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MSI’s Official AMD B650 Motherboards Prices Start at $189 US & Several Models Under $300 US One of the main reasons why most PC gamers and users are reluctant to upgrade to AMD’s Ryzen 7000 CPUs yet is due to the platform cost. Currently, there are only X670E & X670 chipset boards available on the market which are mostly priced above $300 US and you also have to factor in the cost of buying a good DDR5 memory kit....

New Weapon: Pole Staff Following the recent addition of NARAKA’s Shaolin-inspired Staff, another new weapon type is on the way. Looking to expand the game’s melee arsenal even further, 24 Entertainment plan to introduce the Pole Staff in February 2023. Heavy, yet powerful, and styled after the Chinese God of War, Guan Yu, its legendary Souljade can summon his mythic steed, Red Hare, ready for battle. New Hero: Feria Shen Just as ferocious, we have our next confirmed playable hero for NARAKA: BLADEPOINT - Feria Shen....

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) facilities in Florida were struck by a record-breaking lightning strike earlier this year outlined the agency in a press release. NASA launches rockets from the Kennedy Space Center which is just off of the Florida sea coast, and the pad is a historic site that has not only seen astronauts launch to the Moon but also the resumption of human spaceflight from the United States in the form of Space Exploration Technologies Corporation’s (SpaceX) Crew Dragon spacecraft taking to the skies in 2020....

Artist and YouTuber ‘TeaserPlay’ has been creating quite a few fan concept trailers of popular games running in Epic’s new game engine, and back in June, the YouTuber already released an Assassin’s Creed Infinity concept trailer set in Japan. Fast forward two months and the artist has now released a similar concept video. This time, however, the concept video takes us to ancient Persia and shows fans the origins of the Hashashins....

The new livestream, which will air tomorrow, February 15th, at 4 PM CET, has been confirmed on the game’s official Twitter profile. No additional information has been provided. You’re in? Preem! Let’s meet tomorrow, Feb 15th, at 4PM CET, at the usual place: https://t.co/y8iUIM0gBv. See you there! pic.twitter.com/VRXpeA21ME — Cyberpunk 2077 (@CyberpunkGame) February 14, 2022 As CD Projekt Red confirmed a while back that Cyberpunk 2077 would be making its debut on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S in the first quarter of the year, it is very likely that the publisher will finally reveal more on the current generation version of the game....

NIO, the China-based manufacturer of electric vehicles which has been beset by production constraints amid disruptions related to the supply chain and the Asian giant’s COVID-induced lockdowns in key production hubs, is surprisingly outperforming Tesla when it comes to the stock price performance, clocking in a year-to-date loss of 33 percent vs. 41 percent for Elon Musk’s company. Following in the footsteps of last year’s similarly titled event, the NIO Power Day 2022 is slated to provide additional impetus to the stock’s long-term trajectory...

Nothing Phone (1) Will Need to Have Exceptional and Competitive Pricing to Sell Well, as Its Only Selling-Point Are Its Unique Aesthetics Partial specifications of the Nothing Phone (1) were spotted on Geekbench 5, showing a non-flagship SoC tested as part of its innards. While there is nothing wrong with a smartphone fueled by a Snapdragon 778G Plus, it is important to note that the device should be priced correctly while paying attention to those specifications....

So, let’s start off with the total game industry spending. Over the course of January 2022 consumer spending across video game hardware, content and accessories declined 2% when compared to a year ago, to $4.7 billion. A double-digit percentage gain in hardware spending, driven by PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles, could not offset declines in content and accessories spending. In terms of game hardware, dollar sales increased by 22% when compared to January 2021, reaching a total of $300 million....

NVIDIA Cancels GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB Graphics Card, RTX 4080 16 GB On Track For November Launch While the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card has seen positive reviews from across the tech community, there was a lot of controversy regarding the GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB and the 12 GB models. The controversies stemmed from the fact that the RTX 4080 16 GB was priced at $1199 US while the RTX 4080 12 GB has priced at $899 US and the price-to-performance ratio between the 2 cards was simply out of line....

Let’s start with the Game Ready updates. Game Ready Drivers deliver the best performance for games and offer the best reliability for NVIDIA users across thousands of hardware configurations. The support for Game Ready has been added to some of February’s most anticipated titles such as Elden Ring, Destiny 2: The Witch Queen, Total War: Warhammer III, and GRID Legends. Additionally, NVIDIA Reflex support has been added to sim-racer game iRacing....

