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Best Motherboards for AMD Ryzen 5 3600X, Ryzen 7 3700X and Ryzen 9 3900Xedit
AMD recently announced that it would support its next-gen Ryzen 4000 CPUs on existing 400 series boards, in addition to the newer B550 and X570 chipsets. While that’s good news for owners of the older motherboards, we’d strictly advise against buying a B450 or X470 board. There are certain caveats that will limit 400 series owners after they flash the beta BIOS meant for the newer processors. You can read more about that here. As such we’ll only include the 500 series boards, with the newer A520 motherboards for budget users.
Publication: Hardware Times
Best Budget CPU under ₹9000 – Ryzen 3 3100 review (PROACTIVE)edit
Dedicated review of the Ryzen 3 310o
Publication: Desire Tech Tips
Here are all the AMD desktop processors deals on Amazon Great Indian Festivaledit
If you are an AMD fan and have been waiting for a sale to get your desktop processor until now, then Amazon Great Indian Festival is the best time to make your purchase so that you build your gaming or professional PC. It’s no brainer who leads the desktop CPU market and so giving the sale on AMD CPUs and APUs makes more sense now.
Publication: TechnoSports
Dell G5 15 SE (5505) Reviewedit
The Dell G5 15 SE (5505) is an interesting gaming laptop that will no doubt be on the radar of any AMD fan. Dell’s pricing is not too bad either, considering that the Radeon GPU offers gaming performance somewhere in between what an Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti and RTX 2060 would deliver, and these are usually seen in laptops priced at around the Rs. 1 lakh mark. The Dell G5 15 SE (5505) also offers a comfortable keyboard, nice aesthetics, and a 120Hz refresh rate display going by the current variants being sold in India.
Publication: Gadgets 360
AMD’s Ryzen 5000 processors to come with free copy of Far Cry 6 starting 5 Novemberedit
AMD’s Ryzen 5000 processors will be available on 5 November and buyers of the high-end chips will now get a free copy of Far Cry 6 along with it. Anyone buying a Ryzen 9 5950X, Ryzen 9 5900X or Ryzen 7 5800X will get the free game, according to a report by Techradar. However, those purchasing the mid-range Ryzen 5 5600X will not get the freebie. The report adds that those who buy the Ryzen 5000 chips and those purchasing a machine which comes with one of those CPUs will be able to get a digital download of Far Cry 6 when the game is released on 18 February 2021.
Publication: DailyHunt
AMD EPYC™ Processors Offer 30 Percent Better Performance on Data Analytics Workloadsedit
AMD announced Azure Data Explorer, a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution optimized for data exploration and near real-time analytics, will now offer customers access to Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines featuring AMD EPYC™ processors. In a collaboration between AMD, Azure compute and Azure Data Explorer, the Azure Data Explorer service is now offering the AMD EPYC processor based Azure Dav4, Eav4, Easv4 and Lsv2 VMs for use. The family of AMD EPYC processor based Azure VMs enables Azure Data Explorer customers to gain up to 30 – 50 percent more performance on data analytics workloads for the same cost.
Publication: CellIT
MSI promises to support AMD RYZEN 5000 Processors on the existing 400-Series Motherboardsedit
AMD has officially announced Zen3 architecture RyzenTM 5000 series processors on October 8th. The latest Zen3 processors have significant performance improvements compared to the previous 7nm Ryzen 3000 series processors. For the upcoming processors, MSI has released the latest AGESA COMBO PI V2 1.1.0.0 for all X570 and B550 series motherboards (Link) to perfectly utilize the PCI-E 4.0 performance.
Publication: Digit
ASUS Announces BIOS update for 500-Series motherboards to support AMD RYZEN 5000 Processorsedit
ASUS today announced the Republic of Gamers (ROG) Crosshair VIII Dark Hero, TUF Gaming X570 Pro (WiFi) and ROG Strix B550-XE Gaming WiFi — three gaming motherboards designed for gaming builds featuring the latest-generation AMD Ryzen Zen 3 architecture processors. In addition to the latest X570 and B550 motherboards, all ASUS 500 series motherboards (X570, B550 and A520) are ready for AMD Ryzen Zen 3 architecture processors.
