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Intel Confirms 8th-Gen Coffee Lake CPUs are in ‘End of Life’
All good things must, sooner or later, come to an end and it seems for the Intel 8th-generation ‘Coffee Lake’ platform that time is now. In a report via TechPowerUp, Intel has officially issued a statement confirming that the CPU line-up has officially entered its ‘end of life’ phase and,…
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Intel Finally Extends Optane Support to Pentium and Celeron CPUs
Now Available on Entry Level Builds Intel has now extended Optane support down to their entry level Pentium and Celeron CPUs. These of course, have to be 8th Gen or newer, and excludes Kaby Lake or older processors. Furthermore, the CPUs must meet other Optane requirements. Including the presence of…
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COLORFUL Debuts the CVN B365M Gaming Pro V20 Motherboard
For Intel 8th and 9th Gen Processors Shenzen-based COLORFUL is introducing the new CVN B365M Gaming Pro V20 motherboard. This is an LGA1151 socket board supporting Intel 8th Gen and 9th Gen Coffee Lake-S CPUs. The “M” after the chipset name, refers to the board’s micro-ATX form factor. Despite that,…
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Intel Prepping New 9th Gen CPU Stepping
In the heyday of CPUs, new steppings were quite common as process nodes and designs were constantly changed. Generally speaking, a new stepping makes changes to either the process, architecture or other feature of the CPU. For the recently launched 9th generation processors, Intel is releasing a new stepping. The…
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Intel CPU Shortages Expected to Continue Through Q2 2019
Supply Problem Persists Analysts Suggest In case you think Intel CPUs are in short supply now, the problem is apparently only going to get worse. This is according to analysts at DigiTimes Research who expect Intel CPUs’ supply gap to grow 1-2pp sequentially in the second quarter of 2019. Worse,…
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Intel Core i5 9400F Might Come With Thermal Paste
Intel Mixes Thermal Paste With Solder For 9400F With the new generation of 9th Gen Coffee Lake CPUs, Intel has introduced two often called for features. One is the return of solder TIM (sTIM) for the mainstream CPU lineup. Second is the introduction of CPUs that do not have integrated…
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Intel Quietly Adds the B365 Chipset to their 300-Series Lineup
Budget 22nm Chipset from Intel Rumours of an upcoming Intel B365 chipset arriving at Computex 2019 surfaced last week. However, it appears that it is actually launching much earlier than expected. In fact, Intel has already quietly announced its presence and put a web page up for the new chipset.…
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EVGA Announces the Affordable B360 Micro Gaming Motherboard
Budget Intel Coffee Lake Motherboard from EVGA EVGA is announcing something different from their usual enthusiast-class of products. Introducing the new B360 Micro Gaming motherboard, an LGA1151 socket board which supports Coffee Lake CPUs. In typical EVGA fashion, the B360 Micro Gaming is decently powerful, except this time it is…
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Three Revised Z370 Motherboards Show Up on ASUS’ Website
New Design and Revision It appears that ASUS is preparing to launch three updates to their existing Prime and TUF Z370 motherboards. Specifically, the Prime Z370-A, Prime Z370-P and TUF Z370 PLUS Gaming, which are all getting an alternate “II” revision. The new Prime Z370-A II, Prime Z370-P II and…
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Tech Analysts Say AMD Will Surpass Intel Next Year
Tech Analysts Say AMD Will Surpass Intel Next Year What’s one of the easiest ways to start a tech argument? Suggest for one second that AMD might be better than Intel or adversely Intel might be better than AMD. The truth of the matter is, this wasn’t so much of…
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Intel Facing Supply Issues With 14nm Production
Intel Facing Double Whammy Hit to Supply At the start of the month, rumours started circulating about serious 14nm supply issues from Intel. Over the past week, these have bubbled up in a new report. According to a new report out this week, Intel is planning to ink a new…
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AMD Edge Intel For CPU Sales In August
AMD Edge Intel For CPU Sales In August Following the release of the Ryzen Processors, for the first time, (in too long!) AMD was really staking a claim to be a true competitor for Intel. AMD had gone for a period (too long) where they were releasing competent CPU’s, but…
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Lenovo Unveils New Legion Gaming Desktop PC Lineup
Powered by NVIDIA RTX Lenovo took the time to announce their new Legion Gaming PC lineup at IFA 2018. This includes the new Legion T730 tower and C730 cube desktops. Both will be available in Europe starting October and provides the latest graphics technology via NVIDIA RTX. What Can Gamers…
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MSI Announces WS65 Slim Mobile Workstation Notebook
New Breed of Mobile Workstation MSI launched their latest WS65 mobile workstation laptop at SIGGRAPH this week. Unlike typical workstation notebooks however, this new WS65 features a thin design without compromising on the power. In fact, it looks quite sleek and similar to HP’s Spectre series instead of a standard…
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Zotac Announces Passively-Cooled ZBOX C Series Mini-PCs
Strong and Silent Mini-PCs from Zotac ZOTAC is rolling out their new C-series ZBOX Nano mini-PCs and it improves not just in performance but cooling as well. These ZBOX Nano models come with Intel‘s 8th Gen Core processors which are up to 20% faster than 7th Gen models. By design,…
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