So, let’s start from the top. Overwatch 2 is right around the corner, and NVIDIA is using its latest Game Ready Driver update to make the game perform well on PC. The game will have NVIDIA Reflex support, allowing players to have increased responsiveness through reduced system latency. RTX 40 Series cards will increase the graphics potential for Overwatch 2 even further. The 40 Series cards can exceed 360 frames per second at 2560x1440....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Graphics Card Modded & Tested With 20 GB & 12 GB Memory Configurations, Lower Bandwidth Shows Massive Performance Bottleneck PRO Hi-Tech tested two custom BIOS settings for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card, one featuring 20 GB of capacity with a 320-bit memory bus and the second with 12 GB of capacity and a 192-bit memory bus. The memory speed was the identical set for the two different BIOS options at 19....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Custom Model Pictured, Comes With New PCIe Gen 5 Ready 16-Pin Power Connector In A Compact PCB Package NVIDIA has a brand new reference PCB design prepped up for its board partners to utilize which may or may not be different than the PG136C PCB that they are going to feature on their own RTX Founders Edition offering. The card pictured is specifically the GALAX RTX 3090 Ti Boomstar variant....

100K Is The Number of AD102 “Ada” GPUs That NVIDIA Has Shipped For Its GeForce RTX 4090 Graphics Cards The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card was launched just about a month ago and has since been bought by a large number of consumers despite it being priced over $1500 US. But we have the full number of GPUs that have been shipped so far. Do note that this is not the total number of GPUs produced nor the amount that has been sold but rather shipped to partners to ready the RTX 4090 designs....

NVIDIA Hopper H100 GPU Specs Updated, Now Features Even Faster 67 TFLOPs FP32 Compute Horsepower When NVIDIA announced its Hopper H100 GPU for AI Datacenters earlier this year, the company had published up to 60 TFLOPs FP32 and 30 TFLOPs FP64 figures. However, as the launch comes close, the company has now updated the specifications to reflect more realistic expectations and as it turns out, the flagship and fastest chip for the AI segment is, even more, faster now....

NVIDIA Hopper H100 GPU: First With 4nm and HBM3 Technology Gets High-Res Pictures CNET managed to get hold of not only the graphics board on which the H100 GPU is fused but also the H100 chip itself. The H100 GPU is a monster chip that comes packed with the latest 4nm tech and incorporates 80 Billion transistors along with the bleeding-edge HBM3 memory technology. As per the tech outlet, the H100 is built upon the PG520 PCB board which has over 30 power VRMs & a massive integral interposer that uses TSMC’s CoWoS tech to combine the Hopper H100 GPU with a 6-stack HBM3 design....

NVIDIA Goes Crazy With Transistor Density on 5nm, Ada Lovelace AD102 GPU Expected To Pack Over 75 Billion Transistors The NVIDIA AD102 GPU based on the Ada Lovelace architecture will offer five billion less than the company’s Hopper H100 (80 Billion transistors), the company’s data-center CPU utilizing the same TSMC 4N node. While the size of NVIDIA’s new AD102 GPU is still a mystery, it isn’t easy to compare the new GPU with the Hopper and Ada series since one chip is designed for the gaming segment and the other is designed purely for the server (AI / HPC) market....

NVIDIA Reports Strong Sales For GeForce RTX 4090 ‘Ada’ Graphics Cards, Channel Inventory Stabilizing Colette Kress, NVIDIA’s Chief Financial Officer, stated that they have been under-shipping GPUs in the gaming segment for some time. This was revealed during the Credit Suisse 26th Annual Tech conference. We know that the market was recently flooded with an over-excess of used GPUs due to the crypto craze coming to an end and with prices falling down on last-gen GPUs, both in retail and used markets, there was little to no demand for any more GPUs....

One-Netbook Discloses the OneNetbook T1: World’s First Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake Powered Tablet In 2021, One-Netbook launched the crowdfunding campaign for the company’s PC handheld gaming console ONEXPLAYER on the platform and successfully raised over $2,000,000. One-Netbook will introduce its latest 3-in-1 hybrid tablet with favorable feedback from users and backers. The new OneNetbook T1 is furnished with high-class hardware and durable material. The new system is very light for mobile use....

As detailed in a new post on the Official PlayStation Blog, invited beta participants will be able to try out 1440p resolution support coming complete with supersampling support for games with a higher native resolution and a new Gamelists feature: 1440p HDMI Video Output The PS5 beta introduces support for 1440p HDMI video output, enabling players to choose an additional visual setting on compatible PC monitors and TVs. If the game you’re playing supports 1440p rendering you can experience native 1440p output on your display....