Posts by Metal Messiah:

ASRock’s “Base Frequency Boost” tech helps boost Gaming performance & CPU benchmark scores

Posted on: 13 Jun 2020

ASRock has once again highlighted the benefits of its BFB overclocking feature for non-K CPUs in this latest video. In case you didn’t know, ASRock is allowing overclocking on non-K Comet Lake S CPUs, and non-Z motherboards, mostly the Z490/B460/H470/Z390/B365 chipsets.

Amazon Italy has listed AMD “Matisse Refresh” Ryzen 3000XT’s pricing and release date

Posted on: 12 Jun 2020

We know AMD is prepping new desktop CPUs in the Ryzen 3000 Matisse family lineup, the Ryzen 9 3900XT (3900X replacement), Ryzen 7 3800XT (3800X replacement) and lastly the Ryzen 5 3600XT (3600X replacement). AMD plans to refresh the 3000 lineup with these new SKUs.

Computex 2020 trade show has been officially cancelled, now rescheduled for June 1-5, 2021

Posted on: 12 Jun 2020

The organizers of Computex, TAITRA, have announced that they have officially cancelled the 2020 edition of Computex, which was scheduled to take place this September.

Snake Pass is currently free to claim on the Humble Bundle Store

Posted on: 12 Jun 2020

Sumo Digital’s Snake Pass is available for free on the Humble Store, till June 14 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET, 6 PM BST allowing PC gamers to gain access to a redeemable Steam code for this physics-based puzzle platformer.

Intel’s “Rocket Lake-S” desktop CPUs rumored to feature a “Multi-Chip Module” of 14nm Core & 10nm Uncore Dies

Posted on: 12 Jun 2020

Rocket Lake (RKL) is a planned microarchitecture designed by Intel as a direct successor to the Comet Lake-S series of  desktop CPUs and high-performance mobile devices. These were expected to hit the market by the end of this year, but Intel’s roadmap has no mention of this.

GOG is currently giving away a rare GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Cyberpunk 2077 Edition graphics card

Posted on: 11 Jun 2020

Cyberpunk 2077 is one of the most highly anticipated games to release this year, and John recently informed us that Cyberpunk 2077 is in a complete form as well. Which means we are closer to the game’s launch date.

Intel launches Lakefield Hybrid CPUs with “Foveros 3D Stacking” for low-power devices & foldable dual-screen PCs

Posted on: 11 Jun 2020

Intel finally brings 3D processors by launching hybrid “Lakefield” chips. Lakefield is the first mobile processor from Intel to use their Foveros 3D packaging technology. Lakefield is the first hybrid processor family to make use of the Foveros chip stacking tech. These are meant for thin ultra-light compact form factor Laptops and similar devices, such … Continue reading Intel launches Lakefield Hybrid CPUs with “Foveros 3D Stacking” for low-power devices & foldable dual-screen PCs →

New Intel security vulnerability “CrossTalk” affects specific mobile, desktop & server CPUs [UPDATE]

Posted on: 10 Jun 2020

Researchers and Academics from one university in the Netherlands and ETH Zurich, Switzerland, have published details about a new security vulnerability affecting all Intel processors.

Rumor: NVIDIA is prepping at least three variants in its RTX 3000 lineup, RTX 3080, RTX 3080 (Ti/Super) & RTX 3090 (Ti/Super)

Posted on: 09 Jun 2020

According to one reliable source over at Igor’s Lab, it is being predicted that Nvidia might be planning to release at least three different SKU variants of the RTX 3000 series of Ampere cards. Some rumored specs were also shared by one twitter user kopite7kimi before, but I suggest you to take this leak with … Continue reading Rumor: NVIDIA is prepping at least three variants in its RTX 3000 lineup, RTX 3080, RTX 3080 (Ti/Super) & RTX 3090 (Ti/Super) →

AMD Ryzen “Power Reporting Deviation” metric in HWiNFO exposes the high power draw of some X570 motherboards

Posted on: 09 Jun 2020

Are you using a 3rd Gen Ryzen CPU paired with an X570 motherboard, or even any other chipset ? If yes, then kindly go through this finding by HWiNFO, and the newly introduced feature and sensor known as Power Reporting Deviation.