AMD’s New Chipset Is Rolling Out, Such As The ASUS TUF GAMING X870-Plus WiFi
AMD's new X870 chipset isn't much of an upgrade from the previous design but it's new features do make it attractive. These new boards, such...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 489: A requiem for Cryptic
Carlo, Justin, and Bree discuss the launch of Throne and Liberty, the Cryptic layoffs and their effect on Neverwinter and Star Trek Online, the early...
Destiny: Rising Trailer Teases An Exciting Sci-Fi RPG Shooter For Phones
The long running Destiny franchise is getting a mobile entry thanks to a partnership between Bungie and NetEase. Destiny: Rising will be a free-to-play shooter that is part of the official Destiny universe and will include both PvE and PvP modes. It will be coming to both Android devices and iPhones. This could be nice shot in the arm for
ASRock Reveals Slower DDR5 RAM Support For Non-K Core Ultra 200 CPUs
Memory overclocking can have a huge effect on application performance—depending on the app in question. One of the key features of Intel’s new Arrow Lake processors is that they can support stratospheric memory transfer rates. However, that may only apply to the high-powered “K” series processors, at least if ASRock has any idea what it’s
Overwatch 2 explains the balance tweaks for tanks and DPS alike coming for Season 13
Whether or not you care about the themes of Overwatch 2’s upcoming Season 13, game director Aaron Keller hopes you care about balance changes because...
At OCP Summit 2024 Intel And AMD Actually Agreed On x86 Standardization
2024 is a wild year and it keeps getting stranger; AMD and Intel have agreed to work together towards a shared goal. The plan is...
Not-So Strange Bedfellows AMD And Intel Join Forces In New x86 Advisory Group
Once upon a time, you had a whole bunch of CPU architectures vying for dominance. Occasionally, you’d even have multiple architectures from the same vendor competing against each other. As happens in competitive environments, processor ISAs died off one-by-one until the modern day, where we basically have x86-64 for desktops, laptops, and
Valheim brings the Bog Witch update to its public test server
“Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble, this test build is not indicative of a final product.” We’re admittedly taking some artistic liberties with the classic Shakespeare...
Western Digital launches 32TB hard drive in SATA and SAS flavors — Ultrastar DC HC690 delivers sequential performance up to 257 MiB/s
Western Digital’s newly launched ePMR-powered UltraSMR HDDs can store up to 32TB, a new record for shingled magnetic recording-based drives.
Intel and AMD are unlikely allies in new x86 ecosystem advisory group – “we’ll remain fierce competitors”
In a rare public-facing display of cooperation between two fierce rivals, Intel and AMD jointly announced the formation of a new x86 advisory group to ensure a unified x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) moving forward, an important consideration given both the potential addition of new features and the various x86 simplification efforts already underway.