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AMD Announces Ryzen 7000 Specs and Pricing

Posted by Sebastian Peak | Aug 29, 2022 | Processors | 3

First USA Retail Intel Arc A380 Card is from ASRock, Listed on Newegg

Posted by Sebastian Peak | Aug 16, 2022 | Graphics Cards | 5

AMD Holding Livestream Event to Unveil Next Gen Ryzen Processors

Posted by Sebastian Peak | Aug 16, 2022 | Processors | 0

AMD RDNA 3 Radeon Graphics Feature Chiplet Architecture

Posted by Sebastian Peak | Jun 12, 2022 | Graphics Cards | 0

Solidigm P41 Plus, DRAMless QLC With Performance?

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 29, 2022 | Storage | 0

As the headline says, Solidigm is the name SK Hynix gave to products using Intel's flash after they bought that part of their business in December of last year. It...

Hackaday’s Climate-Resilient Challenge Winners; Might Want To Print These Out

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 29, 2022 | General Tech | 0

One of the more pertinent of the 2022 Hackaday prizes is the Climate-Resilient Challenge, which a number of communities could already benefit from and many more will in the near future. Your…

Solium Infernum Claws It’s Way Out Of Hades, Again

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 28, 2022 | General Tech | 0

The original Solium Infernum didn't get much press, so for many the updated and enhanced release will be the first time taking a look at this game. The premise is that Lucifer…

Details On AMD’s New Ryzen Embedded V3000

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 28, 2022 | General Tech | 0

The launch of socketed CPUs is always more exciting than the launch of embedded CPUs, but you shouldn't completely neglect those chips as they will soon be powering small displays everywhere you…

Lenovo Legion 5 Pro, A Rather Impressive Gaming Laptop

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 27, 2022 | Mobile | 0

Lenovo is far more famous for business laptops, however their Legion series is specifically designed for gamers. The new Lenovo Legion 5 Pro is powered by a 4.7GHz i7-12700H, the aforementioned RTX…

Corsair Xeneon Flex OLED; A Display With The Bends

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 27, 2022 | Displays | 0

Have you ever wanted an ultrawide screen that is flat when you need it to be, yet curved when you would prefer it? If so Corsair has an interesting product for you,…

Linux, Making AMD ACPI Response Slower For 20 Years

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 27, 2022 | General Tech | 0

If you've run into workloads on your AMD powered Linux box that are slower than expected, a fix is on the way to make your life better. There is an ancient workaround…

Intel Arc A770 Launches October 12, Starts at $329

by Sebastian Peak | Sep 27, 2022 | Graphics Cards | 0

We finally had availability of Arc graphics here in the USA this summer, though just the A380 and from one vendor (ASRock). Finally, at today's Intel Innovation 2022 event, Arc...

AMD’s Zen 4 Has Arrived, Start With A Look At The Ryzen 5 7600X and Ryzen 9 7950X

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 26, 2022 | Processors | 0

AMD did a good job providing test samples of the new Zen 4 family, as you can see from the long list of reviews below. We will be adding to that list…

The New iPads and Macs Might Not Be Televised

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 26, 2022 | General Tech | 0

It has been tradition for quite a while to have a huge press event to show off new iPads and Macs, just like when Apple announces their new mobile devices. The rumours…

Delidding Ryzen 7900X Lowers Temps by 20 Degrees, Increases OC Headroom

by Sebastian Peak | Sep 26, 2022 | Processors | 4

Review embargo just lifted at 9:00 AM local time, but der8auer already had a Ryzen 9 7900X delidded. The video is very instructive, and not just because of the behind-the-scenes look…

SPC Gear LIX Plus, Holey Wireless Mouse Batman!

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 23, 2022 | General Tech | 0

The SPC Gear LIX Plus Wireless is very much the same as the wired version, with a bit of added weight thanks to the battery. The shell sports a lot of holes,…

How Acorn Ended Up With It’s ARM In Everything

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 23, 2022 | General Tech | 0

It is currently estimated that there are about 100 billion ARM-based chips operating in the world right now, not quite enough to give every ant one, but ARM is certainly...

Malwarebytes Were Flagging Both Google And YouTube As Malware

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 22, 2022 | General Tech | 0

It would depend on what you were doing this morning as to whether or not you were amused by MalwareBytes this morning. Until recently the antimalware program's web filtering feature was blocking…

Searching For The Secret Of Monkey Island, For Real This Time

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 21, 2022 | General Tech | 0

Guybrush Threepwood has a bit of an attention span problem. In the original game he was to search for the secret of Monkey Island but quickly ended up on completely different quests…

A General Overview of PCIe 5.0 Power Supplies, Details Thanks To MSI

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 21, 2022 | General Tech | 0

It's time for PCIe 5.0 power supplies to be on your mind, even if you aren't planning on spending close to $1000 on a new NVIDIA GPU. This will be the new…

A Trio Of Turtle Beach Headphones

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 20, 2022 | General Tech | 0

TweakTown likes turtles. They have just reviewed three Turtle Beach gaming headsets, ranging in price from $160 to not quite available at the moment. Two are wireless while the third is wireless,…

Are You Going To Buy An RTX 4080, Or Just Settle For An RTX 4080?

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 20, 2022 | Graphics Cards, General Tech | 1

One would assume that after the 3.5 GB memory controversy NVIDIA would be careful about ensuring the amount of VRAM on their GPUs was absolutely clear which goes to show...