Publication: Digit
AMD’s RDNA 2 Powered Navi 21 XT GPU To Run at Insanely High Clock Speeds with 16GB GDDR6 VRAM, All At 255 TGPedit
During it’s Zen 3 presentation, AMD CEO Lisa Su showed us the world’s first RDNA 2 benchmarks, possibly showcasing the Navi 21 XT (‘Big Navi) card. Now, a new leak suggests that RDNA 2 is built to run at insanely high clock speeds, which kind of makes sense when you look at the same present in PS5/Xbox Series X. Patrick Schur has now shared some specs for the Navi 21 XT card, suggesting it will come with 16GB GDDR6 memory and run at 2.4 GHz, all under 255W TGP.
Publication: DailyHunt
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Sony announces PS5 Indian priceedit
Sony, after a considerable delay, has announced the Indian pricing for the PlayStation 5. The PlayStation 5 (with optical drive) will sell for Rs 49,990 and the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition (without Optical Drive) will sell for Rs 39,990. There’s no update on the release date for the PlayStation 5 and Sony confirms that it will be updating soon regarding the same. Some of the leaks around the internet are suggesting a November 19th release.
Publication: The Mobile India
Dham, Paulraj call for urgent action on semicon and electronics techedit
Speaking at the annual summit of the India Electronics & Semiconductor Association (IESA) last week, both noted that chips are at the heart of everything around us – smartphones, PCs, cars, watches, agriculture, drones, medical devices. And yet, India is nowhere in this ecosystem, and is heavily dependent on imports. India has enormous chip design talent, but almost all of that resides in the India centres of global companies like Intel, Qualcomm, Broadcom, AMD, Micron, Texas Instruments, and Nvidia. Paulraj said many of the technologies of these companies remain under the control of the governments of countries where they are headquartered – for national security and other reasons.
Publication: The Times of India
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Lenovo Legion 5i laptop with over Rs 52,000 discount in Amazon sale is best deal for gamersedit
If you are a gamer and have been eyeing a laptop to play the high-end games, your wait might end today. Under the Amazon Great Indian Festival sale, there is a horde of deals on gaming laptops. These laptops come from brands such as Lenovo Legion, Asus TUF, and HP Omen. But we are not going to talk about all of them. We are picking one gaming laptop on which you will save the most.
Publication: India Today
Want a productive work laptop? Get the new Dell Inspiron 5408 with 10th Gen Intel Ice Lake CPUsedit
Processor:10th Generation Intel Core i5-1035G1 Processor (6MB Cache, up to 3.6 GHz,4 cores). Memory & Storage: 8GB RAM Single. Channel DDR4 3200 MHz | 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive. Display:14-inch FHD (1920 x 1080) IPS Anti-Glare Narrow. Border 300nits 72% NTSC WVA Display. Graphics: Intel UHD Graphics with the shared graphics memory or NVIDIA GeForce MX330 Graphics with 2GB GDDR5 VRAM
Publication: TechnoSports
Amazon sale Day 2: 5 gaming laptops with up to 40% off in Deal of the Dayedit
Acer Nitro 5 gaming laptop with 15.6-inc Full HD+ screen is selling at a discounted price of Rs 65,990. The laptop offers 8GB RAM with 1TB HDD and 256GB SSD storage capacity. It is Day 2 of the Amazon Great Indian Festival sale. If you are looking to buy a gaming laptop this festive season, then e-commerce platform Amazon has some deals for you. Laptops from brands like HP, Asus and others are available at up to 40% discount.
Publication: Gadgets Now
Dham, Paulraj call for urgent action on semicon and electronics techedit
Speaking at the annual summit of the India Electronics & Semiconductor Association (IESA) last week, both noted that chips are at the heart of everything around us – smartphones, PCs, cars, watches, agriculture, drones, medical devices. And yet, India is nowhere in this ecosystem, and is heavily dependent on imports. India has enormous chip design talent, but almost all of that resides in the India centres of global companies like Intel, Qualcomm, Broadcom, AMD, Micron, Texas Instruments, and Nvidia. Paulraj said many of the technologies of these companies remain under the control of the governments of countries where they are headquartered – for national security and other reasons.
Publication: The Times of India
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Best Motherboards for AMD Ryzen 5 3600X, Ryzen 7 3700X and Ryzen 9 3900Xedit
AMD recently announced that it would support its next-gen Ryzen 4000 CPUs on existing 400 series boards, in addition to the newer B550 and X570 chipsets. While that’s good news for owners of the older motherboards, we’d strictly advise against buying a B450 or X470 board. There are certain caveats that will limit 400 series owners after they flash the beta BIOS meant for the newer processors. You can read more about that here. As such we’ll only include the 500 series boards, with the newer A520 motherboards for budget users.
