AMD SP5 For EPYC Genoa & Intel LGA 4677 For Xeon Sapphire Rapids-SP Server CPU Platforms Pictured, Insane VRM Designs To Handle Over 300 Watt Chips & Up To 32 DDR5 DIMMs The latest pictures come from Yuuki_AnS who has leaked out the full motherboard picture of AMD and Intel server platforms. Although we did get to see the AMD SP5 CPU socket a few weeks back, now we are getting to see the whole motherboard....

Meanwhile, even Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson made a u-turn on the topic. Three months ago he said NFTs would be the future of the games industry, whereas in the latest earnings call he downplayed their importance in the company’s plans, likely as a result of all the negativity directed to the aforementioned initiatives. The most recent stand taken against NFTs comes from indie games store itch.io. Just yesterday, the company created in 2013 by Leaf Corcoran called them out as a scam in a series of tweets....

ASUS ROG Swift 500 Hz Is An Insanely High Refresh Rate G-SYNC Gaming Display With NVIDIA’s Reflex Optimizer The ASUS ROG Swift monitor was the first to bring 360 Hz G-SYNC to E-Sports gamers. That display launched all the way back in 2020 so now, ASUS is doing it again & aiming for even bigger numbers. For their latest ROG Swift gaming display, the display maker has gone with an insanely high refresh rate of 500 Hz and aptly called it, the ROG Swift 500 Hz....

Custom MSI, EVGA and Colorful RTX 3090 Ti GPUs will sip close to 500 watts from the wall and come in 3.5 slot designs We will go the following RTX 3090 Ti custom editions: the MSI RTX 3090 SUPRIM X, EVGA RTX 3090 Ti FTW Ultra and Colorful RTX 3090 Ti BattleAx Deluxe. All of these cards have been leaked courtesy of Videocardz (here and here). The one thing all three have in common is a TDP of at least 450W....

NVIDIA’s RTX 6000 Is A Workstation Behemoth With 18,176 Cores, 48 GB Memory, 91 TFLOPs Compute Horsepower, and 300W TBP at $7350 US The NVIDIA RTX 6000 graphics card is aimed at the workstation segment and will utilize the Pro driver suite. It is not intended to be used for gaming though one can still game on it if they want since NVIDIA’s drivers are very flexible. One might easily get confused with the naming scheme of the new card but one should remember that the Ampere generation had an ‘A’ at the beginning of the model name whereas the Ada generation doesn’t feature any alphabets in the beginning....

NVIDIA 16-Pin Connector Burns Up! Melts The Power Connector On GeForce RTX 4090 Graphics Card Update #3: As more and more cases of burned 16-pin connectors pop up, NVIDIA and its AIBs have actively started working to get to the bottom of this issue and resolve it once and for all. You can read more on that here. 1 x ASUS TUF Gaming1 x MSI SUPRIM X Credits: @harukaze5719 https://t.co/3fWT7RbtFrhttps://t.co/Ou1PjJVaKm pic....

The new mod introduces full 60 FPS support, finally making the game run at a smoother framerate both in combat and outside. The vanilla PC version runs at 15 FPS in combat and in the menus, and at 30 FPS everywhere else, so the mod is a huge improvement that makes the game play and feel much better. Tsunamods shared a video showcasing Final Fantasy VII running with the 60 FPS, which is currently available in beta as of now....

There’s a good chance the trailer will be entirely scrubbed from the Internet soon, so here’s a quick synopsis. We see Kiriko, who wears fox-themed traditional Japanese clothing, interacting with a lighthearted way with what seems to be a young neighbor and her own mother, until some Hashimoto Clan gangsters show up. At that point, Kiriko starts kicking some butt with a sword and kunai. At one point the young neighbor’s grandpa is shot, and Kiriko is able to revive him from death....

At least, that’s what a freshly-surfaced image from a Turkish tech Twitter user suggests. We haven’t come across the starting date of this year’s Days of Play deals just yet, but going by this image, Sony’s annual PlayStation deals event kicks off in two days on May 25th and will run through June 8. — Tech Jeton (@techjeton) May 22, 2022 Interestingly, in 2020, the State of Play deals also kicked off on May 25th, whereas last year, Sony launched its deals event a day later on May 26th....

It would seem original PS1 games run at a native resolution of 1440p, downsampled to 1080p on the base PS4 since it doesn’t support that resolution. Meanwhile, PS2 games run at a mere uprezed 720p – the video compares the PS3 version of Jak & Daxter to the new PS Plus version running on PS4/PS5, and the PS3 version actually looks significantly better. In fact, there are no native PS5 versions of the PS2 games at all....

