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Not to let itself be outshined by arch-rival NVIDIA, AMD has released a new driver suite that introduces support for the impending release of Arkane Studios’ Prey. A totally new IP in an era of sequels and re-releases, which has been paired – even if only so slightly – with AMD’s own Vega teaser campaign, Prey promises to offer a mix of Bioshock and System Shock, with Arkane’s own peculiar blend of game mechanics and art direction. Go on ahead fighting the invasion – I’ll be joining you shortly.

These drivers promise an up to 4.7% performance improvement measured on Radeon RX 580 8GB graphics when compared to Radeon Software Crimson ReLive edition 17.4.4, as well as multi GPU profile support. As always, you can grab these right here on your favorite hardware site on the universe.

You can download the Radeon Software Crimson ReLive 17.5.1 Beta drivers here.

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NVIDIA today released the GeForce 382.05 WHQL drivers. These drivers come “Game Ready” for the week’s hottest game launches, beginning with “Prey” (2017). “Prey” is the season’s most anticipated first-person survival horror, and releases this Friday (5th May). In addition, the drivers also come with optimization for the indie tank shooter “Battlezone,” and the latest “Gears of War 4″ multi-GPU update, by including an NVIDIA SLI profile for the game.

You can download the new GeForce 382.05 WHQL drivers from GeForce Experience and GeForce.com.

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.

• Cooltek Announces the NC-Series Gaming Cases
• Corsair Announces the GLAIVE RGB Gaming Mouse
• MSI Launches Its GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Sea Hawk EK X
• ASUS ROG Maximus IX Extreme Motherboard Comes With Preinstalled Monoblock Cooler
• Colorful Launches Its iGame GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Vulcan X OC
• A Pair Of Gently Overclocked GIGABYTE RX 550 GPUs Debut
• Temperature Spikes Reported on Intel’s Core i7-7700, i7-7700K Processors
• ViewSonic Adds 42-inch VX4380 Ultra HD IPS Monitor

By AkG @ Hardware Canucks

It might not be much to look at but the Nixeus NX-VUE27P has specifications to impress like a 27″ AH-IPS panel and a 1440P resolution. Oh, and did we mention its priced less than $399 USD?

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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.

• SilverStone Releases Two New Essential Series PSUs
• EVGA Releases the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2 HYBRID
• LG Introduces the 43UD79-B Display – 43″, 4K, IPS, 60 Hz, Freesync
• EK Water Blocks Launches Quick Disconnect Couplings
• ASUS Announces Its Take on the RX 550 Graphics Cards
• Corsair Launches New Carbide Series SPEC-04 Mid-Tower Gaming Case
• Transcend Announces Four SSD Product Lines Based on 3D NAND
• ASUS Launches CM-32 AC2600 Cable Modem Router
• EK Water Blocks is Releasing a New Monoblock for the ASUS ROG Strix Z270I Gaming
• G.SKILL Announces RIPJAWS KM560 MX Tenkeyless Mechanical Gaming Keyboard
• BenQ To Release EW3270ZL and EW2770QZ Monitors

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AMD has released its latest platform core-logic (chipset) drivers for Windows 10, 8.1, and 7. The new version 17.10 WHQL chipset drivers are particularly important for AMD Ryzen platform users, as it installs a new Windows power-management plan called “Ryzen Balanced Power.” This plan is better than the “Balanced” power plan Windows ships with, in that it hands over more power-management from the OS over to the silicon-level SenseMI power-management logic of Ryzen processors, which has more fine-grained voltage and clock-gating over cores, and which would otherwise cause latency issues with OS-level power-management using P-state triggers. The power plan is detailed at length in our older article. The power-plan is installed on machines with AMD A320, B350, and X370 chipsets.

You can download the AMD 17.10 WHQL Chipset drivers here.

Source: Tom’s Hardware

NVIDIA released the new NVIDIA 381.89 WHQL Game Ready driver for Heroes of the Storm 2.0 and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 3. If you own an NVIDIA GPU and plan to play Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III, Heroes of the Storm 2.0, Batman: Arkham VR, Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality, and Wilson’s Heart, you might want to update to the GeForce Game Ready 381.89 WHQL driver. In addition to providing the “optimal gaming experience” for the aforementioned games, this driver also ads support for the recently launched Titan Xp, Windows 10 Creators Update, and an updated SLI profile for Descent: Underground.

Those of you running GPUs from different manufacturers in SLI should note that the company has discovered an issue where non-identical GPUs may run at different voltages in SLI. According to the release notes, this occurs because the GPU clocks are kept as close as possible, and the clock of the higher performance GPU is limited by that of the other. The bright side is that the higher- performance GPU saves power by running at slightly reduced voltages.

You can download the new GeForce 381.89 WHQL drivers from GeForce Experience and GeForce.com.

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AMD has released Radeon Software Crimson ReLive 17.4.4, its fourth release for April. These drivers come with optimization for “Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III,” with up to 7 percent performance improvement seen on a machine powered by a Radeon RX 580. It also fixes display corruption seen on some machines with HDMI scaling, incorrect HDR colors on “Mass Effect: Andromeda,” DirectX 11 mode stuttering on CrossFire machines in “Battlefield 1,” a hang noted on Radeon RX 550 machines that haven’t been rebooted for a long time, and some UI improvements with Radeon Settings. The drivers also add a curious looking shortcut to your desktop.

You can download the Radeon Software Crimson ReLive 17.4.4 drivers here.

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.

• FSP Launches its Windale 4 and Windale 6 CPU Coolers
• EK Water Blocks Releases Monoblock for ASUS Maximus IX Apex
• Patriot’s Viper V570 Hybrid FPS/MMO Mouse Available for Purchase
• SteelSeries Introduces The QcK Prism Dual-Surface RGB Illuminated Mousepad
• MSI Intros the A320M Gaming Pro Motherboard
• Razer Announces The Lancehead Gaming Mice
• X2 Announces the T6 ATX Chassis
• Noctua Provides Free Mounting Upgrade for Intel’s Upcoming LGA2066 Platform
• Thermaltake Intros the Pacific V-GTX 1080Ti Full-coverage Water Block
• ACER Predator X27 G-Sync HDR Gaming Monitor Gets 4K at 144Hz
• Sharkoon Announces the B1 Stereo Headset

By Hilbert Hagedoorn @ Guru3D

We review Team Group’s T-FORCE CARDEA M.2 480GB NVMe SSD. This M.2 NAND NVMe unit is nice ‘n fast and even has been fitted with a large heatsink. Will Team Group be able to deliver a unit that manages to impress?

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