Ruffian Games”, rebrands to form Rockstar Dundee

Posted on: 13 Oct 2020

It appears that Crackdown 2 developer, Ruffian Games, has been acquired by Take-Two Interactive, the parent company of Rockstar Games according to TheGamer, and has rebranded the studio as Rockstar Dundee.

AMD Ryzen 5000-series ZEN 3 processors show up in Cinebench R20 benchmark database

Posted on: 13 Oct 2020

AMD recently announced its Ryzen 5000-series Zen 3 CPU lineup, the next-gen architecture powering Ryzen processors. According to AMD these CPUs will offer better single-thread performance in PC games. AMD also claimed that its high-end model will surpass Intel’s competitor, the core i9 10900K.

Intel launches a new SKU in the 10th Gen Comet Lake-S CPU lineup, the Core i3-10100F

Posted on: 11 Oct 2020

As you already know Intel launched its 10th gen Comet Lake-S CPU lineup back in April 2020. Notably some SKUs were not included before in the launch, like e.g. the Core i3 10100F entry-level processor.

Nvidia plans to sell its GeForce RTX 3090/3080 Ampere “Founders Edition” GPUs through select partners

Posted on: 10 Oct 2020

Nvidia recently launched the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 Ampere lineup of GPUs, but the launch was plagued with stock availability issues since day one. NVIDIA has also delayed the GeForce RTX 3070 GPU launch by two weeks to October 29th.