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Building your first gaming PC | LIVE (Proactive)edit
The review starts with an introduction of the various components that will be assembled to build a gaming PC. The AMD Athlon 200GE GPU has been described as the heart of the system, which has in built graphics (Vega 3 graphics) and is a total value for money (CPU + GPU in one chip) as it is available for only Rs 4600/-. They take the audience through the entire experience of building a PC from scratch detailing each component. The duo also answers questions from the LIVE users and there is a mention of AMD between 59:20-59:40, where they reconfirm the budget friendly Athlon 200GE that is an absolute delight to play the old classic games.
Publication: YouTube (Tech2)
...AMD Epyc to take over 10% of Total Server CPU market by 2020edit
AMD has been making rapid strides in the CPU market ever since the new Ryzen chips were introduced and now AMD’s 64-core, 128-thread Epyc Rome processor have surfaced.
Cloud providers such as Amazon are continuously investing more EPYC platform rather than Intel Xeon CPUs. Amazon Web Services this week started to offer M5ad and R5adElastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances powered by custom AMD EPYC 7000-series processors and featuring faster local storage.
Publication: The Indian Wire
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Dell G7 15/ Alienware m-15 and Area 51 -medit
The AlienFX customisable lighting is available across various zones including the power button, LCD cover Alien head, and a new infinite loop around the vents. And since it’s an Alienware laptop, it still supports the Alienware Graphics Amplifier enabling dedicated PCI-Express bandwidth for desktop graphics cards from NVIDIA or AMD. Alienware has also included the Cryo-Tech 2.0 cooling technology. The Area-51m is available in Lunar Light and Dark Side of the Moon colour options
Publications: My Mobile
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Availability Revealededit
NVIDIA is expected to launch its sub-$200 GeForce GTX 1650 graphics card on the 22nd of April, 2019. The card was earlier expected to launch towards the end of April. With it, NVIDIA will introduce the 12 nm “TU117,” its smallest GPU based on the “Turing” architecture. The GTX 1650 could replace the current GTX 1060 3 GB, and may compete with AMD offerings in this segment, such as the Radeon RX 570 4 GB, in being Full HD-capable if not letting you max your game settings out at that resolution. The card could ship with 4 GB of GDDR5 memory.
Publication: Tech Power Up
Google Stadia, proceed with extreme cautionedit
Stadia is expected to roll out in the United States, Canada, UK and most of Europe sometime later in 2019 and it’s worth following closely
Google has teamed up with AMD as they jump head first into gaming with Stadia. Their brand new streaming platform that runs on custom AMD GPU’s in their datacentres to deliver high resolution gameplay to any compatible device – mobile, tablet, smart TV or desktop.
Publication: Deccan Chronicle (Chennai Chronicle)
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NVIDIA GTX1650 Faster Than Radeon RX 570edit
The alleged benchmark of Nvidia’s next Turing graphics card, which is rumored to be the GeForce GTX 1650, gives us an idea of the budget-friendly card’s performance. Moreover, the card will be accompanied with the 1650 Ti variant (with faster video memory).According to Videocardz, the GTX 1650 is expected to launch on April 22, just three weeks from now, which is roughly in line with previous speculation that pegged the release for the end of .April. The Ti version will follow shortly thereafter, so things will happen the other way round compared to the GTX 1660 GPUs.
Publication: The Asian Age, Deccan Chronicle
At Rs 1.61 lakh, HP Omen 15 is the best value-for-money gaming laptop with RTX graphicsedit
There’s no better time to be for looking for a gaming laptop than the present. RTX laptops have already landed on Indian soil with HP, Asus and Dell among the first to give Indian gamers their first taste of RTX Max-Q power.
Publication: Money Control
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Availability Revealededit
NVIDIA is expected to launch its sub-$200 GeForce GTX 1650 graphics card on the 22nd of April, 2019. The card was earlier expected to launch towards the end of April. With it, NVIDIA will introduce the 12 nm “TU117,” its smallest GPU based on the “Turing” architecture. The GTX 1650 could replace the current GTX 1060 3 GB, and may compete with AMD offerings in this segment, such as the Radeon RX 570 4 GB, in being Full HD-capable if not letting you max your game settings out at that resolution. The card could ship with 4 GB of GDDR5 memory.
Publication: Tech Power Up
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Dell G7 15/ Alienware m-15 and Area 51 -medit
The AlienFX customisable lighting is available across various zones including the power button, LCD cover Alien head, and a new infinite loop around the vents. And since it’s an Alienware laptop, it still supports the Alienware Graphics Amplifier enabling dedicated PCI-Express bandwidth for desktop graphics cards from NVIDIA or AMD. Alienware has also included the Cryo-Tech 2.0 cooling technology. The Area-51m is available in Lunar Light and Dark Side of the Moon colour options
Publications: My Mobile
At Rs 1.61 lakh, HP Omen 15 is the best value-for-money gaming laptop with RTX graphicsedit
There’s no better time to be for looking for a gaming laptop than the present. RTX laptops have already landed on Indian soil with HP, Asus and Dell among the first to give Indian gamers their first taste of RTX Max-Q power.
Publication: Money Control
Industry news
Microsoft unveils new Surface Book 2 modeledit
Calculating Quantum Computing’s Futureedit
YOU’VE HEARD OF A CPU; now meet the QPU, or quantum processing unit. This computer, from startup Rigetti, features a gold-plated copper disk with a silicon chip inside that contains the machine’s brain. Most everything else in the computer is designed to keep the chip cold and stable.
Publication: Fortune India
Latest Technologies To Enhance The Performance Of Memoriesedit
We often come across problems with the hardware of our phones, tablets and laptops. These problems could be related to storage or the time it takes to access information. One of the new play areas of smartphones is artificial intelligence (AI), which requires faster and more memories.
Publication: Electronics for you
Google Stadia, proceed with extreme cautionedit
Stadia is expected to roll out in the United States, Canada, UK and most of Europe sometime later in 2019 and it’s worth following closely
Google has teamed up with AMD as they jump head first into gaming with Stadia. Their brand new streaming platform that runs on custom AMD GPU’s in their datacentres to deliver high resolution gameplay to any compatible device – mobile, tablet, smart TV or desktop.
Publication: Deccan Chronicle (Chennai Chronicle)
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