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I was concerned this would happen. Intel only jumped in because of the insane profit margins during the crypto boom, and now that those are gone, they are out. Which is sad. We really need 3-5 active competitors in the industry for it to function right. We almost had three for the first...

That's actually pretty cool, but why the 16x design, when there are only 8x lanes being used by it? Also, with only space for two drives, you must really value this easy swap system since a 16x slot should be able to hold 4 drives. You'd be sacrificing 8x precious lanes for this privilege...

It's actually quite fun, and funny. I forget the name of the studio now, but they had an intensive game engine training program for their employees, during which "goat simulator" was some random **** they threw together just to hone their skills on working on the game engine. It turns out the...

I will never get used to the Microsoft rebranding of Xbox to mean "anything related to games" Whenever I see "Xbox" I think of kids playing on a ****ty console.

But what does it do? Overclock the RAM? Tighter timings? Something else?

IO have a feeling we will be seeing a record number of people running EOL operating systems once Windows 10 goes EOL due to the artificial limitation on CPU compatibility Microsoft imposes with Windows 11 And that will have a negative effect on global internet security. More botnets anyone?

Is anyone surprised?

A gaming service that limits those who are most interested in gaming (younger folks with the time do do it a lot) seems like a fail to me. Makes you wonder if they are actively trying to kill it. This way they can blame gamers, shut the service down, and double down on their focus on AI...

I think missed what you are referring to. Have a link?

This was maybe not so surprising: https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/processors/ive-tested-asus-new-turbo-game-mode-for-amd-cpus-and-my-verdict-is-simple-dont-use-it/ I have never encountered a BIOS auto-optimization feature that was worth enabling.

So what if you use this turbo mode on an actual x3d chip? :p

I thought they said the scheduler changes were being back-ported into Win10 as well?

I had initially planned on jumping on this on release. Then I spent a lot of money on home improvement this year and decided to delay the big upgrade. Now I am starting to reconsider and figure out if I can find the money in the couch cushions. This looks to be an awesome release. I wonder...

I wonder how well that would even work. You'd have to do a very good job of workload planning to avoid huge latency hits when CCD 0 might need to access something in CCD1's vcache. And in more random loads you may just have to duplicate the entire cache content on both CCD's, which would be...

Here is the Asus page on the topic, but each manufacturer will differ. Here is what the manual says for my Asus ROG Zenith II Extreme Alpha: As for which one to buy, I have no idea. I have very clear memories of doing this once, but I can't for the life of me remember where or when, what...

More premium motherboards have had this for a long time. The actual steps to make it work vary, but usually you have to format a USB stick a particular way, and put the intended bios update on it in the exact location, with the exact filename specified in the instructions, and then stick the...

Yeah, that will never find its way onto any computer I own or use if I have any say in the matter. I am already considering no longer using Android phones, at least without 3rd party ROM's like GrapheneOS (though that project has some flaws too). Whatever happened to "The Linux Phone" we used...

Hmm. Did they not have 60mm fans before? I can't remember. That is certainly a less common size, at least these days. Where 120mm fans don't fit, most systems use 80mm. Some coolers 92mm. Smaller routers, switches and other 1U stuff fit 40mm fans, but I don't see a lot of 60mm.

Too bad we know they are only going after the mid-range. Once again we will have an Nvidia monopoly at the top, and resultant crazy pricing. I wouldn't be surprised if the top end consumer GPU's wind up with official Nvidia MSRP's of $2,500 this time around :/ Don't get me wrong. I have...

Aren't the differences between the 800 series and 600 series chipsets mostly academic? I vaguely remember reading that the only difference was that the added a 40Gb/s USB requirement? Maybe I am not remembering that right, but it was something like that. I remember reading that pretty much...