The class system seen in previous games developed by From Software returns in Elden Ring, and it works in pretty much the same way. Each starting class, called Origin, is geared towards a specific playstyle, but it does not limit players in any way, as the differences are only meaningful at the beginning of the game. Once you start venturing out in the Lands Between, earn Runes, and level up, you will be able to build your character however you want, although you may have an easier time with a specific build depending on the attribute distribution of your starting class....

AMD EPYC 9004 “Genoa Zen 4” Data Center CPUs Official: Zen 4 Powers The Fastest Server CPUs On The Planet With Up To 96 Cores & 192 Threads The AMD EPYC 9004 Genoa family is the start of a new server ecosystem for the EPYC brand. It covers multiple segments, multiple families, and multiple families. The AMD Zen 4 lineup for Data Centers will be split into three families, the standard Zen 4 for EPYC Genoa, the Compute Density-Optimized Zen 4C for EPYC Bergamo, and the Cache-Optimized Zen 4 V-Cache within the EPYC Genoa-X series....

AMD customers continue to chime in about Radeon RX 6500 XT with damaging critiques AMD announced the Radeon RX 6500 XT at a low cost ($199), along with limited availability outside of North American markets. However, due to gamers’ and enthusiasts’ low cost and the necessity for graphics cards, the doomed card sold out rather quickly for prices above $299 US. Issues arose about the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT, such as missing features and botched-down PCIe Gen 3 performance....

AMD’s Radeon GPUs To Get Major Graphics Performance Boost in OpenGL Thanks To Upcoming Windows 11 22H2 Drivers Last month, AMD released a driver which was focused on improving the DirectX 11 performance in a range of titles that utilized the API. AMD stated up to 30% performance gains for Radeon GPUs and we saw similar results within independent tests. Now, the company is planning to switch gears and focus on the OpenGL side of things....

AMD Rumored To Launch Radeon RX 6000 ‘RDNA 2’ Refresh In Mid 2022, RX 6500 Non-XT Also In The Works The new rumor comes from Greymon55 who has revealed in a tweet that AMD is allegedly launching its Radeon RX 6X50XT series in June-July of 2022. There are plenty of rumors regarding an RDNA 2 refresh being cooked up for mid-2022 and it looks like we may be looking at a Computex 2022 reveal & a launch soon after....

AMD’s Flagship RDNA 2 Graphics Card, The Radeon RX 6900 XT, Takes Away Top Spot From RTX 3090 in 3DMark’s Hall of Fame The AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT has been trading blows with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 ever since it launched. The graphics card saw the release of an XTXH variant soon after it launched, offering OC speeds beyond 3 GHz. This allowed overclockers to push the 6900 XT to the limits and scoring much higher in benchmarks than before....

AMD Pushes Back Radeon RX 6950 XT, RX 6750 XT, RX 6650 XT Launch By Two Weeks, Midnight Black Variants Pictured The AMD RDNA 2 refreshed graphics cards were previously expected to launch on the 20th of April alongside the Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU but that’s no longer the case. It is likely that AMD may still do a little tease or announcement but these cards aren’t expected to ship until 10th of May, as reported by Videocardz....

AMD Radeon RX 7000 ‘RDNA 3’ GPUs & Ryzen 7000 ‘Zen 4’ CPUs Launching This Year, Red Team Makes Significant Investments To Secure Increased Capacities For Gamers The AMD Radeon RX 7000 ‘RDNA 3’ GPUs and Ryzen 7000 ‘Zen 4’ CPUs will be the biggest launch for the PC consumer segment, ushering a new era of high-performance computing for gamers & content creators. While AMD has given us a glimpse of what comes next during the CES 2022 key note, the company’s CEO, Dr....

Intel Alder Lake CPUs Boost Market Share Globally But AMD Ryzen CPUs Continue To Dominate The DIY Segment In Germany Over the last couple of weeks, we have reported how the PC market is on a general decline due to rising inflation. Both AMD and Intel are expected to lose desktop revenue in the coming quarter but it looks like Germany’s DIY segment remains a stronghold for AMD’s Ryzen CPUs which continue to outsell Intel’s latest and greatest Alder Lake CPUs....

AMTD Digital (NYSE:HKD), a relatively obscure Hong Kong-based fintech company, is up around 1,500 percent over the past 5 trading days, winning widespread attention from the mainstream media in the process. As an illustration of the ferocity of this rally, consider the fact that AMTD Digital shares were trading at $71 on the 28th of July 2022. Currently, these shares are trading at $1,499! So, what has spurred this extraordinary rally in an otherwise morose investment climate?...

