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Gigabyte Launches AORUS ELITE series graphics cards

February 26, 2021 John Nester 2

Gigabyte has released the new AORUS ELITE series graphics cards today. Starting with the AORUS GeForce RTX 3060 ELITE 12G and its awe-inspiring triple ring RGB lighting. This new line of cards will utilize the effective Windforce 3X cooling system. Other features will include onboard dual BIOS, graphene nano-lubricated fans, and an included backplate for added structural rigidity. Pricing and availability are still a question at the time of this article. Below is Gigabyte’s official press release. Read More

Nvidia Releases 461.72 Game Ready Drivers

February 25, 2021 Joe Shields 2

Nvidia has just released its latest Game Ready driver, 461.72 to the public. The new driver brings support for the new RTX 3060 graphics card, adds Nvidia Reflex support for Rainbow Six Seige, DLSS support for Nioh 2 – The Complete Edition and Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord among other fixes and updates. Read More

CES 2021: MSI Unveils GeForce RTX 3060 Series Graphics Cards

January 12, 2021 Matt Ring 2

As CES 2021 rolls on, MSI announced their entire GeForce RTX 3060 family of video cards. With the RTX 3060 series starting at $330, this will bring the latest Ampere architecture in a more affordable package. MSI will be releasing four different series starting from Gaming Trio, followed by Gaming, Ventus and smaller Aero ITX series. Read More

Alphacool Announces the Eisblock Aurora Acryl GPX-N RTX 3070 Founders Edition GPU Water Block

January 6, 2021 John Nester 0

Alphacool announced the Eisblock Aurora Acryl GPX-N RTX 3070 Founders Edition GPU water block today. As with all of the Eisblock Aurora series, this is a nickel-plated full cover block that is said to produce exceptional cooling performance. A backplate is included to add stability and improve the overall aesthetics. Read More

COLORFUL Launches GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Series Graphics Cards

December 2, 2020 John Nester 0

Colorful launched a new line of RTX 3060Ti graphics cards on December 1st. There are a total of four cards in this series for Colorful with the iGame GeForce RTX™ 3060 Ti Vulcan OC 10G-V being its flagship. The other three consist of the iGame GeForce RTX™ 3060 Ti Advanced OC 10G-V, iGame GeForce RTX™ 3060 Ti Ultra OC 10G-V, and GeForce RTX™ 3060 Ti Ultra W OC 10G-V. They share the same 4864 CUDA cores, 1410 Mhz base clock, and 8GB of GDDR6 memory. Boasting boost clocks of up to 1815 Mhz is what will separate the Vulcan from the others, each achieving a slightly different boost. Naturally, aesthetics are another major variation. A complete list of specifications and pricing are listed below. Read More

MSI RTX 3060 Ti Gaming X Trio Review: Best Value 4k/60fps Gaming

December 1, 2020 Shawn Jennings 6

Today we’ll take an in-depth look at MSI’s RTX 3060 Ti Gaming X Trio. This is the first Ampere based GPU with more of a mainstream price at $399 for reference models and xxxx MSRP for the Gaming X Trio we are testing today. The Gaming X GPU series still features the new Tri Frozr 2 thermal design, a custom PCB with a graphene backplate, RGB LEDs, and a robust power delivery system. Let’s dive in and see how our first RTX 3060 Ti measures up! Read More

Alphacool Launches Three New Eisblock Aurora Acryl GPX-N Water Blocks

November 10, 2020 John Nester 0

Alphacool launched three new Nvidia 3000 series water blocks for its Eisblock Aurora Acryl GPX-N series. All three are said to provide exceptional cooling due to their nickel-plated copper cold plate and functional aluminum backplate. The new blocks are engineered to be compatible with the INNO3D RTX 3070, Gigabyte’s RTX 3080 Eagle, 3090 Eagle, 3080 Gaming, and finally an RTX 3090 Founders Edition. Read More

3DMark Releases DirectX Raytracing Feature Test

November 2, 2020 John Nester 0

3DMark has upgraded its benchmarking software to include a DirectX Raytracing feature test. With the upcoming November 18th launch of AMD’s RX 6000 Series GPU’s, ray tracing will no longer be an Nvidia only feature. This latest benchmark will measure and compare the performance of dedicated ray-tracing hardware giving 3DMark the ability to compare these features on the latest graphics cards. Here is the press release from 3DMark. Read More

Asus ROG Strix RTX 3080 OC Review

October 26, 2020 Joe Shields 6

It’s been a long time coming for Overclockers.com, but we’ve finally managed to get our hands on an RTX 3080. For this review, Asus was kind enough to send the ROG Strix RTX 3080 OC along for testing. This version of the RTX 3080 includes a massive ~3 slot cooler to help keep this 320W+ monster running cool and quiet as well as more robust VRMs and slightly higher out of the box clock speeds. Read More

Nvidia GPUs Now Give [email protected] a Major Boost

September 29, 2020 John Nester 0

For those of you out there who are folding for a cure, there is great news coming from [email protected] and Nvidia. According to the article below Nvidia graphics cards are now CUDA enabled to help crunch the numbers faster. Based on the open-source OpenMMToolkit GPU projects using CUDA-enabled cores (core22) could now boost speeds by 15-30%. Read More