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After a couple of teasers released earlier, the MSI CLAW gaming handheld has fully leaked online, confirming both the name and full specifications thanks to the Geekbench database and MSI's own leak.

12VO standard

MSI will unveil its latest innovation that Intel claims will slash your PC's power bills and boost its performance. The tech giant has developed two new motherboards and a power supply that use the revolutionary 12VO standard, cutting down on the cables and connectors.

VENTUS 2X Black, and GAMING series SKUs

MSI has launched a couple of new Nvidia Geforce RTX 4060 SKUs, but this time around, these have minimal illumination and lack that shiny RGB lighting, the MSI RTX 4060 GAMING X, MSI RTX 4060 GAMING, and two RTX 4060 VENTUS 2X SKUs.

A 16-core/22-thread configuration with Movidius VPU onboard

The Computex 2023 is a big show so it does not come as a surprise that members of the press can stumble upon products that are not officially announced, as it happened with MSI's Prestige 16 Studio laptop that was actually running Intel's upcoming 14th gen Meteor Lake processor.

MSI RTX 4060 Ventus 2x ready for launch

Nvidia has already announced its entire RTX 4060 series graphics cards, including the already available RTX 4060 Ti 8GB, as well as the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB and RTX 4060 8GB, both of which are scheduled for launch in July. Now at the Computex 2023 show in Taipei, the first RTX 4060 (non-Ti) has been spotted.

ASRock, Asus, Biostar, Gigabyte, and MSI show their motherboards

AMD has officially announced its new A620 chipset, giving an entry-level motherboard option for its Ryzen 7000 series CPUs. ASRock, Asus, Biostar, Gigabyte, and MSI have already announced their own motherboards, and AMD says these should start at $85.

Will not get better until 2024

Motherboard makers saw their sales tank by more than 10 million units in 2022 and are not expecting a turnaround until late this year or early 2024.

RTX 30-series cooler is enough for the RTX 4090

MSI has rather quietly launched its new RTX 4090 SUPRIM X Classic, a version of the RTX 4090 SUPRIM with older RTX 30 series cooler.

However did that happen?

Motherboard maker MSI might have accidently disabled some secure boot features on more than 290 MSI motherboards.

The cost of invading other people’s countries

One of the casualties of Tsar Putin’s war against Ukraine appears to be one of the most popular GPU performance monitoring and tuning tools.