Since EPIC Games launched it’s Battle Royale interpretation of Fortnite revenue has skyrocketed. According to analyst firm Superdata in May alone in-game microtransactions account for $304 million. Comparing that to the already crazy figure of $296 million in April this year we’re seeing 4 percent growth.

The official support lists from motherboard vendors are always a good source for some sneak peak information on upcoming products. This time Taiwanese manufacturer ASRock started listing some not yet released chips from AMD and the company has also added some specs.

MSI has expanded its monitor lineup with another model, featuring a 32-inch VA panel with 2560 x 1440 WQHD resolution. The grey-to-grey response time is 1ms and the refresh rate is 144Hz. Apart from that this monitor packs AMD FreeSync support.

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NVMe capable SSDs are growing increasingly popular these days, offering much higher transfer speeds than the usual SATA drive. New markets always offer new opportunities and that on the other hand means that different vendors will launch new products. MyDigitalSSD has shown new M.2 NVMe SSDs which are designed to offer a competitive price/performance ratio.

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) for PC will reach version 1.0 in late December, leaving behind its "Early Access" status on Steam. The download count for the multiplayer combat game has been estimated to be around 19.3 million according to SteamSpy and it has broken the record for concurrent players on Steam already in last September.

Although MSI launched its line of Z370 based motherboards over a week ago, we are now getting the full details on its Z370 Pro series motherboards. Compared to the Gaming series, the Pro series should be more budget-oriented.

It’s already common knowledge that Intel's upcoming 8th generation Coffee Lake series of CPUs is going to use the socket LGA 1151, leaving many to wonder if Coffee Lake would be backwards compatible with Intel's 100-series and 200-series, such as Intel Z170 and Z270 motherboards.

Although we are all still waiting for PCI-Express 4.0 to become available, the PCI-SIG has announced that they are finalising the development of PCI-Express 5.0 which is designed to offer 128GB/s of total bandwidth. In other words the total bandwidth would increase by a factor of four compared to the current PCIe 3.0 in the case of a x16 configuration. The PCIe 3.0 standard has been here since quite some time (2010) offering a level of bandwidth that starts to be a limiting factor due to PCIe NVMe storage products and the growth of the GPU compute.

The UK-based PC case manufacturer Lazer3D, is launching its new customisable small form factor case. The Lazer3D LZ7 has a volume of just over 7 litres, making it one of the smallest chassis on the market. Besides this the LZ7 is still compatible with high-end hardware such as fast graphics card as well as powerful CPUs.

Beginning in 2018 AOC will ship AGON3 branded gaming displays that offer a response time of a mere 0.5ms. These monitors will be based on a curved 27’’ TN panel from AUO. The resolution will be 2560 x 1440 at 144 Hz refresh rate. Apart from that the display will support G-Sync or FreeSync 2, meaning there will be different models available at different price points.

NVIDIA and AMD appear to have released a new driver at the same day and the release notes appear rather similar. Therefore also NVIDIA now supports the new games Destiny 2 Open Beta, which starts August 28th and ends on the 31st of August, PlayerUnknown’s Battgrounds and F1 2017. Apart from that there are a few more titles on the support list as well as some performance improvements.

Already with the ROG STRIX GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, ASUS re-introduced a graphics card cooler, that requires more than two slots. Before that it’s been quite a long time that we’ve last seen graphics cards coolers from ASUS requiring more than two slots. In fact we’d have to go back in time to when the Radeon 7970 or the GeForce GTX 580 were new.

Current rumor has it that Intel is going to launch their Coffee Lake processors somewhen in October. At this point in time Intel will finally bring their first six core twelve thread processors to the mainstream market. Since chipzilla is rushing these chips to market now the motherboard vendors have to respond coming up with new lineups since these processors will require a new chipset.

Raven Ridge is the codename of AMD’s upcoming APUs, which are supposed to combine a “Zen” CCX unit and up to 12 “Vega” NGCUs, which together offer 768 stream processors. This information leaked due to OpenCL tables and they also “confirm” that all Raven Ridge APUs will feature Vega-based CUs.

A few days ago AMD announced their Ryzen Threadripper series processors including three new HEDT chips and they all come with a highly competitive price tag. When it comes to benchmarks we’ve only seen numbers in multi-threaded ones so far but it looks like LinusTechTips now had a more in-depth look at the chip’s performance.

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ViewSonic already has a vast portfolio of displays and with the XG3202-C the vendor is launching yet another full HD model. The 31.5-inch panel supports 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution at a refresh rate of 144 Hz, which makes this particular display relevant for playing fast first person shooters.

MAINGEAR has announced a new small form factor (SFF) gaming PC that come with Intel Core i9 as well as AMD processors and should be released during the next months. Similar to the Maingear R1 Razer Edition, the Maingear R2 Razer Edition ships with green LEDs and a Razer-themed chassis. The case is 30% smaller than the R1 since there’s a mini-ITX motherboard inside, while the other features an ATX board.

ViewSonic already has a vast portfolio of displays and with the XG2530 the vendor is launching yet another full HD model. The 24.5-inch panel supports 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution at an astonishing refresh rate of 240 Hz, which makes this particular display relevant for playing fast first person shooters.