Apple Finds Itself in Hot Waters Again Over Apple Watch According to U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White, AliceCor could prove that Apple has violated federal antitrust law. AliveCor Inc is responsible for running the SmartRhythm app that is responsible for alerting the users to irregular heartbeats. The company also sells the KardiaBand wrist band which functions as an ECG recorder. “AliveCor alleges that Apple made changes to the heart rate algorithm that made it effectively impossible for third parties to inform a user when to take an ECG,” claims White....

AirDrop Limit Is Included in Both iOS 16.1.1 and iOS 16.2 beta 2 and Has Been Done Due to Increasing Protests in China For those that do not know, AirDrop allows iPhone users to quickly exchange images, documents, and even videos between Apple devices. This feature is a seamless way to improve productivity or share content with potentially millions of other people. However, a time limit has been added for customers living in China, but only if they purchased iPhones sold in the region, suggesting that the restriction is based on hardware, not software....

Downgrade from iOS 15.3.1 to iOS 15.3 No Longer Possible as Apple Stops Signing Older Firmware for iPhone and iPad Just a few days ago, Apple released iOS 15.3.1 and iPadOS 15.3.1 to the public with several bug fixes. The update was released just a couple of weeks after iOS 15.3 and iPadOS 15.3 was seeded to everyone around the globe. Until a few hours ago, Apple was signing both firmware releases, allowing you to jump between them and stick with the one you like....

64GB iPad 9 Is Currently Discounted to $269 for Black Friday 2022 - Experience the Power of the A13 Bionic at a Low Price If you ever wanted an iPad for casual stuff such as games, watching movies, listening to music, or podcasts, then this is the model you should invest in. Buy 2021 Apple 10.2-inch iPad (Wi-Fi, 64GB) - Was $329, now just $269 The iPad 9 features a 10....

There Is a 3 Percent Performance Gap Between the M2 Running in the Latest iPad Pro Models and the MacBook Pro, MacBook Air Apple provides the following description in its press release of the M2 when running in the company’s family of portable Macs. Coming to the iPad Pro’s press release, Apple mentions the same M2 chip but with varying performance differences when compared to the M1. Keep in mind that on both occasions, the M2 was compared against the M1....

Additionally, AQUIRIS signed a multi-game publishing deal with Epic to produce several unannounced multiplatform games. AQUIRIS CEO Mauricio Longoni said: Hector Sanchez, Epic’s head of third-party publishing, will join the AQUIRIS board of directors. He said in a statement: So far, AQUIRIS has released three games: Wonderbox The Adventure Maker (available on the App Store), Horizon Chase Turbo (available on all major platforms), and the free-to-play mobile games Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem....

ASUS’s 2023 Gaming Monitor Lineup Includes ROG SWIFT OLED & ROG SWIFT 600Hz Designs The ASUS ROG division is known to offer the best of the best to gamers and this year, they have two brand new ROG SWIFT monitors for gamers. First up, we have the ASUS ROG SWIFT PG27AQDM, a 27" 1440p Gaming Monitor that comes with an OLED display. Known as Project ‘Endgame’, the new ROG SWIFT OLED gaming monitor comes with a resolution of 2560x1440, a 240Hz refresh rate, & a 0....

China’s Fastest General-Purpose MCM GPU, The Birentech Biren BR100, Architecture Detailed The Birentech BR100 is the flagship General-Purpose GPU that China has to offer, featuring an in-house GPU architecture that utilizes a 7nm process node and houses 77 Billion transistors within its die. The GPU has been fabricated on TSMC’s 2.5D CoWoS design and also comes packed with 300 MB of on-chip cache, 64 GB of HBM2e with a memory bandwidth of 2....

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA), a major manufacturer of graphic cards, is attracting sizable call option inflows amid widespread expectations of significantly upbeat earnings later today. Even though graphic cards (GPU units) account for the largest share in NVIDIA’s revenue, the company, the company’s data center-focused segment – that manufactures processors for diverse applications, including cloud computing and AI – has been showing phenomenal growth, with some analysts expecting this unit to overtake the company’s gaming segment in the coming quarters....

ONDA Releases H610M+ Motherboard - Features Support For Both DDR5 & DDR4 Memory At first glance, the ONDA H610M+ motherboard would seem like a standard entry-tier design with the H610 chipset and LGA 1700 socket. It features an 8+1 Phase power delivery and is booted by an 8-pin and 24-pin ATX connector configuration. The board comes is deprived of any heatsink over its VRMs which is the case with most entry-level motherboards but the PCH is covered with a tiny heat sink solution featuring aluminum metal....