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AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT Review: As Fast as the RTX 2070 Super, As Cheap as the 2060 Super (Proactive)edit
AMD’s Navi cards finally hit the market last week. Although most media outlets gave priority to the Ryzen 3000 lineup, the RX 5700 GPUs still pack quite a punch and that too without costing a leg or two. We witnessed one of the biggest price-wars of the graphics card market earlier this month, with NVIDIA releasing the Super cards to render the older RTX cards and the RX 5700 lineup (at the initial prices) obsolete.
Publication: Techquila
AMD Ryzen 3000 Motherboard Purchase Guide: Budget, Mid-Range and High-Endedit
With the launch of the new Zen 2 processors, the Navi cards and the RTX Super series, you might be in the market to build a new computer. While the choices for CPUs and GPUs are relatively easy, the number of options in the motherboard section can be overwhelming, especially for inexperienced builders. But don’t worry, with this article, we’ve got you covered.
Publication: Techquila
AMD Ryzen 3000 CPU Overclocking Tipsedit
It’s already been well established that AMD’s Ryzen CPUs love high frequency, low latency RAM modules. That’s because the speed of the system memory being used directly affects the speed of Infinity Fabric (IF), AMD’s high-speed interconnect between CPU core clusters, chiplets, GPU cores (in case of APUs) and memory.
Publication: Techquila
AMD Radeon RX 5700XT and 5700 Should Get a 10% Performance Boost via Driver Updateedit
The RX 5700XT and RX 5700 certainly have no shortage of power on tap: Our reviewshowed them frequently matching and even exceeding the RTX 2070 Super and RTX 2060 Super respectively, at lower price-points. However, there were a few anomalous results—both AMD parts had unusually low minimum framerates in some titles, and we saw poorer-than-expected performance in some AMD-friendly titles.
Publication: Techquila
AMD RYZEN 3000 CAUSES BOOT PROBLEMS FOR A FEW LINUX DISTROS, AND ISSUES WITH DESTINY 2edit
AMD launched its latest Ryzen 3000 series of CPUs just last week which are the first 3rd-generation Ryzen chips to be based on 7nm technology. However, there seems to be some problems with the CPUs already. Some Linux users noticed that there’s an issue with some newer distros which are based on 5.0 or higher that causes the OS to be not able to boot up.
Publication: Digit
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Will AMD Enable PCIe 4.0 On Older Boards?edit
ASUS sparked a fire in the motherboard market this week by listing its older X470 motherboards which are compatible with PCIe 4.0. This came in contrary to the initial claims made by AMD over the compatibility of PCIe 4.0 with X470/370 boards.
Publication: Techquila
Intel Core i9-9900KS Spotted: Slower than AMD Ryzen 9 3900X and the Core i9-9900Kedit
Just a day before Computex, Intel announced yet another 9th Gen chip based on the Coffee Lake refresh, the Core i9-9900KS. Basically a higher binned 9900K, the KS variant has all the eight cores running at 5GHz, all the time. This means that we’re looking at a better IHS (soldered?), higher TDP and a chip that’ll run hot without liquid cooling. Furthermore, as the single-core boost is unchanged, the SC or ST performance should be unaffected over the 9900K, but we *should* see some gains in multi-threaded workloads.
Publication: Techquila
Nvidia’s RTX Wolfenstein and Control bundle extended to all RTX GPUsedit
Seeing as how AMD decided to drop prices on the Radeon RX 5700 and 5700 XT, and include a three-month subscription to Xbox Game Pass on PC, Nvidia has decided to even the field a bit. From 11 July to 18 August, any RTX purchases will come with both Control and Wolfenstein: Youngblood. This also extends to select RTX laptops and gaming desktops.
Publication: PC Mag India
PCIe 4.0 officially coming to selected X470 and B450 boards from Asusedit
One of the talking points about AMD’s 3000 series Ryzen processors pertained to the simultaneous launch of (relatively) expensive and fancy X570 chipset AM4 motherboards. While the new Ryzen CPUs by themselves still continue to offer excellent value for money, the accompanying X570 chipset based motherboards are significantly more expensive than their previous-gen counterparts. As a result, a lot of budget-oriented shoppers pairing the new 3rd gen Ryzen with previous–gen chipsets would have missed out on certain forward-looking features, most notably
Publication: Techquila
Leak suggests Intel 10-core Comet Lake CPU could beat AMD Ryzen 9 3900Xedit
Intel has been losing ground to AMD for some time now in the processor world, and more so with the release of the Ryzen 3000 series of CPUs, which are incredibly competitive on all fronts – but Intel is prepping a beast of a Comet Lake response to this fresh threat, if the latest from the rumor mill is anything to go by.
