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Two "RMA lottery" winners get lucky with Intel's RMA system. One gets a full refund for his fully working Core i9-13900K chip; another gets a Core i9-14900K replacement CPU for his degraded Core i9-13900K.
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| Updated | 2025-04-22 08:45 |
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Lexar launched an SD 8.0 card with incredible read/ write speeds rivaling larger CFexpress 4.0 cards for cameras, but the company's hope for full backward compatibility is on hold as no devices can take advantage of these speeds, resulting in a performance downgrade to the UHS-I standard.
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Overclocker pushes the EPYC 4124P to 6.6 GHz with LN2 on a Gigabyte's B650E Aorus Tachyon motherboard.
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Analysts and media contend that AMD is losing the confidence of laptop OEMs because of its focus on AI and data center GPUs.
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Intel will get a $3.5 billion federal grant to make chips for military applications under the Secure Enclave program.
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Rene Rebe, a 25-year Free and Open Source Software developer, was swatted live in the middle of a development stream.
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AMD hid the information on the back of its packaging for the Ryzen 5 7600X3D that says that AMD processors are diffused and made in Taiwan.
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Tech enthusiast Louwrentius says that turning off the NAS when unused likely helped the 24 4TB hard drives last ten years without any failures.
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Intel's Xeon R1S CPU with 136 PCIe lanes could be a competitive choice for communications, edge, and high-performance storage platforms.
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Larry Ellison talked about how he asked Jensen Huang over dinner to give him 131,072 Blackwell GPUs for the planned Zettascale Oracle Supercluster.
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Crucial's old MX500 series SSDs are vulnerable to buffer overflow attacks. A fix or information on which firmware updates are impacted is unknown.
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One of HighPoint's flagship cards for servers, the NVMe Gen 4 SSD7540, proves capable of operation while submerged in "an electrically non-conductive liquid", most likely mineral oil.
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The Intel Core i5-14600KF is currently available at Amazon for one of its lowest prices to date-just $277 instead of its usual $324.
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Core Ultra 200 series CPU specifications have been purportedly finalized. Five SKUs will debut on launch day. Core counts remain the same, but clock speeds are dropping compared to Raptor Lake Refresh.
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As most of AMD's money is earned from EPYC processors, AMD now calls itself a data center-first company.
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Italy's financial police dismantled a counterfeit game console and pirated games trafficking ring at an estimated value of around $52.5 million.
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Noctua has finally resolved the rattling issues plaguing its new flagship NH-D15 G2 air cooler. This defect is no longer present in new production units, and current owners will be offered a full fix for defective units currently in operation.
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The Intel Core Ultra 7 258V performs much better than the AMD Z1 Extreme with 12GB of RAM. However, when the AMD chips were matched with 16GB of RAM, they blew the 32GB Intel SoC out of the water.
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AMD FSR4 has been in the work for 9-12 months already, and will be fully AI-based for frame generation and frame interpolation. It sounds like it's being designed around handhelds first but should apply to laptops and desktops as well.
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A $2 microcontroller and a little 3D printing will get you a Barbie doll-sized Apple IIe.
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Shanghai Microelectronics Equipment patents key components of an EUV lithography tool.
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Instead of shredding outgoing HDDs, Microsoft disassembles them, then recycles rare earth metals and other valuable materials.
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Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger expressed his frustrations about American tech companies' use of TSMC for their chip requirements during a meeting with Secretary Raimondo. The latter then encouraged investors in private sessions to use American foundries for their chip-making needs.
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North Korean hackers Lazarus Group pose as financial firms to provide malware disguised as a job opportunity.
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The South Korean Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute has built an AI system that integrates real-time CCTV footage and historical criminal data to predict the chances that a crime would happen in a particular area.
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SMI's high-end SM2508 PCIe 5.0 SSD controller is finally here. It offers top notch performance and does so with greatly improved efficiency, ushering in an era of better controllers and SSDs.
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Iron Mountain says that one-fifth of the storage media it receives from the music industry are bricked.
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Cyberpunk 2077 finally gets its FSR 3 patch, featuring FSR frame generation support, enabling non-Nvidia GPUs to run frame generation in the game.
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by brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill) on (#6CGCG)
Here are the best curved gaming monitors for PC available in 2024.
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Samsung has officially announced the production of its all-new 9th generation QLC V-NAND flash, which features up to 50% lower power consumption.
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by brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill) on (#6CBH9)
These are the best ultrawide gaming monitors available in 2023, including 240 Hz, OLED and DQHD options.
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by brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill) on (#6CCWM)
Here are the best gaming monitors for the Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 available in 2024.
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Nvidia's China-based rival Biren hires an investment bank to prep for an IPO at a $2.19 billion valuation while being blacklisted by the U.S. government.
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The research team tracked the precise movements of molecules within the material film to track their different states and assign them specific values in a "molecular diary".
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Details of memory support on ASRock's Z890 motherboard leak ahead of announcement.
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The Samsung 990 Pro 1TB SSD is available at Amazon for just $99, its lowest price since June.
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Alienware's AW2725QF packs two screens into a single 27-inch IPS display with 4K resolution at 180 Hz and FHD resolution at 360 Hz. You can switch modes on the fly with a single button. It also has Adaptive-Sync, HDR600 and wide gamut color.
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As Samsung Foundry struggles with yields at below 3nm nodes, it decides to cut personnel at Taylor, Texas fab.
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The HP Omen 35L is a quiet gaming PC with standardized parts and powerful performance, with a few questionable design choices.
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During the recent BOE Global Innovation Partner Conference 2024 (BOE IPC 2024) the firm claimed that its new Winning Display 1 Hz tech could reduce screen power consumption by 65%. The new tech, with Intel Intelligent Display Technology 2.0 (IIDT 2.0), utilizes AI smarts and will debut on Lunar Lake laptops.
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Oak Ridge National Lab will retire the Summit supercomputer, once the fastest supercomputer on the planet, this coming November 2024.
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Ifixit takes the plunge into the world of soldering irons with a smart portable soldering station that brings the heat but at a cost.
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The Corsair SF750 SFX PSU excels in providing reliable power with outstanding voltage regulation and ripple suppression, all while complying with the latest ATX 3.1 standard. It's a top-tier option in the SFX category, although its $180 price point reflects its premium features and performance.
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Advanced AI processors from Nvidia may flow to Saudi Arabia as the kingdom attempts to meet the U.S. security requirements.
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Need an OS for your PC build? Microsoft charges a whopping $139 for Windows 11 Home. Here's how to get Windows free or at least cheap.
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The MSI MAG341CQP 34-inch curved gaming monitor is available at Amazon for one of its lowest prices to date - $679 instead of its usual $899.
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Oracle says Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs will be available in 2025 as it announces Zettascale cluster powered by up to 131,072 Blackwell GPUs.
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MSI's upcoming X870 motherboards can draw 252W from the PSU via a new power connector, allowing it to deliver up to 165W to its PCIe slots.
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AMD introduces the Variable Graphics Memory feature to its Radeon Software.
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AMD has quietly released its second chipset-style RDNA 3 GPU for laptops, the RX 7800M. The new GPU features the same number of CUs as the RX 7800 XT and PS5 Pro but with a cut-down memory sub-system from the RX 7700 XT.
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