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 ...

I have a Supermicro X11SCL-IF board currently running an i3-8100; I'm repurposing the system and could probably do with some extra CPU muscle onboard. If I want 6 or 8 cores I have to go to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An Intel Xeon 696X engineering sample has appeared in the PassMark benchmark database, but the listing raises more questions than it answers. The benchmark incorrectly identifies the processor as a 32 ...

Intel released the Arc A750 roughly three years ago as part of its first generation "Alchemist" lineup of discrete GPUs. It launched with 8GB of GDDR6 memory saturated across a 256-bit bus. While 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 ...

It's often surprising to me how different engineering samples can be from the end product that reaches the shelves. As a case in point, redditor Substantial-Mark-959 reports they've come into ...