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NVIDIA RTX GeForce 2070 on Sale for $80 Less on Neweggedit
The ASUS ROG Strix Geforce RTX 2070, which usually sells for about $480, is now reduced to $449 courtesy of the NVIDIA Super cards arriving in the market. But Newegg is currently offering the graphics card for as low as $399. You can avail this offer by applying a $30 rebate card, and the promo code EMCTCUV36 for additional $20 off the purchase, which essentially drops down to $399.
Publication: Techquila
Intel Core i9-9900KS Spotted: Slower than AMD Ryzen 9 3900X and the Core i9-9900Kedit
Just a day before Computex, Intel announced yet another 9th Gen chip based on the Coffee Lake refresh, the Core i9-9900KS. Basically a higher binned 9900K, the KS variant has all the eight cores running at 5GHz, all the time. This means that we’re looking at a better IHS (soldered?), higher TDP and a chip that’ll run hot without liquid cooling. Furthermore, as the single-core boost is unchanged, the SC or ST performance should be unaffected over the 9900K, but we *should* see some gains in multi-threaded workloads.
Publication: Techquila
Nvidia’s RTX Wolfenstein and Control bundle extended to all RTX GPUsedit
Seeing as how AMD decided to drop prices on the Radeon RX 5700 and 5700 XT, and include a three-month subscription to Xbox Game Pass on PC, Nvidia has decided to even the field a bit. From 11 July to 18 August, any RTX purchases will come with both Control and Wolfenstein: Youngblood. This also extends to select RTX laptops and gaming desktops.
Publication: PC Mag India
Intel Again Under Heat For Security Vulnerabilitiesedit
Intel just can’t seem to catch a break with new security vulnerabilities being discovered every other month. Apart from the issues in its hardware, which caused Spectre and Meltdown, Intel’s software division is also under the radar.
Publication: Techquila
Intel’s CPU Prices have Droppededit
The rumour we reported earlier last week has turned out to be true as Intel has dropped prices of all their mainstream CPUs making them a very lucrative purchase at the new price point.
Publication: Gamingmonk
Leak suggests Intel 10-core Comet Lake CPU could beat AMD Ryzen 9 3900Xedit
Intel has been losing ground to AMD for some time now in the processor world, and more so with the release of the Ryzen 3000 series of CPUs, which are incredibly competitive on all fronts – but Intel is prepping a beast of a Comet Lake response to this fresh threat, if the latest from the rumor mill is anything to go by.
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Will AMD Enable PCIe 4.0 On Older Boards?edit
ASUS sparked a fire in the motherboard market this week by listing its older X470 motherboards which are compatible with PCIe 4.0. This came in contrary to the initial claims made by AMD over the compatibility of PCIe 4.0 with X470/370 boards.
Publication: Techquila
PCIe 4.0 officially coming to selected X470 and B450 boards from Asusedit
One of the talking points about AMD’s 3000 series Ryzen processors pertained to the simultaneous launch of (relatively) expensive and fancy X570 chipset AM4 motherboards. While the new Ryzen CPUs by themselves still continue to offer excellent value for money, the accompanying X570 chipset based motherboards are significantly more expensive than their previous-gen counterparts. As a result, a lot of budget-oriented shoppers pairing the new 3rd gen Ryzen with previous–gen chipsets would have missed out on certain forward-looking features, most notably
Publication: Techquila
Global PC shipments grew 1.5 pc to 63 mn units in Q2: Gartneredit
fter two quarters of decline, the global PC market grew 1.5 per cent year-on-year in April-June 2019 with shipments totalling about 63 million units, data from research firm Gartner showed. The worldwide shipment was at about 62 million units in the second quarter of 2018, Gartner said in its preliminary results for April-June 2019.
Publication: The Economic Times
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Jobs platform Indeed bets big on the ongoing trend of gig economyedit
Indeed, one of the biggest job portals in India, is betting big on the ongoing trend of gig economy. Not only the white-collar gig jobs, the company has in the past year seen an increase in listings for drivers, food delivery runners, and other service providers. “Indeed is all about democratising job opportunities for workers across segments from blue collar to white collar, public sector undertakings (PSUs), and gig jobs.
Publication: Business Standard
Global PC shipments grew 1.5 pc to 63 mn units in Q2: Gartneredit
fter two quarters of decline, the global PC market grew 1.5 per cent year-on-year in April-June 2019 with shipments totalling about 63 million units, data from research firm Gartner showed. The worldwide shipment was at about 62 million units in the second quarter of 2018, Gartner said in its preliminary results for April-June 2019.
Publication: The Economic Times
12 New Enterprise PC Models Unveiled By Fujitsuedit
Fujitsu and Fujitsu Client Computing announced the launch of five new models in the Fujitsu Notebook LIFEBOOK series of enterprise notebooks, five new models in the Fujitsu Desktop ESPRIMO series of desktop PCs and two new models in the Fujitsu Workstation CELSIUS series of workstations.
Publication: SME Channels
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