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Another day, another NVIDIA shortage…
“I believe that demand will outstrip all of our supply through the year,” Huang said, “Remember, we’re also going into the double-whammy. The double-whammy is the holiday season. Even before the holiday season, we were doing incredibly well, and then you add on top of it the ‘Ampere factor,’ and then you add on top of that the ‘Ampere holiday factor,’ and we’re going to have a really really big Q4 season.”
Read more @ Tom’s Hardware
Every board partner building RTX 30-series cards has multiple versions of each model in its arsenal. Asus is certainly no different and populates the monster GPUs with TUF Gaming (OC) and ROG Strix versions. We took a close look at the RTX 3080 TUF Gaming OC in a previous review, which is handy as the RTX 3090 TUF Gaming OC is on the testbench today.
Read more @ Hexus
Accessories:
Glorious Modular Mechanical Gaming Keyboard @ TweakTown
Storage:
SanDisk Extreme Pro Portable SSD @ ThinkComputers
Lexar SL100 Pro 1TB USB 3.2 Gen 2 Portable SSD Review @ NikKTech
Crucial X8 2TB Portable SSD @ FunkyKit
Audio:
FiiO FD1 Hi-Res Beryllium In Ear Monitors @ NikKTech
Sound Blaster X3 @ LanOC
SteelSeries Arctis 9 Wireless Gaming Headset @ [M]adShrimps
Systems:
EK Fluid Gaming Vanquish 275-AG Liquid-Cooled Gaming PC @ TweakTown
The performance of this drive is fantastic, and we saw that in testing with CDM pushing past marketing numbers at ~2400 MB/s read and ~1800 MB/s write. ATTO showed the amazing consistency of the drive holding both read and write performance solid through 64M while PCMark System Drive put it to the test, and it came away second only to the MP9+.
Read more @ TweakTown
In this review, we benchmark the GeForce RTX 3080 from ZOTAC, a very lovely customized yet reference clocked product. It attempts to offer close to reference performance, good acoustics as well as a friendly design. All priced rationally as well, we hope as the initial stock ran out faster then I can spell my name.
Read more @ Guru3D
The MSI RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio is a very large card, and with that comes higher performance thanks to the beefy cooler and a higher TDP. Now that Nvidia has ironed out some of the instabilities with its latest drivers, MSI’s card makes a very impressive showing in our benchmarks — even if it only has one MLCC cluster.
Read more @ Tom’s Hardware
The Z490 Aqua comes equipped as a premium feature motherboard. The large integrated monoblock which cools both the CPU and the board’s power delivery, amd it now features a very cool OLED display. There is also integrated Thunderbolt 3, 10 gigabit Ethernet, as well as its large 16-phase power delivery.
Read more @ AnandTech
Today we’ll be taking a look at the B550 Extreme4. The Extreme4 series is well known for its great value and high performance. This is one of the reasons why it became a popular option for gamers over the years. The Extreme4 looks similar to other ASRock’s motherboards, like the Velocita or the Steel Legend, but they all have significant differences.
Read more @ FunkyKit
Whether you are really faster than your opponent with the fast Ballistix Max RGB modules remains to be seen, but the speed stored in the XMP 2.0 profile is quite impressive. Thanks to the heat spreader, nothing really stands in the way of overclocking with increased voltage.
Read more @ OCInside.de
As you can see in our photo above, the Crucial Ballistix’s retail box design is quite different. For one thing, the Crucial branding is back. Other Ballistix kits I have reviewed the last few times all had their Crucial branding removed. The predominantly navy blue card stock packaging is as compact and simple as it gets.
Read more @ APH Networks