Asus starts an 'immediate internal review' on its 800-series motherboards in light of 'recent reports concerning Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs'

Asus starts an ‘immediate internal review’ on its 800-series motherboards in light of ‘recent reports concerning Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs’

Imagine that you’d just bought a new Ryzen 7 9800X3D, the best gaming CPU around right now. You drop it into your AM5 socket motherboard and start enjoying the freshly boosted frame rates. After a while, you then start experiencing all kinds of problems, until eventually your gaming PC no longer fires up: the CPU…

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Intel Nova Lake CPUs on track for late 2026 as exec downplays shuffling capacity to meet datacenter demand: ‘We have important customers in both datacenter and client and that needs to be our priority’

Nova Lake, the next-generation of Core processor, is set to launch at the end of the year. That’s no surprise, but with the ongoing memory crisis making upgrading your processor and motherboard a very expensive ordeal, we had worried for both Intel and AMD’s forthcoming generations. In Intel’s Q4 earnings call, the company’s CEO, Lip-Bu…

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Finally, another Armored Core instalment just surprise dropped on Steam, but you’ll need to have the patience of a saint to play it

A whopping 16 main Armored Core games have released since 1997, but only 2023’s brilliant Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon is officially available on PC. Until now, that is: a second Armored Core game just released on Steam courtesy of Japanese publisher G-Mode, and it’s going for the bargain price of $11. Alas, Armored…

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PSA: Switch 2 Visual And Performance Improvements Included In New Rocket League Update

Visual quality upgrades, improved resolution and more! Since the arrival of the Switch 2 last year, many third-party developers have been updating their existing Switch games for Nintendo’s new hybrid system. With this in mind, Psyonix’s latest update for its vehicular soccer game Rocket League has today added Switch 2 visual and performance improvements. This…

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