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Intel Next-Gen Sapphire Rapids-AP HEDT CPU Lineup With Golden Cove Cores Launching Later This Year The HEDT CPU segment hasn’t seen much action over the past few years. Intel’s 10th Gen Core-X lineup launched back in 2019 and AMD’s last Threadripper family launched in early 2020. There’s been some action in the workstation space from AMD with its Threadripper ‘WX’ parts but those haven’t seen attention either since the Zen 2 parts that launched in early 2021....

Intel Alder Lake To Regain Market Share In The Client PC Segment While AMD EPYC Aims To Hit Over 20% Share In Server Space The report kicks off by detailing the Intel and AMD PC Notebook market share. As of Q4 2021, Intel mobile CPU units accounted for 77.8% market share whereas AMD’s mobile units held a share of 22.2%. Both companies saw a 6% decline in mobile CPU shipments versus the previous quarter as both manufacturers geared up for the launch of their next-gen lineup this quarter and are shipping their latest CPUs (Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake & AMD Ryzen 6000 Rembrandt) to notebook makers....

Some iPhone 13 Users Are Reporting a Pink Screen Issue, Apple Says That it is a Software Bug If you are unfamiliar, the pink screen issue makes it impossible to use your iPhone. If you encounter the issue, you would have to restart the device to use it again. A user shared on Apple’s discussion forum that his iPhone 13 Pro’s screen turned completely pink and started crashing randomly. While Apple did replace the models, more users are starting to see the pink screen and the replacement was not made....

The Slightly Display Size Increase of the iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro Max Can Be Attributed to the Change at the Front, According to Analyst Where the iPhone 13 Pro had a 6.06-inch display size, which gets rounded off to 6.1-inch, DSCC analyst Ross Young has commented on the latest tweet that the iPhone 14 Pro will have a 6.12-inch panel. The iPhone 14 Pro Max will have the smallest display increase compared to the two models, as it will have a 6....

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X65 Is Found in Apple’s Latest iPhones, Which Was Qualcomm’s First 10Gbps 5G Modem for Smartphones A YouTube channel called 微机分WekiHome performed the disassembly, showing Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X65 5G modem as part of the innards, meaning that both the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max support mmWave networks in the U.S., like previous versions. Though the following is not confirmed, it is possible that the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus are treated to the same 5G modem unless Apple went a step further to differentiate between the four models....

With the game having received so many 2s and 3s, someone who has never seen the game in action would think Babylon’s Fall is an unplayable mess that simply does not work. Given how many, due to the lack of time, only look at the final score and closing comments of a review, I feel these extremely low scores are not really representative of the game’s actual quality. It is a mediocre game, no doubt about it, but not the complete disaster the low scores suggest....

Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga collects adventures across the main nine Star Wars movies, with appearances from Emperor Palpatine, Kylo Ren, and Darth Vader, among other iconic villains. The Skywalker Saga also has a new trailer revealed at the Future Games Showcase Spring 2022 showcase, and you can watch that below. The game looks to be covering each of the main nine Star Wars movies, but to what scale isn’t known yet....

Announced during February 2022’s Nintendo Direct, the remake will come with all the content available in the original, such as the seven different campaigns set in different ages and the unique battle system, and the same great-looking visuals featured by Octopath Traveler and the soon-to-be-released Triangle Strategy. The game will launch on July 22nd on Nintendo Switch. Live A Live launches on Nintendo Switch on July 22nd worldwide. No other version of the game has been confirmed at this time....

The new update for Forbidden West is available now and offers tons of fixes and improvements in addition to a new ‘Always Off’ option for ammo and weapons alongside improved image quality and new photo mode options. “We’ve made several tweaks to vegetation to improve image quality in the Favor Performance mode and will continue to investigate reported graphical issues regarding shimmering, sharpening, and screen saturation”, the developer writes on Twitter....

Vulkan 1.3.226 introduces new Mesh Shader support & is published in the latest Radeon Vulkan Driver “RADV” for the upcoming Mesa 22.3 Vulkan’s newest VK_EXT_mesh_shader is a cross-vendor mesh shading extension replacing the current NVIDIA vendor-centric extension. The graphics extension allows applications to create gathered sections of “geometric primitives” through program-controlled mesh shading. Vulkan’s mesh shaders are an alternative to the shading pipeline as a programmable primitive. During the initial launch, NVIDIA published a new Vulkan beta driver for Windows and Linux that included the EXT_mesh_shader support....

