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Cooler Master has just taken the wraps off of a couple of next-gen CPU coolers with the introduction of the new G11 AIO and V8 3DVC, both capable of keeping high-end CPUs cool with up to 300W.

The new Cooler Master V8 3DVC joins previous-gen V8 coolers with a redesign and incorporation of a 3D Vaper Chamber and advanced super-conductive heat pipes in a single unit. The use of a 3D Vapor Chamber is designed by Cooler Master in a way that the heat gets evenly distributed throughout the heatsink acrosstheh composite heat pipes.

Cooler Master houses the CPU heatsink inside of a stylish shroud, with a slick black and silver design, with dual 120mm Mobius fans keeping that behemoth 300W of heat at bay. If you're using a high-end Core i9 process from Intel, handling 300W of heat isn't something that would go astray. There's a big market for high-quality air coolers versus using a larger, bulkier, system-consuming all-in-one (AIO) cooler.

Dell kicked off CES 2024 early by announcing the world's first 40-inch 5K monitor certified for five-star eye comfort, along with another ultrawide. Both of which are on display at CES 2024.

The first monitor to dive into is the 40-inch UltraSharp 40 Curved Thunderbolt Hub Monitor, or the U4025QW. This monitor Dell writes is a world's first with its specifications, coming with IPS Black Panel technology for improved color contrast, a 5120 x 2160 resolution, 99% of the DCI-P3 color space, five-star TUV Rheinland Eye Comfort certification, Thunderbolt 4 connection with up to 140W power delivery, a 2.5 Gbps Ethernet port, DisplayPort 1.4, HDMI 2.1, in-built color adjustment software, and a 120Hz refresh rate.

The other ultrawide Dell announced is the U3425WE, a 34-inch IPS Black panel with a 3440 x 1440 resolution and a 120Hz refresh rate. This display has a 10-bit color depth, which enables it to cover 100% of the sRGB and 99% of the DCI-P3 gamuts. Additionally, the U3425WE features a Thunderbolt 4 port with 90W power delivery, TUV Rheinland Eye Comfort certification, iMST, which allows for the display to be split into two displays from one PC source, Network KVM, and a 2.5 Gbps Ethernet port.

CES 2024 - It was 3:00 AM in Ohio when I woke up to make my flight to LA, then take another hop to Las Vegas, finally getting to the Patriot suite at 3:30 PM Vegas time. In a funk from all the travel and time zone change, we sat for a bit resting our legs and backs, when a knock at the door interrupted our short rest. It was Fed Ex with two pallets worth of gear in boxes, for us to unpack and situate around the suite so everything looks clean and perfect for the duration of CES. Sadly, we rushed to help the Fed Ex guys get the carts unloaded, and in a fog from traveling, we forgot to get the images at that time. However, we returned the next day to continue helping set up, and ensure Patriot was well situated for the event.

After a ton of unboxing, and what many will never see, is what is left of Shannon Robb's sleeping accommodations. Tons of boxes, at least empty, or partially empty at this time, packed away by the bed, out of the way of prying eyes for the rest of the show.

The other side of his room is no better. Between the boxes for banners, product packaging, suitcases, and spare parts from the main suite, he is left with a thin path to make his way around the bed at this point. Although, there are still great views of the mountains from this room.

NVIDIA has just announced its latest workstation GPU, with the introduction of the new RTX 5880 ADA for professional desktop GPU users, excelling in 3D modeling, rendering, data visualization, and video streaming.

The new NVIDIA RTX 5880 ADA workstation GPU is a release that acts as a response to recent US export restrictions, because the RTX 6000 ADA workstation GPU is banned from China and other countries. The new RTX 5880 ADA acts as a response in terms of using a cut-down Ada Lovelace GPU and reduced specifications to get it into China.

NVIDIA's latest RTX 5880 ADA workstation card uses a cut-down AD102 GPU with 14080 CUDA cores, which is 22% less than the CUDA cores found inside the RTX 6000 ADA. The Tensor Cores are less here as well, down to 440 from 658 on RTX 6000 ADA. NVIDIA squeezes 69.3 TFLOPS of single-precision compute performance out of the RTX 5880 ADA, which is 24% slower than the RTX 6000 ADA.

