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A user on the Korean Quasar Zone forums recounts how the 16-pin power connectors on his RTX 4090 and FSP Hydro power supply melted.
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Tomshardware
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| Updated | 2024-11-23 16:15 |
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Microsoft confirmed that April Windows security updates break VPN connections across personal and enterprise releases. Not hotfix has been issued.
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AMD's gaming revenue declined sharply amid slowing demand for console processors, and a lack of interest in Radeon GPUs. Overall revenues plunged 48% year over year and aren't expected to recover until 2025 at earliest.
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AMD has listed the Ryzen 7 8700F for sale on Amazon. However, its $300 price tag makes it unattractive compared to AMD's cheaper-yet-better-performing Ryzen 7 7700 series alternatives.
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Zilog is discontinuing the CPU that helped spark home computing in the 80's, but this might not be the end of the chip's story.
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Microsoft will shut down the Xbox 360 Store and the 360 Marketplace, but the console retains all of its other online and multiplayer features.
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Servers exported from China to the U.S. has fallen from 18.8% in 2017 to 1.7% in 2023, while servers exported from Taiwan to the U.S. has grown 900%.
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Nvidia's ChatRTX, their ChatGPT-like local AI client, launches version 0.3, with exciting new features first shown off back at GTC.
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Keyboard enthusiast Ryan Norbauer has detailed the creation of "the ultimate keyboard" - at least in his eyes. After five years of development and difficult manufacturing hurdles, it's nearly ready. And it can be yours this summer, assuming you're willing to part with "around $3,400."
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The U.S. government is auctioning off the Cheyenne supercomputer that entered operation in back in 2016. It currently requires some repairs and maintenance, weighs about 26,000 pounds, and is in need of a new home. Current bidding sits at less than $30,000 - though the reserve has not yet been met.
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Nvidia's "banned in China" H100 GPU is getting cheaper, even in China when looking at black market pricing. That's thanks to improving supply, despite the U.S. sanctions, coupled with the impending availability of H200 GPUs.
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Chinese graphics cards based on mobile Nvidia GPUs reportedly use defective components meant to be scrapped.
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Cybersecurity firm Hive Systems has released its 2024 iteration of the Hive Systems Password Table, which details how long it takes different graphics cards to crack a password.
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MSI comes to the fast OLED party with its MPG271QRX. It's a 27-inch QD-OLED flat panel with 360 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR400 and wide gamut color. It offers tremendous performance, contrast and color saturation for premium gaming systems and consoles.
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Ubuntu 24.04 has not had the smoothest of starts for the Raspberry Pi with users logging installation issues that the team are now investigating
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TSMC goes optical with a 3D stacked silicon photonics interconnect called COUPE - Compact Universal Photonic Engine. It could deliver up to 12.8 Tbps of on-package connectivity for future chip designs.
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Samsung's second generation 3nm process is on track for mass production in 2024, and its upcoming 2nm design infrastructure is nearly ready.
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Intel has provided guidelines for BIOS settings that it recommends its board partners apply to their motherboards by default. These settings are intended to improve 13th and 14th Gen Core i9 CPU stability, though the investigation is ongoing.
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15-year-old Tetris superstar Alex Thach (Alex T) has broken at least six gaming world records through March and April this year.
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With a significant discount knocked off of its original MSRP, you can pick up the superfast Crucial T705 for just $154.
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SummerCart64 is an open source Nintendo 64 flash cartridge that doubles as a 64DD upgrade.
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Intel does not expect its Gaudi 3 AI accelerator to make big money this year.
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XFX preps 3.5-wide Radeon RX 7900 XTX Phoenix Nirvana graphics card with advanced cooling.
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A computer engineer and tech enthusiast has converted his Crucial BX500 512 GB SSD from quad-level cell to single-level cell NAND, reducing capacity to 120GB in the process. Then he checked for endurance and performance benefits.
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Study shows that Alibaba's 64-core Yitian 710 outperforms Amazon's Graviton 3, Huawei's Kunpeng 920, and Ampere's Altra 80-core processor.
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NASA details the success of its DSOC system at a solar scale in a blog post.
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Chinese vendor Xianyu appears to be flipping older Arrow Lake-S engineering samples for $14 each. You can buy one, but you won't have a motherboard to put it in.
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Get 17 programmable buttons, including a 12-button side panel on an MMO/MOBA mouse for only $49.
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken claims the Chip War is not meant to restrict or hold back China, ignoring real-world impacts on Chinese industry and the claims of other U.S. lawmakers.
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Nvidia has a new RTX 4070 variant coming, this one using AD103 silicon rather than the usual AD104 GPU. The RTX 4070 (AD103) will apparently have over 40% of the potential GPU cores disabled, along with one memory controller.
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YouTube maker Nerdforge puts a coffee grinder and maker inside of a working PC, allowing the user to get fresh roasted coffee from inside of their computer.
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MSI has updated its Claw handheld gaming PC with a new BIOS update as well as a new graphics driver update that boosts performances by up to 150%.
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Ryzen 8000: The World's First CPU for AI PCs
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vPCBs, which are PCBs built with a sustainable and recyclable vitrimer polymer, debut. This contrasts with traditional PCBs which are 'basically impossible to recycle.'
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An engineer has shared his journey in 'building a GPU from scratch with no prior experience.' As with his prior project of designing a CPU from scratch, Adam Majmudar took just two weeks to complete this cerebral feat.
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12 Razer fans got tattoos to prompt the company's CEO to make the Razer Toaster a real product. Five years later, they're all still waiting.
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IBM invests in a Canada-based production facility.
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The U.S. Congress presented a bipartisan bill that will prevent DJI from selling new drones - effectively banning them in the consumer and commercial space - citing national security and CCP sponsorship reasons.
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The city government in Beijing has outlined plans to subsidize companies that buy Chinese-made processors. Its draft policy has a strong emphasis on GPUs, as they have been most badly affected by US export controls
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Thomas Valadez is using a Raspberry Pi to create stories and pictures with a little help from open-source AI tools.
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We've tested 30 M.2 NVMe heatsinks to see how well they perform and what is best for your SSD's peak performance.
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In 2023, Intel's operations in Russia were drastically pared back, leaving just one employee as the director of both Intel AO and Intel Technologies.
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A museum contends that MS-DOS 4 suffers from "git mutilation" due to being improperly open-sourced.
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MS-DOS 4 suffers "git mutilation" due to being improperly open-sourced.
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Intel issues a state regarding stability issues concerning 13th and 14th Generation CPUs on 600-and 700-series motherboards made by respective manufacturers.
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The Dutch government may ban ASML from servicing high-end wafer fab tools in China, but the outgoing ASML CEO says this will not be a major problem for earnings.
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The Dell S3221QS gaming monitor is currently marked down to its lowest price at Amazon, just $249 instead of its usual $359.
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Manor Lords was the most wishlisted game on Steam prior to its launch today. We've tested the initial early release version on a collection of 25 graphics cards to see just how much GPU horsepower you'll need to run the game well.
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Loongson revealed two domestically made CPUs for China's mainstream market due to independent research and development, having its IPC matching with Zen 3 and Intel Comet Lake CPUs.
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Listings of Ryzen 8000F Series CPUs with their iGPUs and NPUs disabled appear on Funtech and PC-Canada, with some pricing, ahead of a confirmed global release.
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