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AMD Reveals the X570 Chipset: PCIe 4.0 is Here
AMD Ryzen 3000 Announced: Five CPUs, 12 Cores for $499, Up to 4.6 GHz, PCIe 4.0, Coming 7/7
AMD Teases First Navi GPU Products: RX 5700 Series Launches in July, 25% Improved Perf-Per-Clock
Corsair Ironclaw RGB Wireless Review
EVGA NU Audio Premium Sound Card Review
HyperX Predator 2x16GB DDR4-3600 C17 Review
Intel Announces 8 Core i9-9900KS: Every Core at 5.0 GHz, All The Time
Intel Teases Ice Lake-U Integrated Graphics Performance
Lenovo Smart Tab P10 Review
Patriot Memory Signature Line Premium DDR4 16GB (2 x 8GB) 2666MHz Kit Review



AMD Reveals the X570 Chipset: PCIe 4.0 is Here

At Computex 2019 during AMDs keynote, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su unveiled details new X570 chipset designed for the upcoming Ryzen 3000 series "Matisse" processors. The new 3rd generation of AM4 motherboards include PCIe 4.0 support, native USB 3.1 Gen2 ports, and a slightly more power hungry TDP, which means motherboard manufacturers are required to use actively cooled chipset heatsinks.

The new X570 chipset marks the first consumer motherboard chipset to feature PCIe 4.0 by default. We saw that manufacturers were preparing its previous generation X470/B450 motherboards to offer limited PCIe 4.0 support through a wave of firmware updates – taking advantage of the CPUs independent on-die PCIe controller – but due to certain requirements of PCIe 4.0, its likely that previous generation boards will only have the top full-length slot running PCIe 4.0 when paired with a Ryzen 3000 series processor. The limitations are due to the length of the traces that the PCIe 4.0 interface requires. This means traces longer than a few inches wont be able to operate PCIe 4.0 unless the traces are fitted with redrivers to push the signal further down the board.

Read full article @ Anandtech

AMD Ryzen 3000 Announced: Five CPUs, 12 Cores for $499, Up to 4.6 GHz, PCIe 4.0, Coming 7/7

Today at Computex, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su is announcing the raft of processors it will be launching on its new Zen 2 chiplet-based microarchitecture. Among other things, AMD is unveiling its new Ryzen 9 product tier, which it is using for its 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X processor, and which runs at 4.6 GHz boost. All of the five processors will be PCIe 4.0 enabled, and while they are being accompanied by the new X570 chipset launch, they still use the same AM4 socket, meaning some AMD 300 and 400-series motherboards can still be used. We have all the details inside.

Read full article @ Anandtech

AMD Teases First Navi GPU Products: RX 5700 Series Launches in July, 25% Improved Perf-Per-Clock

While the bulk of this morning’s AMD Computex keynote has been on AMD’s 3rd generation Ryzen CPUs and their underlying Zen 2 architecture, the company also took a moment to briefly touch upon its highly anticipated Navi GPU architecture and associated family of products. AMD didn’t go too deep here, but they have given us just enough to be tantalized ahead of a full reveal in the not too distant future. The first Navi cards will be the Radeon RX 5700 series, which are launching in July and on an architectural level will offer 25% better performance per clock per core and 50% better power efficiency than AMD’s current-generation Vega architecture. The products will also be AMDs first video cards using faster GDDR6 memory. Meanwhile AMD isn’t offering much in the way of concrete details on performance, but they are showing it off versus NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 2070 in the AMD-favorable game Strange Brigade.

Read full article @ Anandtech

Corsair Ironclaw RGB Wireless Review

Corsair's new Ironclaw RGB Wireless is a great gaming mouse with excellent feel and almost limitless customisation which takes the DPI wars to a new level.

Read full article @ Wccftech

EVGA NU Audio Premium Sound Card Review

Can one of the world's leading graphics cards manufacturers like EVGA also compete in the audio segment of the market? Judging by their premium NU Audio Card it's a safe bet that they can.

Read full article @ NikKTech

HyperX Predator 2x16GB DDR4-3600 C17 Review

HyperX Predator's 2x16GB 3600 kit offers a performance bump with good DDR4-3600 timings, but at what cost?

Read full article @ Tom's Hardware

Intel Announces 8 Core i9-9900KS: Every Core at 5.0 GHz, All The Time

Last year, Intel showcased a CPU during its keynote a processor with all of its cores at 5 GHz. Today, that becomes a reality – Intel is set to launch a processor that promises that frequency in any scenario. The new Core i9-9900KS is an 8-core processor that will run at 5.0 GHz during single core workloads and multi-core workloads.

Read full article @ Anandtech

Intel Teases Ice Lake-U Integrated Graphics Performance

Another snippet of information from Intel today relates to the company’s future mobile platform CPU. We know it’s called Ice Lake-U, that it is built on Intel’s 10nm process, that it has Sunny Cove cores, and has beefy Gen11 integrated graphics. We’re still waiting on finer details about where it’s going to be headed, but today Intel is unloading some of its integrated graphics performance data for Ice Lake-U.

Read full article @ Anandtech

Lenovo Smart Tab P10 Review

Lenovo's Smart Tab P10 is an innovative take on the smart display, allowing you to dock a tablet and use it as an Amazon Alexa smart display. It's probably one of the best ideas yet.

Read full article @ Neowin

Patriot Memory Signature Line Premium DDR4 16GB (2 x 8GB) 2666MHz Kit Review

RAM has decreased quite a bit in price and mainstream kits are now more affordable than ever! The Patriot Memory Signature Line Premium is one of the solid choices you could take into account if you are not interested in RGB kits and are building or upgrading a system with a good price/performance.

Read full article @ Mad Shrimps