SENSHOMI is a newly established brand. From my communication with founder Jacob, I learned that they spent nearly a year polishing the product and only launched it on Amazon and TikTok at the end of this year.

Jacob believes that men are inherently rational, and the choice of clothing should be like choosing a computer. We need to start with the specs. What specs should we pay attention to for a good laptop, and what specs should we pay attention to for a high-quality T-shirt? In addition, a good technological product should have a special function. For these reasons, SENSHOMI was born. Let's take a look at the next two t-shirts in the TechTee Pro series launched by SENSHOMI.

TechTee Pro E is a polymer nano-material dip-dyed on 100% cotton fabric. It uses the hydrophobic principle of lotus leaves. When liquid stains slip onto clothes, they will be aggregated into small water droplets to prevent the leaked water from staining the clothes. Forming stains, it has the effect of protecting liquid stains and can keep the T-shirt in a very clean state. At the same time, because it is a dip-dyed fabric, the clothing still has good softness and breathability.

Acer has just announced not one but two new gaming routers, teaming with Qualcomm and its Immersive Home Platform and tri-band Wi-Fi 7 for stable connections and enhanced wireless gameplay with the introduction of the new Acer Predator Connect X7 5G CPE. Check it out:

The new Acer Predator Connect X7 5G CPE will provide blazing-fast internet speeds with both 5G and Wi-Fi 7, as well as dual WAN connectivity. Acer says we can expect fast, reliable, and vast network coverage provided by the Predator Connect T7 Wi-Fi 7 Mesh Router, with the capabilities expanded through its multi-link Wi-Fi mesh system, making wired-level latency possible through the use of a mesh setup.

Qualcomm Technologies' advanced quad-core processor is inside of both the X7 and T7 routers, which provide gamers and streamers with boosted online experiences, improved Spectrum Utilization and Wi-Fi 7, as well as enhanced MU-MIMO and OFDMA across connected devices.

Acer is on a laptop announcing frenzy at CES 2024, with the introduction of its new Acer Swift X 14... a new AI laptop with a Calman-verified display for content creators and students. Check it out:

The new Acer Swift X 14 laptop features Intel's new Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" processors, NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 40 series Laptop GPUs, and a new Calman-verified 2.8K OLED panel. Acer says that with its new Intel Core Ultra-H series processors and up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU, the premium laptop enables faster AI-enhanced workflows for higher quality live streaming, video editing, and 3D rendering.

Thanks to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series Laptop GPUs, gamers can enjoy the huge benefits of NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 technology with AI-powered ray reconstruction for upscaled lighting effects and resolutions in graphics-heavy games and applications.

Acer has just announced new members of its Swift Go laptops, with the thin and light laptops featuring Intel's new Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" processors.

The new Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" processors are the company's first with a Neural Processing Unit (NPU) and integrated AI acceleration capabilities. The new Intel Core Ultra CPUs inside of Acer's Swift Go AI laptops provide even more performance for content creation, education work, productivity, and more.

Acer has unveiled two new members of its Swift Go AI laptops with the introduction of its new Swift Go 16 and Swift Go 14 laptops, powered by Intel Core Ultra CPUs and Intel Arc built-in GPUs. There's all-day battery life here, with up to 12.5 hours for the Swift Go 14 and up to 10.5 hours for the Swift Go 16 laptop.

AMD powers the ultra-fast Frontier supercomputer with its Instinct MI250X AI accelerators, achieving a huge 1 trillion parameter LLM run, which rivals ChatGPT-4.

The new Frontier supercomputer is the world's leading supercomputer and the only Exascale machine that's in operation, powered by AMD EPYC processors and Instinct AI accelerators. Frontier is the fastest HPC performance the world has right now, and the second most efficient supercomputer on Earth.

A new submission report on Arxiv by individuals has teased that the Frontier supercomputer is capable of training 1 trillion parameters through "hyperparameter tuning" and setting a huge new industry benchmark. It's an incredible result, that's for sure.

Intel is cooking up a new Core i5-14490F processor, a new entry into the 14th Gen Core non-K desktop processor series, with a 65W TDP for Chinese gamers. Check it out:

The new Intel Core i5-14490F processor features 10 cores and 16 threads, which is split into 6 P-Cores and 4 E-Cores, which uses different silicon compared to the Core i5-14400 processor, silicon that's most likely sourced from higher-end SKUs.

