If you have an RTX 3080 Ti, you may want to be careful.

PC Gamer yesterday reported on an issue impacting those with Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti graphics cards trying to run the now open Diablo 4 beta. Beginning last weekend with the closed beta, owners of the RTX 3080 Ti have taken to the Blizzard forums and Reddit to report that Diablo 4 killed their graphics cards.

According to what users are reporting, at a random point when playing the Diablo 4 beta, their monitors will go...

The new mouse boasts a total weight of just 53g.

If you're into having an ultra-light mouse for your gaming rig, you may be interested in checking out the upcoming StormBreaker mouse from Pwnage. Clocking in at a total weight of just 53g, this mouse uses a body made out magnesium to achieve that lighter weight. They also cut a bunch of holes in where having a solid piece of material really isn't necessary, like a lot of these ultra-light mice are doing these days to help keep the weight...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is partly to blame.

MSI Afterburner has been one of the more popular tools used by users looking to overclock graphics cards. Despite being under the MSI branding, Afterburner was free to be used across all makes and models of GPUs, and helped everyone from gamers to professionals dial in the perfect overclock on cards from Nvidia and AMD.

MSI Afterburner was developed by Alexey Nicolaychuk, a Russian that is perhaps better known by his...

If you want a PlayStation 5, you can probably find one to buy.

Sony says that their PlayStation 5 console sales have surpassed 30 million units. They also say that the console shortage, at least for them, is essentially done and over with.

This news come via Sony Interactive Entertainment president Jim Ryan and Sony's CES conference. The 30 million units sold figure is an increase of 5 million from the last time Sony shared sales data back on November 1, 2022. Ryan says...

Remember the 12GB RTX 4080? It's back!

Nvidia held their GeForce Beyond stream earlier today as part of CES 2023. During the presentation the company announced the fourth RTX 40-series desktop GPU, which will be the third 40-series card released.

Today, the "unlaunched" 12GB RTX 4080 was brought back as the newly announced 12GB RTX 4070 Ti. This card is again built on the new Ada Lovelace architecture. The RTX 4070 Ti ships with 7,680 CUDA cores, a 2.61GHz clock,...

The announcement comes just a day after AMD released their new processors.

During their Intel Vision Event, Intel announced that their 13th Gen "Raptor Lake" CPUs will be released starting on October 20, 2022. Much like 2021's Alder Lake (12th Gen), Raptor Lake will again utilize a blend of performance (P-Cores) and efficiency (E-Cores) cores. Raptor Lake will make use of the new Z790 chipset, but it seems as though those with Z690 boards will still be fine to upgrade....

Will focus on "breakthroughs in gaming, creating, and graphics technology."

Nvidia says that they will host a "special broadcast" and the upcoming GTC 2022. On September 20, Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang and his leather jacket will kick off GTC 2022 with a keynote that shows off the tech giant's "latest breakthroughs in gaming, creating, and graphics technology."

Nvidia says that GTC is "the world's leading technology conference."...

It is, on average, 15% slower than GPUs released three years ago.

Intel's first discreet graphics card, the Arc A380, was released! Well, it was released, but only in China so far. If nothing else, Intel fulfilled their promise of releasing their first discreet Arc GPU.

The first official benchmarks for the Intel Arc A380 have naturally started to trickle out and the results are not great. These "official" reviews come courtesy of Intel directly via their reviewer's...

The "world's fastest graphics card" and the most expensive, is now here.

Nvidia officially launched their $1,999 (USD) GeForce RTX 3090 Ti today. The "world's fastest graphics card" was first announced back in January and was finally released today by Nvidia and partners like Asus, EVGA, Gigabyte, Zotac, and more. There will be a limited edition Founders Edition of the card available through Best Buy's online store.

The power hungry GPU is a triple-slot...

Good luck finding one and better luck affording one.

Nvidia announced the RTX 3090 Ti earlier this year at CES. The company said that they would deliver more information on this tip-top of the line GPU by the end of January. Well, the end of January came and went as did February without so much as a word from Nvidia. Now, a new report by VideoCardz says that Nvidia will launch the RTX 3090 Ti on March 29.

The tech site says that they have obtained what seem to be the embargo...

The release window continues to narrow.

Intel announced that their upcoming desktop graphics cards, named Arc, will be out some time in Q2 2022. This means that they could begin to launch anywhere from April 2022 to the end of June 2022. Though the desktop GPUs are coming a bit later, laptops equipped with Arc GPUs will begin shipping this quarter.

The Arc cards have been in development for some time now at Intel but were only officially announced in August 2021. At CES...

There is no end in sight.

TSMC is about to raise their prices for the chips they manufacturer and send to all sorts of tech companies. This means that CPU and GPU prices are going up.

DigiTimes reports that the Taiwanese-based semiconductor manufacturer has already informed its largest customers that it plans to raise pricing by up to 20%. Some of these "largest customers" include tech and hardware giants like Apple, Nvidia, AMD, ARM, Broadcom, and several others....

More hardware that will be in short supply that you will never get to buy.

CES 2022 is underway, though there really isn't much of an "in-person" presence this year. Even still, some new tech was announced on the first day that was worth sharing. AMD and Nvidia both announced new releases of their current lineup of Radeon and GeForce cards respectively. Intel announced its first generation of Arc series GPUs.

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AMD announed the Radeon RX 6500 XT. This...

That dreaded chip shortage strikes once again.

Sony has apparently cut production plans for the PlayStation 5 consoles by about one million units. This is due to, you guessed it, component shortages. Who didn't see that one coming? We already had news just yesterday about Valve's Steam Deck being delayed by two months because of COVID-19 related component shortages, and here we are again.

As fewer consoles are expected to be made, it stands to reason that it will be even...