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Wait, did Nvidia just say it could make graphics cards for cryptocurrency miners?

If you heard that Nvidia might make graphics cards just for cryptocurrency miners, hold your fire. As GPU supplies remain lean, Nvidia’s priorities appear to lie in other directions. Nvidia Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress acknowledged that … Continue reading

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Gigabyte unrolls GeForce 30-series with both Core and Ryzen CPUs

Gigabyte will adopt Nvidia’s new 30-series GPUs across its powerhouse Aero and Aorus laptop lines—and finally offer Ryzen 5000 alongside its Intel-based laptops, too. Announced at CES, pricing and availability weren’t immediately available, but … Continue reading

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AMD CEO Lisa Su talks: Chip shortages, GPU prices, more cores, Apple M1, and tariffs

If you’re still smarting from the inability to buy AMD’s fantastic Ryzen 5000 CPUs and Radeon RX 6000 GPUs many months after their release, CEO Lisa Su feels your pain but says more products are on the way.“I do want to be very specific, and t… Continue reading

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Here’s how much more gaming you did due to COVID

It’s no surprise that the global pandemic has spurred a huge uptick in gaming, but we now have an idea of just how much more that might be.According to figures released from Valve, the parent company of online gaming service Steam, subscribers spe… Continue reading

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MSI will support Resizable BAR across Intel and AMD motherboards, even Threadripper

MSI said it will support Nvidia’s unsexy-sounding, yet performance-boosting PCIe Resizable BAR feature across many of its AMD and Intel-based motherboards.Enabling PCIe Resizable BAR is a way to allow the technology underpinning AMD’s new Smart … Continue reading

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MSI’s powerful, portable gaming laptops go all-in on GeForce RTX 30-series

MSI will go all-in on Nvidia’s new GeForce RTX 30-series mobile GPUs with its upgraded gaming notebook lineup, as well as Intel’s 10th- and 11th-gen Core CPUs.MSI GE76 Raider Dragon Edition Tiamat
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Asus’s wild dual-screen ROG Zephyrus Duo laptop taps Ryzen 5000, RTX 30-series

Well, you can’t say you can’t get a high-end GPU in a Ryzen gaming laptop anymore. That former truth was shattered on Tuesday when Asus announced a new Zephyrus Duo 15 SE featuring an AMD Ryzen 5900HX and a GeForce RTX 3080 inside.The Zephyrus D… Continue reading

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How the tiny Asus ROG Flow X13 can outpunch big gaming laptops

In one of the boldest claims to come out of CES, Asus claims its convertible ROG Flow X13 can be as fast, if not faster, than much larger gaming laptops.Let’s say that one more time: Asus is claiming a 2.8 lbs. 13-inch thin and light convertible l… Continue reading

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Alienware’s m15 and m17 laptops level up with GeForce RTX 30-series GPUs

Alienware’s newly upgraded m15 R4 and m17 R4 gaming laptops will trade in their existing GPUs for shiny new—and likely much faster—Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 GPUs this year, the company announced at CES 2021.While much of the m15 R4 and m17 R4’s … Continue reading

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Acer’s 2021 gaming laptops wield the latest innovations from AMD, Intel, and Nvidia

Unlike some vendors who opt to pair Nvidia’s hot GeForce RTX 30-series laptop GPUs with either AMD’s new Ryzen 5000 or Intel’s Tiger Lake H35 chips, Acer has decided to offer them all and let buyers sort it out.The AMD goodness kicks off with … Continue reading

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