It's being speculated that the new Intel Core i5-14400F processor uses either C0 and B0 dies, while the Core i5-14490F processor probably uses the B0 die. The B0 die uses the complete implementation of the Raptor Lake Refresh with its 8 P-Cores and 16 E-Cores, so Intel is cutting this down with the Core i5-14490F processor but with a larger memory cache.

CES 2024 has kicked off, and we have already been blessed with a range of incredible new technologies worth discussing.

First up, we have the new offering from Acer. Introducing the Predator SpatialLabs View 27 gaming monitor, a new 3D gaming monitor from Acer that enables gamers to dive deeper into the expanding world of 3D gaming. Acer explains via a press release that the View 27 is a 27-inch display that comes with a second virtual camera, enabling "greater depth and geometry in every scene" and more visual customization for gamers.

So, what are the other specifications? Acer didn't provide a full specs sheet in its press release, but it does reveal the View 27 is capable of switching between 2D and 3D visuals. Additionally, the company states its newest 3D gaming monitor offering will come with a 160Hz refresh rate, 400 nits brightness, AMD FreeSync and G-Sync technology, and a price tag of $1,999.

CoolerMaster is cooking up a mighty powerful power supply with the tease of its new X Mighty Platinum 2800W power supply... capable of running 4 x NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards... all at once.

The company unveiled its new 2000W power supply last month, but now CoolerMaster is working on a mightier version of that power supply with the new X Mighty Platinum 2800W PSU. CoolerMaster is officially teasing that this can power either two Intel Xeon CPUs or AMD EPYC CPUs, but it could run not one, not two, but four NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards.

Get this: four GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards will consume 1800W of power on their own... leaving 1000W for some mighty powerful processors, too. CoolerMaster is using a single Mobius fan for cooling, with what seems to be an advanced heat pipes heatsink that was hinted at during Computex 2023 last year. Check it out:

The total installed base for Sony's PlayStation 5 console could break 80 million+ by March 2025, analysts have predicted.

Sony Interactive Entertainment expects to ship 25 million PlayStation 5 consoles throughout Fiscal Year 2023, which is the current period that ends on March 31, 2024. This target is the largest and most ambitious hardware shipment in PlayStation history, and results from the first half of the year (Q1-Q2 FY23) show that Sony is still 16 million consoles away from this goal.

This might not be the only big shipment fusillade that Sony is planning. According to a Games Industry.biz article, Japanese analyst firm Toyo Securities believes that Sony will ship 18.5 million PlayStation 5 consoles in the next Fiscal Year 2024 timeline.

Gerard Bulter is set to return to his role as Viking chieftain Stoick the Vast in the upcoming live-action retelling of the widely acclaimed animated franchise How to Train Your Dragon.

According to reports from Deadline, Butler will reprise his role and will be playing the live-action version of his character Stoick the Vast, father of our leading dragon tamer Hiccup and leader of the Viking clan. The actor voiced Stoick in all three of the franchise's animated films and will now bring him to another medium of film in a live-action setting. Butler joins other cast members Mason Thames and Nico Parker, who will be playing main characters Hiccup and Astrid in the adaptation.

The How to Train Your Dragon films were a massive success, with the franchise earning a total of 1.64 billion at the worldwide box office, placing it as the 13th highest-grossing animated franchise. All 3 films received critical acclaim in multiple Oscar nominations, including Best Animated Feature.

Riot Games has revealed its first official teaser trailer for the second season of its wildly popular animated series, Arcane, which is based on the online game League of Legends. The teaser is short and sweet, and has resparked a major fan theory from Season 1.

Only 44 seconds long, the trailer features a character called Singed, also known as the Doctor, giving what appears to be a blood transfusion. He checks a pocket watch and then tilts his head, and the camera pans up to reveal an enormous beast hanging from the ceiling above as it fades to black. While the trailer didn't even crack a minute in length, it's sure to spread hype after seemingly confirming fans' most persistent theory.