Publication: Hardware Times
Dell G5 15 SE (5505) Reviewedit
The Dell G5 15 SE (5505) is an interesting gaming laptop that will no doubt be on the radar of any AMD fan. Dell’s pricing is not too bad either, considering that the Radeon GPU offers gaming performance somewhere in between what an Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti and RTX 2060 would deliver, and these are usually seen in laptops priced at around the Rs. 1 lakh mark. The Dell G5 15 SE (5505) also offers a comfortable keyboard, nice aesthetics, and a 120Hz refresh rate display going by the current variants being sold in India.
Publication: Gadgets 360
AMD’s Ryzen 5000 processors to come with free copy of Far Cry 6 starting 5 Novemberedit
AMD’s Ryzen 5000 processors will be available on 5 November and buyers of the high-end chips will now get a free copy of Far Cry 6 along with it. Anyone buying a Ryzen 9 5950X, Ryzen 9 5900X or Ryzen 7 5800X will get the free game, according to a report by Techradar. However, those purchasing the mid-range Ryzen 5 5600X will not get the freebie. The report adds that those who buy the Ryzen 5000 chips and those purchasing a machine which comes with one of those CPUs will be able to get a digital download of Far Cry 6 when the game is released on 18 February 2021.
Publication: DailyHunt
AMD EPYC™ Processors Offer 30 Percent Better Performance on Data Analytics Workloadsedit
AMD announced Azure Data Explorer, a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution optimized for data exploration and near real-time analytics, will now offer customers access to Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines featuring AMD EPYC™ processors. In a collaboration between AMD, Azure compute and Azure Data Explorer, the Azure Data Explorer service is now offering the AMD EPYC processor based Azure Dav4, Eav4, Easv4 and Lsv2 VMs for use. The family of AMD EPYC processor based Azure VMs enables Azure Data Explorer customers to gain up to 30 – 50 percent more performance on data analytics workloads for the same cost.
Publication: CellIT
MSI promises to support AMD RYZEN 5000 Processors on the existing 400-Series Motherboardsedit
AMD has officially announced Zen3 architecture RyzenTM 5000 series processors on October 8th. The latest Zen3 processors have significant performance improvements compared to the previous 7nm Ryzen 3000 series processors. For the upcoming processors, MSI has released the latest AGESA COMBO PI V2 1.1.0.0 for all X570 and B550 series motherboards (Link) to perfectly utilize the PCI-E 4.0 performance.
Publication: Digit
ASUS Announces BIOS update for 500-Series motherboards to support AMD RYZEN 5000 Processorsedit
ASUS today announced the Republic of Gamers (ROG) Crosshair VIII Dark Hero, TUF Gaming X570 Pro (WiFi) and ROG Strix B550-XE Gaming WiFi — three gaming motherboards designed for gaming builds featuring the latest-generation AMD Ryzen Zen 3 architecture processors. In addition to the latest X570 and B550 motherboards, all ASUS 500 series motherboards (X570, B550 and A520) are ready for AMD Ryzen Zen 3 architecture processors.
Publication: Digit
Lenovo Legion 5i laptop with over Rs 52,000 discount in Amazon sale is best deal for gamersedit
If you are a gamer and have been eyeing a laptop to play the high-end games, your wait might end today. Under the Amazon Great Indian Festival sale, there is a horde of deals on gaming laptops. These laptops come from brands such as Lenovo Legion, Asus TUF, and HP Omen. But we are not going to talk about all of them. We are picking one gaming laptop on which you will save the most.
Publication: India Today
Want a productive work laptop? Get the new Dell Inspiron 5408 with 10th Gen Intel Ice Lake CPUsedit
Processor:10th Generation Intel Core i5-1035G1 Processor (6MB Cache, up to 3.6 GHz,4 cores). Memory & Storage: 8GB RAM Single. Channel DDR4 3200 MHz | 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive. Display:14-inch FHD (1920 x 1080) IPS Anti-Glare Narrow. Border 300nits 72% NTSC WVA Display. Graphics: Intel UHD Graphics with the shared graphics memory or NVIDIA GeForce MX330 Graphics with 2GB GDDR5 VRAM
Publication: TechnoSports
Apple’s ARM-powered Macs to arrive in Novemberedit
Apple back at WWDC 20202 had launched its own ARM processors. At the time, the CEO Tim Cook had confirmed that Apple would be transitioning from Intel to ARM processors in the coming years with the first batch of ARM-powered Macs arriving later this year. Now, a new report suggests that the company could launch its next batch of Mac computers as early as next month. As per a report by tipster Jon Prosser, the iPhone maker will host an ARM Mac event next month wherein it would launch its ARM-powered Mac computers. The tipster further said that the company will be hosting the event on November 17.
