Hardware

Source: TechPowerUp!

NVIDIA today posted, the latest version of GeForce software. Version 442.19 WHQL comes game-ready for “Zombie Army: Dead War 4,” “Apex Legends Season 4,” and “Metro Exodus: Sam’s Story.” With these drivers, NVIDIA improved the maximum frame-rate setting with limits between 20 and 1,000 FPS. Find this setting in “NVIDIA Control Panel>3D Settings>Maximum Frame Rate control.” NVIDIA also introduced VRSS (VR super-sampling), an image quality enhancement that super sampling selectively on the central region of a frame.

Among the bug fixes are a game crash during a cutscene in “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine,” SETI@Home experiencing driver crash (TDR) on “Maxwell” GPUs, random stoppage of OBS streaming with “Call of Duty Modern Warfare,” Battleye with NVIDIA low-latency mode causing a DWM crash and recovery; certain SLI+G-Sync stutter issues being fixed; a “Doom” (2016) game crash with “Kepler” GPUs, and an NVENC memory leak.

You can download the GeForce Software 442.19 WHQL drivers via GeForce.com.

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AMD has just re-released Radeon Software 20.1.3 as WHQL. These drivers are identical to the Adrenalin 20.1.3 Beta drivers posted earlier this month, with the only difference being WHQL certification. It looks like AMD’s driver team is hard at work fixing the various issues reported. 20.1.3 WHQL is an important release as it now gives RX 5600 XT owners a WHQL driver — previously they had to resort to beta drivers to power their new purchase.

Radeon Software Adrenalin 20.1.4 Beta was released just days ago and does include additional changes that aren’t integrated in 20.1.3 WHQL yet, because Microsoft’s WHQL certification process takes some time. A few days ago we reported that AMD silently patched a driver security issue with 20.1.1 Beta, maybe that’s a reason, too, why we’re seeing a WHQL version today.

The Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.1.3 WHQL drivers are available online at the AMD driver download page.

Check out these latest hardware announcements for today from around the web. Also included are some hardware news bits, and on some days, a few rumors tossed in for good measure. Click on the links below to read the official press release, visit the products web page, or to an independent news source.

• ASUS Revises RX 5700-series TUF Gaming with Axial Tech Fans and New Heatsink Underneath
• Cooler Master Launch G200P Cooler & MF120 Halo ARGB Fans
• DeepCool MATREXX 55 Mesh 4F Loses the Glass Facade for an Airy Mesh
• ASUS Releases ROG Strix Riser Cable
• NZXT Announces Kraken X-3 and Z-3 Series AIO Liquid Coolers
• Kolink Announces the Void RGB Midi-Tower
• ASUS Launches the ROG STRIX XG17AHPE Portable Gaming Monitor
• Sharkoon Announces Light² 200 Ultra-Lightweight Customizable Gaming Mouse
• Akasa Announces The Vegas Chroma CPU Cooler With ARGB Lighting
• Logitech G Unveils “GHOST” Limited Edition PRO Wireless Mouse for Charity

Source: TechPowerUp!

AMD today released a new version of their Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition drivers. Version 20.1.4 Beta adds support for Warcraft III: Reforged, with increased performance by up to 11% in some scenarios. Support for “Journey to the Savage Planet” has also been added.

Fixed issues include corruption issues on Red Dead Redemption 2 under Vulkan; crashes on Vulkan-based games when performing a task switch while Radeon Image Sharpening is enabled; system hangs or black screens in GTA V at launch, missing audio in Radeon ReLive recordings, and Integer Scaling not being shown in some Windows 7 hardware configurations. Look after the break for other details of this release.

The new Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.1.4 Beta drivers are available online at the AMD driver download page.

Check out these latest hardware announcements for today from around the web. Also included are some hardware news bits, and on some days, a few rumors tossed in for good measure. Click on the links below to read the official press release, visit the products web page, or to an independent news source.

• MSI Registers Z490 Motherboards With the EEC
• Patriot Viper Gaming Launches V380 Virtual 7.1 Surround Sound RGB Gaming Headset
• AMD Quietly Patched Four Major GPU Security Vulnerabilities with Radeon 20.1.1 Drivers
• EKWB Launches New AIO Water Coolers with ARGB in Three Formats
• EK Releasing Pumpless Versions of the Quantum Line Pump-reservoir Combo Units
• MSI Ushers in a New Decade with Optix Gaming Monitors
• GIGABYTE AORUS RAID SSD 2TB Sets the Standard for PCIe 3.0 Performance
• How to Guide: Firmware Update the AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

By Peter Donnell @ Eteknix

When you think of PC cooling, many of you will immediately think of both Corsair and an AIO cooler. You would be right to do so, they’re one of the biggest brands out there, and their AIO coolers are regarded as many of the best. Plus, their prices are pretty competitive, we know the performance is great, and they look good. So, what is Corsair doing making an air cooler? Well, this isn’t the first time. They did it a few years back with some budget air coolers, and well, they were a bit crap. Corsair is a much more premium brand these days, and the new A500 looks set to match their portfolio.

