Razer today launched the 2023 Razer Blade 14. This segment-disruptive 14-inch notebook packs gaming performance comparable to much thicker enthusiast-class notebooks; in a thin-and-light form-factor comparable to business/commercial notebooks. Across the market landscape, the Razer Blade 14 is designed to compete with the Apple MacBook Pro of a comparable screen size. Razer is timing launch of this notebook with that of the AMD Ryzen 7040HS "Phoenix" processor, because it's based on one. The notebook measures 31 cm x 22.8 cm x 1.79 cm (WxDxH with lid closed), and is 11.5% thinner than the 2022 Razer Blade 14. It's also 9% lighter, at 1.83 kg. Despite its size, the notebook packs a 68.1 Wh battery, which when paired with the rather high-end hardware, offers up to 10 hours of productivity.

Under the hood, the Razer Blade 14 (2023) rocks an AMD Ryzen 9 7945HS "Phoenix" processor, with an 8-core/16-thread "Zen 4" CPU, Ryzen AI accelerator, and Radeon 780M (12 CU) integrated graphics. The main graphics muscle, though, is the GeForce RTX 4070 Ada with 140 W TGP. The notebook provides the ability to switch between the discrete- and integrated graphics. The notebook also comes with two DDR5 SO-DIMM slots for up to 64 GB of socketed DDR5 memory; and an M.2-2280 Gen 4 NVMe slot for the main storage, a Gen 4 SSD. The WLAN module is also socketed, and offers Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2. The display is a 14-inch, 16:10 aspect-ratio QHD+ (2560 x 1600 pixels) unit, with 240 Hz refresh rate, and 3 ms response time. The display has 500 nits maximum brightness.
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AMD Announces Ryzen 7040HS "Zen 4" Processors for Notebooks
AMD today launched its Ryzen 7040HS line of mobile processors targeting consumer notebooks of conventional thickness and portability, which AMD considers thin-and-light. This class of devices is positioned between ultraportable notebooks, and gaming notebooks or portable workstations. AMD already powers several segments of gaming notebooks and portable workstations with its Ryzen 7045HX series "Dragon Range" mobile processors, with CPU core counts ranging between 6 and 16; as well as the ultraportable segment with the Ryzen 7040U series; but while the 7045 series have their TDP rated in the 45 W to 65 W range, and the Ryzen 7040U in the 15 W to 28 W range, the company was lacking a current-generation processor lineup in the 35 W to 54 W segment, which the company is filling up with today's Ryzen 7040HS series launch.

The Ryzen 7040HS series processors are based on the 4 nm "Phoenix" monolithic silicon, just like the 7040U series, and is based on a combination of "Zen 4" microarchitecture for its CPU, RDNA3 graphics architecture for its iGPU, and the new XDNA architecture for its Ryzen AI on-chip accelerator. Physically, the "Phoenix" silicon features an 8-core/16-thread "Zen 4" CPU. Each core has 1 MB of dedicated L2 cache, and a 16 MB L3 cache is shared among the 8 cores. The iGPU features 12 RDNA3 compute units, which amount to 768 stream processors, along with 24 AI Accelerators (specific to the RDNA3 architecture); 24 Ray Accelerators, 48 TMUs, and 32 ROPs. The iGPU meets the full DirectX 12 Ultimate logo requirements. The Ryzen AI XDNA accelerator features 20 AI acceleration tiles, each with local memory.
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(PR) EK Launches EK-Pro GPU Water Block for Zotac AMP & Trinity GeForce RTX 4090 Cards
EK, the leading computer cooling solutions provider, is introducing the EK-Pro GPU WB AMP/Trinity RTX 4090 Ni + Inox, an enterprise-grade full-cover water block designed specifically for the ZOTAC NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 AMP Extreme Airo, Trinity, and Trinity OC graphics cards.

The water block is meticulously crafted with a CNC-machined nickel-plated copper base and a laser-cut stainless-steel top, providing a durable and efficient liquid cooling solution. It effectively encompasses and cools the entire GPU, VRAM, and VRM components by channeling the cooling liquid directly over these critical areas to dissipate heat.
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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Introduced in Teaser Trailer
Pursue your dream of an aviation career with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. This brand-new simulator is designed to take advantage of the latest technologies in simulation, cloud, machine learning, graphics and gaming to create the most sophisticated, immersive and awe-inspiring flight simulator of all time. To achieve this unprecedented level of accuracy, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is powered by the significantly evolved Asobo Studio engine.

Available day one on Xbox Game Pass, PC Game Pass, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Windows 10/11, and Steam. Coming 2024. We look forward to sharing more information about Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 in the future.
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NVIDIA Releases GeForce 536.23 WHQL Game Ready Drivers
NVIDIA today released the GeForce 536.23 WHQL Game Ready drivers. These come with optimization for F1 23, including support for real-time ray tracing, NVIDIA Reflex low-latency mode, and DLSS. At launch, the game supports DLSS 2, but EA intends to add support for DLSS 3 in a post-launch game update (following which there will be another optimization update from NVIDIA). The drivers also add optimization for Aliens: Dark Descent, a top-down co-op action RPG based on Unreal Engine 4. The drivers fix a bug that caused random crashes in Microsoft Flight Simulator after updating to GeForce 531.41 WHQL drivers. Certain game stability issues with Read Dead Redemption were also fixed.

DOWNLOAD: NVIDIA GeForce 536.23 WHQL
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TechPowerUp and Team Group Computex Giveaway: The Winners!
Last month, in the run up to the 2023 Computex, TechPowerUp in partnership with Team Group, brought you the Team Group Computex Giveaway. This year's edition of the greatest PC hardware show on Earth, saw Team Group re-introduce its iconic Team Xtreem brand of enthusiast-class PC memory, besides its Gen 5 NVMe SSDs, and a plethora of new memory products. Up for grabs celebrating this event, were a Team Group Delta DDR5-6400 32 GB (2x 16 GB) memory kit, a Team Group M200 4 TB portable SSD; a Team Group Classic DDR4-3200 32 GB (2x 16 GB) kit, and a Team Group Vulcan Z 1 TB 2.5-inch SATA SSD. The entries are in, and without further ado, here are the winners!
  • Merrick from the United States, wins a Team Group Delta DDR5-6400 2x 16 GB dual-channel memory kit
  • Sihastru from Romania wins a Team Group M200 4 TB portable SSD
  • Lorene from the United States, wins a Team Group Classic DDR4-3200 2x 16 GB dual-channel memory kit
  • Dimas from Taiwan, wins a Team Group Vulcan Z 1 TB SATA SSD

A huge Congratulations to the Winners! Team Group and TechPowerUp will return with more such interesting Giveaways!

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