Intel Arc Alchemist reference desktop card shown in new renders, rumored to launch in Q2 2022
Looks pretty meh tbh... I'd certainly put it behind Nvidia's FE and RDNA2's FE in terms of looks. If Q2 2022 is real, then this might just be DoA. Lovelace and RDNA 3 should launch shortly after that and launching a 3070 Ti competitor that late is pretty yikes! Of course, if the price is right, then it could still be successful but man, if that released this year, it really would have been a success.
Intel Core i9-12900K ES2 engineering sample pictured up close, 16 cores up to 4.5 GHz
Not sure what's with the pattern but it does look like a beauty. We will see how it performs though. Of course, this is now considered to be old as there's ES3.
Grant Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition has been rated in Korea
Grant Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition has been rated in Koreahttps://t.co/XL9AAhOC0E pic.twitter.com/af4rk2EfoP
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Kotaku thinks it will be released in November
https://kotaku.com/the-gta-remastered-trilogy-sure-seems-imminent-now-1847774767
Windows 11 will hobble gaming performance by default on some prebuilt PCs
https://www.pcgamer.com/windows-11-pcs-can-hobble-gaming-performance/
From reddit comment:
"Microsoft is enabling a sandbox feature (Virtualization-Based Security) on OEM Windows 11 installations by default, which can result in significant performance deltas for some games, on the order of 28% for their Shadow of the Tomb Raider test. In-place upgrades so far do not enable this feature, and it's unclear at this point whether or not OEMs such as Dell or Lenovo will ship gaming-oriented systems with VBS disabled or not.
The option can be toggled by the user, and was already part of Windows 10"
Now what I am thinking is that for prebuilts targeted towards a business environment, this will be enabled by default where as the ones that is targeted towards a home/gaming environment, VBS is disabled by default. Still worth to keep an eye on though in case MS enables it by default some day.
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850
