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Swedish PC hardware maker Fractal Design announces what it describes as a next-generation mini-ITX case design-- the Era ITX, a compact chassis promising a "perfect combination of elegant design and technical engineering."

Designed in collaboration with Intel, the Era ITX features a surfaced aluminium exterior and top inserts in a choice of different materials, including wood and tempered glass. While small, Fractal Design says a flexible PSU mounting system allows the case to carry a 9th gen Intel Core processor together with a dual-slot GPU, AIO water cooling unit (up to 240mm) and up to x4 storage devices.

MSI announces a pair of additions to the Optix MAG gaming monitor line-- the MAG273 and MAG273R, both featuring a 27-inch FHD IPSA panel claiming a max refresh rate of 144MHz and 1ms response time.

The two monitors are near-identical, with the only difference between the two being the MAG273R adds a MSI Mystic Light-enabled RGB strip along a rear extrusion. As such, both displays support AMD FreeSync (30-144Hz) and cover 19% of the DCI-P3 and 139% of the sRGB colour gamut. Further features include HDR capability, 1000:1 contrast ratio, wide viewing angles and anti-flick and low blue light modes. Max brightness clocks at 250 nits.

Team Group launches a pair of first large capacity, 32GB single-stick DDR4 DIMMs under the Vulkan Z and Dark Z memory sub-brands, with the options of either DDR4 2666 or DDR4 3000 frequency DIMMs.

Aimed at gamers on both Intel and AMD platforms, the memory kits feature angular aluminium heatspreaders in red or gray, but lack the RGB LEDs typical of similar products. The Vulkan Z heatspreaders measure 32 x 140 x 7mm, and are available in both dual-channel (32GB x2) and single kits, with a choice between DDR4-2666MHz CL18-18-18-43 1.2V and DDR4-3000MHz CL16-18-18-38 1.35V modules.

Sony follows Microsoft as reveals further specs of the upcoming PlayStation 5-- a machine based on similar AMD hardware as the Xbox Series X, if with a number of unique features and capabilities.

An in-depth livestream by lead architect Mark Cerny describes just how much of a leap the PS4 is from the PS4. Like the next-gen Xbox, the PS5 carries a 3rd generation Ryzen CPU and custom Radeon Navi CPU. The graphics processor carries 36 compute units and is capable of up to 10.28 teraflops of compute performance, making it technically less powerful than the 12-teraflop GPU inside the Xbox Series X. However Cerny insists teraflops are a "dangerous" measure of performance, and in any case a good chunk of the presentation is dedicated to to a perhaps unlikely topic, storage.