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Audio player loading… EVGA has released its long teased (opens in new tab) RTX 3090 Ti Kingpin Hybrid Gaming graphics card. As if you needed any reminding after seeing its $2,499 price tag, this isn’t a card with mass market appeal. Perhaps wary that potential buyers will keel over in shock, EVGA is bundling a 1600W Supernova PSU with the card. The EVGA Kingpin RTX 3090 Ti is definitely a lust worthy card. Everything about it is over the top. It comes with a 14-layer PCB that packs in 24 power phases and dual 16 pin power connectors. When you add 2x600W to the 75W from the PCIe connection, that means the card has 1275W of available power delivery. It features a boost clock of 1950MHz and it comes with 24GB of 21Gbps GDDR6X memory. It’s cooled with a blower style cooler joined by a 360mm AIO—hence the hybrid designation. Other key features include a 176x48 pixel OLED display, triple BIOS, and an interesting tethering cable for preventing GPU sag. The OLED display is … [Read more...] about The Kingpin RTX 3090 Ti goes on sale with a bundled 1600W PSU

Audio player loading… Is AMD preparing more X3D processors? The answer is very likely yes, according to prolific leaker Greymon55 (opens in new tab) (via Techpowerup (opens in new tab) ). The Ryzen 7 5800X3D (opens in new tab) is, so far, the only V-Cache equipped CPU. It's proven to be an excellent gaming CPU, even beating out Intel’s mighty 12900KS (opens in new tab) in titles that are cache sensitive. The 5800X3D has some flaws, but if AMD chooses to release it, there’s one CPU that could rise above all. The best option would be a 5600X3D. A 6-core/12-thread CPU is perfectly viable in current titles, and the addition of 64MB of L3 cache on top of the 32MB of the base 5600X (opens in new tab) would deliver 96MB of L3 cache. The same as that of the 5800X3D. But the 5800X3D was flawed due to the fact that its clocks were lower than those of the 5800X. Its lower clocks impacted its performance in non-gaming applications, meaning it was a poor choice as a … [Read more...] about AMD needs to release a Ryzen 5 5600X3D

Audio player loading… Ubisoft has announced that, effective September 1, it will be decommissioning the online features (opens in new tab) of a selection of older games. I've compiled a list of the PC games affected, their release dates, and what features will be removed below: Anno 2070 (2011): multiplayer, linking accounts, online features Assassin's Creed 2 (2009): multiplayer, linking accounts, online features Assassin's Creed 3 (2012): multiplayer, linking accounts, online features, access to DLC Assassin's Creed Brotherhood (2010): multiplayer, linking accounts, online features, access to DLC Assassin's Creed Liberation HD (2014): multiplayer, linking accounts, online features, access DLC Driver San Francisco (2011): multiplayer, linking accounts, online features, access to DLC Far Cry 3 (2012): multiplayer, linking accounts, online features, access to DLC Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands (2010): co-op multiplayer, linking … [Read more...] about Ubisoft to pull online from older games, which also takes away your DLC

Audio player loading… Windows 11 adoption among Steam users cracked 20% in June, up 1.64% to a total of 21.23%. Though Windows 10 is still the most popular OS by far, at 71.26% of the total surveyed, the jump may mean that Windows 11 (opens in new tab) is finally starting to take root among gamers after becoming available to the general public late last year. That could be because a lot of problematic bugs and bits of annoying features have been patched since release. This info courtesy of the June 2022 Steam Hardware Survey (opens in new tab) . Some, however, might be surprised that Windows 11 has only managed to climb to 20% market share over the nine months since its release. It's surprising, for one, because Microsoft was big on using Windows 11 for gaming. We've got some opinions on that. (opens in new tab) Windows 11 is also what's coming preinstalled on new machines—but is anyone buying or building new machines right now? The general shortage has prices … [Read more...] about Just over 20% of Steam users are using Windows 11

Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis is finally coming to PS4 for players outside of Asia next month. Originally released in Japan in 2012, Phantasy Star Online 2 came to the West on Xbox One and PC in 2020, but a PlayStation release was nowhere to be seen. The closest Sony players could get was a PS Vita version which released back in 2013. Now, however, Sega has confirmed that ten years after it first released on PC in Japan a decade ago, Western fans will be able to play the game on PS4 - albeit the New Genesis version - for the first time from August 31, 2022 (thanks, Polygon (opens in new tab) ). Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis - which is a new game rather than an expansion, albeit one that ties directly to the original - tells a story taking place a thousand years after the events of Phantasy Star Online 2. The free-to-play, sci-fi, action-MMO has always had a cult following in the West, but had been incredibly hard to get hold of. With last year's … [Read more...] about Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis is on its way to PS4 in the West