An alleged AMD Ryzen 5 7600X "Zen 4" engineering sample (ES) has turned up on the Chinese black market, with the seller noting the CPU has a base clock of 4.4GHz, much lower than the retail specs. AMD ...
TL;DR: An ultra-rare Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 980 engineering sample, clocked at 4.0GHz, surfaced on Reddit, sparking interest as a possible employee loaner chip. This unreleased NetBurst ...
A Reddit user hoping to buy a pair of used Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti graphics cards has accidentally stumbled across some unique and far more capable GPUs. The twin RTX 3080 Ti GPUs are engineering samples ...
Why it matters: As we get closer to the official Raptor Lake reveal, some engineering samples are bound to find their way into the hands of prospective black market dwellers. An early version of the ...
Less than a month from Intel Innovation, the rumoured official reveal event for Intel's Alder Lake processors, black market vendors in China are reportedly selling numerous Intel Core i9-12900K ...
Talk might revolve around AMD Strix Point and Intel Lunar Lake chips of late, but there's plenty of hunger for discrete graphics cards, too. In fact, recent shipping data research points towards ...