If you’ve got a compatible screen, you’ll be able to switch on VRR for all games, with Sony promising some may see a benefit. That said, only games that have received an official patch are guaranteed to benefit. The following games will receive VRR patches over the “coming weeks.” Astro’s Playroom Call of Duty: Vanguard Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Destiny 2 Devil May Cry 5 Special Edition DIRT 5 Godfall Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Resident Evil Village Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege Tribes of Midgard...

Turning to software, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II continues its run on top, followed by the newly-released God of War Ragnarok at #2, Pokémon Scarlet & Violet at #3, and Sonic Frontiers at #4. The only other new release on the list was Tactics Ogre: Reborn at #17. Meanwhile, Spider-Man: Miles Morales jumped from #39 back into the top 10 thanks to a PC release and perhaps all those new PS5 owners looking for a good showcase....

Quantum computers will one day solve the Bitcoin algorithm, and researchers show serious concern for the future of crypto Mark Webber, a graduate student at the University of Sussex and the Ion Quantum Technology Group, has examined the SHA-256 coding algorithm introduced in 2001by the National Security Agency (NSA). SHA-2, or Secure Hash Algorithm 2, is a cluster of cryptographic hash functions developed by the United States National Security Agency. There are six hash values under the SHA-2 process, with SHA-256 being one of the more prominent due to its use in bitcoin currency....

The RedMagic 7 was officially unveiled in China last week and now the phone has hit the global markets as well. For those interested, the phone will be available to purchase starting on 10th March, later this year. The markets that will be getting the phone include Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and Latin America. You can buy the phone in three variants with super-cool names. The Obsidian variant starts at $629, Pulsar at $729, and Supernova at $799....

Capcom’s Kento Kinoshita said as much during an interview with IGN Japan at Tokyo Game Show. Village’s story expansion launches next month October 28, and from the looks of it, we’ll be seeing new characters in the next Resident Evil installments. According to Kinoshita, the Shadows of Rose story DLC will be roughly four hours in length, and the expansion was created to “conclude the Winters family saga." No further details about the upcoming expansion were shared and Kinoshita refused to share any information about the future of the Resident Evil franchise by (laughingly) stating that he “absolutely” won’t be sharing any details....

Sadly, the ISOCELL HP2 is still not a 1-inch sensor. You are looking at a 1/1.3-inch sensor with 0.6-micro pixels. This means the sensor is smaller than the ISOCELL HP1 launched two years ago. Samsung’s latest ISOCELL HP2 is a powerhouse sensor despite being smaller than its predecessor However, Samsung is still a proponent that the ISOCELL HP2 will do a lot of stuff that the previous generation camera cannot....

For those wondering, CamCyclopedia was mentioned before at a Galaxy Camera Workshop in South Korea. Many details have managed to make their way on the community forums. Samsung Galaxy Users Can Actually Take Some Really Nice Pictures Using CamCyclopedia Additionally, during the workshop, Samsung also revealed the plans to ensure that the Expert RAW camera app keeps getting updated with added improvements. The company has also said that it wants to make it easier for all mobile photography enthusiasts to get the type of shots they want, and Samsung wants to make this happen by giving them a better and more convenient way to learn photography and this is where the CamCyclopedia would come in....

Samsung Gets Ready for Economic Recession by Cutting Down Smartphone Production Although Samsung has made claims that it is expecting smartphone sales to stay flat or achieve single-digit growth in the second half of this year, things are not looking the same for the manufacturing plans in Vietnam. According to the report, the South Korean giant has cut smartphone production at its smartphone factory in Thai Nguyen. This plant is responsible for churning out 100 million smartphones every year....

Samsung’s MX Division Is Reportedly Against Launching the Galaxy S23 With the Exynos 2300, Likely Due to the Exynos 2200’s Poor Performance A small update from Ice Universe on Weibo reveals that Samsung’s MX Division (mobile experience division) and top brass cannot see eye-to-eye. Samsung’s management wants to launch the Galaxy S23 series with the Exynos 2300, but given how the company fared with its Exynos 2200, we do not believe that is such a good idea....

Samsung’s Decision to Remove Chargers from Affordable Phones Might Not End Well It was mentioned by Sudhanshu Ambhore on Twitter that some European retailers for the Galaxy A23 and the Galaxy A13 do not list either of the phone shipping with the charger in the box. However, after digging deeper, you will notice that even the Galaxy A23’s press material page says that the charger is sold separately. The same description is attached with a number of other devices like the Galaxy A13, but not with the M33 and M23, meaning that the more affordable devices are still shipping with the charger....