We’ve reported on the success of Metroid Dread before. However, it seems like this game has become quite the popular launch among fans. According to Nintendo Life, Nintendo’s end-of-year financial results have confirmed that MercurySteam’s 2D entry is now the best-selling Metroid game ever. According to its life-to-date sales data, the game has sold 2.9 million units. This marks a lead of ~60,000 copies ahead of the previous holder of the best-seller title: Metroid Prime....

Steam’s own Twitter account seems to confirm that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is indeed returning to Valve’s PC platform. The game’s reveal is now set for June 8th. — Steam (@Steam) June 2, 2022 [ORIGINAL STORY] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 could mark the franchise’s return to Steam on the PC platform. That’s at least what could be inferred by the fact that the game’s artwork was spotted on the series’ Steam page....

The new footage, which has been shared on Facebook, showcases the new location players will be able to explore, and hunt monsters in, new monsters such as the small monsters Gowngoat and Garangol and more. The new footage also revealed some of the gameplay tweaks coming to Monster Hunter Rise as a whole with the expansion, such as wall running no longer requiring Wiredash. Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak will introduce plenty of new content to the base game such as the new home base Elgado Outpost and new monsters like the already mentioned Garangol....

The Djevv’s FOV Changer mod allows users to change the FOV in specific gameplay scenarios, preventing the changes from applying even in situations where it is not required, like inside the tent while out on the field. The mod also supports Dog Riding Dash FOV increase and adjusting bow/gun aim zoom in. The Monster Hunter Rise Djevv’s FOV Changer mod can be downloaded from Nexus Mods. Extract the file set_fov....

Intel Alder Lake CPU’s AVX-512 Support Can Be Enabled On MSI’s Top Overclocking Motherboard Through Microcode Selector Feature Earlier last month, it was reported that Intel was forcing motherboard manufacturers to disable AVX-512 support across their Alder Lake CPUs which they mistakenly enabled for the 12th Gen Desktop lineup. world-fastest 8-core cpu on ambient cooling in y-cruncher! 😍😍😍https://t.co/6cNg3g9pi6 pic.twitter.com/yNM9Q1tWBT — Xaver Amberger // cancel µcode 18! 🔥 (@skullbringer123) January 30, 2022 While Intel’s Alder Lake CPUs are not officially stated to support AVX-512 instructions, they can be enabled by disabling the efficiency ‘Gracemont’ cores and leaving the performance ‘Golden Cove’ cores running....

MSI Project 491C Delivers The World’s First Super Ultra-Wide QD-OLED Curved Gaming Display With A 240Hz Refresh Rate The Project 491C is a next-generation curved gaming display that has been outfitted with a super ultra-wide panel. What’s cool about this panel is the fact that it comes with the QD-OLED tech and offers users an impressive 240Hz refresh rate. The monitor itself comes in an uncommon ‘SUPER ULTRA-WIDE" form factor which isn’t common for gaming displays and there are only a handful of options in this format but none so far with QD-OLED (240Hz) technology....

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) have decided to delay their upcoming crewed launch to the International Space Station (ISS), the space agency announced earlier today. NASA sends astronauts to the ISS on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, and the upcoming mission will mark the fifth operational flight to the space station and the sixth overall after astronauts first took the skies from American soil in 2020....

Need to know more? You can get the lowdown on NBA 2K23’s dizzying array of special editions here, and returning Jordan Challenge mode, below. “Along with Michael Jordan returning to grace the covers of NBA 2K23 this year, the game will also reintroduce The Jordan Challenge, which encourages players to recreate 15 iconic moments from Jordan’s illustrious career. All ten of the original Challenges from NBA 2K11 have been completely rebuilt from the ground up and will make their return this year - alongside five new iconic Jordan moments - for an entire new generation of players to experience....

One somewhat surprising thing you’ll notice when starting up Need for Speed Unbound, is that it doesn’t offer any visual options on next-gen consoles – it runs at a dynamic 4K/60fps on XSX and PS5 and dynamic 1440p/60fps on XSS, end of story. Honestly though, there’s something to be said for focusing on delivering a specific experience well, rather that a million visual modes of varying quality. Per Digital Foundry, both the Xbox Series X and PS5 hold pretty close to a native 4K most of the time, although XSX has the slight edge....