AMD's new flagship graphics card - RX 480....price? ...$199 dollars!

AMD's Newest Polaris based GPU the RX 480 ANNOUNCED

and guess the retail price....$199 DOLLARS!

After giving youtuber Linus from LinusTechTips and exclusive look at the new VR capable RX 480 (and dropping it in the process) this card is set to be a game changer in the pc gaming industry. With other cards of the same performance costing upwards of 500 dollars, this card is very competitively priced. Below is a graphic showing the large performance margin for this card.

Some sources are saying that two RX 480's in crossfire mode can ultimately surpass the performance of a single GTX1080 at about 300 dollars less. This means that not only at 400 dollars it is possible to afford two 480's but that means about SIX display ports will be available for the user to choose from!

INTEL's New 22 CORE CPU is available - Intel Xeon 2699 v4

INTEL's New 22 CORE CPU is available and with hyper threading that is a total of 44 THREADS. :o . 

- Performance
# of Cores	22
# of Threads	44
Processor Base Frequency	2.2 GHz
Max Turbo Frequency	3.6 GHz
TDP	145 W

The new 20 and 22 core cpu's offer more processing power for varying workloads than the previous haswell processors which had about 18 cores. This new Xeon has 22 individual processor cores running at 2.2GHz, 55MB of cache, and support for 384GB of DDR4 system memory in a 145W thermal design profile (TDP). The inclusion of HyperThreading support doubles the thread count, meaning the new Xeon can cope with running 44 simultaneous threads - and you can expect to see dual-processor and potentially even quad-processor boards appearing from the company's usual hardware vendors to bump up the system thread count still further.

Linus from Linus tech tips gives a review of this cpu

Status	Launched
Launch Date	Q1'16
Processor Number	E5-2699V4
Intel® Smart Cache	55 MB
Intel® QPI Speed	9.6 GT/s
# of QPI Links	2
Instruction Set	64-bit
Instruction Set Extensions	AVX 2.0
Embedded Options Available	No
Lithography	14 nm
Scalability	2S
VID Voltage Range	0
Recommended Customer Price	TRAY: $4115.00
Conflict Free	Yes
Datasheet	Link

Max Memory Size (dependent on memory type)	1536 GB
Memory Types	DDR4 1600/1866/2133/2400
Max # of Memory Channels	4
Max Memory Bandwidth	76.8 GB/s
Physical Address Extensions	46-bit
ECC Memory Supported ‡	Yes

Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1000 series set to "Take the Gaming world by Storm"

Nvidia released their new GTX 1070 and 1080 cards last weekend and from what can be seen these cards are set to take the gaming world by storm with many persons rushing to preorder. Powered by the company’s new Pascal architecture and built on TSMC’s 16nm FinFET process, NVIDIA is promising that the 1000 series will set a new high bar for performance and efficiency while also offering a collection of new features to further set it apart from its predecessors. Additionally Nvidia states that this card performs more than twice as well as their long standing king the TITAN X. 

After many months of speculation – and more than a little anticipation – at an event in Austin, Texas over the past weekend, NVIDIA announced the next generation of GeForce video cards, the GeForce 1000 series. Powered by the company’s new Pascal architecture and built on TSMC’s 16nm FinFET process, NVIDIA is promising that the 1000 series will set a new high bar for performance and efficiency while also offering a collection of new features to further set it apart from its predecessors.