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Check out these latest hardware announcements for today from around the web. Also included are some hardware news bits, and on some days, a few rumors tossed in for good measure. Click on the links below to read the official press release, visit the products web page, or to an independent news source.

• CORSAIR Launches New AMD-Powered VENGEANCE 6100 Series Gaming PCs
• ASUS Reveals the ROG Zenith II Extreme Alpha Motherboard
• EK Releases Quantum Vector Blocks for ASUS RTX 2070 and RTX 2080 DUAL EVO
• Abkoncore Announces the Astra AM6 Gaming Mouse
• NZXT Announces the RGB & Fan Controller
• NZXT Launches its C Series Line of ATX PSUs
• ATX12VO: Future Power Supplies Will Not Have 24-pins ATX Connector Anymore, but 10-pins
• New AMD Wraith Prism CPU Cooler Shows up With Six Heat Pipes
• ASUS Brings its ROG Bezel-Free Kit to Market, Promising a Better Multi-screen Gaming Experience
• MSI Says not all Radeon RX 5600 XT GPUs Can Hit 14 Gbps Memory Speed

Source: Guru3D

If you have read our three reviews yesterday, you will have noticed that the factory tweaked versions of the 5600 XT cards received BIOS updates that make them substantially faster.

NVIDIA lowered RTX 2060 pricing to 299 USD. And there’s where AMD made an 180 degree turn and pretty much created two separated SKUs for the 5600 XT. That would be the reference product, and then the factory tweaked (OC models) with greatly enhanced specs like a 180 Watt power envelope (opposed to 150W), an increase of the maximum turbo clock as well as a bump in GDDR6 memory data-rate going from 12 towards 14 Gbps.

Some board obviously already made retail prior to that BIOS update. Below you can see a collection of board partner links, with the BIOS updates and flash utilities.

• GIGABYTE RX 5600 XT Gaming OC New FA0 BIOS Update
• PowerColor RX 5600 XT Unleashed BIOS
• MSI Dragon Center (firmware update pushes through this software)
• ASRock RX 5600 XT Phantom Gaming D3 | ASRock RX 5600 XT Phantom Gaming D2 | ASRock RX 5600 XT Challenger D
• Sapphire Pulse BIOS (look for the support -> vBIOS firmware update on the page)
• XFX Thicc II Pro 1460/1620 MHz 1560/1620 MHz
• XFX Thicc III Pro 1420/1600 MHz 1615/1750 MHz

Check out these latest hardware announcements for today from around the web. Also included are some hardware news bits, and on some days, a few rumors tossed in for good measure. Click on the links below to read the official press release, visit the products web page, or to an independent news source.

• SteelSeries Launches Low-Cost Gaming Peripherals With The Rival 3 Gaming Mouse, Apex 3, and Apex 5 Gaming Keyboards
• be quiet! Announces Straight Power 11 Platinum PSU Series
• Noctua Introduces NH-L9a-AM4 chromax.black CPU Cooler
• PowerColor Presents the Red Devil and Red Dragon RX 5600 XT Graphics Cards
• Unleash Your RX 5600 XT Red Devil & Red Dragon with Update BIOS
• ASUS Rolls Out ROG Theta Electret Premium Gaming Headset
• Scythe Announces Mugen 5 BLACK RGB Edition CPU Cooler
• BitFenix Releases Dawn TG Mid tower Chassis Emulates Sunset
• ASUS Reveals Radeon RX 5600 XT TUF X3 GAMING & ROG STRIX GAMING
• Kingston Releases 2TB-version of KC600-SSD

Source: TechPowerUp!

AMD today released Radeon Software Adrenalin 20.1.3 beta drivers. These drivers add support for the new Radeon RX 5600 XT graphics card that’s hitting the shelves today; in addition to fixing a handful issues. To begin with, the drivers address a display signal loss noticed when performing parallel actions such as web browsing, gaming or watching video. Game crashes related to Nioh, Dragon Quest Builders 2, WWE 2K20, Dead or Alive 6 and Atelier Ryza were fixed. Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus now appears correctly in Radeon Software. Text overflow in some UI elements have been fixed. Loss of fan-tuning settings when switching between available GPUs has been fixed. Another kind of intermittent black screen on desktop idling for extended periods has been fixed.

The new Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.1.3 drivers are available online at the AMD driver download page.