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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.

• PowerColor Launches First Official Radeon RX 590 GPU
• GIGABYTE Intros B450M Gaming Socket AM4 Motherboard
• G.SKILL Announces DDR4-4266 64GB (8x8GB) and DDR4-4000 128GB (8x16GB) Memory Kits
• SilverStone Intros FW124-ARGB Slimline 120mm Fan
• GIGABYTE Presents X299 AORUS MASTER Motherboard
• ZADAK 511 Intros MOAB M.2 RGB SSD Heatsink
• Thermaltake Intros Pacific V-RTX ASUS Strix VGA Water Blocks
• DeepCool Intros GamerStorm Castle 360 RGB CPU Cooler

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.

• Deepcool Expands Matrexx 55 Case Series With Two New RGB Equipped Models
• MSI Reveals Clutch GM50 GAMING Mouse and Vigor GK60 GAMING Keyboard
• X2 Intros the PROTONIC ATX PC Chassis
• Sea Sonic Adds Wooting Analog Keyboards to Its Product Lineup
• Gigabyte Launches GeForce RTX 2080 Aorus Xtreme WaterForce With AIO Liquid Cooling
• ASUS Republic of Gamers Announces the Strix GL10CS Desktop
• CORSAIR Launches New Hydro Series H100i and H115i RGB PLATINUM Liquid CPU Coolers
• Colorful Debuts iGame GeForce RTX 2070 Vulcan X OC Graphics Card
• Gigabyte Unleashes Z390 Aorus Xtreme and Z390 Designare 9th Gen Coffee Lake Motherboards
• Lian Li Intros LANCOOL One White Case
• Be Quiet! Announces Pure Power 11 Series Power Supplies
• Steelseries Expands Best-Selling QcK Family, Offering Most Diverse Line of Gaming Mousepads
• Cooler Master Introduces the MasterCase SL600M
• TEAMGROUP Releases Gaming RGB SSD and RGB Memory with ASUS TUF Gaming Alliance Certification
• EVGA Offers $999 USD GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Black Edition Gaming

So, from time to time, we folks at Combatsim get the opportunity to test out and review some really neat gear. When CSIM gets that call from the companies wanting us to put their gear to the test, they turn to us long-term, die-hard CSIM forum contributors (20 years hard time in my case) to give the gear a spin and jot down the essentials so we can let the rest of the world know our valued opinions. I got the nod from our fearless site lead a couple of weeks ago when Thrustmaster asked if CSIM would be willing to try out their newest offering, the T.Flight U.S. Air Force Edition Gaming Headset.

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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.

• New iCHILL X3 by INNO3D is the First Gen Cooling Solution for the Geforce RTX Series
• Corsair Introduces New K70 RGB MK.2 LOW PROFILE Keyboards
• Cooler Master Releases the ATX 24 Pin 90° Adapter
• ASUS Intros ROG Swift PG258Q Call of Duty – Black Ops 4 Edition
• RIOTORO Introduces GTX100 Morpheus Convertible PC Chassis
• Cooler Master Offers New 120 mm & 140 mm Addressable RGB MasterFan
• Patriot Launches the Viper V765 RGB Mechanical Keyboard
• ARCTIC Releases P-Fan Series High-static Pressure with Six Fan Models
• ADATA Launches XPG SX8200 Pro SSD, GAMMIX S5 SSD, and GAMMIX D30 DDR4 Memory
• Thermaltake Intros Core P3 TG Chassis with Curved Tempered Glass Panel

Source: TechPowerUp!

NVIDIA today released GeForce 416.34 WHQL “Game Ready” drivers. These drivers provide optimization for “Call of Duty: Black Ops 4″ (retail), “Soulcaliber VI,” and “GRIP.” Among the fixed issues with this release are buggy shadows in “Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds,” some games launching to a black screen when DSR is enabled, a colorful shimmering line noticed in some games when playing full-screen with G-SYNC enabled, Surround display not being available from NVIDIA Control Panel with Edge browser running, and green screen display corruption on certain games with HDR enabled. Grab the drivers from the link below.

You can download the new GeForce 416.34 WHQL drivers through GeForce Experience or via GeForce.com.

Source: TechPowerUp!

AMD has released the Radeon Software Adrenalin 18.10.1 Beta drivers. These drivers include support for Microsoft’s Windows 10 October 2018 Update as well as optimizations for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. Along with improved support, AMD has addressed a number of issues with this latest release. First of which is a fix for the HDMI audio drivers not upgrading during the Radeon Software installation in some circumstances. Random reboots when upgrading from Radeon Software versions older than RSAE 18.8.1 on CPUs with more than 16 cores has also been resolved. In regards to gaming fixes, Fortnite sees lighting corruption when effects quality is set to High or Epic resolved, while Sea of Thieves sees texture flickering in multi-GPU configurations fixed. You can grab the drivers from the link below.

