ThearrivalofAMD’snew16-core
Ryzen 9 3950X CPU has been delayed
until November, after originally being
scheduled for a September release.
The company says the delay is because
AMD is trying to get on top of the strong
demand for its existing 3rd-gen Ryzen
CPUs. AMD has also confirmed that
3rd-gen Threadripper CPUs will be
released at the same time as the Ryzen 9
3950X, starting with a 24-core version.
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Our pals at be quiet! are offering a Dark Base Pro
900 Rev. 2 Silver case to one Custom PC reader.
The image above is a distorted close-up of a piece of
hardware featured in this issue. If you identify it,
email the name and page number of the product to
[email protected], with ‘What’s
that? 195’ in the Subject field.Previous winners
The winner from our Issue 192 competition was Ian
Yates, who correctly identified the Gigabyte Aorus
NVMe Gen4 SSD 2TB from p20. The winner from
our Issue 193 competition was Lee Hemenway,
who correctly identified the ASRock X570 Taichi
motherboard from p43. Congratulations Ian and
Lee! We’ll be in touch shortly to get your prizes
sorted out.
Terms & conditionsCompetition closes on Friday, 8 November. Please see p97 for our competition
terms and conditions.AMD RADEON RX 5300 XT SPOTTED
A listing for AMD Radeon RX 5300 XT graphics cards has appeared in the specs list
for HP desktop PCs at German retailer alternate.de. Spotted by the folks at
computerbase.de, the listing doesn’t provide any details about the GPU, but says that
the cards come with 4GB of GDDR4 memory. However, the nomenclature suggests
that these GPUs will sit in the entry-level slot in AMD’s GPU line-up. The PCs listed
with RX 5300 XTs in the specification had been slated for pre-order and due to arrive
on 8 October, suggesting that the next wave of AMD GPUs is imminent.NEW GIGABYTE MOTHERBOARD DETAILS LEAKED
Twitter user @momomo_us has spotted a number of Gigabyte motherboards based
on forthcoming chipsets listed in the Eurasian Economic Commission’s (EEC)
database. The listing includes several boards based on Intel’s
(currently unreleased) Z490 chipset, with the following names:
Z490 Aorus Pro, Z490 Designare, Z490 Aorus Xtreme, Z
Aorus Xtreme Waterforce, Z490I Aorus Ultra and Z
Aorus Ultra.
A number of new Intel high-end desktop (HEDT)
motherboards are also listed, with the following names:
X299 Aorus Xtreme Waterforce, X299 Aorus Master,
X299X Designare EX-10G and X299X
Designare EX. A number of boards based
on the H470, B460 and H
chipsetsarealsolisted.Rumour control
PHIL HARTUP’S ROUNDUP OF THE LATEST UNCONFIRMED
TECH GOSSIP. TAKE THESE STORIES WITH THE APPROPRIATE
PINCH OF SALT16-core Ryzen and
new Threadrippers
in November
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