Publication: HT Tech – Hindustan Times
First MacBook Running Apple Silicon May Launch by Nov 17, AirPods Studio Coming Next Yearedit
Apple will reportedly unveil its first ARM-based Mac device on November 17. The development was shared by notable tipster Jon Prosser on Twitter, days after Apple launched its iPhone 12 smartphone line-up. Prosser added that the company might also unveil its first over-the-ear headphones in March 2021. Notably, a new MacBook Pro model with Apple Silicon and AirPods Studio headphones were rumoured to launch alongside the iPhone 12 line-up earlier this week. Apple is yet to confirm its November 17 event, therefore, it is advised taking the information with a pinch of salt.
Publication: Network18
Amazon sale Day 2: 5 gaming laptops with up to 40% off in Deal of the Dayedit
Acer Nitro 5 gaming laptop with 15.6-inc Full HD+ screen is selling at a discounted price of Rs 65,990. The laptop offers 8GB RAM with 1TB HDD and 256GB SSD storage capacity. It is Day 2 of the Amazon Great Indian Festival sale. If you are looking to buy a gaming laptop this festive season, then e-commerce platform Amazon has some deals for you. Laptops from brands like HP, Asus and others are available at up to 40% discount.
Publication: Gadgets Now
Sony announces PS5 Indian priceedit
Sony, after a considerable delay, has announced the Indian pricing for the PlayStation 5. The PlayStation 5 (with optical drive) will sell for Rs 49,990 and the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition (without Optical Drive) will sell for Rs 39,990. There’s no update on the release date for the PlayStation 5 and Sony confirms that it will be updating soon regarding the same. Some of the leaks around the internet are suggesting a November 19th release.
Publication: The Mobile India
Lounge Heroes: The girl who keeps the school on the cloud runningedit
Ashwini’s story was chosen by tech company Lenovo as one of 10 narratives of young women from across the world who have used technology to transform their lives. A short film featuring her is part of the company’s New Realities project, which uses 360-degree Virtual Reality camera techniques to tell the stories of ordinary-but-remarkable young women like Ashwini.
Publication: Mint
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Tapping the boom in edge computingedit
India is yet to auction spectrum for the launching of 5G services. But, the action today is in Edge Computing, which involves getting resources for applications close to end users, typically within or at the boundary of operator networks. This has resulted in companies distributing cloud computing across locations and resources. With data taking centre stage, commercialisation of the telco Edge has started.
Publication: Business Today
How to become the indefatigable gameredit
The elements required to become the indefatigable gamer are minimal. All you have to do is choose the right game. There are a few complex terms to digest, but that is what I am here to help you with anyway. First, you choose a game that is not a roguelike. A typical roguelike game moves you from dungeon to dungeon. And it is a horrifying ‘What’s behind the door’ game, where every time you open the same door, there lies another challenge. Roguelikes also have permadeath.
Publication: The New Indian Express
TSMC’s 5nm process nodes to pick up pace in 2021edit
With the evolution of tech, silicon process nodes have become smaller and smaller – increasing both performance and efficiency. The 7nm process nodes have made our devices a lot more powerful than before and the new 5nm is the upcoming evolution in the silicon industry. Already the Apple A14 Bionic has become the first commercially available SoC to be based out of 5nm process. With days, we will see more of these new 5nm processors and the primary supplier for these nodes remains TSMC.
Publication: TechnoSports
Lounge Heroes: The girl who keeps the school on the cloud runningedit
Ashwini’s story was chosen by tech company Lenovo as one of 10 narratives of young women from across the world who have used technology to transform their lives. A short film featuring her is part of the company’s New Realities project, which uses 360-degree Virtual Reality camera techniques to tell the stories of ordinary-but-remarkable young women like Ashwini.
Publication: Mint
Dham, Paulraj call for urgent action on semicon and electronics techedit
Speaking at the annual summit of the India Electronics & Semiconductor Association (IESA) last week, both noted that chips are at the heart of everything around us – smartphones, PCs, cars, watches, agriculture, drones, medical devices. And yet, India is nowhere in this ecosystem, and is heavily dependent on imports. India has enormous chip design talent, but almost all of that resides in the India centres of global companies like Intel, Qualcomm, Broadcom, AMD, Micron, Texas Instruments, and Nvidia. Paulraj said many of the technologies of these companies remain under the control of the governments of countries where they are headquartered – for national security and other reasons.
Publication: The Times of India
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