The new Radeon Software Adrenalin 1810.1 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.

• EK Water Blocks Introduces EK-CryoFuel Solid Coolants
• Phanteks Introduces the Revolt Pro 850 W and 1000 W Power Supplies
• SilentiumPC Announces Spartan 3 PRO RGB HE1024 CPU Cooler
• Gigabyte Readying RTX 2080 Gaming OC White Edition Graphics Card
• Thermaltake Unveils View 21 TG RGB Plus and View 71 TG RGB Plus Chassis
• ASUS Introduces new Prime X299-Deluxe II and ROG Dominus Extreme Motherboards
• Thermaltake Releases Pacific C and CL Plus RGB Copper Radiators Series
• ZADAK Launches SHIELD Double Capacity DDR4 Modules
• ASUS Launches Intel Z390 Series Motherboards
• G.SKILL Announces Double Capacity DDR4 with Trident Z RGB DC Series 32GBx2 Memory Kits
• G.SKILL Demonstrates DDR4-4800 16GB(2x8GB) and DDR4-4500 32GB(4x8GB) Kits For Intel Z390 Motherboards
• EVGA Introduces Z390 Dark & Z390 FTW Motherboards
• Intel Announces 9th Gen Core CPUs: Core i9-9900K (8-Core), i7-9700K, & i5-9600K
• NZXT Announces N7 Z390 Motherboard: Feature-rich for Enthusiast Gamers
• Break Into New Dimensions with MSI Z390 Motherboards
• GIGABYTE Unveils AORUS GeForce RTX 20 Series Graphics Cards
• ASRock Launches the Outstanding Intel Z390 Motherboards with Phantom Gaming Series
• Realtek Bringing 2.5 Gbps Gamer/Focused Ethernet Connections to the Mainstream Market
• ASRock Announces Z390 Taichi, Z390 Taichi Ultimate Motherboards

By Nathan Kirsch @ Legit Reviews

Today we’ll be taking a look at the HyperX FURY RGB SSD. This SATA III 2.5-inch drive series is available in 240GB, 480GB and 960GB capacities and each has a light bar inside to give your gaming PC a little RGB lighting in a place that most don’t. This is yet another SATA III 6 Gbps drive, so sequential read/write performance is what you’d expect at up to 550 MB/s read and 480 MB/s write. This drive doesn’t really bring anything new to the table in terms of performance, so it’s primarily aimed at those that want to brighten their rigs with RGB lighting on an SSD.

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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.

• NVIDIA Announces Availability of GeForce RTX 2070 Graphics Card – Cheapest Raytracing on October 17th
• MSI’s Z390 MEG GODLIKE, MPG GAMING Pro Carbon, MPG Edge Leaked
• Cooler Master Releases the MP860 RGB Gaming Mousepad
• Gigabyte Aorus GeForce RTX 2080 Xtreme Exposed In Teaser Videos
• Acer Announces XZ1-Series of FreeSync, Curved Gaming Monitors – VA WQHD, 144 Hz, HDR10 Ready
• HyperX Announces Alloy FPS RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard with Kailh Silver Speed Switches
• Lian Li Introduces LANCOOL ONE White Edition and Champagne Edition
• HyperX Expands SSD Lineup with FURY RGB SSD and SAVAGE EXO SSD
• TEAMGROUP T-Force Gaming Luminous SSD and High-End Memory Release New Models with Ultimate Specs
• Thermaltake Pacific V-RTX 2080 Plus Series FE Water Block Designed for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080/2080Ti Graphics Cards

Source: TechPowerUp!

NVIDIA today released the GeForce 411.64 WHQL “Game Ready” driver to go along with the embargo release for their latest and greatest Turing-based RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti graphics cards. These drivers come with optimization for upcoming AAA game launches including Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Forza Horizon 4, and Fifa 19. For those of you who pre-ordered the new GPUs, or are going to purchase them imminently, this is the driver you will need to get the most out of the hardware.

Other new features include support for CUDA 10.0, NVIDIA RTX technology, and the new Vulkan 1.1 API. As with any GeForce driver released after April 1, 2018, the driver adds performance enhancements, new features, and bug fixes only on Kepler, Maxwell, Pascal and Volta series GPUs. NVIDIA reaffirms that critical security updates will continue to be available on Fermi series GPUs through January 2019.

You can download the new GeForce 411.64 WHQL drivers through GeForce Experience or via GeForce.com.