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The XPG Cybercore II 1300W ATX 3.0 PSU Review: A Slightly More Modest High-End PSU

Continuing our look at the first generation of ATX 3.0 power supplies, today we’re looking a slightly more modest high-end design from XPG, the CYBERCORE II 1300W. An upgrade of the previous CYBERCORE series, the CYBERCORE II series currently consists of just two 80Plus Platinum units, rated at 1.0 kW and 1.3 kW respectively. Within […]

ASRock Announces Taichi Lite Motherboards: Same Specs, Less RGB

ASRock Announces Taichi Lite Motherboards: Same Specs, Less RGB

Last month at Computex, ASRock unveiled two new Taichi-inspired motherboards based on a ‘lite’ approach to aesthetics and design, which they called Taichi Lite. Today, ASRock has officially announced the new Taichi Lite series motherboards to the market with two new models, the ASRock Z790 Taichi Lite (Intel) and the B650E Taichi Lite (AMD). Both […]

AMD Quietly Introduces Ryzen 3 5100 Quad-Core Processor For AM4

AMD Quietly Introduces Ryzen 3 5100 Quad-Core Processor For AM4

Further to AMD’s latest Micro Center exclusive processor, the Ryzen 5 5600X3D with 3D V-Cache, AMD has seemingly introduced a budget-focused quad-core processor based on their Zen 3 architecture. Officially confirmed via GIGABYTE’s CPU support pages for their AM4 motherboards, an unannounced Zen 3 CPU is listed in the way of the Ryzen 3 5100 processor. […]

Intel Set to Exit NUC PC Business - Pushes Partners to Develop More SFF PCs

Intel Set to Exit NUC PC Business – Pushes Partners to Develop More SFF PCs

Intel has disclosed today that it will halt further development of its small form factor Next Unit of Compute (NUC) PCs. The tech giant expects its partners to take over and keep serving markets served by its NUC systems as it focuses on much more profitable chips businesses.  “We have decided to stop […]

El Capitan's Little Brother Tuolumne Can Conquer Most Top 10 Supercomputers

El Capitan's Little Brother Tuolumne Can Conquer Most Top 10 Supercomputers

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) started to install its El Capitan supercomputer that promises to achieve computational performance of over 2 FP64 ExaFLOPS for classified national security research. Parallel to this, the LLNL also plans to introduce a less potent but still extremely fast supercomputer named Tuolumne. This companion model will be dedicated to unclassified research and will offer 10% to 15% of […]