The theory in question was that Vander, a popular character from Season 1 who sadly met his end, is Warwick, a well-known monster from League of Legends who was "transformed by agonizing experiments." Fans of Season 1 were quick to draw similarities between Vander's storyline and that of Warwick's lore, making connections between the two.

Apple has begun sending out payments to iPhone users affected by the notorious "batterygate" throttling controversy, where the company was accused of consumer fraud for silently and deliberately slowing down the performance of iPhone's in conjunction to aging battery within the iPhone's.

The payouts, which around $92.17 for each claim have begun being sent out to iPhone users that filed a claim. Apple is rolling out these payments to users as part of its $500 million settlement that it agreed to in March 2020, and of that $500 million, $310 million is allocated to consumer reparations. Notably, if you didn't file a claim it's unfortunately far too late for you to do so, as the deadline for claims was back in October 6 2020.

Additionally, if you had one of the following iPhone models you were eligible to file a claim; iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, or iPhone SE. Furthermore, depending on how many claims a user has filed, Apple could pay nearly $1,000 per user. Apple users are beginning to share screenshots of their payments to social media. Above is an example provided by Michael Burkhardt.

We got a good look at Cooler Master's original Sneaker X PC mod at Computex and PAX Australia 2023 last year, and we're impressed by its unique style. Yes, it looks like a giant sneaker, but with custom-designed and printed components, high-end GeForce RTX graphics, and liquid cooling, it was hard not to be impressed with what Cooler Master pulled off. Even though the company has been making PC cases for decades, its all-in-one PCs sport unique designs.

At CES 2024, it's taking the "PC sneaker" concept to the next level with the new Sneaker X Bounce - a limited edition custom PC that modifies the design to include speakers and a graffiti look "reflecting vibrant street energy." Cooler Master collaborated with graffiti artist Bounce for the new design, and I'm not sure if this takes the concept too far.

It looks overly busy and not as clean as the original Sneaker X design. Still, it's got some very cool features - like removable wireless speakers.

Samsung Gaming Hub is a great feature in Smsung's range of Smart TVs, bringing all the biggest cloud gaming services into a single hub - Xbox Game Pass, GeForce NOW, Amazon Luna, Utomik, and more. Samsung Gaming Hub is also included in the company's latest Odyssey Monitors and portable projectors.

Supporting Bluetooth and wired controllers, Samsung is finally set to debut its first gaming peripherals at CES 2024. The new REPLAY Wireless Controller is 'Designed for Samsung Gaming Hub' and was developed in a partnership between Samsung and gaming accessory maker PDP.

It sports the Gaming Hub icon on an Xbox-logo-style button that launches you into Samsung Gaming Hub.

MSI and Capcom have partnered to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Monster Hunter game series. They are introducing a new line of Monster Hunter PC products, including a gaming laptop, GeForce RTX GPU, gaming controller, case, motherboard, monitor, and liquid cooler. Yeah, the line-up ticks every PC gaming box.

The Monster Hunter franchise is relatively new to PC, but the success of Monster Hunter: World and Monster Hunter Rise is undeniable. Released in 2018, Monster Hunter: World still manages to hit an incredible 150,000+ daily concurrent peak player counts on Steam.

MSI is set to showcase these Monster Hunter products, inspired by the iconic in-game monster Rathalos, at its CES 2024 booth. With the launch set to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Monster Hunter franchise, let's take a closer look at the MSI and Capcom Limited Edition Monster Hunter PC hardware line-up.

Rumors are pointing to an Xbox exclusive making its way over to the Nintendo Switch sometime this year, and according to insiders, the Switch port will be met with lots of praise by gamers.

According to the host of the NateTheHate podcast, which reportedly has a good track record with gaming industry insider information, the rhythm-based Hi-Fi Rush developed by Tango Gameworks and published by Bethesda will be making its way over to the Nintendo Switch. These rumors were then backed up by other insiders or known leakers, such as lolilolailo, suggesting the game was going to be released on the Nintendo Switch in 2024.

Notably, Hi-Fi Rush was a hidden gem of 2023, and despite it being announced and shadowdropped during the Xbox developer direct, gamers who discovered the title praised it highly. On its Steam listing, Hi-Rush has received an "Overwhelmingly Positive" review score, with 97% of user reviews out of the 19,000 total reviewed it positively.