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    NVIDIA Is Now Rumored to Expand its 9 GB Memory Configuration Strategy With RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti GPUs

    Compression is a misnomer unless it is specified whether it's lossy or lossless. Most "incredible" compression schemes are lossy. H.265/AV1? Lossy and look better only because a LOT of horsepower goes into reconstructing the image from the "hints" left by the encoder. They all depend on the fact...
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    Mismatching RAM

    Errors can be related to the physical slots too. Not unheard of for one or two slots to go bad in a mobo.
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    New Xbox CEO Reportedly Told Employees That “Game Pass Has Become Too Expensive for Players”

    Continued access to the games (hopefully within our lifetimes) and no headache of trying to store a whole library of them offline. With even delisting of games on Steam, the ones who have already bought the games or have older keys may still be able to access them.
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    Microsoft Is Force-Upgrading All Windows 11 24H2 PCs to 25H2, and You Can’t Opt Out

    Try the Fedora Live boot ISO. May not be the fastest but looks more polished than CachyOS. Also, based on my experience, it did something regarding time that none of the other Live boot distros did. Left me impressed. Don't remember exactly what. I think the other distros were having sleep...
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    New Xbox CEO Reportedly Told Employees That “Game Pass Has Become Too Expensive for Players”

    No. $5. They need to stop being greedy. The lower the price, the more trivial it is to stay subscribed and forget about it and avoid the kind of anxiety MadMummy mentioned. More people would think, "Heck, it's just $5. Why not keep paying?". This is the way.
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    Denuvo Has Been Broken: Hypervisor Bypasses Enable Day-Zero Cracks, Irdeto Promises a Fix

    I never understood DRM in the Steam age. Most people have huge backlogs so they won't spend $70 buying the latest game on Steam unless it's something they really, really want to play in the present, in which case they would just buy it. Who in their right mind pirates multi-gigabyte games these...
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    FPS Reviews Round Up – Week Ending April 11, 2026 – OLED, 5500X3D and More

    Looking forward to more of these. Great way to stay up to date without visiting multiple sites and scouring them.
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    Thermalright Announces AI HydroNous R1, a Custom-Designed Mini PC Featuring a Liquid-Cooled AMD Ryzen AI Max+395 Processor

    You are not working at Area 51, are you? Coz aliens, ammonia is THEIR blood!
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    Thermalright Announces AI HydroNous R1, a Custom-Designed Mini PC Featuring a Liquid-Cooled AMD Ryzen AI Max+395 Processor

    It should be slightly better than a 9950X. May lose where latency matters because it is saddled with high latency RAM. Personally, I don't understand why it took this long for someone to put a liquid cooler on it. I assume the prospect of an ammonia leak is thrilling? :)
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    Marathon Has a Long Road Ahead to Profitability After a New Report Claims Sony Spent Nearly $250 Million to Develop

    I saw a video of the gameplay. Nice graphics with cool special effects. But couldn't understand why I would pay for it. The monetization scheme must've been fleshed out extensively before Sony decided to sink so much money into this game's development.
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    Geekbench Flags Intel iBOT Results as Potentially Invalid, Investigation Finds Vectorized Instructions Behind 30% Gains

    Geekbench 6.7 aka Intel GFY Edition released: https://www.geekbench.com/blog/2026/04/geekbench-67/
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    Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition is Official: AMD Puts 3D V-Cache on Both Chiplets, Launches April 22

    Yes, it is steep. But the one responsible isn't AMD. It's Intel for getting themselves so toothless with their bad decisions that they have nothing to counter it with.
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    Photo Shows Intel Core 9 273PQE Bartlett Lake-S CPU Installed on a Z790 Motherboard Following Recent P-Core Only Lineup Leak

    https://www.overclock.net/posts/29576383/ Impressive fps achieved with just DDR5-5600. Imagine if this CPU had been unlocked. Naysayers were wrong then. Intel gaslighted everyone by saying that this chip only matters for industrial use. It's a gaming chip that was demoted because of Arrow...
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    Geekbench Flags Intel iBOT Results as Potentially Invalid, Investigation Finds Vectorized Instructions Behind 30% Gains

    No. It only patches them mid-execution and ONLY if you turn it on. I think that's why they are using it only with old games that aren't going to be seeing any updates. The tool only works if the file checksum matches. Otherwise, it will not do anything and simply ignore the game after the...
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    Photo Shows Intel Core 9 273PQE Bartlett Lake-S CPU Installed on a Z790 Motherboard Following Recent P-Core Only Lineup Leak

    They got Windows booting, BIOS setup is working on ASUS APEX mobo and XMP also works! https://www.overclock.net/posts/29575553/
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    Geekbench Flags Intel iBOT Results as Potentially Invalid, Investigation Finds Vectorized Instructions Behind 30% Gains

    Expect it to be magnified at Nova Lake launch. It's overloaded to the gills with extra features (APX, AVX10.2, 12 wide decode) that are unfortunately limiting the max frequency to no better than Arrow Lake. There might be no choice but to use iBOT for optimal performance until maybe Hammer Lake...
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