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  1. MSI Statement Regarding Ryzen 7 9800X3D Damage Incident Posted as Another Involving MAG X870 TOMAHAWK WIFI Motherboard Gets Reported

    Yeah, as long as you are gentle with these things, carefully place them in and allow gravity to do the rest, without trying to force them and stop if you feel any resistance this seems rather unlikely to occur, even if you accidentally place them in the wrong way at first
  2. iGPUs Are Now as Good as Discrete GPUs, MSI Says

    This is hilarious. That's exactly it. The unnamed "Entry level dGPU" is a mystery. What - exactly - are they considering an "entry level dGPU"? The lowest end discrete GPU AMD sells in their current generation, the non-Xt Radeon RX 7600, is is like 3x-4x as fast as the Radeon 890M iGPU...
  3. Windows 11 ISOs for Arm-Based PCs Are Now Available for Download from Microsoft

    I wonder what SoC's are supported. Could be interesting on a small board ARM computer (Raspberry Pi or Odroid, etc.) though Linux already works on those. Heck, could it be installed on a Smartphone? 😅
  4. AGON PRO AG276FK Gaming Monitor with 520 Hz Refresh Rate Announced by AOC

    Holy placebo batman. I doubt most people can tell anything above 90hz apart from anything else over 90hz
  5. It’s No Longer a Secret That America’s Most Popular Password Is “Secret”, According to a New Report

    I certainly hope these are only temporary passwords people are supposed to change on first login. Otherwise my countrymen on average are idiots.
  6. BIOSTAR Introduces MT-N97 Fanless PC with Intel N97 “Alder Lake-N” Processor (4C, 3.6 GHz, 12W TDP)

    Intel's little Alder Lake-N all e-core CPU's are great little machines. I particularly love the N97 (which confusingly is faster than the N100) and the Core i3-N305 is quite awesome for things that don't require a lot of brute force. I use a Hardkernel Odroid H4 with an Intel Processor N97...
  7. AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Gets Benchmarked at 4.8 GHz, Revealing Impact of 3D V-Cache vs. Clock Speed in Zen 5 and Zen 4 X3D CPUs

    I realized I am **** near illiterate on DDR5 settings and AM5, so I did some googling. I found this test at Techpowerup to be the most helpful. So, definitions: FCLK: The Clock speed of the Fabric that connects the chiplets on the package. UCLK: The Clock speed of the Uncore or I/O die...
  8. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl Reveals Final System Requirements and 146.58 GB Pre-Load Size on Xbox Series X|S

    Ugh. Turns out all of the published specs assume scaling and frame gen up the wazoo. Just look at Nvidia's performance graphs: Without fake pixels and fake frames a 4090 only achieves 52.4 fps average at 4k max settings. Looks like nothing over 1440p is playable on a 4090, and it...
  9. Spending More on a Gaming CPU Like the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Is Pointless, UserBenchmark Says as It Recommends Intel Core i5-13600K and i5-14600K

    Look, They are not wrong that right now, most people who play at sane settings are going to be GPU limited, and won't notice a difference between almost any CPU, i5 or Ryzen 5 or higher, manufactured in the last two - three generations. The competitive eSports kiddies are the exception. They...
  10. Pizza Hut’s 3D-Printed Pizza Warmer for PS5 Is Now Available for Download

    Lovely. Imagine being the service center that gets the job to clean pizza grease out of a PS5... I'd just quit. For the love of all that is holy, just keep anything food and anything electronics separate. And wash your hands between going from one to the other.
  11. AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Gets Benchmarked at 4.8 GHz, Revealing Impact of 3D V-Cache vs. Clock Speed in Zen 5 and Zen 4 X3D CPUs

    I'm not fully read up on DDR5 yet, but isn't 5200MT/s a little slow? I though Wendell over at Level1techs was talking about achieving 1:1:1 ratios with fabric at 2133 and DDR5-6400? Or am I imagining this?
  12. Ubisoft Faces Class Action Lawsuit for Shutting Down The Crew’s Servers and Making Online-Only Racing Game Unplayable

    At the very least they should be required to release a community server before just pulling the plug on things like this.
  13. Intel Shifting Focus to Integrated GPUs: “Less Need for Discrete Graphics Going Forward”

    I don't think they are out of the game, but you do realize that the last CPU family they launched (at least in the consumer space) that was problem free was 12th Gen Alder Lake, and that was 3 years ago. They were so desperate to take the performance crown with Raptor Lake that they overvolted...
  14. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl Reveals Final System Requirements and 146.58 GB Pre-Load Size on Xbox Series X|S

    Interesting. I didn't realize these weren't final. More details don't hurt though. I'd still argue that "Medium" is shockingly reasonable for a new game in 2024. The cheapest new GPU you can buy falls into this category these days, and AMD has its 8000 series launch right around the...
  15. Micron Introduces Industry’s First E3.S and PCIe Gen5 60TB SSD with Best-in-Class Energy Efficiency: “12GB/S While Using Just 20 Watts of Power”

    I hate to sound like a broken record, but here goes... Quite frankly, 12GB/s sequential speeds vs, Gen4's 7GB/s sequential speeds doesn't excite me much. Show me the low queue depth 4k random reads. If they get close to, or beat 4 year old Optane DC p5800x figures, THEN I'll be impressed :p
  16. Intel Shifting Focus to Integrated GPUs: “Less Need for Discrete Graphics Going Forward”

    I don't think it was necessarily the WRONG thing to at least try, given the margins GPU's were fetching there for a while. And many were preaching how crypto was the future. They probably expected the boom to stick around longer. The justification was probably based on the fact that if...
  17. Intel Shifting Focus to Integrated GPUs: “Less Need for Discrete Graphics Going Forward”

    I don't think even Linus at his height pulled in enough of that sweet sweet Google money to buy out Intel. But if Intels current trajectory continues.... :p
  18. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl PC System Requirements Revealed and More Physical Editions Are Being Offered Before This Month’s Release

    I could have sworn I had commented on this news post already, but there is nothing here??? Those system specs are surprisingly reasonable for a new title in 2024. This is possibly due to it being delayed so many times, but still, that is nice to see. A friend of mine who just like me really...
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